Openings in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa

Tokyo Art Week opens a new front with simultaneous exhibition openings by the major commercial galleries in East Tokyo.

Tomoo Gokita Exhibition

at Taka Ishii Gallery
in the Kiyosumi, Odaiba area
This event has ended - (2008-04-01 - 2008-04-26)

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Runa Islam "The Restless Subject"

at Shugoarts
in the Kiyosumi, Odaiba area
This event has ended - (2008-04-05 - 2008-05-17)

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Kumie Tsuda "Perfect is Not Perfect"

at Tomio Koyama Gallery
in the Kiyosumi, Odaiba area
This event has ended - (2008-04-05 - 2008-04-26)

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In Photo Reports by Ashley Rawlings 2008-04-07 print

Taka Ishii Gallery is holding a solo show of work by Tomoo Gokita.

With Art Fair Tokyo and 101Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair, together with all the other Tokyo Art Week events taking place at the moment, these openings were particularly busy.

Shugoarts is showing a video installation by Runa Islam in an exhibition titled 'The Restless Subject'.

Neon works inhabit the far corner of the gallery. Next door at Miyake Fine Arts, Director Shinichi Miyake (right) talks to a guest about the Florian Süssmayr exhibition they are currently holding.

Hiromi Yoshii is holding an exhibition of New York-based artist Nick Mauss.

The view from Hiromi Yoshii's alcove space. Kido Press, Inc. is exhibiting works by Thai artist Wisut Ponnimit.

Ceramic and installation work by Kumie Tsuda are on display at Tomio Koyama Gallery.

Zenshi is showing work by Tai Ogawa, in an exhibition titled 'The End of the World and Mother-Fucker'.

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

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