Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair 2007

Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair 2007, held last weekend at Tokyo Bijutsu Club, is now Tokyo’s third art fair and second contemporary art fair.

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Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair 2007

at Tokyo Bijutsu Club
in the Ginza, Shimbashi area
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In Photo Reports by Aneta Glinkowska 2007-11-26 print email

In its first year, TCAF 2007 has shown mostly Tokyo based galleries, including several Chinese and Korean galleries, bringing it closer to Art Fair Tokyo in character: nominally international, and without the edge of the 100% domestically-oriented Art@Agnes. On the first evening of the fair the atmosphere was quiet and calm, and in the eyes of a visitor of Tokyo’s contemporary art galleries, most galleries exhibiting appeared just a little less than contemporary.

TCAF2007 entrance.

A corridor of booths

Inside Gallery Hosokawa's booth

One of the overseas galleries, Soka Art Center from Taiwan

One of the sponsors, Shinwa Art Auction's Booth

Aneta Glinkowska

Aneta Glinkowska. Born in Poland. She has lived in New York since 1996, where she attended college and graduate school. To escape the routine of science labs in college, she went to the movies daily. Following an MA in Cinema Studies, she roams Tokyo as a writer, visiting art galleries daily and blogging about art events. She's looking for opportunities to write about art and cinema for all types of publications. Contact via email: aneta [at] tokyoartbeat [dot ]com. » See other writings

Comments

  1. Mario A. (Ambrosius)
    2007-11-29

    Hi Aneta, thanks for your efforts regarding the latest movements in the Japanese contemporary art scene.
    It would be nice to read some comments of the participating gallery owners and the organizer. We would love to know about your favorites by picking up some personally interesting art works.
    Please keep on writing, cheers!
    Mario

  2. aneta
    2007-11-30

    thanks Mario.
    I’ll do my best, as long as I’m in Tokyo. Don’t forget that there are plenty of other TABlog writers you should also keep an eye on and comment. They write a lot more than me these days.
    Also, we love to hear what our readers want to read about, so thanks for you request.

    I’m working on a video interview now with a young Japanese artist. I hope to put it up within next week or so. Hope you’ll comment.

  3. jasmine mercer
    2007-12-28

    Please tell me if there to be an art fair in 2008.
    I do hope so.

    Warm regards,

    Jasmine
    (Artist and Illustrator)

  4. Aneta Glinkowska
    2007-12-28

    Art@Agnes is coming up very soon. It is very domestic, so there is no English on the website, but galleries showing and the space are very interesting.(mid-January)
    101 Tokyo is being held for the first time, but might turn out the most interesting of all, very international.(April)
    And there is Art Fair Tokyo, which has been around for a while and you can read about it here on TABlog.

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