Tag: Japan

Street artist Martin Whatson recently worked on a new wall in Tokyo, Japan. The mural “Scuba Diver” was done in collaboration with Parco Shibuya and Gypsy Eyes Tokyo.In line with this, Martin Whatson opened “Okaeri”, a full-scale solo show. Approximately 20 one-of-a-kind newly painted canvases, featuring the artist’s signature black-and-white stenciling and colorful and unique tagging, as well as rare posters with the artist’s signature ...

Norwegian street artist Martin Whatson’s will have his first full-scale solo show in Parco, Shibuya, Tokyo. Approximately 20 one-of-a-kind newly painted canvases, featuring the artist’s signature black-and-white stenciling and colorful and unique tagging, as well as rare posters with the artist’s signature will be on display and for sale.Moreover, the exhibition will showcase and sell an edition of works created jointly with the woodblock printmaking ...

After passing through Almine Rech Paris with “This Is Your Lucky Day” and his recent collaboration with Hypebeans, the prestigious coffee shops in Hong Kong and Seoul, on June 25 Javier Calleja arrived in Tokyo to inaugurate a new solo exhibition curated by Nanzuka, “Mr. Günter, The Cat Show”.Conceived as an installation, the exhibition features Günter Gambita, Javier Calleja and Alicia Gutiérrez’s cat. With a mischievous gaze Günter freely ...

The Art Assembly, which organizes several major art fairs across the Asia-Pacific region, will add one more to its portfolio. The group plans to launch Tokyo Gendai in Japan, which will bring together between 80 and 100 international art galleries to the Pacifico Yokohama convention center. The new fair will run July 7–9, 2023, with a VIP preview day on July 6. Exhibitor applications ...

Onishi Yasuaki recently unveiled his latest project “Stone and Fence” at KYOTO STEAM 2022 exhibition in Higashiyama Cube, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, Japan. The installation was made using materials and expertise provided by Fukuda Metal Foil & Powder Co., Ltd., a manufacturer of metal foils and powders with a history going back more than 300 years.In his work thus far, Onishi has used a variety ...

The Aichi Triennale, one of the most closely watched exhibitions of its kind in Asia, has announced the full list of artists that will participate in its upcoming edition, which is scheduled to run July 30–October 10 in the Japanese city. Since last August, the Triennale has been announcing participating artists piecemeal, and with the addition of five artists, the total number of artists ...

A controversial survey of works addressing the history of censorship in Japan, titled “After ‘Freedom of Expression?’”, will be restaged in its entirety at a public gallery in Tokyo April 2—5. The restaging is the latest in a censorship scandal around the survey dating back to its opening at the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya in 2019. Three days after it opened, the exhibition was ...

For at least a year, Japanese authorities have been vying for a bigger spot in the booming international art market. They have worked to make it easier for galleries to transact at art fairs and free port areas already by easing tax rules and importation duties. The country now seems to be making an even more concerted push, with Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs inviting international art fair ...

ARTnews is launching a new ARTnews JAPAN edition to begin publishing in January by way of a licensing agreement with the Japanese company MAGUS Co. The new digital edition will focus on coverage of global art news as well as surveys of developments and trends of the kind chronicled by ARTnews since its beginning as a weekly broadsheet more than a century ago. “Japan ...

Eight hundred artists, 7,000 works from Japan and counting—a new world view takes shape By the time TRiCERA ART was born in 2018, the online art universe was already teeming with art forums of every kind. Online galleries doing millions of dollars’ worth of business in trade around the world were more than plentiful. What could a new online gallery add? What was new ...