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2 November 2005

Out of the Darkness: Mezzotints by Katsunori Hamanishi

Katsunori Hamanishi, born in Hokkaido in 1949, is one of a group of Japanese artists who have explored and developed the rich, three-dimensional effects achievable with the centuries-old European mezzotint (literally “half tone”) technique. ‘Out of the Darkness’ follows the artist’s development from his characteristically dark and elegant early works, featuring natural objects emerging from shadows into stark twilight, to his recent more colourful abstract and geometrical compositions

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19 September 2005

Talk

Wings of the Cicada: textiles and kimono by Takeshi Kitamura and the Usuhata Group

Woven from silk, ra is a delicate material and was highly prized in ancient China; few examples of it have survived. The ra garment was included in a touring exhibition of Chinese artefacts in Japan and one of the people to see it was Takeshi Kitamura. He was profoundly moved by it and began his own experiments to rediscover the lost knowledge of how to weave ra. After several years of study and experimentation, he finally succeeded. For this achievement, he was honoured by the Japanese government as a Living National Treasure (Important Intangible Cultural Property) in 1995.

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1 September 2005

Talk

Edo Kabuki: Theatre Prints from the Herwig Collection

This exhibition displayed actor prints from a different Japanese city, Edo (now modern day Tokyo). Prints by members of the UtagawaS chool illustrated the distinct differences between the artistic styles and traditions of Edo and Osaka.

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6 June 2005

Talk

After Amnesia: Scenes of Conflict That Have Forgotten Their Past

In this particular series of photographs Tomoko Yoneda questions and intrigues us with the images behind our collective memory. They reveal the incredible hidden past behind the everyday and the ordinary.

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5 April 2005

Talk

Living Fossils: Etchings and mixed media work by Christopher McHugh

“These traces, or fossils, all have a unique story to tell and a continually developing life of their own. My works tend to begin as collages that blend everyday imagery and ephemera, exploring this no-man’s land where the present becomes the past and the historical record is made.”

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22 March 2010

Talk

Japan under the DPJ Government

Former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hitoshi Tanaka, shares his views on the changes in Japan’s foreign policy since the DPJ came to power.

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27 May 2010

Talk

Tabaimo

A talk by Tabaimo, to coincide with her exhibition at Parasol unit (26 May to 6 August 2010) was held at Daiwa Foundation Japan House

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28 October 2010

Talk

Project Japan: Architecture and Art Media, Edo to Now

Graham Cooper, the author of ‘Project Japan: Architecture and Art Media, Edo to Now’ (Images Publishing, 2009), considered contemporary Japanese architecture through its relationship to art. In the book, he explores Japan’s situation, which has allowed diverse forms of architecture to co-exist to an extent unparalleled in the rest of the world.

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22 February 2011

Talk

Photographing Cities: The Diorama Map

Sohei Nishino is a young Japanese photographer whose body of work is centred on the ‘Diorama Map’ project. Supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, he came to London last year to take thousands of photographs of the city. His ever-evolving ‘Diorama Map’ project currently includes the ten cities of Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Shanghai, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Istanbul and London.

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