Daido Moriyama “Tights”, 1987-2011/2016
Retail price: ￥350,000- (tax excl.), limited edition of 23 + 2 AP
Three black and white silkscreen prints with adhesive backing
H600 x W900 mm, all copies are numbered and signed by the artist
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“Tokyo A La Carte -The Backers Foundation and AIT Residence Programme (The BAR) Memories of 10 years-“
Dates: Aug 24 – Sep 1, 2018
Location: Tomio Koyama Gallery, ShugoArts, Taka Ishii Gallery (complex665)
Opening reception: Aug 24, 18:00 – 20:00
Organized by Arts Initiative Tokyo
Co-organized by The Backers Foundation
Collaborated by Tomio Koyama Gallery, ShugoArts, Taka Ishii Gallery
Supported by Embassy of the Argentine Republic in Japan and Embassy of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in Japan
Taka Ishii Gallery (3F): “Imaginative Memory”
Participating artists: Sarah Abu Abdallah , Minam Apang, Duto Hardono, Donna Ong, Syagini Ratnawulan, Florencia Rodriguez Giles, Gor Soudan, Mary-Elizabeth Yarbrough
Ayaka Yamamoto “We are Made of Grass, Soil, and Trees”
Dates: Aug 25 – Sep 29, 2018
Location: Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film
Opening reception: Saturday, Aug 25, 18:00 – 20:00
Art Basel
Dates: Jun 14 – 17, 2018
Location: Messe Basel
Galleries stand: Hall 2.1, L11
Presenting works by: Ei Arakawa, Koji Enokura, Mario García Torres, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Shozo Kitadai, Yuki Kimura, Tadaaki Kuwayama, Dane Mitchell, Hanako Murakami, Tomoharu Murakami, Minoru Onoda, Sterling Ruby, Aaron Siskind, Maria Taniguchi, Yosuke Takeda, Hitoshi Tsukiji, Tone Vigeland, Cerith Wyn Evans
Kansuke Yamamoto
Dates: Jun 22 – Aug 10, 2018
Location: Taka Ishii Gallery New York
Opening reception: Friday, Jun 22, 18:00 – 20:00
Summer hours: 11:00-18:00 Closed on Sat, Sun and National holidays
Yu OGATA & ICHIRO OGATA ONO
Ichiro Ogata Ono was born in Kyoto and completed Master course at the Graduate school of Architecture, Waseda University. Yu Ogata was born in Tokyo and received her undergraduate degree from the Department of Architecture, Waseda University. They have alternately shot photographs and videos and constructed buildings and dioramas over the years to articulate a different spatial dimension and worldview through them. Their major publications include Okinawa Chokoku Toshi [Okinawan Sculpture City] (Hatori shoten, 2015), Watashitachi no “Tokyo no Ie” [Our Eclectic Tokyo Home] (Hatori shoten, 2014), HOUSE (FOIL, 2009), and Ultra Baroque (Shinchosha, 1995). Their major architectural works include “Tokyo Eclectic House” and “Photo House.” Their recent exhibitions include “UNMANNED” Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo (2018) and “Okinawan Modernism” Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film, Tokyo (2015).
Nobuyoshi Araki “Love-Dream, Love-Nothing”
Published by Taka Ishii Gallery, 2018
Softcover, 80 pages, 98 illustrations, H 36.4 x W25 cm, 0.56kg
Purchase: twelvebooks
Yukinori Maeda “Splashed Ink Chii Ryugu Sansui-zu”
Dates: Jun 30 – Jul 28, 2018
Location: Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo
Exhibition opening and reception: Saturday, June 30, 16:00–20:00
Nobuyoshi Araki “Love-Dream, Love-Nothing”
Dates: May 25 – Jun 23, 2018
Location: Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Zon Ito “The Strange Moves That We Make”
Published by Taka Ishii Gallery, 2018
Softcover, 64 pages, 34 illustrations, H27.1 x W22.6 cm, 0.24 kg
Text by Shin Fukunaga and the artist (English and Japanese)
Purchase: twelvebooks
Yoshitomo Nara “Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone—Take your time, it won’t be long now”
Dates: Jul 7 – Aug 10, 2018
Location: Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film
Opening reception: Saturday, Jul 7, 18:00 – 20:00
Maria Taniguchi “Maria Taniguchi”
Published by Taka Ishii Gallery, 2018
In cooperation with Silverlens, Philipppines
Softcover, 68 pages, 34 illustrations, H24.8 x W17.8 cm, 0.21 kg
Text by Susan Gibb (English and Japanese)
Purchase: twelvebooks
Erika Yoshino “MARBLE”
Retail price: ￥2,300- (tax excl.), published by Taka Ishii Gallery P/F, 2018
Softcover, total 40 pages, 24 illustrations, H21 x W27.2 cm
Essay by Ryuichi Kaneko (English and Japanese)
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Group Exhibition
Dates: May 3 – Jun 16, 2018
Location: Taka Ishii Gallery New York
Participating artists: Tadaaki Kuwayama, Kimiyo Mishima, Tomoharu Murakami, Minoru Onoda, Yoshishige Saito, Yoshio Sekine, Kishio Suga, Masaaki Yamada
Art Obulist 2018 ”Don’t look the room”
Dates: Oct 6 – Nov 4, 2018
*open on Thu., Fri., Sat. and National Holidays
Location: Okura Park and Obu City Hall
Participating artist: Hirofumi Toyama
“Azamino Contemporary vol.9 Uncertain Landscape”
Dates: Sep 29 – Oct 21, 2018
Location: Yokohama Civic Art Gallery Azamino, Kanagawa
Participating artist: Tomoki Imai
Elmgreen & Dragset “This Is How We Bite Our Tongue”
Dates: Sep 27, 2018 – Jan 13, 2019
Location: Whitechapel Gallery, London
“Curators’ Series 11 Institute of Asian Performance Art”
Dates: Sep 27 – Oct 28, 2018
Location: David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Participating artist: Minoru Hirata
“Un Amour de Collection, Séquence 2”
Dates: Sep 26, 2018 – Feb 24, 2019
Location: Le Musée d’Art Contemporain de Marseille
Participating artist: Marijke van Warmerdam
“1968: Art in the Turbulent Age”
Dates: Sep 19 – Nov 11, 2018
Location: Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba
Dates: Dec 1, 2018 – Jan 27, 2019
Location: Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Riverwalk Gallery, Fukuoka
Dates: Feb 10 – Mar 24, 2019
Location: Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka
Participating artists: Minoru Hirata, Kiyoji Otsuji, Katsumi Watanabe
Daegu Photo Biennale 2018
Dates: Sep 8 – Oct 16, 2018
Location: Daegu Arts Center, Daegu, Korea
Participating artist: Yuki Kimura
Gwangju Biennale “Imagined Borders”
Dates: Sep 7 – Nov 11, 2018
Location: Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju
Participating artists: Yoshitomo Nara, Maria Taniguchi
“A BODY MEASURED AGAINST THE EARTH”
Dates: Aug 25, 2018 – Apr 7, 2019
Location: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Participating artist: Helen Mirra
Summer Holidays
The galleries will be closed on the following dates.
Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo
Dates: Aug 11 – 20
Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film
Dates: Aug 11 – 20
Taka Ishii Gallery New York
Dates: Aug 18 – Sep 3
“A gaze into architecture”
Dates: Aug 4 – Oct 8, 2018
Location: Archi-Depot Museum, Tokyo
Participating artists: Thomas Demand, Mario Garcia Torres, Naoya Hatakeyama, Tomoki Imai, Ryuji Miyamoto, Risaku Suzuki
Exhibition of the 34th Higashikawa Award Winners
Dates: Aug 4 – 29, 2018
Location: Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido
Participating artist: Erika Yoshino
Kunié SUGIURA “Aspiring Experiments: New York in 50 years”
Dates: Jul 24 – Sep 24, 2018
Location: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
“Tokyoscape: Into the City”
Dates: Jul 21 – Oct 21, 2018
Location: Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Participating artists: Nobuyoshi Araki, Hiroshi Hamaya, Ryuji Miyamoto, Yutaka Takanashi
“Travel with glasses”
Dates: (Aomori Museum of Art) Jul 20 – Sep 2, 2018
(Iwami Art Museum) Sep 15 – Nov 12, 2018
(Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art) Nov 23, 2018 – Jan 27, 2019
Participating artist: Risaku Suzuki
Liverpool Biennial “Beautiful world, where are you?”
Dates: Jul 14 – Oct 28, 2018
Participating artist: Ei Arakawa, Silke Otto-Knapp