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Monthly Archives: January 2017

Kohei Sekigawa, January 2017
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Kohei Sekigawa, January 2017

Posted on January 31, 2017 by kentwilson • Leave a comment

Kohei Sekigawa, figure / out Guardian Garden; 11 January to 27 January Meticulously rendered observational drawing carries a certain appreciative respect in the same way that finely carved figurative marble sculptures do. The attention to detail and focused labour required to execute them well is of an Olympian order, so the residue energies of that … Continue reading →

Jud Wimhurst, January 2017
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Jud Wimhurst, January 2017

Posted on January 30, 2017 by kentwilson • Leave a comment

Jud Wimhurst, Gimme Freedom (or Gimme Death) Bendigo Art Gallery; 5 November, 2016 to 12 February 2017 Nostalgia isn’t always the referential craning back for a better time. It isn’t always rose-coloured glasses and halcyon days. Sometimes, the fun-time good-times of the days of yore are dark hearts inside fluffy clouds, where clowns reveal the … Continue reading →

Tetsuro Kano, January 2017
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Tetsuro Kano, January 2017

Posted on January 28, 2017 by kentwilson • Leave a comment

Tetsuro Kano, a tree as a city Yuka Tsuruno Gallery; 21 January to 25 February Architectural miniatures constructed by sentient caterpillars and art-fan hummingbirds with a penchant for mid-century Calder mobiles furnish much of the Yuka Tsuruno Gallery in T-Art Complex, Tokyo. Set out over two spaces, the exhibition can be roughly categorised into three … Continue reading →

Reijiro Wada and Ariel Schlesinger, February 2017
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Reijiro Wada and Ariel Schlesinger, February 2017

Posted on January 27, 2017 by kentwilson • Leave a comment

Reijiro Wada | Ariel Schlesinger SCAI The Bathhouse; 27 January to 25 February Eight artworks occupy a square gallery space, set out in iambic rhythm, delivering poetry in materials and ideas. Brass, polished steel and glass sit in equilibrious partnership with brandy, citric acid and bone. Time is both accelerated and accumulated in meditations on … Continue reading →

Tomohiro Kano & Yoshiaki Kojiro, January 2017
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Tomohiro Kano & Yoshiaki Kojiro, January 2017

Posted on January 25, 2017 by kentwilson • Leave a comment

Tomohiro Kano and Yoshiaki Kojiro, (joint exhibition untitled) Gallery Tokyo + Beijing Tokyo Art Projects; 21 January to 18 February Totemic structures sit evenly spaced on the white-tiled floor of a nondescript space on the seventh-floor of an office building in Ginza. Some twenty-four pieces, most of them on flat and polished steel plates, are … Continue reading →

Ryunosuke Goji & Issei Yamagata, January 2017
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Ryunosuke Goji & Issei Yamagata, January 2017

Posted on January 23, 2017 by kentwilson • Leave a comment

Ryunosuke Goji & Issei Yamagata, optical camouflage Youboko Art Space, Tokyo; 21 January to 29 January Featuring video, print, sculpture, digital image and found objects, this punchy show by artists Ryunosuke Goji and Issei Yamagata works like a complex codex dissected into planar fragments and laid bare across a domestic space to entrap and enchant … Continue reading →

Fiona Amundsen, January 2017
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Fiona Amundsen, January 2017

Posted on January 22, 2017 by kentwilson • Leave a comment

Fiona Amundsen, Arsenal of Democracy Tokyo Wonder Site, Hongo, Tokyo; 14 January to 12 February It’s hard not to hear the echo of the adage, ‘if we do not learn from history we are condemned to repeat it’, when viewing the memorable and memorialising work of Fiona Amundsen. Featuring two poignant video works of a … Continue reading →

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