Shigeru HASEGAWA “ABSTRACT”
■Artist Name＿ Shigeru Hasegawa
■ Exhibition Title＿ABSTRACT
■ Date＿Feb.23(sat)- Mar.22(sat),2008
■ Venue＿Void+
Gallery hours: T-F 14:00-19:00, Sat 12:00-19:00
Closed: Sun, Mon, and holidays
3-16-14-1F Minami-Aoyama, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 107-0062
Tel: 03-5411-0336
Fax: 03-5411-0053

Tatsumi Orimoto-Document
-Art Event “PICNIC” Documentary Exhibition
-Opening performance “Alpaca+Owl+Flag”
■Artist Name＿ Tatsumi Orimoto
■ Exhibition Title＿Tatsumi Orimoto-Document
-Art Event “PICNIC” Documentary Exhibition
-Opening performance “Alpaca+Owl+Flag”
■ Performance_ May 23 (Fri) Door opens 18:30, Performance stars 19:00
■ Date＿May.24(sat)- June.7(sat), 2008
■ Venue＿void+
Gallery hours: T-Fri 14:00-19:00, Sat 12:00-19:00
Closed: Sun, Mon, and Holidays
3-16-14-1F Minami-Aoyama, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 107-0062
Tel: 03-5411-0336 Fax: 03-5411-0053
http://www.voidplus.jp

Void+ is proud to announce Tatsumi Orimoto-Document, an exhibition
featuring a documentary exhibition of Art Event "PICNIC," organized by
Orimoto in October 2007 along with an opening performance entitled
Alpaca+Owl+Flag. "PICNIC" was inspired by Édouard Manet's Le déjeuner
sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass), the Pan-European Picnic, the
peace demonstration significant to world history held in Hungary in
1989; and from restaurant FOOD, opened in the art community of Soho,
New York by Gordon Matta-Clark in 1971. Orimoto reaches out to the
global art community through this exhibition in his home town of
Kawasaki, Japan.

The exhibition showcases videos, photos, and other materials
documenting the event. Orimoto has performed with animals from
time-to-time, but for the first time ever in a gallery space. An
alpaca and an owl will take part in this opening performance.

During his stay in New York City in the 70's, Orimoto experienced the
Fluxus, Happening, and performance art from which he was inspired, and
since continues to perform communication art pieces today. The most
representative of Orimoto's performance pieces are Bread Men and Art
Mama among others.
Orimoto's first retrospective exhibition was held at the MASP (Museu
de Arte de São Paulo) since January, and recognition of his work is
especially evident overseas. Orimoto is considered one of the most
influential Japanese contemporary artists today.

This exhibition is finished.

The Opening night of Tatsumi Orimoto-Document, Orimoto performed with animals in the gallery space. Using flags and panels, he improvised drawings, sounds and actions to communicate with alpaca and owl.
From this Tuesday at the void+ alternative, we are showing the documentary tape of the performance. If you missed it, you can still catch up until June 7th!

The opening performance "Alpaca+Owl+Flag" was performed by Orimoto with stuffed animal-like alpaca, Lucky, and solemn faced owl, Kagetora.

void+ announces the opening of Ryuro Fukuda’s photography exhibition, What Have We Found from September 20 to October 18. In this exhibition, pieces from Fukuda’s ongoing series since 2003, Altitude of 10,000m will be showcased, along with Infinite Islands which is not yet published in Japan. Scenes of parachutes and paragliders floating among white clouds gliding through the sky will captivate your eyes. Staring at an island floating in a blue lagoon will reveal resort pools scattered about. Fukuda’s photographs depict a utopia that one would envy instantly. Fukuda uses the medium of photography as a tool to retouch and intervene with his own photographs, in an effort to manipulate reality and the imaginary world to challenge our perceptions. This exhibition explores the irony that the photographer witnessed in the superimposed truths, and what we, the audience, will find in them.

From the Series Altitude of 10,000m Ryuro Fukuda

■ Artist Name＿ Ryuro Fukuda
■ Exhibition Title＿What Have We Found
■ Date＿Sept.20th (sat)- Sept.18th (sat), 2008
■ Gallery hours: T-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: 03-5411-0336 Fax: 03-5411-0053

Graduate of Tama Art University’s graduate program, Ryuro Fukuda (born 1975) went to Berlin, Germany in 2000, where he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) under Professor Dieter Appelt until 2003. Afterwards, Fukuda was awarded the POLA Art Foundation for Young Artist Resident Abroad and resided in Warsaw, Poland and Berlin, where he continued to produce work. Fukuda returned to Japan in 2006.

http://www.ryurofukuda.com/

PRESS RELEASE

■ 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.

The solo exhibition by Kazuna Taguchi finished last year, received favorable comments and remarks.


photo by Takashi Mochizuki


We were handing out a leaflet with a text byMr. Philip Brophy's, which he kindly contributed for this exhibition. Those of you who missed this exhibition, you can still read it on Mr. Brophy's site.

Press Release

■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!

This exhibition is now over, but we can take appointments to show the works until the end of May. To make an appointment, please contact us via email. Thank you.

Ives Maes' first solo show in Japan will be over this Friday (4/23). If you haven't seen the show, please come, and don't miss it!

photo by Takashi Mochizuki