Shugoarts - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Shugoarts. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Ylva Ogland "She Who Shows the Way -Falling Asleep"
Shugoarts is pleased to present the first solo show in Japan for Ylva Ogland, an artist born in Sweden in 1974 who made her stunning debut in the New York art scene just last year. Ogland's paintings (...)
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Shigeo Toya Exhibition
Toya calls his recent series "minimal baroque", a concept that arises from the tension between two contradictory elements - minimal and baroque- when these polar points that are yet part of a continuum (...)
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Runa Islam "The Restless Subject"
This artist, who says she has been influenced by Nouvelle Vague film directors such as Federico Fellini and Jean-Luc Godard, casts sharp questions about the essence of film by deconstructing and reconstructing (...)
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Gallery Exhibition
[Image: "Forte dei Marmi Ballerina" (2007) C-Print mounted on aluminum 117.5 x 149cm ed.3]
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Yasumasa Morimura "Twilight of the Turbulent Gods / A Requiem: Chapter 2"
Following on from the popular Chapter 1 exhibition, which was held late last year, Chapter 2 continues the artist’s critical examination of the question, “What did the 20th Century mean?” The exhibition (...)
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Mitsuhiro Ikeda "Generating Void"
Shugoarts presents "Generating Void," a solo exhibition by Mitsuhiro Ikeda who was part of the positively received exhibition "Four Artists Show" held in June. Numerous spaces are overlapped within one (...)
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Yukio Fujimoto "Silent et Listen"
SHUGOARTS is pleased to welcome back sound artist Yukio Fujimoto for his first solo exhibition in Tokyo in three years. Fresh from his successes at this year’s Venice Biennale, Fujimoto now unveils a collection (...)
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Masato Kobayashi "Light Painting"
This exhibition is comprises new works from the artist's "Lighting Painting" series. This artist has continued to face the challenge of expressing the existence of light that is not actually there as painting. (...)
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Shimabuku "The Story So Far 2"
This artist, who is currently based in Berlin, has been working on his art pieces which are mainly site-specific art projects and performances throughout the world since the early 1990s. When he visits (...)
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Takuma Nakahira Exhibition
In this exhibition, photographs taken between 2005 and 2007 were carefully selected by the photographer and are displayed in print and slideshow formats. Also, the artist himself will post prints on the (...)
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Jan Fabre "The most sexy part of the body"
Jan Fabre was born in Antwerp in 1958 and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Art and the Municipal Institute of Decorative Arts and Crafts in Antwerp. He is recognized internationally as a avant-garde (...)
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Boris Mikhailov "Yesterday's Sandwich"
Boris Mikhailov (1938-) was born in Kharkov, Ukraine and started taking photographs when he was 28 years old while working as an electrician for the national railroad company. His work began to gain attention (...)
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Yasumasa Morimura "Seasons of Passion / A Requiem Season One"
New works by Yasumasa Morimura under the theme of 'Men', restructuring happenings that occurred to a variety of men. Morimura says that the history of the 20th century is symbolized by 'men'. Men worked, (...)
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Reiko Ikemura "Pacific"
This exhibition features new paintings and sculptures of oceanscapes by Reiko Ikemura, for whom the horizon is a metaphor for boundaries in any dimension.
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Masato Kobayashi Exhibition
This is a display of eight paintings by Masato Kobayashi from 1982-1992.
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Four Artists Show
Powerful works by up-and-coming artists in their 20s and 30s. The essence of change in the relation between art and society can be felt through this collection, as well as an aggressive hope toward the (...)
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Tomoko Yoneda "Monochrome Works 1996-2003"
A look at London-based Tomoko Yoneda's early years. Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1965, she has studied at Illinois University and Royal College of Arts. Her works have a common theme: 'memory' and 'history'. (...)
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Shigeo Toya "Minimalbaroque"
Toya was born in Nagano in 1947, and currently lives and works in Saitama, Japan. In this exhibition, he uses a chainsaw to cut up chunks of trees. The surfaces thus created visually transmit an impression (...)
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Masato Kobayashi "Nude"
Kobayashi was born in Tokyo in 1957, and currently works and lives in Gent, Belgium. He considers his work as a body consisting of a canvas skin and a frame. His peculiar style of painting, rubbing paint (...)
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From East and West
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Naofumi Maruyama "Between Morning and Night"
Naofumi Maruyama was born in Japan in 1964 and started his artistic career in the early 90's. After a two-year stay in Berlin, he showed his work at the Taipei Biennial in 2002, the inaugural exhibition (...)
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Tomoko Yoneda - After the Thaw
"Memory" and "Time" are the basic themes of Yoneda's art works. With this series, Yoneda is warning us against forgetting historical realities when enjoying beautiful images. The artist is suggesting that (...)
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Summer Show - Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere
This exhibition regroups four artists. Yukio Fujimoto combines objects from daily life and produces art works that stretch our senses. For this occasion, his “ROOM” that was exhibited at the Venice Biennale (...)
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Yasumasa Morimura "Los Nuevos Caprichos"
The works in Morimura's solo show focuses on Francisco Goya's etching print book called "Los Caprichos". In this series, Goya critically depicted politics and religion, vice and evil habit, to satirize (...)
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Carsten Hoeller
Carsten Hoeller is German, born in Brussels in 1961. He currently lives and works in Stockholm. Holler originally studied Agricultural Sciences, and started his artistic activities at the end of the ‘80s. (...)
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Earlier Works
Shugoarts will be exhibiting past works by the artists represented at the gallery.
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Toeko Tatsuno Recent Works
Shugoarts is pleased to exhibit a show of new works by Toeko Tatsuno. Tatsuno paints with rich colors that give very much depth to organic forms... these forms give the appearance of representation but (...)
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Masato Kobayashi Slide Talk Show "Starry Paint: Star of Outer Space by Pure Painting"
Shugoarts will host a slide talk show entitled "Starry Paint: Star of Outer Space by Pure Painting" by the artist Masato Kobayashi on his recent works. From October 2004, Kobayashi spent three weeks (...)
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Takuma Nakahira "Why an Illustrated Human-Animal Dictionary?"
A solo photography exhibition of Takuma Nakahira, renowned for his association with the "Provoke" magazine in the late 60s to the early 70s and the "are/bure/boke" (grainy, shakey, blurry) style that tried (...)
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Ritsue Mishima --Stream of Light on
SHUGOARTS presents "Engawa of Light", glass sculptures garden by Ritsue Mishima. Mishima was born in Kyoto in 1962, and moved to Venice, Italy in 1989. She started working with glass after she had an (...)
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Masato Kobayashi
This solo show is going to be consisted from a series of nude paintings called "Starry Paint", that he has started working on last year. Although it looks as if a painting of a naked blonde, Kobayashi (...)





