MARCH21 “THE THEME FOR TONIGHT”

2003.4.30　 Text: Aya Takada

Every March 21st, my calendar proclaims, "Today is the first day of spring!" but I find it difficult to suddenly switch my seasonal sense. However, this year spending the day of the Vernal Equinox with artist MA...

PIXEL GALLERY

2003.4.30　 Text: Mikey Richardson

ESC was held in the Allen Lambert Galleria at Toronto's BCE Place from March 10th to 21st. It was Pixel Gallery/TDAA's first major exhibition and featured works by Toronto-based and international digital artists...

JEFF WALL “MODERN LIFE THROUGH THE LENS”

2003.4.30　 Text: Christina Merl

In the late 1970s, Canadian born Jeff Wall started to make carefully composed, backlit Cibachrome transparencies. Since 1991 he has used digital technology to produce panoramic photographs, often making reference to w...

POCKETS EXHIBITION

2003.4.30　 Text: Tim Spear

Pockets, where would we be without them? To mark the launch of the pocket sized Gameboy Advance SP console in the UK, Nintendo decided to hold an exhibition celebrating the history of the pocket. This you ma...

PETER DOIG EXHIBITION

2003.4.30　 Text: Matt Smith

It was Francesco Bonami (currently a senior curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago) who, some ten years ago now, described painting as a nutritional building block for a healthy visual diet. Whether you ...

ARTDEMO 03

2003.4.24　 Text: Tomohiro Okada

Japanese tend to hesitate to get involved in overseas media arts and designs scenes. They think these scenes can only occur through submitting works or for business. Japan has and remains a distant country for artist...

TIME! TIME! TIME! EXPLORATION OF TIME!

2003.4.20　 Text: Chiaki Sakaguchi

National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation is a "future place" where people can experience the forefront of scientific technology. This museum is located in Odaiba, Tokyo, one of Tokyo's more popular places, ...

SUNDAY-VISION EXHIBITION

2003.4.20　 Text: Michiko Ikeda

May is warm, with a feeling of ease and a smile on people's faces. Maybe this is how you feel when you look at the pictures that were displayed during May at Sapporo's Soso Cafe. These were the works of Shinsuke Koshi...

SEMI-PARMANENT 2003

2003.4.18　 Text: Nicola Stumpo

Last year I was invited to join a conference called OFFF in Barcelona. It was an amazing time and I met lots of people. During a break from one of the events, I was hanging on the beach with the One9ine guys, Andrew a...

CRAIG AU YEUNG “4936 COME AND MIX WITH CRAIG”

2003.3.31　 Text: Mlee

Follow the exhibition from Swiss design, IdN invited the Hong Kong local renowned artist Craig Au Yeung Ying Chai, together with SK Lam, the General Manager of IdN, to present the 2nd exhibition of IdN Gallery “...

CLOUD GATE DANCE THEATRE “MOON WATER”

2003.3.31　 Text: Fann ZJ

Splashes of white against the static somber of black. Bodies of motion versus bodies of inactivity. Reality versus appearances. Classical Bach juxtaposed with the Chinese flow of Tai chi. These are just some of the co...

CONTEMPORARY ART IN BUENOS AIRES

2003.3.31　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

Since November 2002 and during the year 2003 the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA) has introduced the series 'Contemporary', which involves five leading curators and multiple emerging artists of the...