Events category: Exhibition

17 September 2013

Acting Out of Nothingness: from the APT Collection

This event celebrated the opening of the group exhibition ‘Acting Out of Nothingness’ presented by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the APT Institute and featuring the contemporary Japanese artists Kanako Sasaki, Koki Tanaka, Zon Ito, Goro Murayama, Motohiro Tomii, Masahiro Wada and Lyota Yagi. The exhibition features artworks lent by APT Institute from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) collection, the largest lending library of artwork by leading and emerging contemporary artists from around the world.

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17 September 2013

Acting Out of Nothingness: from the APT Collection

Coinciding with the 2013 Frieze London Art Fair in neighbouring Regent’s Park, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the APT Institute are pleased to present the group exhibition ‘Acting Out of Nothingness’ featuring the contemporary Japanese artists Kanako Sasaki, Koki Tanaka, Zon Ito, Goro Murayama, Motohiro Tomii, Masahiro Wada and Lyota Yagi. The exhibition will display artworks lent by the APT Institute from the Artist Pension Trust (APT) collection, the largest contemporary lending library worldwide.

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25 June 2013

Cross-Cultural Partnerships and Environmental Engagement by the late Chris Wainwright with Yusaku Imamura

This talk was given by the late Chris Wainwright and Yusaku Imamura, Director, Tokyo Wonder Site. It explored some existing models of cultural co-operation primarily between the UK and Japan and also explored the need to find new models and approaches to some of the pressing issues of our time such as the increasingly urgent need for a creative response to climate change and environmental issues. Within this context, the talk investigated the role of artists and how they can make a positive contribution individually and collectively to our rapidly changing global environment.

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16 May 2013

A Catalogue of Errors by Chris Wainwright

The late Chris Wainwright worked with semaphore as a semi-obsolete signalling system for a number of years, incorporating it into a series of photographic performances and actions. These works were made at night and sited adjacent to places which had experienced natural disasters or at environmentally fragile sites caused by human intervention and exploitation. Much of the work in the exhibition was made in the Tohoku Region of Japan prior to and after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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16 May 2013

A Catalogue of Errors by Chris Wainwright

The late Chris Wainwright worked with semaphore as a semi-obsolete signalling system for a number of years, incorporating it into a series of photographic performances and actions. These works were made at night and sited adjacent to places where there have been natural disasters or at environmentally fragile sites caused by human intervention and exploitation. Much of the work in the exhibition was made in the Tohoku Region of Japan prior to and after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami.

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2 May 2013

Excavated Reverberations

Hiraku Suzuki discussed he recent works and the pieces that he is displaying at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery. The discussant was Dr Simon Kaner, Head of the Centre for Archaeology and Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures.

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7 March 2013

Winnebago, Carpet, Onsen, Potter by Peter McDonald

Peter McDonald depicts colourful scenes inhabited by people engaged in everyday activities. Images of teachers, artists, hairdressers or carpet sellers are constructed with an elementary graphic language. By making use of archetypes, symbolism and our incorrigible tendency to make the strange seem more familiar, McDonald’s alternative world reads like a parallel universe.

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21 March 2013

Excavated Reverberations by Hiraku Suzuki

In Hiraku Suzuki’s practice, drawing is expanded from a primitive method of expression into a contemporary technique of reflection and transformation. Associating the act of drawing with the process of ‘excavation’ reveals memories and unknowns present within our daily life. He perceives paper surfaces as excavation sites, carefully inscribing the moment when the different dimensions of time and space are generated from a limited two-dimensional phase. His recent drawings, in which he repeatedly uses light reflective materials such as silver marker and spray paint, shift their visibility according to the viewers’ perspective, creating resonance with the immediate environment.

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21 March 2013

Excavated Reverberations by Hiraku Suzuki

In Hiraku Suzuki’s practice, drawing is expanded from a primitive method of expression into a contemporary technique of reflection and transformation. Associating the act of drawing with the process of ‘excavation,’ he reveals memories and unknowns which lie dormant within our daily life. His recent drawings, in which he repeatedly uses light reflective materials such as silver marker and spray paint, shift their visibility according to the viewers’ perspective, creating resonance with the immediate environment.

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