Pedro Costa Exhibition - MININO MACHO, MININO FÊMEA -

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

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!

From Saturday 21 November to Friday 18 December void + will stage half in gray, an exhibition of work by Kazuna Taguchi. The art of Taguchi, whose practice transcends the boundary between painting and photography, emerges from a series of complex processes. Taguchi begins by gathering a selection of the innumerable images flooding media such as fashion magazines and the internet. Disassembling them, she uses the resulting fragments to make montages, which she then renders in paint. The delicate canvases thus created are then photographed, taking on their final, completed form via a different medium again.
Here we have certain "things" that definitely did exist – faces for example, scenes from nature, cosmic landscapes; but by taking images that existed through someone's filter, dismantling, and giving them new life, Taguchi turns them into something grey. As a result, initial images of these "things" begin to take on different meanings.
Kazuna Taguchi's works draw our attention to the unfettered multiplicity of the very act of looking that we undertake so casually.

"White lacks sufficient black. Black lacks sufficient white. These are half in gray."

©Kazuna Taguchi

■ Kazuna Taguchi
■ Artist Name＿ Kazuna Taguchi
■ Exhibition Title＿half In gray
■ Date＿Nov.21(sat)- Dec.18th (fri), 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

©O JUN/Regreen Arts

Regreen Arts! 2009 is being held as part of the Regreen Project, which was born out of the concept of "wanting to combine at a comfortable distance urban life and a rich natural environment." Regreen Arts! grew out of a single building in Mizukuchi, Yamanashi city, with the aim of giving root to a new culture in which "art" and "nature," and "cities" and "local communities" are in harmony. It consists of a "slow art project" and a "summer-camp residence" , and various other programs will also be on offer, including a series of video art screenings, and work shops by artists and other expertise, all of which are designed to enable participants to experience communing with and thinking about nature through creating. Arts! involves not only viewing but also action on the part of the audience.

Title: Regreen Arts! 2009
Date: Sept. 26 (Sat), 27（Sun）
Oct. 2 (Fri), 3 (Sat), 4 (Sun)
Oct. 9 (Fri), 10 (Sat), 11 (Sun), 12 (National Holiday)
Hours: 12:00-20:00
Opening Reception: Sept. 26 (Sat) from 17:00-
Venue: Regreen Base 2974 Mizukuchi, Yamanashi-shi, Yamanashi tel/fax :0553-22-3271
Artists: Taido Ishida, Nagato Iwasaki, Yoshiaki Kaihatsu, Takahito Kimura, O JUN(special guest artist)
David Buob, Berta Jayo, Jeroen Kooijmans, Marlena Kudlicka, Pak Sheung Chuen Manuel Saiz, Joao Simoes, Elisabeth Smolarz, Jasper Sebastian Stürup, Leung Chi Wo, Yoshiki Imazu, Nagaru Miyake
Instructors: Kenichiro Isaka （Associate Professor of Faculty of Education Human Sciences at University of Yamanashi）, O JUN (Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts), Yoshiaki Kaihats （Artist）
Official HP: http://www.regreenarts.jp

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.

Kazutoshi Shimuta – TORSOHOUSE -

■ Artist Name＿ Kazutoshi Shimuta
■ Exhibition Title＿TORSOHOUSE
■ Date＿Feb.21th (sat)- Mar.21th (sat), 2009
■ Artist Talk: Feb. 20th (Fri) 19:00-20:00
■ 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 Kazutoshi Shimuta’s "TORSOHOUSE" exhibit from Saturday February 21 to March 21. Since presenting his single exhibit TORSOHOUSE in 2005, Shimuta has introduced numerous artwork using this motif. TORSOHOUSE is a sculpture of plaster molded into a small house with an entrance and a hollow interior, but as the title indicates, it is also presented as a body.
The new artwork to be presented in this exhibition appears similar to the TORSOHOUSE which he presented in the past at first glance. However, the entrance is blocked and illustrated like an illusion. When you look behind the piece, three out of the six rectangular surfaces is missing. Also, the open interior is filled with colored shadows that spill outside the piece.
The front wall of the gallery exhibits "Flesh Window," a planar piece of artwork. As indicated by the title, this work references Marcel Duchamp's "Fresh Widow." The window frames painted across the surface of the canvas can perhaps be seen as one object, while the transparent glass parts are colored black.
One ponders what this shadows symbolize. The relationship between light and shadow, interior and exterior as presented in Shimuta’s work reflects deep complex meanings entwining and adding great mystery and revealing the bottom of the world in it's primitive form to void+'s small gallery space.
In the Jewish religion, God contracted space inside his own body to create this world for humans, which is refered to as 'Tzimtzum.' In other words, this world is a house to human kind, created inside God himself. By looking we extend our physical realm. At the same time however, the body is also seen and contracts. Similarly, "TORSOHOUSE" is a passive body and a house at the same time." (Kazutoshi Shimuta)

Kazutoshi Shimuta TORSOHOUSE 2005 @ T&S HOME Gallery

PRESS RELEASE
■ Artist Name＿ Junichi Mori
■ Exhibition Title＿minawa
■ Date＿Nov.22th (sat)- Dec.20th (sat), 2008
■ 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+ proudly announces Junichi Mori's minawa. Exhibition to be held from Saturday November 22 until Saturday December 20. Mori is known for his previous work using formless movement of flowing 'water' and 'bubbles' as his motifs in his sculptures of marble and wood. In this exhibit, Mori draws inspiration from one of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings, which he uses as his motif in his latest wooden sculpture.
Water changes form along with the passing of time. The flow of water transforms into bubbles, only to disappear with time due to its volatile nature. Mori carves this water bubble form in its expression of endless evolution and evaporation, in his effort to pursue and express nature's ceaseless phenomenon.

Junichi Mori

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/

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.

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