Jan 27, 2018
Ryo Kikuchi, Void #9
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Ryo Kikuchi, Void #9
Kanata Goto completes his master course in department of Intermedia Art of Tokyo Art University with "Composition: Heptagon" in which he for the first time combines threads of two different colors weaving the eye which gazez the onlooker.
IMAGE: Kanata Goto, Composition Hepatagone, polyester threads, steel, 188.6x201.5x8cm, 2018
We congratulate Macoto Murayama, whose recent work Phalaenopsis Sogo Yukidian - multiple front view - b (digital c-print, 150x100cm or 59x39.4in, 2017 Ed.8) has just won Grand Prix at Asia Digital Art Award/Fukuoka Governor’s Award/The Minister of MEXT Award. Follow us for the news regarding the exhibitions where we show this gorgeous Moth Orchid in scale 6 times larger than the real flower. More info about the prize and other winners: https://adaa.jp/en/winners/winners2017.html
(Free Entrance, by reservations only. Reservations by mail: [email protected]) “Scratch/Thread” Akane Yorita & Cousteau Tazuke Roof Top Exhibition April 7th (SAT) – 8th (SUN), 2018 12:00~20:00 Pantone Hotel 8th Floor, Saint-Gilles, Place Loix 1, Brussels Opening Reception: April 7th (SAT), 18:00~20:00 We are glad to announce the start of our collaboration with Pantone Hotel and have decided to mark the beginning of our partnership with the two days exhibition and the vernissage on the roof top terrace with 360 degrees view on the centre of Brussels. Situated in cosy Saint-Gilles with numerous art nouveau buildings and indie galleries, Pantone is paying a great deal of attention to its interior design with the emphasis on colours, the principle its name (“Pantone” – well known system for matching colours) brings in forefront. On April 7th “Scratch/Thread” will invade the whole 8th floor of the building occupying its white cube type of rooms and stretching to the open terraces while enveloping both sides of the roof. It is an attempt to transform the space using aesthetic key-elements in the work of two Japanese artists: action of carving or eventual trace of a scratch in paintings of Cousteau Tazuke and stretched or suspended threads in installation of Akane Yorita. While working on the borderline of painting and sculpture, Tazuke carves acrylic planes, paints them with vibrant colours and then exposes their back side. As a result, he brings the third dimension and engages a strong tactile feeling in the process of viewing paintings. Scratch here is a formative element that creates a line, but in the same time a physical mark in our perception of the work. Meanwhile, Yorita follows her line by using threads to create suspended installations of a delicate nature and always in light motion. Her artworks change its shape with the breath of wind, while inviting the viewer to enter and be touched by her net-work. In the upcoming show the line of Yorita’s thread will meet with the line of Tazuke’s scratch and although in two different media they create synthesis following and transforming each other. “Scratch/Thread” Exhibition generates on the roof of Pantone a semi-transparent cocoon we invite our guests to step in, while enjoying from high above the city view of Brussels. Exhibition Details: Exhibition Title: “Scratch/Thread” Participating Artist: Akane Yorita & Cousteau Tazuke Dates: April 7th (SAT) – 8th (SUN), 2018 (12:00~20:00) Opening Reception: April 7th (SAT), 18:00~20:00 Venue: Pantone Hotel 8th Floor, Saint-Giles, Place Loix 1, Brussels Entrance Fee: free of charge (only by reservations) Venue URL: www.pantonehotel.com Gallery URL: www.frantic.jp Artist’s pages: A.Yorita: www.frantic.jp/en/artist/artist-yorita.html C.Tazuke: www.frantic.jp/en/artist/artist-tazuke.html Enquiries and reservations by e-mail: [email protected]
"Fusion in The Box" Opening We invite you to join us at the opening on the 4th of April (WED) from 19:00 till 21:00 for a drink and warm conversation. We are delighted to offer you Club-Mate (provided by Lovibond Drinks), tea-based sparkling soft drink infused with Yerba Mate extract to add some... fusion in the box. “Fusion in The Box” Haruki Ogawa Exhibition 2018 April 4 (WED) – May 18 (FRI) UGC Art Box, Rue de Stassart 13, Brussels, Belgium Opening Reception: 2018 April 4 (WED) 19:00~21:00 Starting from April 4th Japanese artist Haruki Ogawa presents one of his paintings from “Fusion” series in UGC Art Box. Organized by Belgium branch of UGC cinema theatres and curated by its director Bruno Plantin-Carrenard the triangular space of Art Box presents the shows of 1 work by 1 artist inside the compact architectural perspective, which can be seen through the large vitrine, thus emphasising the quality of the exhibited art. The place/space here is in much more intense relationship with the work allowing the viewer to see it as “work-in-the-space” from external point of view and from another angle. Being sensitive to the spaciality of painterly expressions, Ogawa perceives painting not as a “window in imaginary reality”, neither as a flat surface, but as a cube. In his work the canvas of painting is a plane that releases interplaying elements in the space in front, into the white cube of the gallery. Painterly traces that are in process of multi-directed and synchronous transformation, while spreading and occupying space of the picture and “beyond”, paradoxically preserve its volumes, shades and effect of perspective. Ogawa works with dynamic three-dimensional abstraction, where non-concrete objects possess illusion of physical presence while keeping moving forward, around and back into the plane of the canvas. To further develop the labyrinth-like expansion of his expressions, in his recent “Fusion” series the artist combines canvases made of different media (hemp, linen, cotton), applying shadowing effects and depicting (by oil, acrylic, alkyd) dynamic elements that transfix the multiple planes of the canvas. It seems Ogawa weaves a figure in which resonating elements and numerous links between them inhale and hold the space inside the cube of the painting. “Fusion in The Box” brings the focus on the topology of Ogawa’s work by placing it in the sharply outlined white space where position right in front of the work will have to stay empty (since the viewing is happening from outside through the window). In this way, the onlooker, as if taking a step back, will observe not only painting but its relationship with the space, experiencing more a painterly installation then just a single canvas. Like observing the life in aquarium or peeping into the fantastic world in a snow-dome, the show offers an experience of the painting as a live independent being passing it’s time in the box and playing with the space it has for itself. Exhibition Details: Exhibition Title: “Fusion in The Box” Participating Artist: Haruki Ogawa Dates: April 4th (WED) – May18th (FRI), 2018 Opening reception: April 4th (WED), 19:00 – 21:00 Venue: UGC Art Box, Rue de Stassart 13, Brussels, Belgium URL: www.ugcartbox.be Artist’s page: www.frantic.jp/en/artist/artist-ogawa.html Enquiries: [email protected] Frantic Gallery: www.frantic.jp
How space (with its atmospheric fog and the force inhaling the onlooker) can be created through the work on the surface of the painting? There is something very Japanese in opening the depth by the emphases on the surface. In "Void" series Ryo Kikuchi generates the paysage and its mysterious ambiance with adjusting the size of the dots that cover the wooden panels of his works. The image that doesn't allow you to grasp itself since it vanishes in the repetition of black "grains" as soon as you try to approach it and get the details. The latest paintings of this series will be presented at the upcoming Exhibition of University Associates in Tokyo Zokei University with the opening on March 29. Dive in his landscapes if you are in Tokyo during the show or visit Frantic Gallery site to see the works online.
The 4th Tokyo Zokei University Associates Exhibition 2018.03.29.(THU) - 4.25.(WED) Tokyo Zokei Univerisity More about the show: https://www.zokei.ac.jp/joshuten/index.html More about the artist: https://frantic.jp/en/artist/artist-kikuchi.html
Akane Yorita in the residence of TAMAT (Centre de la Tapisserie, des Art du Tissu de la Fédération Wallonie-Buxelles) Jan. 2018 - Jan. 2019 TAMAT, Turnai, Belgium
Akane Yorita joins one year residency program of TAMAT, The Center of Textile of Wallonie-Bruxelles situated in Turnai, Belgium, to continue her research, creation and exhibition of textile/threads/weaving related works. We will keep you updated on the exhibitions in Belgium and other parts of Europe where you can see her latest "webs". More about TAMAT. | More about the artist. Akane Yorita, The Catenary Drawing, 180x1400x10cm, rayon threads, 2017 at The Sculpture Festival in Kanazawa
The latest work from "ZIP" series by Taisuke Mohri is created by pencil image of the face is covered by the layer of glass with cracks in it. The cracks enter the representation producing distinctive and blurry segments of an image as if parts of the depicted object are behind the window during rainy day. The Crack in substance becomes The Line in the image. From another side the seemingly 3-dimensional object “rushes out” from the flat surface into the mesh of broken glass merging with physical dimension, becoming a part of embodied reality. Taisuke Mohri, Zip 7, pencil on paper, glass, 95.4x77.1x7cm, 2017