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Syndicate is an independent gallery opened in Dec 2021 in Takamatsu Kagawa Japan. For requests and questions,Please feel free to contact me.

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In 1994 the Shionoe Art Museum opened in Shionoe Hot Spring Village in Kagawa prefecture, bordering Tokushima. There are both permanent and special exhibition spaces where you can enjoy the artists' works. We also hold concerts, workshops, and ceramics course, which are open to everyone. The Museum sits in a sports and culture park, where you can enjoy beautiful cherry blossoms and fire flies - the ideal place to relax.

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Art Island Center is an art and research center, a gallery, and a bookshop.
The Center was established in 2019 on Naoshima, an island in western Japan, which is known as “the art island” because of its art museums and its central position in the Setouchi Triennale art festival.
Art Island Center's projects, programs, and exhibitions explore the identity and resilience of the islands of the Setouchi region, while using Naoshima's status as an international destination to facilitate conversations about globally significant topics.
Our shop carries art books, children's books, stationery and art supplies, select gifts, and other merchandise. We stock both domestic products and imported goods from Europe and the USA. Our main gallery showcases work by artists and researchers from around the world. Our "Engawa Gallery" exhibits work by local/regional artists and craftspeople.

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Fukutake House was launched in 2013 as a project to connect the Fukuda community in Shodoshima with many areas of Asia. The project is based on around the Fukutake House, renovated from former Shodoshima Fukuda Elementary School, includes Asia Gallery the art exhibition space, as well as the Fukuda Asian Diner, where serves a variety of Asian dishes prepared by the local Fukuda community. The Asia Art Platform provides a stage for the Fukuda community and our partners across Asia to deepen our mutual understanding through various activities.

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Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was one of the most important sculptors of his time. He was a protean artist who, in addition to his sculpture, designed and created conceptual projects, landscaped environments, earthworks, gardens, plazas, stage sets, furniture, and lighting fixtures. The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Japan is the fulfillment of Noguchi’s wish that his former studio in Mure is an extension of his museum in New York, that it be a place to inspire artists and scholars. The collection on display (including those on loan from The Noguchi Museum, NY) includes 150 sculptures, many of which are still unfinished.

The totality is his metaphor for the world, an expression of "the notion of the universality of art, especially sculpture, or that which has to do with our environment". This museum preserves the working atmosphere of his studio and also aims to maintain archives that are open to scholarly research. We invite our visitors to experience and enjoy Noguchi’s world through his art and through his unique and timeless interpretation of those eternal verities we all seek.

The Kagawa Museum is located in a cultural and historical area near JR Takamatsu Station and the Takamatsu Port, along with Tamamo Park containing the ruins of Takamatsu Castle, and the Kagawa Rexxam Hall.
It is a multi-functional museum that combines the functions of both a history museum and an art museum and is engaged in a wide range of activities such as exhibitions, research, and study. In addition, it also operates Seto Inland Sea Folk History Museum and Kagawa Prefecture Cultural Hall, providing various cultural activities for citizens. 


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Sculptor Masayuki Nagare was born in 1923. He had a background as a swordsmith, served as a Zero fighter pilot in the war, and established his own techniques and style not only in sculpture, but also in a variety of other forms such as garden design, ceramics, and furniture design. Nagare Studio is his former residence and atelier, located on the eastern cape of the Aji Peninsula in Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture. Now open to the public as a museum, the space preserves the atmosphere of the past. 

"Les Archives du Cœur", by Christian Boltanski, permanently houses recordings of the heartbeats of people throughout the world. Christian Boltanski has been recording these heartbeats since 2008.
Les Archives du Cœur is a testament to the recordees' existence.
The recordings may be listened to by visitors. It is also possible to record your own heart beat here.

The "Teshima Yokoo House", a collaboration between artist Tadanori Yokoo and architect Yuko Nagayama, was created by altering and renovating an old private house located in a hamlet in the Ieura District, facing the harbor that forms the entrance to Teshima Island. Making full use of the building's existing layout, the exhibition areas are divided into a "Main House," a "Warehouse," and an "Outhouse," displaying 11 two-dimensional works. Other features-a stone garden with a pond, and a cylindrical tower-are devoted to installations, so that the art spaces seem to expand symbolically to cover the entire site, making it a philosophical zone that simultaneously calls to mind thoughts of both life and death. Thanks to the building's use of tinted glass to control light and color, the sunshine, breezes, and natural hues of the island, as well as the artworks themselves, assume a range of different appearances, turning visitors' spatial experience into a series of interconnected collages.

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A Tadao Ando-designed inner space, framed by unadorned concrete walls, infuses new life in this about 100-year-old traditional wooden house in Honmura. Here, contrasting elements of past/present, wood/concrete, light/shadow overlap in this space which condenses the essence of Tadao Ando's architecture. Learn about Ando's work and Naoshima history through photographs, sketches, and models, and see how the museum itself has revived this venerable old house.

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Benesse House Museum opened in 1992 as a facility integrating a museum with a hotel, based on the concept of "coexistence of nature, art and architecture." Designed by Tadao Ando, the facility is built on high ground overlooking the Seto Inland Sea and features large apertures that serve to open up the interior to the splendid natural surroundings. In addition to exhibiting the paintings, sculptures, photography, and installations in its collection, the Museum also contains permanent site-specific installations that artists have created especially for the building, selecting locations on their own and designing the works for those spaces. The Museum's artworks are found not just within its galleries, but in all parts of the building, as well as in scattered locations along the seashore that borders the complex and in the nearby forest. Benesse House Museum is truly a rare site where nature, art, and architecture come together, in an environment containing numerous site-specific works created for the natural environs of Naoshima or inspired by the architectural spaces they inhabit.

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A museum resulting from the collaboration between internationally acclaimed artist Lee Ufan, presently based mainly in Europe, and architect Tadao Ando.
The Ando-designed semi-underground structure houses paintings and sculptures by Lee spanning a period from the 1970s to the present day. Lee's works resonate with Ando's architecture, giving visitors an impression of both stillness and dynamism. Located in a gentle valley surrounded by hills and the ocean, the museum offers a tranquil space where nature, architecture and art come in resonance with each other, inviting to peaceful and quiet contemplation, in a society overflowing with material goods.

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Uniting the creative visions of artist Rei Naito and architect Ryue Nishizawa, Teshima Art Museum stands on a hill on the island of Teshima overlooking the Seto Inland Sea. The museum, which resembles a water droplet at the moment of landing, is located in the corner of a rice terrace that was restored in collaboration with local residents.

Structurally, the building consists of a concrete shell, devoid of pillars, coving a space about 40 by 60 meters and with a maximum height of 4.3 meters. Two oval openings in the shell allow wind, sounds, and light of the world outside into this organic space where nature and architecture intimately interconnect. In the interior space, water continuously springs from the ground in a day long motion. This setting, in which nature, art and architecture come together with such limitless harmony, conjures an infinite array of impressions with the passage of seasons and the flow of time.

Chichu Art Museum was constructed in 2004 as a site rethinking the relationship between nature and people. The museum was built mostly underground to avoid affecting the beautiful natural scenery of the Seto Inland sea. Artworks by Claude Monet, James Turrell, and Walter De Maria are on permanent display in this building designed by Tadao Ando.

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In the spring of 2016, the Takamatsu Art Museum reopened after about a year of renovation work.
Conveniently located next to the central shopping street, the museum is an art spot with a contemporary style and relaxed atmosphere, as well as a "plaza" where citizens can come and go.

The museum has systematically collected over 1,700 works of art, focusing on "postwar Japanese contemporary art," "world art since the 20th century (prints)," and "Kagawa art (crafts)." The collection of contemporary art, which has become one of the best in Japan in terms of both quality and quantity, is a living art archive that we should be proud of, forming a cultural platform in the creative city of Takamatsu, where the Setouchi International Art Festival and other art festivals take place.

In addition to introducing a diverse array of art and new initiatives, the museum has a rich history. In 1949, soon after the end of World War II, the museum was the first public art museum in Japan to be established in the famous Ritsurin Park, and in 1988, when the Great Seto Bridge opened, it was relocated to its current location in the city center.

In 2016, the museum was reborn once again and will continue to grow with the times, together with the citizens of the city, while cherishing the passion of our predecessors for culture and art.

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The museum opened on November 23, 1991, as a commemorative project for the 90th anniversary of Marugame's municipal organization, with the full cooperation of Genichiro Inokuma, a painter associated with Marugame City. The museum, with its beautiful architecture by architect Yoshio Taniguchi, is located in front of Marugame Station and houses approximately 20,000 works donated by Inokuma himself. The museum also focuses on activities for educational purposes, holding a variety of programs such as lectures and concerts, as well as workshops to nurture children's sensitivity and creativity.

These features were developed through repeated discussions between Inokuma and Marugame City. Inokuma strongly desired MIMOCA to be a "contemporary art museum" that always actively introduces new things. Taniguchi shared Inokuma's desire for a beautiful space in an art museum and created a bright and spacious space with natural light. Taniguchi also emphasized the importance of children's exposure to beauty and proposed free admission for children and the creation of a "sculpture studio" for children to engage in creative activities.

Inokuma wanted the museum to be a place where people could casually drop in, see fine works of art in a beautiful space, and be refreshed and energized by fresh inspiration. We hope that MIMOCA, which is filled with Inokuma's thoughts, will be a "hospital for the mind" for everyone.

Kagawa

Marugame Building

Naoshima New Museum of Art

Takamatsu Symboltower

Takamatsu Orne

Shikokumura Gallery (Shikokumura Museum)

Kagawa Prefectural Higashiyama Kaii Setouchi Art Museum

Center/Sanuki

The Kagawa University Museum

Syndicate

Shionoe Museum of Art

Art Island Center

Fukutake House

The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Japan

The Kagawa Museum

Takamatsu Port

Valley Gallery

Hiroshi Sugimoto Gallery : Time Corridors

Nagare Studio

The Sculptor’s House

Les Archives du Cœur

Teshima Yokoo House

Ando Museum

Benesse House Museum

Lee Ufan Museum

Teshima Art Museum

Chichu Art Museum

Takamatsu Art Museum

Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art