For the second round of our Tokyo Art Marathon, M-KOS visited five of the eight contemporary art galleries that occupy the fifth to seventh floor of Maruhachi warehouse building in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa.
TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY
Yoko Ono: Light (10 Dec 2011 – 28 Jan 2012)
© Yoko Ono. Courtesy Tomio Koyama Gallery
Unfortunately we are not able to publish photos of Yoko Ono’s installation due to strict copyright regulations. Yoko Ono showed two installations to bring light and hope for Japanese people in the wake of Great East Japan Earthquake. On the seventh floor, Tomio Koyama Gallery invited audiences to walk around Ono’s dimly lit space by handing out small torches to guide us through a labyrinth made of black mesh, circulating around a faint source of light glaring in the centre. For the sixth floor gallery space, Ono offered a performance on the opening night, writing Japanese characters on canvas walls, such as Imagine, Hope, Eternity, Dream and more. The middle of the same space was displayed several found objects from the house of Ono’s friend, destroyed to its foundations in Sendai by the earthquake.
TAKA ISHII GALLERY
Ei Arakawa & Sergei Tcherepnin (17 Dec 2011 – 14 Jan 2012)
Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin. Installation view at Taka Ishii Gallery (Kiyosumi, Tokyo), 17 Dec 2011 – 14 Jan 2012. Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery / Photo: Kenji Takahashi
Taka ishii Gallery exhibited the collective work of New York based artists Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin, they have been working together on and off since 2007 and teamed up again for this series of new sound installations and performances. The audience was invited to interact with the installations by moving, bending or pushing thin metal plates creating quirky and intriguing sounds. For a better idea and view of the show, please see contemporaryartdaily.com
SHUGOARTS
4 Artists Show – Painting – (10 Dec 2011 – 4 Feb 2012)
Takuya Ikezaki / Tomohito Ishii / Shinichiro Kano / Aki Kondo
(from left) Shinichiro Kano, Wooden Frame series, installation view, oil on canvas 2011; plot (12615) oil on canvas 2011 Courtesy ShugoArts. Photo by M-KOS
(from left) Aki Kondo, White Bench/Running Boys/Legendary Woman, oil on panel 2011. Courtesy ShugoArts. Photo by M-KOS
(from left) Tomohito Ishii, Subimage (window plant)/Subimage (figure) oil on canvas 2011. Courtesy ShugoArts. Photo by M-KOS
Takuya Ikezaki, installation view. 2011 Courtesy ShugoArts. Photo by M-KOS
SPROUT CURATION
Marlene Marino / Makoto Taniguchi: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
(10 Dec 2011 – 28 Jan 2012)
[left] Marlene Marino, KaoRi (Dreaming), 2011 [right] Makoto Taniguchi, No Name For Now, 2011. Courtesy Sprout Curation. Photo by M-KOS
Marlene Marino, from KaoRi series, 2011. Courtesy Sprout Curation. Photo by M-KOS
Makoto Taniguchi, Summer 2011, 2011. Courtesy Sprout Curation. Photo by M-KOS
AI KOWADA GALLERY
New Gallery x New Artists x New Works (7 Jan – 10 Mar 2012)
Yu Akashi / Yutaka Aoki / Yosuke Bandai / Hiroshige Fukuhara / Aki Inomata / Takeshi Ikeda / Hitomi Karino / Keisuke Maeda / Futoshi Miyagi / Yoshinori Niwa / Aya Ohki / Satoshi Ohtsuka
Satoshi Otsuka, Puzzle #14 & #15, 2011. Courtesy Ai Kowada Gallery. Photo by M-KOS.
[left] Hiroshige Fukuhara, The Night, 2011 [right] Yu Akashi, Drown 2, 2011. Courtesy Ai Kowada Gallery. Photo by M-KOS
Futoshi Miyagi, (Party no ato) Ai o tashikameru, 2011. Courtesy Ai Kowada Gallery. Photo by M-KOS
Kiyosumi-Shirakawa
Maruhachi Warehouse Building
1-3-2, Kiyosumi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0024, Japan
5th floor
Taka Ishii Gallery
ShugoArts
Miyake Fine Art
6th floor
Sprout Curation
Ai Kowada Gallery
KIDO Press
Hiromi Yoshii Edition
7th floor
Tomio Koyama Gallery