Art Front Gallery - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Art Front Gallery. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Kentaro Baba "Primo"
Art Front Graphics organizes special exhibitions based on artist or theme on a monthly basis. September's exhibition introduces the work of Kentaro Baba, who paints rich, layered reds and greens over a (...)
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"Monotone World" Exhibition
White clouds and deep, black darkness. Both black and white seem to be perfectly natural and obvious colors, but when one thinks about it neither pure black nor pure white are hues that occur much in nature. If (...)
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Saiko Kaito + Yuka Nakamura Exhibition
Art Front Graphics organizes special exhibitions by artist or theme on a monthly basis. June 2008 features drawings of distant, expanding horizons by France-based Japanese artist Saiko Kaito, as well as (...)
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"Gentle Lines" Exhibition
Lines and colors are the basic components that make up a work of art. In particular, an artist's technical prowess can be measured just by the pulling action required to draw a single line. This special (...)
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Aki Yamamoto "Fugato"
Art Front Graphics organizes special exhibitions on a monthly basis based on an artist or theme. The April exhibition features Aki Yamamoto's bright colors and striking silhouettes. Landscapes and scenery (...)
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Fumie Hiratai Exhibition
This exhibition present Fumie Hiratai's recent oil paintings as well as prints. Location: Art Front Gallery Grafics [Image: "Yellow World" Oil, oil-stick on canvas 89 x 130cm]
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Arinori Ichihara + Makoto Oshima Exhibition
Arinori Ichihara has been based in Hokkaido, and Makoto Oshima was born in Hokkaido. These two artists are from different generations, but they share similar concepts and motifs relating to nature in Hokkaido. (...)
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"Sleep - Are You Awake?" Exhibition
Opening Reception: July 6th (Fri) 18:00- Artist's Talk: July 7th (Sat) 18:00-20:00
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Takako Asami "Looking at the Light"
Some people have probably seen Takako Asami's work this year already. She was in the 26th Sompo Japan Art Foundation Juried Exhibition, and the 2005-2006 Agency for Cultural Affairs Purchased Award Exhibition. (...)
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Maki Kijima "Dress Collage"
Kijima creates works using materials found in daily life such as plastic bags and products. She combines the use color paper with those already vividly colored objects to give a sense of unusual presence. (...)
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Eiko Tanaka "Into the Forest"
Born in Osaka in 1969, Eiko Tanaka studied art in Kyoto. She has mainly been creating lithographs and copper plate prints, using vivid colors and surprising compositions. Her works depict ordinary scenes (...)
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Earthwork International 2007 Forum
Geographer Augustin Berque analyzed the symbolic elements in a variety of environments in Japan, and conceptualized the dynamic circumstances of life as being "trajective". "Trajectivity" is a feeling (...)
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Ritsuko Taho "Flower on Water Stage"
Nature is not only an indispensable resource and environment for human life, but it is also there to form an environment that connects life and death in human culture. In our daily lives, plants are for (...)
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Yuji Sakai Exhibition
Born in 1973, Sakai has been producing unique paintings with traditional materials and methods since graduating from the Faculty of Japanese Art at Musashino Art University. Last year, he was chosen for (...)
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Keiichi Yabuno Exhibition
Keiichi Yabuno's newest work is an abstract that uses metal bits and wooden panels to the motif of plants. Yabuno (born 1941) was accepted at the Nikkaten Exhibition for the first time at 18, but abandoned (...)
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Airan Kang “Light of the World, Light of the Intelligence”
Until now, Airan Kan has been working on the "Digital Book Project" which involved making light installations of books in "book spaces" such as bookshops and libraries all around the world. Following (...)
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"Renga" Exhibition
A collaboration between calligrapher Isan Oyama and painter Kaori Tanaka, who met in Czechoslovakia this summer.
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Murier von Braun Exhibition
This exhibition will display thirty works by painter and sculptor Muriel von Braun, as part of Venezuela Culture Week, which aims to introduce Venezuelan art, music, food, and dance to the people of Japan. (...)
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Art/Room Exhibition
A display of art that enriches living spaces. This exhibition is a part of Tokyo Designer's Week 2006.
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Karen Salicath Exhibition
Danish artist Karen Salicath has built a reputation as a sculptor who produces works that induce relaxation. She has held solo exhibitions in London, New York and Athens. The work for this exhibition, (...)
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Nobuo Hashiba "Kegon"
Twenty new works by Nobuo Hashiba. Hashiba's works are a quiet mixture of silver, blue-green, and reddish brown dots, and this tasteful contemporary Japanese aesthetic makes them a favorite at gourmet (...)
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Aki Ooka "Murmur of light"
This is painter/poet Ooka's 3rd private exhibition held at Artfront Gallery. Like a symphony, shapes and colours resonate and overlap with each other in her paintings, while her poems cry out to realms (...)
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Miho Shirai "Finding Shangri-La"
In a style reminiscent of Tibetan Buddhism, Miho Shirai exhibits landscapes-themed tapestries, handmade tents and flags. While the theme of this exhibition is 'shangri-la', the works convey a sense of (...)
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Ordinary Days
The theme of this exhibition is the globalization that seeps into our hearts with the spread of communication and information systems. Computer graphics filled with quiet humor and love express mysterious (...)
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When did I turn Bald?
Ever since being involved in a traffic accident when he was 25, Scott de Vacherie has had cerebral disorder. Because his memory lasts for one day only, he has developed many devices to help him remember (...)
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Hiroko Inoue "Inside Out"
Hiroko Inoue studied fabrics in Okinawa from 1974 to 1975. After seeing the devastating aftermath of Hanshin-Awaji Earthquakes, she started incorporating the concept of life and death into her works, leading (...)
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From Environment to Senvironment "The Keyaki Tree's Fountain of Life"
This exhibition consists of the "Daikanyama spring," a fountain work, and a large Keyaki tree placed in front of the exhibition space. We are surrounded by many plants and trees, particularly those on (...)
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Yuki Yoshida "Groove Line"
All new works from Yuki Yoshida. She studied Japanese paintings in college, and is currently being presented at the "MOT Annual 2006" as one of the promising young artists in Japan. She received the New (...)
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Art / Room Exhibition Part 2: The Dining Room
Interior design meets art in the second stage of Art Front's Art / Room exhibition that closes up on the dining room. Tables, sofas, lights, plants and art are coordinated to match scenes from daily life. Talk (...)
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Utsumi Akiko - Absent From World
Utsumi has produced numerous works since her college years at Musashino. Those include “aquarium” and “horizon”, 2 video kinetic installations attempting to make us feel the world through means other than (...)
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Akira Komoto: Channeling with Nature
On exhibit are major and new works by artist Akira Komoto. He searches for a suitable spot in the wilderness and then creates an illusional world where nature and things fuse into one by placing painted (...)
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Le Champ Aérien
23 new paintings and 6 poems by Aki Ooka are on exhibit. On the surface of her paintings, various colors and objects float and resonate rhythmically and lightly. Her poems flow like music which responds (...)
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Antje E. Gummels "Evening Poetry"
The exhibition "Evening Poetry" will be held to commemorate the publication of Antje Gummels' print series "Nocturne". Matched to the poem by Shuzo Takigawa under the same title, "Nocturne" is composed (...)
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Industrial Dreams: Works by Philip Popoff
Philip Popoff is an artist working in Sofia in Bulgaria . The artist belongs to the new generation in his country, who have, in the last decade, succeeded to introduce innovative tendency of Bulgarian (...)
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Kazunari Nitta
Exhibition of the Japanese artist Kazunari Nitta. His new works express his concept that painting is also a part of nature.
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Mikiko Hibino Exhibition
Mikiko Hibino is an artist who does variety of things like furniture design, stage design, space producing, book cover design, and 2D, 3D works. The base of those varieties is always "wood" as a material. (...)
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Yasuko Iba Exhibition
An exhibition of works by Yasuko Iba. The artist takes photographs under broad daylight, copies the image onto a large canvas, and perfects it into a photorealistic image by employing pointillism. A painstaking (...)





