MOT Satellite, 2017 Spring, by the deep rivers Various sites around Kiyosumi-shirakawa; 11 February to 20 March Upwards into the second exhibition in this venue, ‘Tertiary Sex Characteristics’ by Hanayo, I find myself in a room that’s at stark contrast to the previous space downstairs. There is natural light, detritus scattered about, dead and dry … Continue reading
MOT Satellite, 2017 Spring, by the deep rivers Various sites around Kiyosumi-shirakawa; 11 February to 20 March In cafes, garages, shops, some traditional venues but mostly non-traditional sites for art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) presents a series of artwork, shows and installations across Kiyosumi-shirakawa under the moniker by the deep rivers. There … Continue reading
Agatha Gothe-Snape, Oh Window MAM Project 023 at Mori Art Museum; 4 February to 11 June Composed and choreographed with a level of care akin to surgical precision, Agatha Gothe-Snape’s Oh Window is exquisite. Manufacturing a simplicity through complexity, the artist manages to refine and distill motifs into alloys of idea and material, before deploying … Continue reading
Reijiro Wada, Scarlet Capsule Gallery; 21 January to 19 February Frames and containers lead the charge in a dualistic choreography of soft organic realities housed in hard artificial constructs. Like a molecular composition of couplets, Reijiro Wada plays poetry with material, time and entropy in his exquisite show Scarlet at Capsule Gallery. It’s all glass, … Continue reading
Malformed Objects: Bricolage for Myriads of Other Bodies _ group show Yamamoto Gendai Gallery; 21 January to 25 February With an exhibition title as mealy-mouthed as Malformed Objects: Bricolage for Myriads of Other Bodies, you’re setting yourself up for a risky excursion into a heavy-handed waffle-forest of academic wankery that sets a velvet rope of … Continue reading
Go Watanabe, Light Difference – Face III Urano Gallery; 21 January to 25 February With a lovingly fluid motion we are drawn in, delivered to and destabilised by the mesmerising video works of Go Watanabe at Urano Gallery. In the first room, three moving-images work to ingratiate their way into your inner ear through your … Continue reading
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, 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, 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 | 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
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