void+ presents Nezumiko Exhibition vol.2 produced by Yoshiaki Kaihatsu. Please come to see this special one day event!

Exhibition title: Nezumiko Exhibition Vol. 2
Date: March 8th, 2010 14:00-20:00
Venue: void+ 3-16-14-1F Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
Tel: 03-5411-0080 Fax: 03-5411-0051 email: info@voidplus.jp

*39 ART (Thank You) ART is a movement to make March 9th a day of ART, started by Yoshiaki Kaihatsu in 2001. For more info, please go to http://www.39art.com/

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.

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

this event is finished

void+ will host an artist talk with a short performance by Rie Nakajima and Takahiro Kawaguchi on November 12th (Thursday) from 7:30pm. London based artist, Nakajima throw her first solo exhibition in Japan at void+ this past spring, and she is back to talk about her work with a short performance with Takahiro Kawaguchi who utilizes sounds as the key element for creating art as well.

Date: November 12th (Thursday) 7:30~9:00pm
Charge: Free
Venue: void+ alternative
3-16-14, 1F Minamiaoyama, Minatoku, Tokyo
(03) 5411-0080

Rie Nakajima " # " installation at void+ 2009 photo by Takashi Mochizuki

Takahiro Kawaguchi photo by Ichico Uemoto

From the Yamanashishi Station(JR Chuohonsen), please take the public bus to Uenoyamairiguchi (￥100)

Yamanashishi Station ー Uenoyamairiguchi
12:34-----13:01
16:20-----16:47
18:30-----18:53

Uenoyamairigushi ー Yamanashishi Station
13:29-----14:00
17:13-----17:40
19:19-----19:42

©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

This was Rie Nakajima's first solo show in Japan, and we were really pleased to introduce her works at our gallery.

Left：Rie Nakajima"Unwind" 2009 Upper Right：Rie Nakajima "#" 2009 Lower Right：Rie nakajima "#" 2009 (detail)
photos by Takashi Mochizuki

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.

void+ presents "a perfect life" by Takao Kawaguchifrom April 10th 18th, 2009.
"a perfect life" is an on going series of performance Kawaguchi has created with collaging text, films sounds and dance, and each version of this series he tells different episode based on his private experiences. Kawaguchi will assemble an installation work and performance using catwalk like stage build inside void+. Takayuki Fujimoto from Dumb Type will be collaborating on lighting design.

Takao Kawaguchi
A performer and choreographer based in Tokyo. From 1991 to 1995 he, together with Atsuko Yoshifuku, ran the independent dance group, ATA Dance. In 1996, he joined the Japanese multimedia performance company Dumb Type and participated in OR, memorandum and Voyage. He has also been active in independent solo projects since 2000. His recent works, characterized by collaborations with sound/visual artists who uniquely combine and synchronize the elements of light and sound, include Di Que No Ves (Say You Don't See) (2003), D.D.D. -How many more times will my heart beat before it stops?- (2004), Tablemind (2006) and Good Luck (2008). Currently, Kawaguchi is also involved in other projects including true - a new light, sound and dance performance, a collaboration with Japanese contemporary dancer/choreographer Tsuyoshi Shirai and Dumb Type's lighting designer Taklayuki Fujimoto using the new LED lighting technology. Kawaguchi is also working on his solo, site-specific performance series A Perfect Lifewhich began last year in Chicago in May 2008, and continued in Tokyo on the Sumida River, in August 2008. Next Perfect Life will be in August 2009, in Nippori, Tokyo.

Apart from the performing arts, Takao Kawaguchi was the director of the Tokyo International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival from 1995 to 99. in 2003, he translated into Japanese UK's openly gay experimental filmmaker Derek Jarman's essay on colors Chroma which he wrote just before he died of AIDS in 1994.

http://www.kawaguchitakao.com/

I would like to talk to you about my life about my day-to-day life things that happened around me
My family, friends, people I know meet or part...
Small details of my personal life reflect the realities of the world

"The Day of 39@rt(Thank you art) " is established by an artist Yoshiaki Kaihatsu in 2001 to promote March 9th as an holiday to appreciate art. We will be joining this project for the first time this year. When you tell the receptionist "thank you", a glass of wine will be served! (only on March 7th)

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