Date： Thursday, 1 July 2021 – Sunday, 31 July 2021, Venue: Padre Gallery (60 E 80th Street New York, NY 10075)
Participating artists： Tvorogov brothers, Grip Face, Sun-Kyo Park, Ken Nwadiogbu, Ayanfe Olarinde, Chen Wei Ting, LY, Willem Hoeffnagel, David Williams and Jeff McCreight akaRu8icon.
Between July 1st and July 31st, Padre Gallery in New York is proud to present a group exhibition FRESH, featuring works by Tvorogov brothers, Grip Face, Sun-Kyo Park, Ken Nwadiogbu, Ayanfe Olarinde, Chen Wei Ting, LY, Willem Hoeffnagel, David Williams and Jeff McCreight akaRu8icon.
When high temperatures hit and everyone wants to leave the hot asphalt and surround themselves with sand and the sea, Pablo Villazán curated “FRESH”, a group exhibition of 10 international artists from different artistic backgrounds and age groups. All of them have different techniques. Their work will undoubtedly refresh our senses and make us enjoy the hot summer in the big apple as if it were an oasis in the middle of the desert.
The name “Fresh” is inspired by the bright colors used in Grip Face’s artistic expression, the uncontrolled strokes of Chen Wei Ting, the youthful games of the eternal Bear by Tvorogov brothers or the camping scenes, which act as an escape valve for Willem Hoeffnagel. In addition the sensuality created on Ru8icon’s imaginary beach, the intimacy of Ken Nwadiogbu and the impudence of Ayanfe Olarinde’s work. It never leaves us indifferent which contrasts with the serenity of Sun-Kyo Park’s portraits and the beautiful simplicity of LY’s figures.
Date： Friday, 23 July 2021 – Monday, 16th August 2021, Weekday 10:00a.m.-9:00p.m. Weekend & Holidays 10:00a.m.-8:00p.m. Opening hours are based on the business hours of Atre Toride. Venue：VIVA, Atre Toride 4th Floor, 2-5, Chuocho, Toride-shi, Ibaraki Admission:free
Plan: NULLNULL STUDIO (Sayoko Suwabe, Hideki Kimishima) Guest artist: Mizuho Seko
Commerce and art have always maintained an exquisite relationship. For us artists, “putting a price on our works” is a very delicate issue. Nowadays, with the development of social networking services and NFT, we have many opportunities to know the prices of other people’s works. However, in reality, the prices of art works are very ambiguous. In fact, Sayoko Suwabe, a fine artist, started this project from a somewhat skeptical attitude in regards to putting a price on her own work.
Kimishima, who is also an artist, holds workshops called “Bento Workshop” at local elementary schools and asks the children to put a price on the inedible “Bento (lunch box)” works they make. The sensibility of the children, including the way they decide the prices, is completely different from our own, and the place is always filled with creative energy. Now, what is art and what is its value?
In order to fully discuss these questions, NULLNULL STUDIO has been in residence at Toride VIVA in the Atre commercial facility since May, engaging in dialogue with all kinds of visitors. We held a screening, showed visitors our works, and sometimes even had the opportunity to interview shop staff and local students.
This exhibition at Toride VIVA presents the actual works along with the process. It is highly significant to hold these projects at the commercial facility, Atre. This is because it is the front line of the economy that has supported people’s lives, and it is a place that has always been confronted with value and price. In this context, Toride VIVA has become a place of well-being and multi-generational exchange in this age of nuclear families.
This exhibition creates a space for communication that transcends the functions of gallery and shopping center through dialogues among two artists who make their living in fine art, the shopping center visitors, as well as a guest artist.
*Atre=the shopping mall of the station building
Taiken Bijutsuba VIVA (Learning Art Center), directly connected to Toride Station, is a new cultural exchange platform with Open Archive of Collections of Tokyo University of the Arts, galleries, workshop, park, library and project room, which opened in December 2019. NULLNULL STUDIO won the VIVA AWARD, which was newly established in 2021.
Date： Thursday, 1st July 2021, 08:00p.m. – 9:30p.m. (JST) 日時：2021年7月1日（木）20:00-21:30 Venue：Zoom and Facebook Live 開催方法：Zoom と Facebook Live Language: Japanese & English (Zoom interpretation available) 言語：日本語・英語（Zoom通訳あり)
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Unwrap Japan’s plastic crisis with key figures from the sustainability movement and the filmmakers of PLASTIC LOVE!
PLASTIC LOVE! Documentary Film Crowdfunding Campaign Launch!
An opportunity to get together and talk about ways we can step out of the plastic crisis.
What are the individual, community, business and systemic actions taking place? What changes can we make today?
Hosts:
Mariko McTier, co-founder of mymizu & representative director of Social Innovation Japan
Sybilla Patrizia, director of PLASTIC LOVE! Documentary film
Akira Sakano, president of Zero Waste Japan
Special Guests:
Sadao Harada, Project Hozugawa
Eric Kawabata General Manager, Asia Pacific Region, TerraCycle (Loop)
Date：Saturday, 19 June, 2021 – Sunday 27 June 2021,
1:00p.m.-6:00p.m. Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays
Venue：Bldg1, Youkobo Art Space Zempukuji 3-2-10, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, 167-0041
日時：2021年6月19日（土）～ – 2021年6月27日（日）
13:00-18:00 月曜・火曜休廊
会場：遊工房アートスペース 1号館 167-0041 東京都杉並区善福寺3-2-10
This is the exhibition organized by LTYE artists from Japan and the UK. LTYE (London/Tokyo Y-AIR Exchange Programme) since 2015, is an annual three-month studio exchange program for young artists run by Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo University of the Arts, and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (ASP, Associate Studio Programme).
In 2019, the fifth anniversary of the LTYE, we held the “LTYE 5th Anniversary Exhibition – Ai mi Tagai (Tokyo)” and a forum with over 20 artists who were previous participants and professors who are acting advisors for the program.
In 2020, we had planned to hold “Ai mi Tagai (London)” led by Prof. Graham Ellard, but it was postponed due to the effects of the COVID-19. The planned exhibition at the Lethaby Gallery (on the CSM campus) in London, which was planned for November 2020, has been cancelled. The “Web Project” has begun with the preparation and launch of the Ai mi Tagai Group’s exchange and creative activities on the ONLINE under the initiative of the UK side. This was launched to continue to develop exchanges between artists, even in situations where the decision to postpone exhibitions and studio exchange programs and movements are restricted. This web project is a new model of international cooperation that takes an advanced approach to the challenges of isolation and movement restrictions. It is composed mainly of a place for autonomous activities of individual artists called “WORK SPACE” and a place for announcing the results of activities called “SHOW SPACE”.
It is still in progress.
While the web project is being developed, the three months of April, May, and June 2021, in Youkobo which is the activity studio on the Tokyo side of this activity, in order to explore and continue the physical exhibition that can be realized in the current situation, artists in Tokyo and London have devised multiple exhibition plans under the initiative of the Tokyo artists. This exhibition has been held following the “Lottery exhibition –Ai mi Tagai 2021 Tokyo” held from April 17th (Sat) to 25th (Sun). Taking advantage of the relationships between artists that have been cultivated through past activities, this series of projects has been continued with cooperation. We believe that this is an indispensable attempt for a sustainable society by deepening mutual understanding, cooperation and coexistence between international countries. This exhibition had been postponed as a place to practically express what has been gained through the continuation and trials so far, after the turmoil in the Corona disaster.
And we are looking forward to re-planning and implementing “Ai mi Tagai London Edition” in the near future.
Date： Saturday, 5th June 2021 – Wednesday, 16th June 2021, 11:00 a.m. – 7:00p.m. (JST) 日時：2021年6月5日（水）～2021年6月16日（土）11:00-19:00 Venue：Tokyo,Shinjuku City, Aizumicho, 8-16 Kiyoshi Art Space 会場：東京都新宿区愛住町8−16 清ビル Kiyoshi Art Space
Since modern times, artistic expression has been pursued by pictorial illusions that create a shallow sense of depth on a plane, eliminating the spatial illusion created by perspective. We will reconsider new possibilities from several contexts regarding the flatness and spatial sense of contemporary painting, and explore the relationship between the two. While eliminating excessive elements, the flatness of the oriental painting space is also taken into consideration, and it shows the individual current position of the creative expression from the original theme and method, overcoming the traditional view of painting. For us, we may be able to see another perspective. This exhibition focuses on Japanese and Chinese artists and considers the flatness of paintings and the expression of texture on the surface. They are pursuing their own paintings while always seriously questioning the possibilities of expression that the paintings originally have, focusing on the elements that make up the paintings, such as illusion, flatness, and materiality, and everyday life and landscapes. I mainly produce natural subjects such as. We hope that you will pay attention to the fact that it has been taken up as a “painting that transcends a flat surface” even though it is a flat surface.
Date：Thursday, May 13 – Saturday, May 29, 2021. On Demand until Saturday, June 5, 2021. 日時：2021年5月13日（木）～2021年5月29日（土）オンデマンド配信：2021年6月5日（土） Venue：Online 会場：オンライン
“itsy bitsy” a film by Kusanagi Sisters (JuJu & Lisa Kusanagi) is a part of REELING: Dance on Screen.
REELING: Dance on Screen is a series of short film screenings produced by Mile Zero Dance, every second year. Each time the breadth, scope, and quality improves greatly along with technical knowhow, as the form expands and more filmmakers become aware of dance as a viable medium.
$15 or pay-what-you-can
Kusanagi Sistersの映画『itsy bitsy（イッツィー・ビッツィー）』が REELING: Dance on Screen にて上映されます。
REELING: Dance on Screen (カナダ・アルバータ州・エドモントン) は、Mile Zero Dance主催の隔年開催されるショートフィルム・フェスティバルです。
