Tag: Japan
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Dialogue with Trees: Five Stories of Rebirth and Renewal
To celebrate its 90th birthday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is staging an exhibition of works in wood, from vast installations to finely chiselled pieces, by five contemporary Japanese artists
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Forest of Expression: Art as a Communal Act
Eight projects explore how art and expressing ideas and emotions can help those on the fringes of society, with the aim of bringing art to those who often find it inaccessible
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Hideyuki Katsumata: USO de HONTOU
In Dundee, a city known for its video game and comic book heritage, cult artist Hideyuki Katsumata is given his first UK exhibition, drawing crowds with his psychedelic surrealism and intriguing style
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Memu Meadows
Research into dwellings of the future is under way in Hokkaido, the most northerly island in Japan, where the harsh winter climate can see temperatures fall to below -30C
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Motoi Yamamoto: Return to the Origin
In Japan, salt is used to exorcise the bad spirits that are said to haunt the dead. With his installation of 120kg of salt at the Pola Museum Annex in Tokyo, artist Motoi Yamamoto instead uses the mineral as a…
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Sapporo International Art Festival 2014
Sapporo, Japan 19 July – 28 September 2014
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A maturing craft becomes art: Japan Society’s Joe Earle discusses the new shape of bamboo
New Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Masters 4 October 2008-11 January 2009 Japan Society, New York City The first bamboo basket maker known to have signed his work, Hayakawa Shôkosai, was born in 1815. From his staking claim to an identity as…
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Shiro Kuramata and Ettore Sottsass
21_21 Design Sight, Tokyo 2 February–8 May 2011
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Luis Camnitzer
Daros Museum, Zurich 11 March–4 July 2010
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Reality Check. Two Performances by Anindita Dutta at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Kyushu, Japan
Clay or soil is all around us but we hardly take notice. But in the hands of this artist, such a familiar material challenges the viewer to pay attention.
