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Relocating from their ex-warehouse spaces in Kagurazaka to a renovated apartment building in this high-class residential area of Tokyo, the Kodama Gallery, Yamamoto Gendai and Takahashi Collection have now put Shirokane on the art map.
at Kodama Gallery Tokyo
in the Roppongi area
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at Takahashi Collection Shirokane
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at Yamamoto Gendai
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Ashley Rawlings. Born in 1981 in London. After a year of studying painting and mixed media at Chelsea College of Art & Design, he took on Japanese Studies at Cambridge. He moved to Tokyo in 2005, where he studies the history of Japanese post-war art at Sophia University and works as a freelance writer, translator and editor. As well as writing and editing for TABlog, he writes for the Japan Times and the ART iT website. He is also the editor of Art Space Tokyo, an intimate guide to the Tokyo art world. When not in galleries and museums or taking photographs, he enjoys losing himself in among Tokyo's skyscrapers, wandering silent streets, and riding out the occasional earthquakes. Will only consider returning to Britain once they've fixed the weather. Contact at: ashley (at) tokyoartbeat.com » See other writings
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aneta
2008-01-21
It’s really good to see a photo report from the new building. I wish I could see the outside of it in daylight, to compare with the cool ex-warehouse Kagurazaka. I guess, it’s all about more space.
Ashley Rawlings
2008-01-21
I have to go back soon and photograph the outside during daytime anyway so as to replace the picture for these galleries’ TAB pages, but basically it is a very ordinary looking building.
What I like about these galleries having moved is that it doesn’t just signal the closure of the Kagurazaka building; Mori Yu Gallery has taken over Kodama Gallery’s former space and Yuka Sasahara has moved into where Yamamoto Gendai used to be. The gallery map in Tokyo just got a little bit more diverse.
walead ramirez
2008-01-22
now if they only use some ART and not merely derivative pictures then we might be set. check out Ghada Amer a Gagosian artist and Uber famous,
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=ghada+amer&spell=1
Gagosian artist and Uber famous, then there is gibli and giblets for kids who still manages out does the 2nd floor, she gets a plus for critical mass, but the mass has no critique, kind of looks good, but no meaning ending up a pleasing string of pleading cliches, but to what point, and then on the 3rd floor more weak-kneed David Altmejd, a venice bienielle artist from Andrea Rosen and LFL see or google him
http://www.andrearosengallery.com/artists/david-altmejd/
it kind of reminded me of chicago ephermeral arts in the late 80’s before the big fire which cleaned up a lot of the art world. HOw about asking for a little responsibility from the galleries before promoting them. If the artists are plug dummies at least expect the gallerists to show a little mettle and control over the its all good attitudes which are clearly not all good. people are waking up to the micropoop attitudes are even worse than chinese nonsense. It is why no one is very interested in young Japanese art because it is cliches of itself with out the parody or irony. sad sad and leaves us wanting…