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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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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 Pendulum of the Image: Non-Visual Representation
Keisuke Mori
"The word image has a bad reputation." (note 1) "Eye and Mind," the last essay published during the lifetime of M. Merleau-Ponty, appeared in the first issue of Art de France in 1961...
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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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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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Mirrorless Mirror
Tomohito Ishii
When discovering and exploring the motif of the hole in the course of the “My Hole: Hole in Art” project, I ultimately arrived at the idea that a hole for me is a hollow space in which images are being received...
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New Flat Field
Tomohito Ishii
I was gazing in the distance absentmindedly. The light remained when I closed my eyes. ―Norio Kobayashi, LANDSCAPES (1986) A memory of light...
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Tomohito Ishii
An immature mood that serves as a source of inspiration dissolves into trembling images, severed from reality and circumstance. Colors arrive from everywhere...
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