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The Place of Painting

Ryosuke Kondo

The world we live in is an extension of the world built by modernity. While technology continues to expand our vision, we are losing our relationship with the earth that lies beneath our feet...

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Fragmentary Thoughts on Ishii Tomohito's "Sub Anaglyph" (/Fault Lines)

Kanie Naha

/ This area — taking the stairs up from the exit of Ikejiri-Ōhashi Station on the Den-en-toshi subway line and heading toward Mishuku along a gently sloping road...

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To the Ground, to Above the Ground, Into and Out of the Crystal Palace

Tomohito Ishii

While walking through urban spaces, I feel a strange sense of floating when I observe the sky and cityscapes reflected in glass curtain walls — and my own reflection among them...

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The Suburb as One's Home Town

Ryo Katsumata

Tomohito Ishii once dug a hole in an empty lot in the suburban town he grew up in. What may appear to some as an act of digging down to reach earth's strata of yesteryear as a nostalgic scheme to imaginatively recover the home town he lost when development of the new town began...

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When "A Plant's Response to an Egg" Becomes Art

Miki Okubo

The work La réponse de la plante à l'oeuf (A Plant's Response to an Egg) was presented to mark the partnership between the Paris-based art association ILYAURA and the Paris art space The Window...

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The Topography of "/"

Tomohiro Masuda

At the far end of the gallery, a painting depicting a white-flowering tree is on display. On the side wall beside it hangs an abstract work rendered in rough grid-like strokes, dominated by vivid greens and reds...

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Art Anatomy

Yasuyuki Nakai

At first glance, this work may appear to depict an unassuming moment of everyday life — a woman wearing a hat among houseplants...

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The Pandemonium of Images

Masayuki Tanaka

In the past, around the time when communication theories based on the structuralist notion of semiotics were popular, communication was said to be founded on code...

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"from/to #3" WAKO WORKS OF ART

Yuichiro Takashima

This is the third edition of a program the gallery has been running since last year to introduce emerging artists...

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