New Tokyo Contemporaries “End of the tunnel” Opens

Kicking off the Marunouchi Art Weeks, the “New Tokyo Contemporaries” association of seven young galleries (Aoyama | Meguro, Arataniurano, Zenshi, Take Ninagawa, Misako & Rosen, Mujin-to Production and Yuka Sasahara Gallery) are exhibiting their artists’ work throughout the 7th floor of the Shin Marunouchi Building.

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New Tokyo Contemporaries

at Shin Marunouchi Building
in the Nihonbashi, Kudanshita area
This event has ended - (2008-03-28 - 2008-04-06)

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In Photo Reports by Ashley Rawlings 2008-03-29 print email

Zenshi's Yuki Itoda's paintings cover the entire wall of one restaurant's seating area.

Arataniurano's Go Watanabe has installed a work in the entrace to the women's toilets.Light pieces by Jo Nagasaka from Sschemata Architectural Office, which works in collaboration with Aoyama | Meguro, illuminate this corridor.

To the right of the men's toilets, work by Mujin-to Production's artist collective 'Chim↑Pom'.

The 'Atelier Room' features paintings by several artists from several galleries, such as Misako & Rosen's Maya Hewitt.

The 'Salon Room', which looks like something out of the final scenes of '2001: A Space Odyssey', also features a variety of work from different artists, including video work by Yuka Sasahara Gallery's Mami Kosemura.

Ashley Rawlings

Ashley Rawlings. After a year of studying painting and mixed media at Chelsea College of Art & Design, he did his BA in Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge. He moved to Tokyo in 2005, where he was a research student in the history of Japanese postwar art at Sophia University, and worked as a freelance editor, writer and translator. In addition to being editor of TABlog from 2006 to 2008, he contributed regularly to online and printed publications such as the Japan Times, ART iT.jp, Saatchi Online, ArtReview, ArtAsiaPacific and Artforum.com. He is also the editor of Art Space Tokyo, a 272-page guide to the Tokyo art world published by Chin Music Press in 2008. In 2009 he moved to New York, where he works as features editor of ArtAsiaPacific. » See other writings

Comments

  1. Brad
    2009-01-26

    Love your guide.
    Looking to do an interview with Yuki Itoda
    Do you have a contact e-nail for him?

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