Saturday, December 11, 2010

Things to be Remembered 12/11-12/26

at Shouun Oriental Art

"Things to be Remembered" 
December 11(sat) - December 26(sun)
11am - 6pm
closed on mondays

Heian mirror scuptures, Buddhist art, ancient sutras, Jomon art and more.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Masaaki Sasamoto's 2011 Calender Original Paintings 12/9-12/18

Chiyoharu gallery


Masaaki Sasamoto's  2011 Calender Original Paintings
2010. December 9 (thu) - 18 (sat)  
Open every day during the exhibition.  
Open hours: 10:30am - 6:00pm  On Sundays - 5:00pm


This is the 6th Masaaki Sasamoto's Calender Original Paintings exhibition. 12 new works and 1 water color painting is shown.

Tetsuo Mizu "Blue Boy" 12/10-12/18

SHIKISAISHA has been presenting Tetsuo Mizu every year. This year, during the Xmas Art Festa of Ginza galleries, SHIKISAISHA exhibits Mizu's new works.
A poetry written for one of his paintings by Hideharu Ogawa will also be exhibited.


Tetsuo Mizu New Works Exhibition "Blue Boy"
2010, December 10 (fri) - December 18 (sat)
11:30am-6:30pm
Open every day during the exhibition.







Information about Xmas Art Festa here.



Sunday, December 5, 2010

KANO mitsuo Exhibition 12/6-12/25

KANO mitsuo oil on canvas/ oil on paper 2009-2010 
starts from tomorrow at Galerie Tokyo Humanité .




2010  December 6(mon) - 25(sat)
10:30-18:30
closed on saturdays and holidays
Opening party: December 6th (mon) 17:00 - 19:00

Information about the artist:
http://g-tokyohumanite.jp/human/2010/1206/1206.htm (Japanese)

Reading and Talk event: "Dream of Papyrus"
Performer: Akiko Fujiwara, Mitsuo Kano
Date: December 18th (sat) 14:00-  free entrance (please make a reservation)
For reservation: Please call or email Galerie Tokyo Humanité

tel. 03-3562-1305  fax. 06-3562-1306
email: humanite@js8.so-net.ne.jp


Monday, November 29, 2010

Exhibition Information at SANWADO

Modern and Contemporary Craft SANWADO

Sake pottery cups of Masayuki Higuchi and Kaoru Kimata

2010. December 10 (fri) - 25(sat)
Open hours: 11:30 am - 6:30 pm (closed on sunday and holiday during the exhibition)



2min walk from exit B1 of Nihonbashi station of Ginza line and Tozai line.
4min walk from exit D3 of Nihonbashi station of Asakusa line.
8min walk from Yaesu exit of Tokyo station JR.

SANWADO 
1F Daiichi Tanaka Building, 3-8-12, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 103-0027
Contact: 03-3272-3131

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Exhibition Information at JAPANESE ANTIQUES SHIMOI

JAPANESE ANTIQUES SHIMOI


The 8th "Align all about RAKU"
from Chojiro the 1st to Kichizaemon Raku the 15th.
We have a great collections of black and red tea bowls, tea ceremony equipments of the Raku family from Chojiro the 1st, Joukei, Nonkau to Kichizaemon Raku the 15th.


2010. November 3 (wed) - December 5 (sun)
Open every day from 10am to 7pm. On sundays and holidays -6pm.






JAPANESE ANTIQUES SHIMOI
1F Kyobashi Hiroyo Building,1-14-6,Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0031
TEL 03-3535-2522   FAX03-3535-2522


3min walk from exit 6 of Kyobashi station of Ginza line, Tokyo Metro.
2min walk from exit A6 of Takaracho station of Toei Asakusa line.
10min walk from Yaesu chuo or south exit of Tokyo station JR





Exhibition Information at Galerie Tokyo Humanité

Galerie Tokyo Humanité  Exhibition schedule
http://g-tokyohumanite.jp/

Kiyoshi Kawashima Water Quantity VI
2010. November 1 (mon) - 27(sat)
10:30-18:30
Closed on saturdays and holidays

Some works will be exhibited at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.
(From October 23 - 26)





Mitsuo Kano Exhibition
oil on canvas / oil on paper 2009-2010
2010. December 6(mon) - 25(sat)
10:30-18:30
closed on saturdays and holidays
Opening party: December 6th (mon) 17:00 - 19:00

Reading and Talk event: "Dream of Papyrus"
Performer: Akiko Fujiwara, Mitsuo Kano
Date: December 18th (sat) 14:00-  free entrance (need reservation)
For reservation: Please call or email Galerie Tokyo Humanité

tel. 03-3562-1305  fax. 06-3562-1306
email: humanite@js8.so-net.ne.jp






Hiroji Noda New Works 2011
View press release here (Japanese)
2011. January 11(tue) - 29(sat)
closed on sundays
10:30-18:30

10 new paintings and paper works.


"WORK 1752" 2010 acrylic on canvas  162.1 x 112.1 cm




Access:
Tokyo Galerie Humanité
Showa Bldg., B1F, 2-8-18, Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031 Japan
*1 minute walk from Kyobashi Station Exit 6 on Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.
*8 minute walk from JR Tokyo Station Yaesu Exit.
On saturdays, after 15:00, the building's door is closed. Please call us and we will unlock the door.

Contact:
tel. 03-3562-1305  fax. 06-3562-1306
email: humanite@js8.so-net.ne.jp

Friday, November 12, 2010

Exhibition Information at Shunpudo Gallery

Exhibition 'Voir' is held at Shunpudo Gallery from November 11th to 20th.
(Group exhibition of recent work paintings)

The 14th Exhibition 'Voir' (Recent work paintings)
Thursday 11, November - Saturday 20, November 2010
Open from 10:00am - 6:30pm  On Saturday from 10:00am - 5:30pm
Closed on Sunday.

Artists: Tateyuki Fukuda, Fumihiko Gomi, Kenichiro Ishiguro, Osamu Obi, Toshihiro Oohata, Nobuyuki Shimamura, Ryo Shiotani, Makoto Yoshikawa. (in alphabetical order)

Monday, October 18, 2010

Gallery tour of last event

You can look at the photos of the gallery tour by Kenta Oka and english tour by Judit Kawaguchi.

You can read more about Kenta Oka's tour in Japanese from Kenta Oka's blog. (Fallow the link of 'Event' page from our official website )


Mr.Oka, a well known comedian and also known as an art collector, navigated the guests to 7 to 8 galleries. He had a plot or a theme for each tour and that is how he decided which gallery and what to see.


The theme of the first tour was "What is history? To find the past in works of today." They enjoyed traditional a large Chinese porcelain,  small ceramics of Kanzan, contemporary paintings of flags, paintings of Kumanokodo (an old path that leads to three major shrines of Kumano),  collaboration of Japanese style living room and contemporary art, contemporary art craft and at the end, the ancient jomon vessels where our Japanese history of art has begun.

The theme of second tour was "Viewing life in art". They enjoyed antiques that could be used in daily life, the coordination of vases and flowers, dishes with meanings and symbols, buddhist art which leads us to the emptiness, contemporary art that expresses the young Japanese of today who are changing directions by informations and fashion and is always connected with someone, design craft works, calligraphy, tea bowls, and at last a traditional japanese painting. The aim for this tour was to think about the caliber of each one. To buy a work of art means to read the flow of life and to ask yourself if you are choosing the one you really need.

The theme (or the question) of the third tour was "Why is there so many antique shops in Kyobashi area?" The first gallery they went was Iidakojitsudo where it used to be a studio of Nansai Maeda (an edo craftsman). The owner talked about the mystery of this area. There is a mark of Hiroshige Ando's (an Ukiyo-e printmaker) House near by. On the same side of the street, there is the house of Kanou family (painter), and across, is the birthplace of Togyu Okumura (painter) and Kiitsu Suzuki (painter) where now stands the Bridgestone Museum. On Showa dori, there was the house of Taro Okamoto's grand father, Katei Okamoto (calligrapher) where Rosanjin Kitaoji stayed as a student. The 2nd floor of Kashima-Arts Co.,Ltd used to be Rosanjin's private restaurant Bishoku Club and studios of Tanyu Kano (painter), Rodo Ougi (tea ceremony house carpenter), Seisai Ougi (craftsman). And last but not least, there was the Chiba Dojyo where Ryoma Sakamoto practiced kendo. The Kyobashi area was full of craftsman and artists. This is the reason why there are so many antique dealers in this area.

The guests enjoyed the story telling of the owner Iidakojitsudo and went on to see the craftsmanship of bamboo baskets, a calligraphy-like paintings, paintings of a contemporary Nihonbashi born artist, ceramics of the edo period, the finest craftsmanship of the Kokutani, and Ebiya Art which is a purveyor to the Imperial Household Agency. They ended the tour enjoying a painting of Nihonbashi area painted from the street of Ebiya Art.

Talk events and Gallery tours from last event

You can now look at the photos of the talk sessions and gallery tours from the last event at our official website.


Contemporary Art in History
Speakers : Yutaka Mino (Director, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art)  & Takashi Murakami (artist)

Mr.Mino and Mr.Murakami discussed and compared various subject about contemporary art and antique art in Japan.
Mr.Yutaka discussed his concerns about museums and culture in Japan; about what museums need to do to invite and educate the young Japanese. In Japan, the population of museum visitor is very high as well as the age group.
Mr.Murakami showed the first antique he purchased in Kyoto. Since then, he has been collecting crafts and contemporary art crafts and has been selling them at his gallery shop. Mr.Murakami says that the quality of antique depend on the history the object carries and what you see in them.  The idea of mitate (to seek a different quality in something that it originally did not have) is his interest in craft (especially ones of second class).
Questions where asked from the audience to both speakers about the art market and why they have to be so expensive, producing young artist, and does age have relation with collecting antiques.


You can read more or watch USTREAM (both only in Japanese) at KaiKai KiKi's Japanese website.
(Fallow the link of 'Event' page from our official website )



The Attraction of Looking at, Buying and Collecting Art
Speakers: : Tomio Koyama (Tomio Koyama Gallery) & Nameko Shinsan (artist, manga illustrator and essayist)

Tomio Koyama's profession is dealing with world wide contemporary art. Although he is not a professional antique dealer, he collects and appriciate antiques as one of his collection of art. He has published a book about how to buy and appreciate them from the view of his own. On the other hand, Ms.Nameko has never purchased or collected an antique in her life. She questions Mr.Koyama about purchasing antiques as a beginer and her great interest is about the spiritual side of dealing with antiques.
She asks about how to start with going into the galleries, such as; Do you have to dress properly? What is the easy genre you can get started with? Her questions about antique galleries are probably what most people have - a place where you need courage to step in, and a place of too many things to know about before you step in. She is also concerned about the spiritual energy of the former owner that might dwell in it.
Mr.Koyama answers these questions in simple words and says that the most important thing is to actually ask the staff in the gallery or find a navigator who can teach you the knowledge about certain items. The most enjoyable part of antique is to think about the history and the people who made it. Of course, if you are concerned about the spiritual energy that might be attached to the item, you might want to buy something you don't have to worry about.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Tokyo Art & Antiques' blog starts now!

Hello,
We are starting an english blog of "Tokyo Art & Antiques -The Nihonbashi/Kyobashi Art and Antiques Festival".
We have a blog in japanese, but we would like to give more informations about it.
Please look forward for the informations and the festival for next year 2010.

The official web site is here. Tokyo Art & Antiques

For now, we are informing the schedule of the next event.

2011
Thursday, April 28
Friday, April 29
Saturday, April 30
Sunday, May 1

We are planning many programs during the event!
Hopefully in November, we can announce all of the galleries that will be participating this event.
Also, we will be showing photos of the galleries and programs from last year.


So, what is "Tokyo Art & Antiques"?
The district of Nihonbashi / Kyobashi, in Tokyo's Chuo Ward, has been famous since the post-war era for its dealers in classical art, craft, nihon-ga painting, modern painting, sculpture, prints and so on. Now, the district boasts around 150 such unique specialist galleries, making it second only to Ginza as Tokyo's preeminent arts zone.

During "Tokyo Arts & Antiques" of 2010,  each participating gallery will stay open until 8 p.m., creating a wonderful opportunity for visitors to spend an early-summer evening strolling through the town, visiting galleries and searching out that special must-have antique or artwork. In addition, in order to make it easier for as many people as possible to take advantage of the event, each participant gallery were open for business on both Saturday, May 1, and Sunday, May 2, and each were endeavor in its own way to provide its visitors with a unique and unforgettable experience.

During the event of 2010, there also was a wide range of related programs, including talk sessions, tours by well-known personalities and English language tours, each designed to enhance enjoyment of the event for a range of visitors – from experts and beginner-collectors to visitors from abroad.

In recent years there has been an increased level of interest in classical art, antiques and painting across a wide spectrum of age-groups in Japan. The number of art fans and collectors is on the rise. Nevertheless, chances to actually experience such art pieces directly are rare. Some people report interest in such items, but do not know how to go about building their own collections, while others find they have to work up courage just to enter the somewhat imposing environments of some art galleries and dealers.

The objective of "Tokyo Art & Antiques" is to provide an opportunity for many people, regardless of their age, knowledge or origin, to experience Japanese art and antiques firsthand and thereby become acquainted with the joys of collecting.


Talk sessions from last event:
Tilte: Contemporary Art in History
Speakers : Yutaka Mino (Director, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art) x Takashi Murakami (artist)
Did you know that you can see the roots of contemporary art in classical art and hints of classical art in contemporary art? In this historically important talk, we explore the existing connections between the classical and the
contemporary, and think about how else they should be connected.

Title: The Attraction of Looking at, Buying and Collecting Art
Speakers: : Tomio Koyama (Tomio Koyama Gallery) × Nameko Shinsan (artist, manga illustrator and essayist)
Buying art is a serious commitment. Don't be embarrassed to ask questions. This is your chance to get frank advice from veteran
collectors.

Gallery Tours from last event:
Some people feel they have to work up courage just to cross the threshold of galleries. They don't know what they should look for, or how they should judge it. These lively and fun tours of galleries will increase your enjoyment of classical art ten-fold! The guide for the Japanese-language tours is well-known comedian and long-time collector of contemporary art, Kenta Oka, who will present his own unique and humorous take on art and collecting.
Meanwhile, special English-language tours will be conducted by NHK television reporter Judit Kawaguchi.