MIWONDERLAND 2013

2013.8.28　 Text: Taketo Oguchi

Miwonderful gone astray into the world of mirror. Photo: Miwa Yokoyama The Rising Sun Rock Festival 2013 in EZO (RSR), the largest class outdoor music festival in Japan was held from August 16th till the dawn ...

JAMES TURRELL: A RETROSPECTIVE

2013.8.13　 Text: Victor Moreno

Everyone when gets into a room on his own, first thing often is to flip the light on in order to light up the room and create volume in the space. For James Turrell the light is “the thing.” “What if light wasn’t the ...

SPACE IS THE PLACE

2013.8.9　 Text: Mike Sullivan

Den Frie Center of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen is a venue built by artists, for artists, it was originally founded in 1891 and moved to its current location in 1913. The building was designated as a historical monu...

STANLEY KUBRICK EXHIBITION

2013.7.31　 Text: Victor Moreno

We were lucky enough catching up with the marvelous Stanley Kubrick’s interdisciplinary exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in its very last week. The exhibition was on view from last November until...

JAZZ EXHIBITION

2013.7.29　 Text: Eri Yamauchi

Sapporo City Jazz would be held starting from the June 29, 2013. People must be excited, since the festival grown to one of the annual summer attraction. SHIFT curates this exhibition, partly of their Machinaka-Art Pr...

ART APART FAIR

2013.7.29　 Text: Fann ZJ

Patrons of Parkroyal Hotel were greeted with a refreshing element over the weekend. Instead of the refreshing breeze that ply the naturally ventilated corridors of the hotel, patrons were greeted with pieces of art wo...

SARAH ILLENBERGER × MIHO KINOMURA “REALITY & FANTASY”

2013.7.25　 Text: Ayami Ueda

DIESEL ART GALLERY , located in the underground floor of DIESEL SHIBUYA on Meiji street in Shibuya, is the first large concept store in the world to invite artists from various genres to hold quarterly art exhibits. S...

DAVID BIELANDER “KOI FOR JOY”

2013.7.15　 Text: Mike Sullivan

David Bielander was born in Switzerland and lives in Munich, he studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. He is well known for using different materials and different processes for creating his work, in ...

ARLES INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL 2013

2013.7.12　 Text: Valerie Douniaux

After a somewhat disappointing 2012 edition, the 2013 Rencontres d’Arles were unanimously appreciated by the visitors who gathered there for the opening “professional” week, a week offering a large program of lectures...

TADASHI KAWAMATA “COLLECTIVE FOLIE”

2013.7.4　 Text: Valerie Douniaux

Collective Folie is a gigantic wooden tower born from the imagination of renowned Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata (1953-). A former professor at Tokyo University of Fine Arts, Tadashi Kawamata is now teaching at Pari...

SONAR 2013

2013.7.1　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

This year I would like to dedicate this article to Sonar itself instead of the artists, line-ups and the crowd. Because Sonar have being working hard for 20th years to keep Barcelona in the center of attention of mus...

THE 9TH SHANGHAI BIENNALE

2013.6.24　 Text: Hiromi Nomoto

The title of the 9th Shanghai Biennale was “Reactivation”. Until the 8th biennale, this exhibition has taken place in The Shanghai Art Museum located in the People’s Square at the centre of Shanghai. This time, the ma...