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Hiromi Nishikawa
西川ひろみ Nishikawa Hiromi 藝術新著 1974年10月号 通巻298号 『増大特集：日本の肖像画」Geijutsu Shincho, No.289, October 1974 (Japanese Portraits) Born in Tokyo 1973, Graduated, Aichi Prefectural University of Arts“New Artist Award”, Kokugakai (National Painting Association) 1974, “Pūruvū Award”, Kokugakai 1975, Aichi Prefectural University of Arts (certification)1976, Aichi Prefectural University of Arts, Graduate studies1980, Enrolls at Japanese Ministry for Cultural…
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Mayumi Hosokura
We need new skin. It could be something like fur, like the scales of a snake, like the downy hairs of a plant, like glowing glass. It obscures our previous category just as manipulating one of the genes leads to a tomato with a moth gene and a sheep with…
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Okayama Art Summit 2019
Photo report from the September preview, writing for Art Review Asia. Okayama Art Summit 2019: IF THE SNAKEArtistic Director: Pierre HuygheSept 27 – Nov 24, 2019 https://www.okayamaartsummit.jp/2019/
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Takashi Katayama, Distance Points
“At the end of the Soviet science fiction film Solaris the astronaut returns home. Everything seems real and normal but somehow he doesn’t trust in anything any longer … What is needed is a new story and one that we (he) can believe in.” HyperNormalisation (2015) If you are lucky,…
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Neighbors / 4649/5963
In the remnants of an old Sumo stable (sumo-beya) lives mumei, the artist run space / gallery near the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Koto-ku. Here, 4649 from Sugamo have set up shop for the month bringing their mystic-nomadic work with them. The main space hosts Yasuaki Hamada’s…
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Local hero
The modern myth-in-waiting is literally a wrestler waiting to compete: The story of Georgian-born Gagamaru as the ultimate sumo wanderer, painter Nanami Hori channelling negative vibes to something productive, and the nature of Sculpture when Industry disappears.
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Hot eyes (2)
“Anxiety regarding space-age technology constantly monitoring life on Earth was the central motif in two Hi Red Center projects in early 1964: one was the publication of leaflets titled News Flash! What Is the Communication Satellite Being Used for? (Tokuho! Tsushin eisei wa nanimono ni tsukawarete iruka!), which were distributed in response to two uncanny coincidences: the…
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Scream at the City
Years after leaving, the world seemed different. Miserable and restless. The world they knew was more predictable but signs of it wandering were always there. The Caspian Sea now served as a counter point to the paving slabs and grey sky while the Caspian rim, a mixture of oil refineries…
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Dragging a dead body to market
It began in Kinshasa 1974, with Ali and Forman, with film of the Congo, with paddle boats on the Congo River and with funereal parades. A desiccated body wrapped in muslin and silk is driven through the streets by horse and cart. Sand whips as light refracts through the haze…