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Gallery Honjoh - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Gallery Honjoh. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

"Visual Literature"
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- Media: Drawing
- 2006-06-06 - 2006-06-24
New works by Kaoru Arima, answering the question "What is art?". From picture scrolls to manga, Japanese art is characterized by its literariness and narrativity. Arima calls this 'visual literature', (...)

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"Chronic Pain"
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- Media: Painting
- 2006-05-09 - 2006-05-27
Tokuro Sakamoto, born in 1975, creates luminous acryl paintings to the theme of ordinary landscapes in Japan. Ten works full of quiet desolation and a glimmer of hope from 'chronic pain', a series Sakamoto (...)

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Ryoko Kitaura "A Fountain"
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- Media: Prints
- 2006-04-04 - 2006-04-22
Kitaura became familiar with the ethical short stories of writers such as Tolstoy when she was a young girl, and she received her Christian (Protestant) baptism when she was 17. Religious faith is the (...)

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Kenji Kitagawa "The Golden Rule - The July Rain in Nantes"
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- Media: Prints
- 2006-03-06 - 2006-03-25
This exhibition consists of 7 new copperplate engravings made in Nantes, a port in Western France. In this region, Kitagawa has been inspired to produce images which express hallucinations and revelations. (...)

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Nocturne
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- Media: Drawing
- 2006-01-11 - 2006-01-28
"A house window light reflected in a puddle on a rainy night... Rain drops running off a plastic umbrella..." Yasutomi creates these gentle and quiet night pictures, sometimes as large as few meters square, (...)

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Ryouko Kitaura, Jun Tomita, and Ayaka Nakamura "Sing"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Other
- 2005-11-28 - 2005-12-10
Kitaura creates images using copper and paper engravings. She gets her ideas from the Bible, which has become the foundation of her life, and from Russian literature that she has been fond of for many (...)

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Nobuyuki Ebihara Exhibition "Micro Cosmos"
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- Media: Drawing
- 2005-11-04 - 2005-11-22
For this exhibition, Nobuyuki Ebihara chose tree trunks, leaves and fields of clovers as his motif. He draws his inspiration from arrays found in nature. First, he draws a sketch of the object using pencils. (...)

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Yoichi Umetsu - Liquid Night
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- Media: Painting - Other
- 2005-10-11 - 2005-10-29
Yoichi Umetsu representational paintings are exquisite description of people, landscapes, and still life. Not mere reproductions, they are created with the intention of creating new scenes. The motifs (...)

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Sai Hashizume "Behind the Skirt"
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- Media: Painting
- 2005-09-12 - 2005-09-30
The highly photo-like, representational paintings by Hashizume, depicting teen girls' body parts, have a pearl-like luster and a damp, milky liquid texture, similar to a real girl’s skin. The subjects (...)

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Hans Bellmer
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- Media: Photography
- 2005-07-07 - 2005-07-23
Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) is an artist well-know for his unique ball-jointed dolls, however he has also left numerous collections of excellent photos. Such collections like his "La Poupée" (doll) and his (...)

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Kuniyoshi Kaneko "La Chambre"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- 2005-06-06 - 2005-06-25
Since his debut in 1965, strongly promoted by the deceased scholar of French literature, Mr. Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Kuniyoshi Kaneko has been reproducing through his art the beautiful and dainty but scandalous (...)

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Miyuki Sakurai “Words barred by the wall of time”
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- Media: Painting
- 2005-05-10 - 2005-05-28
Miyuki Sakurai was born in Gifu Prefecture in 1973. She grasps and expresses the fleeting emotions of scenes which her eyes witness in her everyday life and of the people in movies or magazines. They are (...)

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Ryoko Kitaura "My Dear"
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- Media: Prints
- 2005-04-05 - 2005-04-23
Ms. Kitaura's exhibition "Pianissimo" was shown at Gallery Honjoh last year. She is a Christian and is taken with the simple characters who appear in the Bible and in short stories in Tolstoy's writings; (...)

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Shinichiro Okamura Exhibition
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- Media: Illustration - Painting - Drawing
- 2005-03-07 - 2005-03-26
Shinichiro Okamura was born in Aichi prefecture in 1974. He graduated from Nagoya University of Art, Design Department, in 1997. Since 1996, while he was still a student at the university, he held many (...)

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Gallery Kaku & Gallery Honjoh Joint Project - Ritsuko Yamashita Private Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2005-02-07 - 2005-02-26
Characters, like near future gangs dwelling downtown, appear in her work. They sometimes are furtive or sometimes are resting or playing freely. These characters have strong personalities created from (...)

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Seiboh Nishino Exhibition “Spiritual Water”
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- Media: Painting
- 2005-01-13 - 2005-01-29
Although the theme of this exhibition is “Spiritual Water”, Nishino has carefully avoided the obvious materials of river and sea. Instead, he selected trees, stones, and butterflies as the motif because (...)

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Ayaka Nakamura "Life Goes On"
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- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2004-11-13 - 2004-12-04
Ayaka NAKAMURA was born in 1977. She studied lithography at JOSHIBI UNIVERSITY OF ART AND DESIGN. Everyday, she paints as if writing a letter to someone she does not know and as though she's filling in (...)

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Kaoru Arima
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- Media: Drawing
- 2004-10-13 - 2004-11-06
Kaoru ARIMA has been showing his art, drawn on newspapers and low quality paper, since 1997, and has done many exhibitions since: the Watarium Museum (Tokyo) in 1998 and 2003; the Walker Art Center (U.S.A) in (...)

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