ART FAIR TOKYO 2025 |
Period: Mar. 6(Thu) – 9 (Sun), 2025
Venue:Tokyo International Forum, Hall E and Lobby Gallery
Artist:Ay-O, Q-Ei, Kuramata Shiro, Sato Kengo, Shiomi Mieko, Jonas Mekas, Hosoe Eikoh
Formed in Osaka in 1951, the "Democratic Artists Association" was a group of artists
who worked against the open call art organizations that were dominant in the art world at the time and set a target as anti-open call.
The leading figure, Q-Ei, developed his own style of “photo-dessin”, using light to create free-form drawings and collages on photographic paper.
Many of you may have seen his solo exhibition at the Yokosuka Museum of Art (September 14 - November 4, 2024).
This exhibition will feature two selections from his “Photo Dessin”.
Photographer Hosoe Eikoh, who passed away in last September, was also Democrat one of the members.
For his memorial service, we will exhibit one of his representative works, “Embrace” series.
Modeled after a student of dancer Hijikata Tatsumi, this series of works eliminates the individual and extracts the beauty of the body.
Ay-O, a rainbow artist who deconstructs and reconstructs objects into rainbow colors, was also an important member of Fluxus, along with Democrat.
It is an avant-garde art movement that took place in the 1960s and involved multinational artists from a wide range of genres, including not only fine art but also music, poetry, and dance.
This exhibition will present new editions of “Spatial Poem” by Shiomi Mieko, which compiles and sends back event reports from around the world on a map of the world,
and works by Jonas Mekas, founder of “diary film” that accumulate and reconstruct fragments of everyday records, in which he has printed his own film frames on photographs.
For the works by architects, which Toki-no-Wasuremono’s strong field, we will exhibit new pinhole cameras and mirrors by Sato Kengo.
He is active in many fields, including designing a satellite studio for the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan scheduled to open soon.
A collection of silkscreen prints based on sketches by world-renowned designer Kuramata Shiro, “Shiro Kuramata Cahier” series will be also available.
In recent years, he has been the focus of renewed attention, with large-scale retrospectives held at museums in Tokyo, Toyama, and Kyoto from last year through this year.
| Private View: | Mar. 6 (Thu) 11:00 am ～7:00 pm※Invited Only |
| Public View: |
Mar. 7 (Fri) 11:00 am ～ 7:00 pm |
| Venue: |
Tokyo International Forum Hall E and Lobby Gallery 5-1 Marunouchi 3-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan One minute walk from Yurakucho Station, 5 minutes walk from Tokyo Station Toki-no-Wasuremono Booth: N033 |
| Official Web: | https://artfairtokyo.com/ |