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Gallery	Masaru Iwai : "Dancing Cleansing" TSCA NEW EXHIBITION Masaru Iwai was born in 1975 in Tokyo. He completed his doctorate degree in Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2009. Iwai incorporates the juxtaposition of cleaning/trash into his artwork under the overarching theme of “cleaner’s high”. Using a broad array of mediums such as installation, video, and performance, he makes a display of the desire intrinsic to our daily lives to clean, and furthermore he shifts the focus by questioning that cyclical action. Iwai’s solo exhibitions include Clean up 1. 2. 3. at Art Center Ongoing in Tokyo (2009) and Cleaner’s high #1 at Otto Maintzheim Gallery in Tokyo (2008). Group exhibitions include Re:membering – Next of Japan at Alternative Space LOOP in Korea (2009) and Double Cast at Tokyo Wonder Site in Tokyo (2007). read more
Artist	Rafaël Rozendaal : NOKIA's new CM Rafaël Rozendaal is featured in NOKIA’s CM for new mobile. For more information, please visit his website. Introducing Nokia N9 – The Simplicity of a Swipe
Gallery	Naoki Honjo : LIGHT HOUSE Tokyo ｜ Skåne NEW EXHIBITION Naoki Honjo Born 1978, Tokyo. Studied media art at Tokyo Polytechnic University Faculty of Arts. Honjo photographs landscapes and buildings in the context of communities and human intervention, presenting them as though they were phenotypes observed within nature. He has garnered attention for his soft pictures, which he creates from a constructed layering of elements, including his preference for film, use of 4×5 large format cameras, aerial shooting, and his worldwide selection of shot locations. His photography book, small planet, received the 32nd Kimura Ihei Award, and his works are housed in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The upcoming exhibition of Honjo’s works will be held at two galleries. On display at the nap gallery will be his most well-known works, aerial shots of residential neighborhoods in Skane County, Sweden. On display at TSCA will be new works alongside unpublished works from 10 years ago, shots of residential areas in Tokyo cut off from the ground. Through Honjo’s filter, sky and ground, opposite though they are, become one. We invite you to take this opportunity to see Honjo’s work on display at the two galleries. September 24 (Sat) – Navember 5 (Sat), 2011 Venue: Takuro Someya Contemporary Art and nap gallery Opening reception for the artist : Saturday, 24 September, 6-8PM Venue (Opening reception):Takuro Someya Contemporary Art read more
Artist	Tomokazu Matsuyama : "East Weets Mest" Joshua Liner Gallery Solo Exhibition Tomokazu Matsuyama East Weets Mest Sep 8 – Oct 8, 2011 Joshua Liner Gallery Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present East Weets Mest, an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by the New York-based Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Matsuyama’s wildly colorful art relocates traditional Japanese icons and imagery into a broader international mix of styles, signs, and symbols. The spoonerism of the show’s title, East Weets Mest, playfully mimics this relocation and subsequent homogenization of cultural material, which Matsuyama identifies as a key force in contemporary life. “Urban centers are becoming increasingly familiar, with their patchwork of intermingling cultural signifiers,” says the artist. “This chaotic mix has become the everyday, where traditions and local signifiers dissolve into one another to make a unique new shape of today’s culture.” read more
Artist	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : Yokohama Triennale 2011 Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will participate in Yokohama Triennale 2011. Yokohama Triennale 2011 Dates: Sat, Aug 6th – Sun, Nov 6th 2011 Venue : Yokohama Museum of Art / NYK Waterfront Warehouse (BankART Studio NYK), Kanagawa
Artist	Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : a new book "Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi　WORKS 2007-2011" Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi has published a new book. Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi　WORKS 2007-2011 128×144mm（case size 187×200×25mm） color text／ 96P hardcover with a case and a magnifying glass Price : ¥4095 (tax included) Design : Yoshihisa Tanaka Publication : Takuro Someya Contemporary Art Sold : Takuro Someya Contemporary Art ISBN 978-4-9905988-00-8 For more information, please contact our gallery. gallery@tsca.jp

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Masaru Iwai : "Dancing Cleansing" TSCA

NEW EXHIBITION

Masaru Iwai was born in 1975 in Tokyo. He completed his doctorate degree in Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2009. Iwai incorporates the juxtaposition of cleaning/trash into his artwork under the overarching theme of “cleaner’s high”. Using a broad array of mediums such as installation, video, and performance, he makes a display of the desire intrinsic to our daily lives to clean, and furthermore he shifts the focus by questioning that cyclical action. Iwai’s solo exhibitions include Clean up 1. 2. 3. at Art Center Ongoing in Tokyo (2009) and Cleaner’s high #1 at Otto Maintzheim Gallery in Tokyo (2008). Group exhibitions include Re:membering – Next of Japan at Alternative Space LOOP in Korea (2009) and Double Cast at Tokyo Wonder Site in Tokyo (2007).

Rafaël Rozendaal : NOKIA's new CM

Rafaël Rozendaal is featured in NOKIA’s CM for new mobile.

For more information, please visit his website.

Introducing Nokia N9 – The Simplicity of a Swipe

Gallery

Naoki Honjo : LIGHT HOUSE Tokyo ｜ Skåne

NEW EXHIBITION

Naoki Honjo

Born 1978, Tokyo. Studied media art at Tokyo Polytechnic University Faculty of Arts.
Honjo photographs landscapes and buildings in the context of communities and human intervention, presenting them as though they were phenotypes observed within nature.
He has garnered attention for his soft pictures, which he creates from a constructed layering of elements, including his preference for film, use of 4×5 large format cameras, aerial shooting, and his worldwide selection of shot locations. His photography book, small planet, received the 32nd Kimura Ihei Award, and his works are housed in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

The upcoming exhibition of Honjo’s works will be held at two galleries. On display at the nap gallery will be his most well-known works, aerial shots of residential neighborhoods in Skane County, Sweden. On display at TSCA will be new works alongside unpublished works from 10 years ago, shots of residential areas in Tokyo cut off from the ground. Through Honjo’s filter, sky and ground, opposite though they are, become one.

We invite you to take this opportunity to see Honjo’s work on display at the two galleries.

September 24 (Sat) – Navember 5 (Sat), 2011

Venue: Takuro Someya Contemporary Art and nap gallery

Opening reception for the artist : Saturday, 24 September, 6-8PM

Venue (Opening reception):Takuro Someya Contemporary Art

Tomokazu Matsuyama : "East Weets Mest" Joshua Liner Gallery

Solo Exhibition

Tomokazu Matsuyama

East Weets Mest
Sep 8 – Oct 8, 2011
Joshua Liner Gallery

Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present East Weets Mest, an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by the New York-based Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.

Matsuyama’s wildly colorful art relocates traditional Japanese icons and imagery into a broader international mix of styles, signs, and symbols. The spoonerism of the show’s title, East Weets Mest, playfully mimics this relocation and subsequent homogenization of cultural material, which Matsuyama identifies as a key force in contemporary life. “Urban centers are becoming increasingly familiar, with their patchwork of intermingling cultural signifiers,” says the artist. “This chaotic mix has become the everyday, where traditions and local signifiers dissolve into one another to make a unique new shape of today’s culture.”
read more

Artist

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : Yokohama Triennale 2011

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will participate in Yokohama Triennale 2011.

Yokohama Triennale 2011
Dates: Sat, Aug 6th – Sun, Nov 6th 2011
Venue : Yokohama Museum of Art / NYK Waterfront Warehouse (BankART Studio NYK), Kanagawa

Artist

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : a new book "Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi　WORKS 2007-2011"

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi has published a new book.

Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi　WORKS 2007-2011
128×144mm（case size 187×200×25mm）
color text／ 96P
hardcover
with a case and a magnifying glass
Price : ¥4095 (tax included)
Design : Yoshihisa Tanaka
Publication : Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
Sold : Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
ISBN 978-4-9905988-00-8

For more information, please contact our gallery.

gallery@tsca.jp

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