イベントカテゴリー: Exhibition

31 March 2014

As Though Tattooing on My Mind

As Though Tattooing on My Mind is the first exhibition of the Japanese poet and artist Gozo Yoshimasu in the UK, and summarises fifty years of Yoshimasu’s career as one of the world’s most innovative and influential poets and artists. The exhibition presents pieces of his visual artwork together with various forms of his poetry, including double-exposure photography, copper-plate engravings, the sui generis gozoCiné video work and original manuscripts from his latest visual poetry series, Kaibutsu-kun (Dear Monster).

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17 March 2014

“Yasashii Hankachi: Gentle Heart Project”- Handkerchiefs for Tohoku Children

“Yasashii Hankachi” is an exhibition organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in association with JAGDA (the Japan Graphic Designers Association) in response to the devastation left by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku (north-east) area of Japan. In collaboration with children in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima, graphic designers have helped to create beautiful handkerchiefs. These have been exhibited and sold, and the proceeds have been donated to schools in the area to enable children to realise their reconstruction projects.

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13 February 2014

Tokyo Portraits by Carl Randall

Carl Randall talked about his latest solo exhibition at Daiwa Foundation Japan House, exploring the themes of overpopulation, community and the individual and the group, as depicted in his Tokyo Portraits. The artist was joined by Andrew Stahl, Head of Undergraduate Painting and Director of Undergraduate Studies at The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.

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16 January 2014

Tokyo Portraits by Carl Randall

We celebrated the opening of Carl Randall’s Tokyo Portraits exhibition at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery on 16 January 2014. The artist was introduced by author David Mitchell (Booker Prize shortlisted – Cloud Atlas, Ghostwritten).

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16 January 2014

Tokyo Portraits by Carl Randall

Tokyo Portraits is a series of figurative paintings inspired by the people and places of Tokyo – responses to everyday life in Japan’s capital, as seen through the eyes of a visiting UK artist. Inspired by the city’s crowded streets, large canvases depict masses of densely packed faces. These works have been made in collaboration with hundreds of people living or working in Tokyo, each volunteering to sit for their portraits. Other paintings are based upon everyday life in Tokyo, depicting people in trains, shops and streets – subtle distortions in space and scale often being used to combine the familiar with a slight sense of the unreal.

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21 November 2013

The Way I See - Beyond Portraiture by Hideyuki Sobue

This talk will explore the themes surrounding Hideyuki Sobue’s exhibition The Way I See at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery, where he will discuss his artistic approach to the human cognitive process and latest attempt to push the boundaries of contemporary portraiture. Hideyuki Sobue is a Japanese artist living and working in the Lake District, where this project is based. The exhibition, supported by Arts Council England, embodies a series of portraits of people he has come to know personally.

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24 October 2013

Hideyuki Sobue: The Way I See

We celebrated the opening of Hideyuki Sobue’s exhibition The Way I See at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery on 24 October 2013. The artist was introduced by Jimmy S. S. Lek, the founder of ArtGemini Prize, London. Hideyuki Sobue is a Japanese artist living and working in the Lake District where this project is based. This exhibition, supported by Arts Council England, embodies a series of portraits of people he has come to know personally, with each work designed to be exhibited in diptychs: one half featuring the portrait, the other a carpet of fallen leaves observed in the area. The leaves also symbolize the vast majority of people, who have never been the subject of a portrait and thus the works become a metaphoric juxtaposition.

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24 October 2013

Hideyuki Sobue: The Way I See

This exhibition by Hideyuki Sobue is touring from the Sugar Store Gallery, Kendal, in the Lake District where the artist has been living and working. The exhibition features portraits of people who he has come to know personally, with each work designed to be exhibited as a diptych: one half featuring the portrait, the other half featuring fallen leaves which he has observed in the local area. These leaves are a metaphor for the fragility of life and for the majority of people who will never be the subject of a portrait.

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15 October 2013

Acting Out of Nothingness: from the APT Collection

For this artist talk, the Director of APT Institute, Justin R. Merino described in detail the work of his organisation. The artist Kanako Sasaki, who is featured in the exhibition Acting Out of Nothingness, introduced her photography and explained the thoughts and processes that inform her work. London-based Japanese photographer Tomoko Yoneda, whose work addresses similar themes, lead a discussion on journalism, history and contemporary photography. The speakers also debated on the topic of Japanese photography today.

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