"Tokyo Visualist: Three Views" Panel Discussion
Japan Society Gallery
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Marking the U.S. release of the genre-encompassing art book, TOKYO VISUALIST, its editor Satoru Yamashita presents his take on the works of Japan's foremost creative minds today, while two featured artists, Kohei Nawa and Taisuke Koyama, discuss their views on their works and the creative environment that surrounds them.
Will Tokyo ever be the next London or Berlin, or even Kiev, recently boosted by the billionaire collector Victor Pinchuk as one of the future art centers? Known for its diverse, innovative, and refined visual culture, Tokyo nonetheless remains mostly cocooned as a powerful yet chaotic emission source of visual trend that is hard to fully grasp. Its historically all-encompassing creative scene refuses to be defined as an art scene in the conventional sense. So who are Japan's best creative talents today, the so-called post-Murakami generation?
Organized by Masako Shinn, a co-publisher of TOKYO VISUALIST, “Three Views” will explore the subject. Introducing Japan's up-and-coming visualists, Kohei Nawa and Taisuke Koyama, and Satoru Yamashita, a visionary mind who revolutionized the publishing scene by introducing the magazine +81 in 1997, the event will encompass a far-reaching, unique analysis of Tokyo creative scene.
Moderated by Aneta Glinkowska, Editor, Co-founder NYArtBeat.com.
[Image: Kohei Nawa "PixCell-Elk #2 (detail)" (2009) Mixedmedia, 94 8/12 x 98 1/4 x 78 in., Photo by Seiji Toyonaga]
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Schedule
March 02, 2010 from 18:30 to 20:30
Artist(s)
Satoru Yamashita, Kohei Nawa, Taisuke Koyama, Aneta Glinkowska
Reviews
Tokyo Visualist Launched at New York's Japan Society
Curated by the international curators like David Elliott, the Museum of Modern Art's curator Sarah Suzuki, to the publishers themselves, Tokyo Visualist presents a whole cross section of contemporary art practice in Japan.