All photos by M-KOS except where mentioned.
Art Marathon: The Armory Show 2014
Photo: M-KOS
Armory Week this year coincided with the opening of the highly anticipated 2014 Whitney Biennial, to add an extra layer of fervor to the usual art spectacle that is New York City at this time of the year. Opened to the public from the 6th to the 9th of March, The Armory Show welcomed the 16th edition of its current incarnation, which changed its name from Gramercy International Art Fair in 1999, as homage to the original 1913 gathering. As always situated on Piers 92 & 94 of Manhattan’s western shore, stretching out onto the Hudson River, the fair hosted 205 galleries (146 for Contemporary, 59 for Modern) across 26 countries. Once again Armory opted to hold their VIP preview and benefit opening at MoMA, perhaps rubbing shoulders with the blue chip institution in a bid to upscale its brand and better compete with Frieze, the London based art fair franchise which started-up two years ago on Randall Island, flanked between Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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Slide Show: Frieze Projects, Sculpture Park, Frieze Masters 2013
All photos by Marie Roux except where mentioned.
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You can see some works at Frieze Projects on vimeo:
Ken Okiishi
Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Rivane Neuenschwander
Summertime in Japan: Tokyo Art Marathon part 2
Tomoko Yoneda, Kimusa 02, 2009. C-type print. Courtesy the artist and ShugoArts.
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography is currently dedicating a perspicacious mid-career retrospective survey (through 23 September 2013) to London-based / Japanese-born Tomoko Yoneda. “We shall meet where there is no darkness” encloses over a decade of pictures within seven individual series as well as one video installation, all painstaking researching and documenting particular places and artifacts that bring back distant memories and preserve deep historical insight of Japan’s relations with its surrounding nations in the past century. Yoneda jointly organized the solo show “Rooms†at ShugoArts – the gallery in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa art complex which represents her – to gather more sets of congruent photographic works such as the “Topographical Analogies†series. (through 7 September 2013)
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Summertime in Japan : Tokyo Art Marathon part 1
Yayoi Kusama, Love Is Calling, 2013. Installation view. Photo by M-KOS
Summer in Tokyo started off cooler than usual in the first few weeks of our stay, followed by heatwaves shining through the city streets, filled with polyphonic soundscapes of cicadas. Luckily most art spaces were still open despite the solstice mood, for M-KOS to present its Tokyo art marathon report:
Mori Art Museum celebrates its 10th anniversary with the exhibition entitled “All You Need Is LOVE” showcasing about 200 artworks such as modern masters Marc Shagall, Constantin Brancusi and Fridha Karlo, contemporary greats David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama and Jeff Koons, as well as younger generations Richard Billingham, Shilpa Gupta and Masashi Asada and “virtual†popstar Miku Hatsune. The exhibition was laid out over five sub-themed to include: What is Love?; A Couple in Love; Love is Losing; Family and Love; Love Beyond. (through 1 September 2013)
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Summertime in Japan: Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art [KINARE]
Elmgreen & Dragset, Powerless Structures, Fig 429, 2012. Courtesy Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art [KINARE] Photo by M-KOS
For the summer season, M-KOS has taken temporary residence in Tokyo, Japan. During our stay, we will report on the local art scene whenever possible, not only for events going on in the capital but in different parts of the country as well. For starters, we have recently visited the Echigo-Tsumari region’s Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art [KINARE] in the city of Tokamachi, about two hours north-west of Tokyo by bullet train.
Originally built as a cultural exchange centre in 2003, KINARE was recently refurbished as a museum, inaugurated in 2012 to mark the 5th edition of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, the most ambitious event by Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, a local cultural development project themed around the symbiosis of nature, humans and artistic practice. Continue reading “Summertime in Japan: Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art [KINARE]”
Art Marathon: Frieze New York 2013 [Slide Show, Part 2] Updated!
All photos by M-KOS except where mentioned.
Art Marathon: Frieze New York 2013 [Slide Show, Part 1]
All photos by M-KOS
