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Zon Ito
"Around the time this exhibition is going to start, the cherry trees will be magnificently blooming. But if you were to plant too many cherry trees, I think it would actually be quite awful. In my personal opinion, it is the wriggling spring that is more interesting than these symbolic things. Because it is a solo exhibition, I embroidered what I prefer. One stroke measures between 3mm and 235mm. While keeping the strokes close to each other, separating or overlapping them, it is OK when my work is wriggling."
Zon Ito
Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition with Zon Ito. Born in 1971 in Osaka, Ito graduated from Kyoto City University of the Arts and has been based in the Kansai region. This exhibition consists of Ito’s latest works, created using embroidery on fabric.
One of his recent important exhibitions was "When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with The Future Brazil/ Japan" at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2008), co-organized by the Japan Foundation. Curator Yuko Hasegawa wrote following lines about the characteristics of Ito’s works:
"As a result, the work has the strength to undermine viewers’ preconceived ideas and set their imagination free. A single subject is depicted through a string of images. But how many of the images should the viewer draw on from the work to make sense of his or her world? Viewers find themselves freeing their own consciousness to the point of defenselessness, picking up images at random. It is in this diffusive quality - present in Ito’s works in its manifold media from animation to installation - that the richness of his art lies."
After a solo exhibition at WATARI-UM (The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art), Tokyo (2003) entitled "The End of the Neighborhood", Ito participated as one of the emerging artists born in the 1970s in "Roppongi Crossing", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2004) and "Three individuals: Zon Ito x Hajime Imamura x Yoshihiro Suda", The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2006). His works were also featured in numerous international large-scale exhibitions including the "International Triennale of Contemporary Art Yokohama 2001", "the 11th Triennale India", New Delhi (2005) and "How Latitudes Become Forms", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2003). Upcoming exhibitions include a group show at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum (July 18, 2009-) and a two-person exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (July 28, 2009-).
Zon Ito
Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce our first solo exhibition with Zon Ito. Born in 1971 in Osaka, Ito graduated from Kyoto City University of the Arts and has been based in the Kansai region. This exhibition consists of Ito’s latest works, created using embroidery on fabric.
One of his recent important exhibitions was "When Lives Become Form: Dialogue with The Future Brazil/ Japan" at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2008), co-organized by the Japan Foundation. Curator Yuko Hasegawa wrote following lines about the characteristics of Ito’s works:
"As a result, the work has the strength to undermine viewers’ preconceived ideas and set their imagination free. A single subject is depicted through a string of images. But how many of the images should the viewer draw on from the work to make sense of his or her world? Viewers find themselves freeing their own consciousness to the point of defenselessness, picking up images at random. It is in this diffusive quality - present in Ito’s works in its manifold media from animation to installation - that the richness of his art lies."
After a solo exhibition at WATARI-UM (The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art), Tokyo (2003) entitled "The End of the Neighborhood", Ito participated as one of the emerging artists born in the 1970s in "Roppongi Crossing", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2004) and "Three individuals: Zon Ito x Hajime Imamura x Yoshihiro Suda", The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2006). His works were also featured in numerous international large-scale exhibitions including the "International Triennale of Contemporary Art Yokohama 2001", "the 11th Triennale India", New Delhi (2005) and "How Latitudes Become Forms", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2003). Upcoming exhibitions include a group show at the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum (July 18, 2009-) and a two-person exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (July 28, 2009-).
Schedule | Apr 11 (Sat) 2009-May 16 (Sat) 2009 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Apr 11 (Sat) 2009 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||||
| Website | http://www.takaishiigallery.com/en/exhibitions/2009/April-Pool/ | ||||||
| Venue | Taka Ishii Gallery http://www.takaishiigallery.com/ | ||||||
| Location | 3F Complex665, 6-5-24 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||||
| Access | 2 minute walk from exit 1b at Roppongi Station on the Hbiya or Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 7 at Azabu-juban Station on the Nanboku or Toei Oedo line, 11 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line. | ||||||
| Phone | 03-6434-7010 | ||||||
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