void+ proudly announces the exhibition of “Frozen Flowers” by flower artist Makoto Azuma. Arranged flowers are sprayed with water mist and literally frozen in a freezer to cut off the flowers from the natural aging process. In a man-made environment with a temperature of -8℃, the flowers slowly wilt and morph into "the living dead." You are cordially invited to experience this entirely new world of flowers as presented by Azuma.

Data: Aug. 7th(Sat) – August 15th (Sun) 2pm – 7pm; Aug. 15th will be closing at 6pm

Venue: void+
3-16-14-1F Minamiaoyama, Minatoku, Tokyo 107-0062
tel: 03-511-0080 fax: 03-5411-0051 info@voidplus.jp
http://www.voidplus.jp

Contact: Makoto Azuma, AMKK
tel/fax 03-5414-5823＜James Shun＞

Makoto Azuma (1976, Fukuoka)

http://www.azumamakoto.com/

void+ is pleased to host an exhibition - MININO MACHO, MININO FÊMEA - by a Portuguese film director, Pedro Costa from July 28th through August 3rd.
This video installation work is related to “No Quarto Da Vanda” (In Vanda's Room) and “Juventude em Marcha” (Colossal Youth,) both films will be screened at Costa's retrospective “Filmografia do Realizador Pedro Costa- 2010”at Europace to cerebrate his new film premier, "Ne change rien"(Change Nothing) on July 31st in Japan.

MININO MACHO, MININO FÊMEA
2 channel video, 2005, 37min.

Two images, inside and outside, from the materials of "No Quarto Da Vanda” (In Vanda's Room) and “Juventude em Marcha“(Colossal Youth), are projected at the same time, while the sound of them also simultaneously heard. Eventually the boundary of inside and outside are faded to becomes of a no border space. This work is titled in the language of Cabo Verde, which beautifully
captures its “moment” and “space” of a Lisbon's slum town, Fontainhas area during he was filming.

Data: July 28th(Wed) – August 3rd (Tue) 2pm – 7pm

Venue/Contact: void+
3-16-14-1F Minamiaoyama, Minatoku, Tokyo 107-0062
tel: 03-511-0080 fax: 03-5411-0051 info@voidplus.jp
http://www.voidplus.jp

Organized by　Cinematrix/void+
Planned by Cinematrix

Born in Lisbon in 1959, Costa majored in history and literature at the University of Lisbon, and immersed himself in rock music during his youth. He studied filmmaking at the National Film School under Antonio Reis. In 1984, he directed the short film Cartas a Júlia and made his first full-length film, O Sangue, in 1989. Since then, Costa has received international attention as a leading Portuguese director for Casa de Lava (1994) and Ossos (1997). He is filmmaking in the slums of suburban Lisbon, Fontainhas with small film crew. He shot Vanda Duarte, appeared in Ossos, also shot there and her family for two years and made In Vanda’s Room (2000). In Vanda’s Room was theatrical release in Japan first time ever Costa's works and holding his retrospective. After Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub cineastas: Où gît votre sourire enfoui? (2001), he made Colossal Youth (2006), which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and has been screened at many other international festivals. His latest work is Ne change rien (2009), captures music activities of French actress / singer Jeanne Balibar.

- Related Events -

Filmografia Do Realizador Pedro Costa
July 24 (Sat) – 30 (Fri)

“Ossos” (1997)
“No Quarto da Vanda” (2000)
“Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub cinéastes : Où gît votre sourire enfoui?” (2001)　
“Colossal Youth / Juventude em marcha” (2006)
Short Film
“6 Bagatelas” (2002)
“Tarrafal” (2007)　
“The Rabbit Hunters” (2007)

“Ne change rien”(Change Nothing) July 31st (Sat) On Air
2009／35mm／monochrome／103min

■Artist: Ives Maes
■Exhibition Title: PROGRESS
■Date: April 3rd (Sat) to 24th(Sat), 2010
■Reception: April 3rd(Sat) 19:00-21:00
■ Venue: void+ 3-16-14 1F Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062 Tel: 03-5411-0080 Fax: 03-5411-0051
■Hour: Tue to Fri 14:00-19:00; Sat　12:00-19:00　Closed: Sun, Mon and Holidays
■Planning: Michiko Ogura
■Supported by: Embassy of Belgium in Tokyo, Flanders Center, EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee

©Ives Maes
Pabellon del Futuro (Exposicion Universal de Sevilla, 1992)
Duratrans on acrylic, light box 100 x 125 cm

void+ is honored to present “PROGRESS,” a exhibition by artist Ives Maes from Saturday April 3 to Friday April 23, 2010.
Ives Maes is a contemporary artist based in Antwerp, Belgium. Although Maes uses various mixed media, his main medium of choice is photography.
This exhibition showcases a series of photographs from one of his most well-known projects, where Maes stages familiar characters from science fiction movies at world exposition sites.

Maes' subject, the world exposition is a global event promoting world peace through exhibitions of art, technology and science from participating countries.　The world exposition brings a sense of anticipation of a positive future full of hope. This subject is contrasted with characters from science fiction movies, which tend to be critical of overdeveloped technology and science with themes that foresees the future as a metaphor of human tragedy.
Maes showcases this contradistinction with a unique perspective through his photographs of familiar scenes with extra-terrestrials or characters, which one may perceive as "peculiar" and / or "comical." If artists are agents of social absurdity and truth like prophets, then Ives Maes is definitely one such artist.

This exhibition introduces photographs of the European exposition sites from his photography series.
Please come and see the one of Belgium’s up-and-coming artists, Ives Maes' first solo exhibition in Japan!

EDUCATION
2008 – 2009 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin /Germany
1999 - 2001 HISK, Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Antwerp /Belgium
1995 - 1999 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Gent / Belgium

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 ‘Unification’, Uqbar, Berlin /Germany
2009 ‘Die Stadt von Morgen’, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin /Germany
2008 ‘The Great Exhibition’, Z33 Center for Contemporary art, Hasselt /Belgium
2007 ‘Tourism’, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp /Belgium
‘Tourism’, 03one, Belgrade /Serbia
2006 ‘The Greenery Line’, SMAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent /Belgium
2005 ‘Fundraising appeal’, CIAP, Hasselt /Belgium
2004 ‘Recyclable Refugee Camp’, Brigitte Weiss Gallery, Zürich /Switzerland

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2010 ‘The State of Things’, Namoc, Beijing /China
2009 ‘Colossal’, Landschaftsverband Osnabrücker land, Osnabrück /Germany
2007 'Emergency Biennale’, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul /Turkey
2006 ‘After Cage, 24 Sammlungen in Bewegung’, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen/Germany
2005 ‘Frontera, a proposal for a futuristic society’, Laboratorio 060, Frontera /Mexico
2004 ‘Enduring Freedom’, Museo de Arte Carillo y Gil, Mexico D.F. /Mexico
2002 ‘Guide to Trust N°2’, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco /USA

MONOGRAPHIC CATALOGUES

2008 ‘Recyclable Refugee Camp, Ives Maes’, Mer Paper Kunsthalle, 144pg, color,
ISBN 978-90-76979-59-5

WEBSITE: www.ivesmaes.com

■ Artist Name＿ Rie Nakajima
■ Exhibition Title＿Unwind
■ Date＿May.16 (sat)- Jun.13 (sat), 2009
■ Gallery hours: Tue-Fri 14:00-19:00, Sat 12:00-19:00 Closed: Sun, Mon, and Holidays
■ Venue＿void+ 3-16-14-1F Minami-Aoyama, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 107-0062　
Tel: 03-5411-0080 Fax: 03-5411-0053 http://www.voidplus.jp

void+ is pleased to announce the opening of Unwind, an exhibition by Rie Nakajima that will run from Saturday, May 16 to Saturday, June 13.
Since 2002, Nakajima, who after graduating from the Department of Aesthetics and Art History at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music traveled to the UK where she studied sculpture at the Chelsea College of Art and Design and the Slade School of Fine Art, has been creating works that focus on sound.
In her works, Nakajima expresses space-time by creating architectural spaces and constructing sounds within these spaces. The works created for the purposes of "playing" the sounds she has in mind are often placed matter-of-factly on the floor or take the form of assembled objects that serve as sound makers, giving rise to inorganic spaces. Listening to the works in such finely honed environments brings to the surface in a pure way people's imagination, memories, and deepest thoughts.
Unwind is a new work that recreates the atmosphere and setting of a journey to the seaside. The word "unwind" has several meanings, including to take it easy or to undo something. Within the closed, confined space of void+, the lingering sound of waves repeatedly breaking and retreating will no doubt have the effect of intensifying the audience's own memories.

2005-2007 University College London, the Slade School of Fine Art, MFA Fine Art Sculpture
2002-2005 Chelsea College of Art and Design, BA Hons Fine Art, Sculpture
2001-2002 Chelsea College of Art and Design, Foundation Course, Fine Art Sculpture
1997-2000 Tokyo National University of Fine Art and Music BA Hons Fine Art, Art History and Aesthetics

2006 Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists
2007 The First Elizabeth and Peter Mclean Memorial Award

2007 Ness, Elspeth Kyle Gallery, London
Japanese Artists and the Slade, Past, Present and Future, London
Japanese, Atelier Brigitte Lang & Stefan Sakic, Perchchtoldsdorf, Austria
A collaborative, simmering summer exhibition, Experimental Intermedia House, Gent, Belgium
The Future Can Wait, Atlantis Gallery, London
Phase Space, The Brunswick Gallery, London
Left and Right, Sichuan University Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2006 New London Artists, Sterling, Factory Berlin, Berlin
2005 “Cultural Landscape” Hatton Gallery, New Castle
Young Gods selected graduates 2005, Clapham Art Gallery, London
LOT, The Golden Gilded Egg Box…, Bristol

2007 How Does It Start…, collaborating with Metod Blejec, Barbara Kanc, and Marie Roux, Stazione di Topolo, Udine, Italy,
2006 Postsovkhoz 6, Human Zoo, Moks International Summer Art Symposium, Mooste, Estonia

2008 Sound Cafe, Jedburgh Community and Art Centre, Scotland
Zeppelin 2008 Festival de Proyectos Sonoros, Barcelona