Rei Naito “Mirror Creation”
Dates: May 2 – Aug 23, 2020
Location: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Tomoo Gokita and Kyoko Murase “Blue Child and Slow Walk”
Dates: Mar 14 – May 10, 2020
Location: SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong
By appointment only.
Monocle Shop x SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery Collaboration
We are pleased to present the Monocle Shop x SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery Collaboration in Hong Kong, featuring three artworks of Kyoko Murase, a range of designer products and art books.
Dates: Apr 1 – May 10, 2020
Location: Monocle Shop, SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong
Participating artist: Kyoko Murase
Notice of Temporary Closure
Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo (complex665) and Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film (AXIS Building) will be closed from Wednesday April 1st until further notice, in response to the spreading of the coronavirus and in following with advisory guidelines issued by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government that requests people to refrain from going outdoors.
Updates and information regarding Kazumi Kurigami’s exhibition “April,” originally scheduled to take place at Taka Ishii Gallery Photography/Film from April 10th, will be provided at a later date.
In the meantime, our gallery staff will continue to work remotely. Should you have any inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us. Thank you very much for your understanding.
“Ryoko Aoki + Zon Ito WORKSHOP FREE MOLECULES METAMORPHOSES”
Dates: Mar 29 – Jun 14, 2020
Location: WATARI-UM, The Watarium Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Hiroshi HAMAYA
Hiroshi Hamaya was born in 1915 in Tokyo (he passed in 1999). In 1933, he began his career as an aeronautical photographer for Practical Aeronautical Research Institute. That same year, he was hired by Oriental Photo Industry (currently Cyber Graphics Corp.). He quit in 1937 and established “Ginkobo” with his brother Masao Tanaka. In 1938, Hamaya helped Shuzo Takiguchi establish the “Avant-Garde Photography Association.” In 1939, he visited Takada City, Niigata Prefecture for a story for the magazine Graphic and met the folklorist Shinji Ichikawa and Keizo Shibusawa. Influenced by these encounters as well as Tetsuro Watsuji’s Climate and Culture: A Philosophical Study, Hamaya has captured, with penetrating perspective, the relations between people, their culture and environment. He sternly confronted the documentary aspect of photography and produced numerous valuable photographic records of his era. In 1941, Hamaya joined Ihei Kimura and Hiroshi Hara at Tohosha, but quit in 1943. The same year, he shot Japanese cultural figures as a part-time employee of Pacific News Photo Service. In 1960, he became a contributing photographer at Magnum. His solo exhibitions include “The Photographer Hiroshi Hamaya,” Kawasaki City Museum (Kanagawa, 1989); “Century of Photography: Hiroshi Hamaya, 1931-1990,” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (1997). His photo books include Snow Country (Mainichi Shinbunsha 1956); Japan’s Back Coast (Shinchosha, 1957); A Chronicle of Grief and Anger (Kawade Shobo Shinsya, 1960). He is the recipient of the 2nd Mainichi Photograhy Award (for “Japan’s Back Coast”, 1956); Japan Artist’s Award (for Aspects of Nature, Aspects of Life: A Collection of Photographs by Hiroshi Hamaya, 1981); the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (1987).
Notice of temporary closure
Taka Ishii Gallery Tokyo (complex665) and Photography / Film (AXIS Building) will be closed temporarily on Saturday, March 28, following the announcement from the Tokyo Metropolitan Government that requests people to refrain from going outdoors over the weekend. We appreciate your understanding.
Kazumi Kurigami “April”
The exhibition will open on Jun 20th in following with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government lifting its business suspension request. The gallery will implement necessary measures to prevent coronavirus infections.
Dates: Jun 20 – Jul 25, 2020
Location: Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film
“UNTITLED, 2020”
Dates: Mar 22 – Dec 13, 2020
Location: Punta della Dogana
Participating artists: Rei Naito
“ANIMALS IN ART”
Dates: Mar 21 – Aug 9, 2020
Location: ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
Participating artist: Elmgreen & Dragset
“Helen Mirra – Acts for placing woollen and linen”
Dates: Mar 21 – Jun 15, 2020
Location: CAMPLE LINE, Thornhill
“Shapeshifters”
Dates: Mar 20 – Aug 9, 2020
Location: Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö
Participating artist: Elmgreen & Dragset
Ikko Narahara “‘Domains’ and the age of VIVO”
Dates: Mar 20 – Jun 21, 2020
Location: Shimane Art Museum
[Collection] “VISION III part 1: On Light / Light On” in the celebration of 25th Anniversary of the Toyota Munincipal Museum of Art
Dates: Mar 20 – Jun 21, 2020
Location: Toyota Munincipal Museum of Art, Aichi
Participating artists: Kyoko Murase
Ikko Narahara Memorial Exhibition “Where Time Has Vanished”
Dates: Feb 29 – Apr 4*, 2020
Location: Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film
*The exhibition is ended on Mar 31 in response to the spreading of the coronavirus and in following with advisory guidelines issued by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government that requests refraining from going outdoors.
Rei NAITO
Rei Naito was born in 1961 in Hiroshima. Currently lives and works in Tokyo. In 1985, she graduated from the Musashino Art University, College of Art and Design, Visual Communication Design.
She first came to public recognition with “One Place on The Earth”, at Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo in 1991. This led to her being invited to install the same piece within the Japanese Pavilion at the 47h Venice Biennale in 1997. Her work asks us “Is our existence on the Earth a blessing in itself?”
Notable solo exhibitions include “Migoto ni harete otozureru wo mate”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka (1995); “Being Called”, Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt am Main (1997); “Tout animal est dans le monde comme de l’eau à l’intérieur de l’eau”, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Kanagawa (2009); “the emotion of belief”, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo (2014); “the emotion of belief”, The Japan Cultural Institute in Paris (2017); “Two Lives”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2017); “on the bright Earth I see you”, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki (2018); “Mirror Creation”, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa and “breath”, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich (2023.)
Permanent installations include “Being given” (Kinza, Art House Project, Naoshima, Kagawa, 2001), “Matrix” (Teshima Art Museum, Teshima, Kagawa, 2010). Awards received include Promising Artists and Scholars of Contemporary Japanese Arts by Japan Arts Foundation, (Installation field, 1994), 1st Asahi Beer Arts Awards by Asahi Beer Arts Foundation (2003), 60th Mainichi Art Prize (2018) and 69th Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts (2019).