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Kenjiro Okazaki: Kunitsukami as Chthonius
Installation view, Kunitsukami as Chthonius, 2024, photo by Shu Nakagawa ©Kenjiro Okazaki
Exhibition Period: Sunday, March 10, 2024 – Sunday, May 12, 2024
We are pleased to announce Kenjiro Okazaki’s solo exhibition Kunitsukami as Chthonius. This exhibition offers a preview of new sculptures and will be open until Sunday, May 12. Takuro Someya Contemporary Art was involved in planning this collaborative exhibition.
These new sculptures are the culmination of a quarter-century period during which the artist prepared to resume their production and will soon be widely exhibited. In the lead-up to their public unveiling, we hope to provide an opportunity to reflect on and renew our understanding of the significance of Okazaki’s sculptures, as well as the inherent power and presence of the medium of sculpture itself. This exhibition also aims to foster synergy across the various elements of Okazaki’s diverse endeavors as he continues to expand his practice, both domestically and internationally.
In Kunitsukami as Chthonius, Okazaki offers a glimpse into his vision of sculpture-making for the first time since his presentation of ceramic sculptures twenty-five years ago. This exhibition features sculptures that adhere to the original dimensions of the artist’s handmade forms as well as those that, through enlargement, demonstrate the presence of volume as a major element of sculpture. Each work confronts us with the dynamism born from the fusion of form and material.
Translation by Eriko Ikeda Kay
Installation view, Kunitsukami as Chthonius, 2024, photo by Shu Nakagawa ©Kenjiro Okazaki
Kenjiro Okazaki | Kunitsukami as Chthonius This exhibition is by appointment only.
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Mayumi Hosokura: Walking, Diving - Exhibition review
Hajime Nariai (curator, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo) has written a review for Mayumi Hosokura’s solo exhibition Walking and Diving held at Takuro Someya Contemporary Art from 2 September until 21 October, 2023. For further information, please click here. https://tsca.jp/artist/mayumi-hosokura/#text |
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Rafaël Rozendaal: "MODERN Times in Paris 1925 - Art and Design in the Machine-age" (POLA Museum of Art)
We are pleased to announce that Rafaël Rozendaal will join the exhibition “MODERN Times in Paris 1925 – Art and Design in the Machine-age” at the POLA Museum of Art. The biggest lenticular works ever made by Rafaël Rozendaal will be shown at the finale of the exhibition. We hope you will enjoy this opportunity to view Rozendaal’s works!
——————————— “MODERN Times in Paris 1925 – Art and Design in the Machine-age”
In the 1920s, Paris underwent rapid industrialization in an effort to reconstruct the French capital in the wake of the First World War, ushering in a flourishing and dynamic era known as the Machine Age. This exhibition examines various aspects of the relationship between machines and people in the 1920s and ’30s with a focus on Paris as well as other parts of Europe, the U.S., and Japan. The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (the Art Deco Exhibition), a world’s fair held in Paris in 1925, was an important turning point in changing attitudes, as it heralded Art Deco, a geometric style inspired by machines. After the Great Kanto Earthquake, which occurred in 1923, Japan underwent rapid modernization. In the brief period of prosperity between the two world wars, ideas about machines and rationality changed drastically.
With great technological advances such as computers, the Internet, and AI, which promises to transform our lives even further, this is perhaps a good time to revisit the art and design of 100 years ago and reconsider the connection between machines and humans.
Dates: Sat. December 16, 2023 − Sun. May 19, 2024 Venue: POLA Museum of Art, Gallery 1 and 2 (Map) |
Kenjiro Okazaki: Kunitsukami as Chthonius
Installation view, Kunitsukami as Chthonius, 2024, photo by Shu Nakagawa
©Kenjiro Okazaki
Exhibition Period: Sunday, March 10, 2024 – Sunday, May 12, 2024
We are pleased to announce Kenjiro Okazaki’s solo exhibition Kunitsukami as Chthonius. This exhibition offers a preview of new sculptures and will be open until Sunday, May 12. Takuro Someya Contemporary Art was involved in planning this collaborative exhibition.
These new sculptures are the culmination of a quarter-century period during which the artist prepared to resume their production and will soon be widely exhibited. In the lead-up to their public unveiling, we hope to provide an opportunity to reflect on and renew our understanding of the significance of Okazaki’s sculptures, as well as the inherent power and presence of the medium of sculpture itself. This exhibition also aims to foster synergy across the various elements of Okazaki’s diverse endeavors as he continues to expand his practice, both domestically and internationally.
In Kunitsukami as Chthonius, Okazaki offers a glimpse into his vision of sculpture-making for the first time since his presentation of ceramic sculptures twenty-five years ago. This exhibition features sculptures that adhere to the original dimensions of the artist’s handmade forms as well as those that, through enlargement, demonstrate the presence of volume as a major element of sculpture. Each work confronts us with the dynamism born from the fusion of form and material.
Translation by Eriko Ikeda Kay
Installation view, Kunitsukami as Chthonius, 2024, photo by Shu Nakagawa
©Kenjiro Okazaki
Kenjiro Okazaki | Kunitsukami as Chthonius
Exhibition Period: Sunday, March 10, 2024 – Sunday, May 12, 2024
This exhibition is by appointment only.
To schedule a visit, please contact us at gallery@tsca.jp.
Mayumi Hosokura: Walking, Diving - Exhibition review
Hajime Nariai (curator, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo) has written a review for Mayumi Hosokura’s solo exhibition Walking and Diving held at Takuro Someya Contemporary Art from 2 September until 21 October, 2023. For further information, please click here.
https://tsca.jp/artist/mayumi-hosokura/#text
Rafaël Rozendaal: "MODERN Times in Paris 1925 - Art and Design in the Machine-age" (POLA Museum of Art)
We are pleased to announce that Rafaël Rozendaal will join the exhibition “MODERN Times in Paris 1925 – Art and Design in the Machine-age” at the POLA Museum of Art. The biggest lenticular works ever made by Rafaël Rozendaal will be shown at the finale of the exhibition.
We hope you will enjoy this opportunity to view Rozendaal’s works!
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“MODERN Times in Paris 1925 – Art and Design in the Machine-age”
In the 1920s, Paris underwent rapid industrialization in an effort to reconstruct the French capital in the wake of the First World War, ushering in a flourishing and dynamic era known as the Machine Age. This exhibition examines various aspects of the relationship between machines and people in the 1920s and ’30s with a focus on Paris as well as other parts of Europe, the U.S., and Japan. The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts (the Art Deco Exhibition), a world’s fair held in Paris in 1925, was an important turning point in changing attitudes, as it heralded Art Deco, a geometric style inspired by machines. After the Great Kanto Earthquake, which occurred in 1923, Japan underwent rapid modernization. In the brief period of prosperity between the two world wars, ideas about machines and rationality changed drastically.
With great technological advances such as computers, the Internet, and AI, which promises to transform our lives even further, this is perhaps a good time to revisit the art and design of 100 years ago and reconsider the connection between machines and humans.
Dates: Sat. December 16, 2023 − Sun. May 19, 2024
Venue: POLA Museum of Art, Gallery 1 and 2 (Map)