Photo report: Roppongi Art Night 2012, an all-night art event that covers over an entire town
By azito on 2012-04-020Read moreApr. 02, 2012
One of the biggest Japanese art festivals came back with Yayoi Kusama!??Roppongi Art Night is an all-night art event whose stage is set in the entire Roppongi area, a famous Japanese town for both night owls and…Photo report: VOCA at Ueno Royal Museum
By azito on 2012-03-31Read moreMar. 31, 2012
If you are interested in new talent, VOCA is one of the exhibition not to miss in Japan. It is organized by Japanese curators and critics, each of them push in one artist…New Arrival: Kazuhito Tanaka composes a view
By azito on 2012-03-22Read moreMar. 22, 2012
When I first saw Tanaka’s “blocks” series artworks, it looked like a hallucination. Hallucination of colorful buildings appeared in a white desert. As you may have noticed,…Photo report: G-Tokyo 2012 at Mori Arts Center Gallery
By azito on 2012-03-12Read moreMar. 12, 201
There is nothing better than a day spent on art-spotting on a gloomy Saturday morning. Emphasizing the fact that this day was the day of my initiation as a writer…Interview with the organizer of TOKYO FRONTLINE, Shigeo Goto
By azito on 2012-03-10Read moreMar. 10, 2012
We were lucky to have an opportunity to listen to TOKYO FRONTLINE’s organizer, Goto’s thought about Japanese art fair and Japanese contemporary art world. TOKYO FRONTLINE’s interesting and novel ideas seems to stem from his different origin…Photo Report: TOKYO FRONTLINE, a new concept art fair #2 at 3331 Arts Chiyoda
By azito on 2012-03-10Read moreMar. 10, 2012
TOKYO FRONTLINE is a new art fair which focuses on young Japanese artists with future potential. Started last year, second edition of this art fair tries aggressive promotion of artists by developing art goods, collaborating with companies…Nobuya Hoki at Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto
By azito on 2012-03-01Read moreMar. 01, 2012
Nobuya Hoki has just finished his solo exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto. He is a Kyoto-based artist who is developing a unique and experimental approach to painting. The exhibition was showcasing a new body of work…Reika Nakayama “Sleeping Diary – to Paradise -” at Mori Yu Gallery Kyoto
By azito on 2012-02-22Read moreFeb. 22, 2012
Reika Nakayama, the first prize winner of 2011 VOCA award whose aim is to discover new and emerging talent in the country, is now holding her solo exhibition “Sleeping diary – to paradise -” at Mori Yu…“DOMANI, The Art of Tomorrow Exhibition” at The National Art Center, Tokyo
By azito on 2012-02-16Read moreFeb. 16, 2012
The DOMANI exhibition has been held 13 times, and this year marks its 14th anniversary. This annual exhibition is functioning as an opportunity for those artists who study abroad on the Overseas Study Program for Artists to…“Fuyuko MATSUI: Becoming Friends with All the Children in the World” at Yokohama Museum of Art
By azito on 2012-02-11Read moreFeb. 11, 2012
Posters of a hauntingly beautiful nihon-ga (Japanese-style painting) depicting a young girl who seems to be searching for something in a dense forest of wisteria while turning her back on an empty cradle appear all over the…Photo Report: Japanese galleries in Art Stage Singapore 2012
By azito on 2012-02-05Read moreFeb. 05, 2012
We Are Asia’, roared the ad campaign for the second edition of Art Stage Singapore, and Japan was not short on representatives at the island nation’s second attempt to establish itself as a vital destination in the…Yayoi Kusama “Eternity of Eternal Eternity” at The National Museum of Art, Osaka
By azito on 2012-02-04Read moreFeb. 04, 2012
Her largest-scale retrospective soon open at Tate Modern, the show was recently running at Centre Pompidou, Paris and is traveling to Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Kusama Yayoi’s solo exhibition “Eternity of Eternal Eternity”…“elan photographic” at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
By azito on 2012-01-26Read moreJan. 26, 2012
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of photography was showing artworks by 5 emerging artists. Although they are all using photograph as a medium, their expressions were beyond our imagination and captured my eyes with excitement.Hiroshi Sugito “Paintings and Sketches” at JCC in Singapore
By azito on 2012-01-19Read moreJan. 19, 2012
While Cool Japan and Takashi Murakami’s Superflat series have led the charge the world over, blazing the trail for Japanese art on an international platform , another artist has been making inroads into the art scene…“Kenji Yanobe : Sun Child, Taro’s Children” at Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum
By azito on 2012-01-14Read moreJan. 14, 2012
2011 is the 100th anniversary of Taro Okamoto’s birth, who gave Yanobe great influence on his life as an artist. In celebration of Okamoto’s centenary, several exhibitions have been held this year. The last one is…Keiichi Tanaami “Dividing Bridge” and “Lost and Wandering Bridge Series”
By azito on 2011-12-22Read moreDec. 22, 2011
Exhibitions titled “Dividing Bridge” and “Lost and Wandering Bridge”, both by Keiichi Tanaami were held at gallery NANZUKA…“Nishino Travelers – What’s our destination?” at Art Area B1, Nakanoshima Banks CENTER-A & Antenna Media
By azito on 2011-12-19Read moreDec. 19, 2011
German-based Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi holds his debut exhibition in Kansai region. The show is a part of the art festival which is addressing the theme of “Railway and Travel” and featuring exhibitions, talk and performance events…“Ways of Worldmaking” at The National Museum of Art, Osaka
By azito on 2011-12-09Read moreDec. 09, 2011
The National Museum of Art, Osaka is currently presenting an exhibition “Ways of Worldmaking” which showcases recent works by emerging nine artists and groups.Toshio Shibata “concrete abstraction”
By azito on 2011-12-06Read moreDec. 06, 2011
Over 50 color photographs which has been taken since 2009 were displayed in the gallery.New Arrival: “Lost and Wandering Bridge” by Keiichi Tanaami
By azito on 2011-11-19Read moreNov. 19, 2011
When I visited Tanaami’s exhibition in the end of October, these vivid colors jumped into my eyes standing out from the bright white gallery space. I love Tanaami’s strong coloration…