Tokyo Gendai 2025
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is excited to announce its participation in Tokyo Gendai 2025.
Tokyo Gendai 2025
Artists: Kenjiro Okazaki, Rafaël Rozendaal, Goro Murayama, Harm van den Dorpel
Dates ： Thursday, September 11
Friday, September, 12
Saturday, September 13
Sunday, September 14
※Last admission is 30 minutes before closing. |
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Frieze Seoul 2025
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is excited to announce its participation in Frieze Seoul 2025. |
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Kenjiro Okazaki Viewing program "Block House Sunagawa"
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Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 Booth: 3D25
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is excited to announce its participation in Art Basel Hong Kong 2025.
From left: On Ohrid Lake’s rocky shore, an ancient sage meditated, his bird-like face carved by time and fasting. Swallows skimmed waters. The novice’s azure beads glinted. “Master,” he murmured, “your strength wanes like autumn light.” Behind them stood a monastery, half-hidden among olive trees, its burned walls whispering tales of sacrilege.
“At night, Master, I see them: Hellenic maidens weaving flower crowns with blue wildflowers, their hair flowing with their hearts’ rhythm.” The youth’s voice trembled. Through azure darkness, mysterious figures like shadows – Macedonian shepherds driving boars through olive groves, Dryads herding pearl-white goats, laughter echoing across deep blue Aegean waters.
Lilies and roses, planted by long-departed Orthodox monks, wove through the garden where ferns advanced like silent armies. “The ancient Thracian gods still walk here,” the old man murmured, eyes gleaming. Beyond the flower-strewn ruins, cypress groves stretched toward horizon, harboring secrets of Cyclopes and Thessalian nymphs dancing in moonlight.
“I seek the moment when immortal spirits sing,” the sage revealed, clutching his cypress staff. “When the sun passes between Ram and Lion, their song trembles through creation. Tomorrow at dawn, I shall hear it.” His eyes blazed with ancient wisdom, reflecting centuries of searching through Byzantine and Delphic lore.
The youth gathered roses bright as rubies and lilies white as pearls, weaving them through rushes as the last grains of sand fell. “You’ll find me young again,” the master had promised. When dawn painted the walls with clear light, he sat motionless, embracing the dewy flowers, his quest ended.
Kenjiro Okazaki | 岡﨑乾二郎 2025, Acrylic on canvas, (H)160 x (W)130 x (D) 7cm each Set of five ©︎ Kenjiro Okazaki Courtesy of Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
Nobuo Yamanaka
Nobuo Yamanaka
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Tokyo Gendai 2024 Galleries: C10
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art (TSCA) is pleased to present works by Kenjiro Okazaki and Rafaël Rozendaal at Tokyo Gendai 2024. Presenting at Galleries’ sector for this year, TSCA features a large tile work exhibited at “Retrospective Strata”, a large solo exhibition by Kenjiro Okazaki held at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art in 2019, and new sculptures. Rafaël Rozendaal also shows a series of three-meter-high lenticular works from an exhibition “Modern Times in Paris 1925 – Art and Design in the Machine-age’ held at POLA Museum of Art from 2023 until 2024.
Kenjiro Okazaki’s (b. 1955, Tokyo) achievements in painting and sculpture can be more fully understood by examining his wide-ranging activities and body of work as a whole. As an artist, architect, community project leader, critic, and thinker, Okazaki has made many significant and lasting contributions, establishing himself as a master of both the practice and theory of art. At the core of his expansive work is a steadfast artistic philosophy.
The distinctiveness of Okazaki’s artistic practice and thinking is most strikingly manifested in his innovative use of ceramic tiles.
To conceive of a single artwork composed of variously colored titles, each made with different materials and firing processes, transcends the scope of traditional drawing methods.
Born in the Netherlands in 1980, Rafaël Rozendaal began presenting works on ‘web pages’ with each of their own domains in 2001. Defining his art as “like a gas or liquid that appears everywhere” by himself, Rozendaal has used the ubiquitous nature of the internet as the basic structure for his works, presenting works in a variety of formats using a wide range of motifs such as from web browsers, food, landscapes and other unique phenomena in the world around us. The variety of his works with their rich colors and freewheeling compositions not only entertain the viewers, but also propose a more universal structure beyond the diversity and individuality of each work due to their structural coherence. Inquiry: gallery@tsca.jp |
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(Japanese) 岡﨑乾二郎 × 村山悟郎の対談を公開しましたSorry, this entry is only available in Japanese. |
Tokyo Gendai 2025
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is excited to announce its participation in Tokyo Gendai 2025.
Tokyo Gendai 2025
Galleries: B12
Artists: Kenjiro Okazaki, Rafaël Rozendaal, Goro Murayama, Harm van den Dorpel
Dates ：
Thursday, September 11
2:00 PM ー 5:00PM (VIP preview)
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Vernissage)
Friday, September, 12
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Public Access)
Saturday, September 13
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Public Access)
Sunday, September 14
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Public Access)
※Last admission is 30 minutes before closing.
Venue：
Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall C/D
1-1-1 Minatomirai, Nishi Ward,
Yokohama, Kanagawa
220-0012
Frieze Seoul 2025
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is excited to announce its participation in Frieze Seoul 2025.
Frieze Seoul 2025
Booth：C20（Galleries)
Artists: Kenjiro Okazaki, Yuumi Domoto, Mayumi Hosokura, Chinoko Sakamoto, Rafaël Rozendaal
Dates :
Wednesday, September 3
11:00 AM – 7:00PM (Invitation only)
Thursday, September 4
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Invitation and preview ticket holders only)
3:00 PM – 7:00PM (General Admission)
Friday, September 5
11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Saturday, September 6
11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
※Last admission is 30 minutes before closing.
Venue：COEX
513 Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06164, Republic of Korea
https://www.frieze.com/fairs/frieze-seoul/visitor-information
Art Fair
Art Basel Hong Kong 2025 Booth: 3D25
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is excited to announce its participation in Art Basel Hong Kong 2025.
Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
Booth：3D25
Kenjiro Okazaki, Nobuo Yamanaka
Date ：Wednesday, March 26 – Sunday, March 30
First Choice
Wednesday, March 26, 12:00 PM ー 8:00PM
First Choice and Preview
Wednesday, March 26, 3:00PM ー 8:00PM
Thursday, March 27, 12:00PM ー 4:00PM
Friday, March 28, 12:00 ー 2:00PM
Saturday, March 29, 12:00PM ー 2:00PM
Sunday, March 30, 11:00AM ー 12:00PM
Vernissage
Thursday, March 27, 4:00PM ー 8:00PM
Public Days
Friday, March 28, 2:00PM ー 8:00PM
Saturday, March 29, 2:00PM ー 8:00PM
Sunday, March 30, 12:00PM ー 6:00PM
Venue：
Convention & Exhibition Centre
1 Harbour Road
Wan Chai
Hong Kong, China
https://www.artbasel.com/hong-kong
From left:
On Ohrid Lake’s rocky shore, an ancient sage meditated, his bird-like face carved by time and fasting. Swallows skimmed waters. The novice’s azure beads glinted. “Master,” he murmured, “your strength wanes like autumn light.” Behind them stood a monastery, half-hidden among olive trees, its burned walls whispering tales of sacrilege.
“At night, Master, I see them: Hellenic maidens weaving flower crowns with blue wildflowers, their hair flowing with their hearts’ rhythm.” The youth’s voice trembled. Through azure darkness, mysterious figures like shadows – Macedonian shepherds driving boars through olive groves, Dryads herding pearl-white goats, laughter echoing across deep blue Aegean waters.
Lilies and roses, planted by long-departed Orthodox monks, wove through the garden where ferns advanced like silent armies. “The ancient Thracian gods still walk here,” the old man murmured, eyes gleaming. Beyond the flower-strewn ruins, cypress groves stretched toward horizon, harboring secrets of Cyclopes and Thessalian nymphs dancing in moonlight.
“I seek the moment when immortal spirits sing,” the sage revealed, clutching his cypress staff. “When the sun passes between Ram and Lion, their song trembles through creation. Tomorrow at dawn, I shall hear it.” His eyes blazed with ancient wisdom, reflecting centuries of searching through Byzantine and Delphic lore.
The youth gathered roses bright as rubies and lilies white as pearls, weaving them through rushes as the last grains of sand fell. “You’ll find me young again,” the master had promised. When dawn painted the walls with clear light, he sat motionless, embracing the dewy flowers, his quest ended.
Kenjiro Okazaki | 岡﨑乾二郎
2025, Acrylic on canvas, (H)160 x (W)130 x (D) 7cm each
Set of five
©︎ Kenjiro Okazaki
Courtesy of Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
Nobuo Yamanaka
Untitled (Manhattan in Pinhole (40)C)
1980, C-Type Print, (H)12.5 x (W)20.2 cm
©︎ Nobuo Yamanaka
Courtesy of Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
Nobuo Yamanaka
Dazzling Sun in Pinhole (7)
1973, C-Type Print, (H)25 x (W)30 cm
©︎ Nobuo Yamanaka
Courtesy of Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
Art Fair
Tokyo Gendai 2024 Galleries: C10
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art (TSCA) is pleased to present works by Kenjiro Okazaki and Rafaël Rozendaal at Tokyo Gendai 2024. Presenting at Galleries’ sector for this year, TSCA features a large tile work exhibited at “Retrospective Strata”, a large solo exhibition by Kenjiro Okazaki held at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art in 2019, and new sculptures. Rafaël Rozendaal also shows a series of three-meter-high lenticular works from an exhibition “Modern Times in Paris 1925 – Art and Design in the Machine-age’ held at POLA Museum of Art from 2023 until 2024.
Kenjiro Okazaki’s (b. 1955, Tokyo) achievements in painting and sculpture can be more fully understood by examining his wide-ranging activities and body of work as a whole. As an artist, architect, community project leader, critic, and thinker, Okazaki has made many significant and lasting contributions, establishing himself as a master of both the practice and theory of art. At the core of his expansive work is a steadfast artistic philosophy.
The distinctiveness of Okazaki’s artistic practice and thinking is most strikingly manifested in his innovative use of ceramic tiles.
To conceive of a single artwork composed of variously colored titles, each made with different materials and firing processes, transcends the scope of traditional drawing methods.
The process of understanding the individual characteristics of the countless colored tiles and creating a sequence of hues is similar to editing a film or constructing a philosophical argument. Leveraging the unique qualities of each tile (for example, the contrast between transparent and matte colors is key to understanding Okazaki’s paintings), Okazaki constructs the visual surface as if solving a mathematical problem or weaving a story. Like a sequence of scenes in a film or a continuous architectural space, each part of the finished work appears as though an independent color composition or individual painting. Yet as these individual components are integrated into the experience of a continuous and connected whole, the work sparks the viewer’s imagination anew. The process of viewing the work and the process of thinking overlap and become one.
Born in the Netherlands in 1980, Rafaël Rozendaal began presenting works on ‘web pages’ with each of their own domains in 2001. Defining his art as “like a gas or liquid that appears everywhere” by himself, Rozendaal has used the ubiquitous nature of the internet as the basic structure for his works, presenting works in a variety of formats using a wide range of motifs such as from web browsers, food, landscapes and other unique phenomena in the world around us. The variety of his works with their rich colors and freewheeling compositions not only entertain the viewers, but also propose a more universal structure beyond the diversity and individuality of each work due to their structural coherence.
Inquiry: gallery@tsca.jp