Invitation to Tokyo Visualist: Talk Events and Book ReleaseMarking the U.S. release of the genre-encompassing art book,
TOKYO VISUALIST, one of its publishers Satoru Yamashita presents his take on the works of Japan's foremost creative minds today, while two featured "visualists," Kohei Nawa and Taisuke Koyama, discuss their views on their works and the creative environment that surrounds them.
Tokyo Visualist: Three ViewsSunday, February 28, 2:00 PM
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
www.asia.si.eduTuesday, March 2, 6:30 PM, followed by a reception
Japan Society, New York
www.japansociety.org
$11 (JS members, seniors, students $7)
Panelists:
Satoru Yamashita, Creative Director, +81
Kohei Nawa, Artist
Taisuke Koyama, Artist
Moderated by Carol K. Huh, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Asian Art at Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Will Tokyo ever be the next London or Berlin, or even Kiev, recently boosted by the billionaire collector Victor Pinchuk as one of the future art centers? Known for its diverse, innovative, and refined visual culture, Tokyo nonetheless remains mostly cocooned as a powerful yet chaotic emission source of visual trend that is hard to fully grasp. Its historically all-encompassing creative scene refuses to be defined as an art scene in the conventional sense. So who are Japan's best creative talents today, the so-called post-Murakami generation?
Organized by Masako Shinn, one of the publishers of
TOKYO VISUALIST, the talk events in Washington D.C. and New York will explore the subject. Introducing Japan's up-and-coming visualists, Kohei Nawa and Taisuke Koyama, and Satoru Yamashita, a visionary mind who revolutionized the publishing scene by introducing the magazine +81 in 1997, the event will encompass a far-reaching, unique analysis of Tokyo creative scene.
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