SHIMURABROS. received the Excellence Prize of Japan Media Arts Festival

We are pleased to announce that SHIMURABROS. has received the Excellence Prize (Art Division) of the 2009 [13th] Japan Media Arts Festival.
The Award-winning work, “SEKILALA” will be exhibited from February 3 to February 14, 2010 at The National Art Center, Tokyo.

http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/2009/art/001224/

Date: February 3 - February 14, 2010 (Closed on February 9, 2010)
　　　　　10:00 - 18:00 (open until 20:00 on Friday)
Location:The National Art Center, Tokyo
　　　　　　　(7-22-2, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Admission fee: Free

http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/2009/information/

The 2009 [13th] Japan Media Arts Festival will be held from Wednesday February 3, 2010 to Sunday, February 14, 2010 at The National Art Center, Tokyo. Works of art, animations, films, games, web works, manga and others selected from among 2,592 entries from 54 nations and regions will be exhibited in one hall.

Art Basel Miami Beach

Dates: December 3 – 6, 2009
Taka Ishii Gallery stand: Hall B, Stand H14

The Gallery will present new and recent works by artists:
Nobuyoshi Araki
Elmgreen & Dragset
Mario Garcia Torres
Dan Graham
Zon Ito
Yuki Kimura
Yukinori Maeda
Hiroe Saeki
Jon Widman
Cerith Wyn Evans

In addition, architectural structures by Akihisa Hirata and Atelier Bow-Wow will be presented.
We look forward to visiting with you in Miami at the fair.

Art Basel Miami Beach / December 3 – 6, 2009
www.artbasel.com

Zon Ito News

"By the Water-lily Pond - Monet, Yoshihiro Suda and Zon Ito"
October 28 - January 31, 2009
Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto
http://www.asahibeer-oyamazaki.com/tokubetu/syosai26/index.html

Shinpei Kusanagi News

Shinpei Kusanagi "TOWING VOYAGE"
Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco
November 5th - December 19th, 2009
http://www.altmansiegel.com/main.php?p=exhibitions&a=skusanagi1show

SHIMURABROS. Work "Mouse Made in YOKOHAMA"

International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009
"CREAM - Creativity for Arts and Media"
Satellite Venue: Nogeyama Zoo (63-10,Oimatsu-tyo,Nishi-ku,Yokohama-shi,Kanagawa)
August 29 - November 29, 2009
http://www.ifamy.jp/programs/single/90/

Hiroe Saeki News

"Selections from the Hara Museum Collection - What's interesting about Japanese contemporary art ?"
Hara Museum ARC, Gunma
September 12 - November 23, 2009
http://www.haramuseum.or.jp/generalTop.html

Kyoko Murase News

”Cross waves in Art 2, Introducing the Topical Artists”

The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
November 10, 2009－January 24, 2010
http://www.pref.gifu.lg.jp/pref/s27213/jtop.html

”I BELIEVE:JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ART”

The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
October 10－November 29, 2009
http://www.pref.toyama.jp/branches/3042/3042.htm

Mario Garcia Torres’s upcoming exhibitions

“Asking Not Telling, Video Art: Replay”

Dates: September 11, 2009 - December 6, 2009
Location: ICA University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (US)
http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/videoart.php

“CURATORS' SERIES #2. SCULPTURE OF THE SPACE AGE”

With Gintaras Didziapetris, Ryan Gander, Mario Garcia Torres and Rosalind Nashashibi
Dates: 2 October - 19 December 2009
Location: The David Roberts Art Foundation Fitzrovia
http://www.davidrobertsartfoundation.com/

“Pittoresk – Neue Perspektiven auf das Landschaftsbild”

Dates: 2 October 2009 - 10 January 2010
Location: Museum Marta, Herford
http://www.martaherford.de/pages/en/museum/exhibitions/pittoresk.html

“Its embarrasing but from some time now I only have title ideas in English”

Dates: 17 December, 2009 – 21 February, 2010
Location: Espai 13, Fundación Miró, Barcelona
http://fundaciomiro-bcn.org/espai13_actual.php

neoneo Part2 [girls]

Dates: October 31 – December 27, 2009
Location: TAKAHASHI COLLECTION Hibiya

Gallery artist Kei Takemura is participating in the group exhibition with
the art work “hagoromo”.
http://www.takahashi-collection.com/exhi/next_exhi.html

G-tokyo

Dates: January 29 – 31, 2010
Location: Mori Arts Center Galler, Mori Tower 52nd floor, Roppongi Hills

Taka Ishii Gallery will join G-tokyo 2010, an art fair focusing exclusively
on the presentation of contemporary art by a select group of leading Tokyo based commercial gallery spaces.

Winter holidays

The galleries (Tokyo and Kyoto) will be closed for the winter holidays from
December 27 through January 4, 2010.

Frieze Art Fair

Dates: October 15 – 18, 2009
Taka Ishii Gallery Stand G5

The gallery will present works by artists :

Sterling Ruby
Yukinori Maeda
Brian Fahlstrom
Nobuya Hoki
Dan Graham
Elmgreen & Dragset
Zon Ito
Hiroe Saeki

In addition, the booth structure has been designed by architect Akihisa Hirata.
We look forward to visiting with you in London at the fair.

http://www.friezeartfair.com/

THOMAS DEMAND
‘Nationalgalerie'

Dates: September 18, 2009 – January 17, 2010
Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin

http://www.neue-nationalgalerie.de/

SH Contemporary

Dates: September 10-13, 2009

We will be presenting works by :

Nobuyoshi Araki
Tomoo Gokita
Sean Landers
Naoto Kawahara
We look forward to having an opportunity to visit with you at the fair.
http://www.shcontemporary.info/

Hitoshi Toyoda, Visual Diary / Slideshow

■Location: Yokosuka Museum of ART (outdoor show in museum garden)
September 11, Fri　18:30 - 「NAZUNA」　(2005/90min/silent)
September 12, Sat 18:30 - 「spoonfulriver」　(2007/80min/silent)
September 13, Sun 18:30 - 「An Elephant’s Tail」　(1999/35min/silent)
- Door open 30min before.
- Admission free / no reservation is needed.
- In the event of rain, the slideshow will be postponed to September 18.
http://www.hitoshitoyoda.com/09yokosuka.html
http://www.yokosuka-moa.jp/

■Multiple locations in Osaka
September 19, Sat　15:00 – 「An Elephant’s Tail」
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　19:00 – 「NAZUNA」
- Location: graf (〒530-0005 4-1-17 1F Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi )

September 26, Sat　14:00 – 「NAZUNA」
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　18:30 – 「The Wind’s Path」 (2002/40mins./silent)
- Location: Port Gallery T (〒550-0003 1-8-31 1F Kyomachibori, Nishi-ku, Osaka-shi)

September 27, Sun　18:30 – 「spoonfulriver」
- Location: piaNPO rooftop (〒552-0021 Roof top 2-8-24 Chikkou, Minato-ku, Osaka-shi )

- Admission fee: 1,500yen for first slide show / 1,000yen for each subsequent slideshow
- Door open 30min before. Seats limited to 50 for graf and piaNPO / 25 for Port Gallery T.
http://htproject09.nobody.jp/

■Location: KU REN BOH (Taito-ku, Tokyo)
October 10, Sat. 16:30 - 「NAZUNA」
Door open 30min before. Seats limited to 40.
Admission fee: suggested donation 1,000yen - 2,000yen
http://www.kurenboh.com/

“In the Little Playground”

Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce the participation of Kyoko Murase in “In the Little Playground”
the group exhibition at Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art from August 28 – October 25, 2009.
http://www-art.aac.pref.aichi.jp/index.html
http://aichitriennale.jp/hitsuda/index.html

Film「Le Petit Chaperon Rouge」

On the occasion of the Japan premier of director Shinji Aoyama`s film “Le Petit Chaperon Rouge”, gallery artist Naoko Tamura is shaping the exhibition space together with Vutteur Kohen by exhibiting art works and portraits that have relevance to the movie.

Dates: August 25 – 28, 2009
Location: Vacant 2F (Tokyo, Harajuku/Omotesando)
http://www.n0idea.com/vacant/event/entori/2009/8/25_chizukinto_xue_ji.html

August 29, Saturday : Special exhibition + Film + Talk show + Live performance

- Film: 「Le Petit Chaperon Rouge」directed by Shinji Aoyama, Japan premiere
- Talk show: Shinji Aoyama x Naoko Tamura xα
- Live performance: NAGAYAMA (Shinji Aoyama + Hiroyuki Nagashima)
- For more information, please refer to Vacant website

August 30, Sunday : Special exhibition + Film + α

- Film: 「Le Petit Chaperon Rouge」directed by Shinji Aoyama, Japan premiere
- For more information, please refer to Vacant website

Summer holidays

The galleries (Tokyo and Kyoto) will be closed for the summer holidays from August 9 through August 17, 2009.

Hiroe Saeki News July, 2009

We are pleased to announce that Hiroe Saeki is presently participating in two exhibitions in Tokyo.
The exhibitions are closing soon, we hope that you have an opportunity to visit.

■Hara Museum of Contemporary Art “Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art”, until July 20
http://www.haramuseum.or.jp/
May 23 – July 20, 2009
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art

■Taka Ishii Gallery
Hiroe Saeki, until July 25
http://www.takaishiigallery.com/en/exhibitions/2009/hiroe-saeki/
June 27 – July 25, 2009
Taka Ishii Gallery (Kiyosumi Shirakawa)

Zon Ito News July, 2009

■“NEOTENY JAPAN Contemporary Artists after 1990s – from Takahashi Collection”
http://www.neoteny.jp/(in Japanese only)

“NEOTENY JAPAN” Special Artist Event: Water Drawings by Zon Ito
The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
July 5, Sunday, 16:00-17:00 pm
Free entrance with purchase of museum ticket, no reservation required
http://www.ueno-mori.org/special/2009_neoteny/index.html#event
(in Japanese only)

May 20 – July 15, 2009 The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
http://www.ueno-mori.org/(in Japanese only)
July 21 – September 10, 2009 The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
http://www.lalanet.gr.jp/kinbi/english/index.html

■MOT Collection : Summer Playground - Special feature; ZON ITO + TEPPEI KANEUJI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
July 18 – October 4, 2009
http://www.mot-art-museum.jp/eng/collection.html

■"Stitch by Stitch; Traces I Made with Needle and Thread", Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo
July 18 – September 27, 2009
http://www.teien-art-museum.ne.jp/exhibition/stitchi/e_index.html

■"Louisa Bufardeci & Zon Ito", Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
http://www.mca.com.au/default.asp?page_id=11&content_id=4802
July 28 - October 25, 2009

ZINE’S MATE, TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2009

Taka Ishii Gallery will participate in Japan’s first ever large scale artists’ book fair, “ZINE’S MATE, TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2009”, organized by UTRECHT and PAPERBACK.
Dates: July 10 – 12, 2009
Location: Omotesando GRYE 2F “EYE OF GYRE” (Tokyo)
http://www.zinesmate.org/

The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers

Mario Garcia Torres at CCA WATTIS Institute for Contemporary Art
(San Francisco)
July 7 – August 1, 2009
http://www.wattis.org/exhibitions/tefkap

Beyond the Picturesque

Mario Garcia Torres at S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Gent
April 4 – August 23, 2009
http://www.smak.be/tentoonstelling.php?la=en&id=377&i=0&t=&tid=&y=&l=a&kunstenaar_id=&kunstwerk_id=

Usages du document

Mario Garcia Torres at Centre culturel suisse (Paris)
May 16 – July 19, 2009
http://www.ccsparis.com/fr/events/detail/125

Recontres d’Arles 2009

Naoya Hatakeyama will participate in “Recontres d’Arles 2009” from July 7 – September 13, 2009.
Location: 10 rond point des Arènes　13200 Arles (Information＆administration)
http://www.rencontres-arles.com/A09/C.aspx?VP3=CMS&ID=A09P597

Thomas Demand / solo exhibition at Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin) from September 18th,2009 – January 17th, 2010.
http://www.freunde-der-nationalgalerie.org/

“POSTERIORITY”

Yuki Kimura has a solo exhibition at Daiwa Press Viewing Room (Hiroshima) from June 13 -August 30, 2009.　Catalogue available

ART BASEL 40

ART PREMIERE | Ei Arakawa c/o Grand Openings | Hall 2.1 Booth Q2
ART UNLIMITED | Daido Moriyama / Hokkaido | Booth U-34

www.artbasel.com

No night No day

Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce a collaborative presentation by :
Cerith Wyn Evans & Florian Hecker
"No night No day", 2009
Commissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary for the 53rd Biennale di Venezia Duration: 50 min
Location: Teatro Goldoni, San Marco 4650B, Calle Goldoni, Venice
Fundraising gala premiere: June 4th, 8:00 pm
Other dates : June 5 and 6, 2009 at 8:00 pm and 10:00 pm respectively
For bookings :
http://www.tba21.org/program/upcoming/67/artworks?category=/program/upcoming

“Stitch by Stitch”

Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce the particpation of Zon Ito and Kei Takemura in Stitch by Stitch, the group exhibition at Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum from July 18 - September 27, 2009.
http://www.teien-art-museum.ne.jp/exhibition/e_index.html