Tsubasa TAKAHASHI Solo show

16 Apr 2012 – 27 Apr 2012

ポーランド日本情報工科大学 ワルシャワ校Polsko-Japonska Wyzsza Szkola Technik Komputerowych, Warszawa

http://www.pjwstk.edu.pl/

“Phyasical side II”

9 Apr 2012 – 29 Apr 2012

Open : 11:00-19:00

Yoshimi ArtsYoshimi Arts

http://www.yoshimiarts.com/exhibition/20120409_Physical_side_II.html

KASHIWA ART DAYLIGHT “Collector’s eye”

23 Mar 2012 – 26 Mar 2012

Open : 10:00-20:00(Last day : 10:00-18:00)

柏市民ギャラリー（柏髙島屋 S館 ８F）Kashiwa citizen gallery

http://kashiwa-art.com/

“39advance show”

9 Mar 2012 – 24 Mar 2012

Party : 9 Mar 2012, 18:00-21:00

Open : 12:00-19:00(Sunday and last day : 12:00-18:00) Close : Monday and Tuesday

Gallery Kobo CHIKA

2-21-3,Ebisu,Shibuya-ku,Tokyo #150-0013 Japan

Phone : 03-3449-9271

http://www.kobochika.com/newchika/exhibi201203.html

“The Sound of Light (Hikari no oto)”

Director/Writer: Juichiro Yamasaki

Cast/Character: Yoshitomo Fujihisa / Yusuke Kariya / Eri Mori / Yoko Asano / Takeshi Masago / Yoshiyuki Shinmi / Toyokuki Sato / Haruyuki Kariya / Yoshiko Nakamoto / Haruko Kariya / Junko Sato / Matsue Kariya / Soichiro Tshuji / Takashi Okada

Advertising photograph : Keita SUGIURA

http://hikarinooto.jp/index.html

“SCENE 2″

10 Feb 2012 – 12 May 2012

first season : 10 Feb 2012 – 30 Mar 2012, second season : 1 Apr 2012 – 12 May 2012

Party : 6 Apr 2012, 18:00-20:00

11:00-21:00

TIME & STYLE MIDTOWNTIME & STYLE MIDTOWN

〒107-0052 東京都港区赤坂9-7-4 東京ミッドタウン ガレリア ３F3F GALLERIA TOKYO-MIDTOWN, 9-7-4 AKASAKA MINATO-KU TOKYO 107-0052

Phone : 03-5413-3501, Fax : 03-5413-3502

http://www.timeandstyle.com/plus/shop/midtown/index.html

“FEAR OF LOSS II -multiples and copies-”

3 March – 31 March 11:00-19:00

YAMAMOTO GENDAI

3-1-15-3F, Shirokane, Minato-ku,
TOKYO 108-0072 Japan

tel&fax.++81 (0)3-6383-0626

No charge for admission

http://yamamotogendai.org/japanese/exhibition/index.html

Kazuki UMEZAWA Solo Show “The Ground, Water And Ownerless Property Core”
Fri. 2 March – Sat. 31 March　Sat.21 April 2012

Artist : Kazuki UMEZAWA
Reception Party : Fri. 2 March 18:00-20:00

We will this time present “The Ground, Water and Ownerless Property Core” solo show of Kazuki Umezawa, from March 2 through 31.

Umezawa is a young artist who creates a kind of bricolage with all kinds of images and data scattered around on the Internet.
A vast number of characters and motifs are buried on a bright white background, and it is hard to know what are the original forms amid three primary colors of red, green and blue. He has equalized the fragments and fractions of the buried data and shows us a new aspect of them.

This is be the second personal exhibition of Umezawa at CASHI. He presents a series of new works titled Mahojin (magic circle). The works consist of smaller parts than previous works and have decorative, thick and high-density faces.
The legal term “bona vacantia (ownerless property),” which had been unfamiliar to us but created controversy when used by Tokyo Electric Power Co. in relation to its compensation for the nuclear accident caused by the March earthquake, gave Umezawa a clue for the works, in which he placed characters and motifs against a white sky as if they have appeared out of the blue. He is again addressing issues like the Internet vs. reality, anonymity vs. real names, and digital vs. analogue.

In the previous works, he reconstructed data fragments into something like a character in anime or manga.
Under the theme of magic circle, however, his latest works are dotted with a lot of patterns and symbols and spectators will catch the eyes of them everywhere. This structure of the works may stir up your anxiety or some other emotion more strongly than previous works.
Are those fragmented data our hope or desire for the future?

Umezawa will attend the reception party held on March 2, the opening day of the exhibition.
Please come and watch his latest works, in which Umezawa has shown his endless creativity.

Press Release(en)

“GENDAI*ART”

28 October – 7 November

Events：”OEKAKI – OFF ” 28 Feb 15 : 00 – 17 : 00 / Opening party 18 : 00 – 20 : 00

Talk Event：”GENDAI*ART” 14 Mar 17 : 00 – 19 : 00 / Akira TAKAYAMA × Yohei KUROSE

ROPPONGI HILLS A/D GALLERY

No charge for admission

http://chaosxlounge.com/archives/1164

Yugo KOHROGI Solo Show “boiling point”
Fri. 2 Dec. – Sat. 24 Dec. 2011
Artist : Yugo KOHROGI
Reception Party : Fri. 2 Dec. 18:00-20:00

CASHI is pleased to advise of holding a Yugo Kohrogi’s exhibition titled “boiling point”.

Kohrogi is a painter who paints women or animal motifs with a touch of cream melting in the mouth. The voluptuous and graceful texture makes even the inside of the motif flit about, and his expression, fraught with shady or painful sensations that feel tangible but really intangible, has attracted many fans.
The “l” series, a series of his representative works, uses pornographic images that come and go on the Internet as a motif, painting every image through his own eyes. The crudeness of human behavior is instantly purified by going through his eyes, and the motif is sublimed into fragile but amorous, yet graceful presence.

At the exhibition “melting point”, held at CASHI in the year before last, the “l” series, his memorable masterpiece, was exhibited as the main feature, and he repeatedly made his expressions focusing on “the instant a solid transforms into a liquid”, that is, the instant something begins to melt.
This time, however, the title will be “boiling point”, and he unfolds a new series of works, with the keyword “the instant of evaporation”, that is, the instant something melted transforms into gas. This is also a quest for incompleteness of visual sense illustrated by the presence of something in the air which is invisible but which does exist.
Plants, clouds and women were taken into motifs and he accomplished images solider than before.

At the reception party on the opening day of December 2, the artist will be present in person. We would like to invite you hereby to the exhibition to appreciate Kohrogi’s new works which have become even more sensuous and dynamic.

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