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/

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

Thank you for joining Tanishi K's Bingo Game performance! We had lots of fan participated in the game to win the Tanishi K's original prize! Tanishi K talked about her latest performance of delivery service while showing her slide show.
She took several delivery orders which scheduled to be deliver this coming fall. We are looking forward to report you how she executed the order!

void+ is pleased to host a performance by Tanishi K　on Friday June 18.
Tanishi K has performed in trains and subways around the world since 2001, dressed as a stewardess offering drinks and snacks to passengers.
For her performance at void+, she will host an original bingo game to introduce the the latest of postal services worldwide. The winner will receive a prize from Tanishi k. Also her fictitious delivery company, DIVA POSTAL will have a reception desk at the venue to accept delivery orders only to Tokyo and Berlin, Germany( delivery will be made this fall) at this time. If you have any friends or family in Tokyo or Berlin, why not send them a special gift (it doesn’t have to be a "package," it could be a song that Tanishi K will sing for you!) on this occasion!
Her past performance will be presented as a slide show, where guests can view her delivery services.
Please come and join us for this unique, one-of-a-kind performance!

Date: June 18 (Friday), 2010 19:30~
Venue: void+ 3-16-14-1F Minamiaoyama, Minatoku, Tokyo tel: 03-5411-0080/ info@voidplus.jp

© TanishiK BERLIN 2009

This event is finished.

The first session included Mario Tauchi (live painting)+SARO (Tap) + Yoshiki Hase (photograph), and the session were Mario Tauchi (live painting) + Eric Thielemans (drum) + Alexander Berne (sax) +Daisuke Takaoka (tuba). End of the second session, tap dancer SARO was invited to join the session, and created a sense of tension which lasted over 15 min!
Thanks to Mario who organized such a wonderful event, and we were so happy to host the beautiful night!

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

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 event is finished

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