Hiroaki MORITA, Installation view, 2015 “JUMP” Towada Art Center, Aomori
LISTE 20 – Art Fair Basel
Hiroaki MORITA
From Something to Something Else
Booth # 331
June 16 – 21
LISTE Art Fair Basel
Burgweg 15 – CH- 4058 Basel
www.liste.ch
Aoyama Meguro is pleased to announce the solo exhibiton of Hiroaki MORITA at LISTE 20 – Art Fair Basel.
Artsy:
https://www.artsy.net/show/aoyama-meguro-aoyama-meguro-at-liste-2015-1
Hiroaki Morita “Missing Painting” 2015, HD video (16:24), framed photograph (34 x 27cm), unique
Hiroaki Morita : The Camera Knows Everything (HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo)
5.9 – 6.13. 2015
Yuko Amano/Hiroaki Morita/Yasuko Watanabe/Josh Tonsfeldt
“The Camera Knows Everything”
May 9 (sat) – June 13 (sat), 2015
Tue. – Sat. 11:00 – 19:00
Closed Sun. , Mon., and national holidays
Reception for the artist: May 9th 18:00 – 20:00
3-18-2-101 Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo 160-0023 Japan
T / F: +81 3 6300 5881 E: info@hagiwaraprojects.com
Coooperation by : AOYAMA|MEGURO, Gallery SIDE2, G/P gallery, Simon Preston Gallery
Hagiwara Projects is pleased to present the group show “The Camera Knows Everything” . “The Camera
Knows Everything” is a collaborative venture involving the organizers, Takuma Ishikawa and Ryo Sawayama,
and three galleries: Tallion Gallery, Hagiwara Projects and Yumiko Chiba Associates. In Hagiwara Projects,
recent and new works by Yuko Amano, Hiroaki Morita, Yasuko Watanabe and Josh Tonsfeldt will be
presented.
In this occasion, the catalogue will be published, which includes the texts by four critiques
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“The Camera Knows Everything” is an exhibition centered on photography. These days, however, the field of photography is becoming increasingly nebulous and complex. Given the present environment in which still pictures and video can be produced using the same equipment and in which photography and communications technology are directly linked, with this exhibition we have chosen to focus afresh on the ontological characteristics of the camera as a mechanical/technological system and on the various social topologies that are organized with the camera in the center or with the camera as the medium.
For this exhibition, twelve artists from Japan and overseas, ranging from artists active in the 1960s such as Dennis Oppenheim and Jiro Takamatsu to up-and-comers, and four writers will not only consider the
photograph as representation, but also consider the photograph through the medium of the camera as an
image-producing device. Living as we are in a society flooded with an overwhelming amount of representation
(i.e., images), what kind of discussion is possible through the medium of the camera and its images? Hopefully it will act as a guide to help us start thinking about the future of the camera and its images, both of which are changing as we speak, and about their politics.
– – – Takuma Ishikawa
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■Talion Gallery
Participating artists: Toru Arakawa, Kenshu Shintsubo、Hirohisa Koike, Beat Streuli
2-2-1 B1, Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-0031
T：03-5927-9858
E：info@taliongallery.com
■Yumiko Chiba Associates
Participateing artisits: Takuma Ishikawa, Jiro Takamatsu, Motohiro Tomii, Denis Oppenheim
4-32-6 #206, Park Grace Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-0023
T：03-6276-6731
E:info@ycassociates.co.jp
Hiroaki Morita : JUMP (Towada Art Center, Aomori)
April 18 (Sat) – August 30 (Sun)
Venue : Towada Art Center
Opening hours : from 9:00 to 17:00 (Last admittance : 30 minutes before closing)
Opening hours are extended to 18:00 on the following dates : May 2-5.
Closed every Monday, except when the day of the week falls on national holidays. In this case, Towada Art Center will be closed on the following day. Also, please note that it will be open on April 27 (Mon), August 3 (Mon), and August 10 (Mon).
Admission fees : 1000 Yen for adults *Free entry to permanent exhibition for exhibition ticket holders, Free for high school students and below
Participating Artists:
Erwin Wurm , Masaru Aikawa , Xijing Men , SPUTNIKO! , Nancy Seki , Hirofumi Masuda , Hiroaki Morita , lyplanet company
Ken Sasaki, Rag, 2014, Oil on Canvas, 19×28cm
I’m sorry please talk more slowly (Shibuya Hikarie 8/ CUBE 1, 2, 3, Tokyo)
4.1 – 12. 2015
April 1 [Wed] – 12 [Sun] 2015
“I’m sorry please talk more slowly” Hikarie Contemporary Art Eye vol.1
Shibuya Hikarie 8/ CUBE 1, 2, 3
2-21-1 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0002
Open: 11:00-20:00
Open everyday
Participating Artists:
Kaoru Arima, COBRA, Soshiro Matsubara, J.Parker Valentine, Ken Sasaki, Hiroaki Morita, XYZ Club
Curated by AOYAMA | MEGURO, XYZ Collective, MISAKO & ROSEN
Hikarie Contemporary Art Eye vol.1
This is the first exhibition in the series Contemporary Art Eye. The exhibitions will be organized by galleries and art-world figures from within the Japanese art world; this responsible for introducing a new way of looking at art within Japan.
The exhibitions will introduce not only contemporary art but also modern, craft and antiquities. The aims of these exhibitions is to offer viewers a fresh perspective on culture. The first exhibition features a collaboration between two galleries and an artist run space, each of whom regularly introduces the work of emerging artists within in an international setting. Please enjoy this exhibition.
– Tomio Koyama (Series Organizer)
I’m sorry please talk more slowly
“I’m sorry please talk more slowly” is a group exhibition curated by XYZ Collective together with the cooperation of the galleries MISAKO & ROSEN and AOYAMA | MEGURO. The exhibition title was chosen because it suggests an absurd sense of humor shared by all of the participants (the gallerists and the artists) in the exhibition. When a person is having a conversation together with someone in a language that they only understand partially, it is often necessary for that person to request that their fellow speaker slow down their speaking so that their words and the meaning of their words becomes more clear. This situation is absurd because there is a partial understanding of the language being used to have a conversation. The person who requests that the other person “slow down” understands enough of the other person’s language to communicate a need for slower speech. This situation of partial communication is very similar to the situation that visitors to an art exhibition may have when trying to understand the art.
In the situation of a group exhibition, you may even imagine that the artworks by different artists in the show are also having a conversation with each other and that these artworks also may ask each other to “slow down”. All of the artists included in this exhibition make work which is at once familiar and easy to understand (sculpture, drawing, video) but which may be speaking very quickly…We hope that the situation that the exhibition presents is both enjoyable and challenging.
Installation view: I’m sorry please talk more slowly
April.1 – 12, 2015
Photo: Kei OKANO
Koki Tanaka, Hiroaki Morita, Satoshi Hashimoto : the MOT 20th anniversary talk session “ARTISTS’ GUILD”: Artists as the dweller (MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO, Tokyo)
2.21 – 22.2015
http://www.mot-art-museum.jp/exhibition/docs/AG
The date and time:
Hiroaki Morita：DIALOGUES 2nd “River Town” (Kawa no Machi) (Nihonbashi Institution of Contemporary Arts、Tokyo)
2.6 – 2.21.2015
http://nicatokyo.com/information/3586/
Art Autonomy Network [AAN] 2015
“DIALOGUES”
Doubles x 3 parts exhibitions
The 2nd Exhibition: “River Town” (Kawa no Machi)
Jon Sasaki (Toronto) x Hiroaki Morita (Tokyo)
Part2: 6th Feb. – 21st Feb. 2015 (10 days)
Every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Venue: NICA: Nihonbashi Contemporary Arts
Address: PUBLICUS B1 13-1 Odemacho Nihonbashi Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Admission：500yen (passport valid for all parts)
Open Hours: 11:00-18:00
Opening Reception: 6th Feb. 18:00-20:00
Artists Talk: 7th Feb. 16:00 – 18:00 1,000yen incld. Passport, One drink @ Creative Hub 131 3rd Floor.
Special Guests:
Masato Fujii (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Tranport and Tourism),
Genichi Ide(Boat People Association),
Tohru Nakazaki(Artist),
Isamu Muto(N-mark)
Curator: Emiko Kato
Organiser：Art Autonomy Network[AAN]
Cooperation: NICA: Nihonbashi Institute of Contemporary Arts
N Studio,Inc.
Supporter: British Council Tokyo, Canada Embassy
Grant: the Agency of Cultural Affairs, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
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The city of Edo was evolved and known as “river town”. There are Nihonbashi River and Kamejima River in Nihombashi area, and there are many disappeared rivers such as Sakura River and Shinkawa (river). Soon after the establishment of the EdoShogunate, the rivers were maintained and used as water transportation where many merchant ships were going by. Those ships played important role to bring not only the merchandise but also culture and wealth to the area.
Having gone through the traumatic disasters such as earthquake and WWII, the rivers much changed as well as the city.
In the exhibition, two artists will collaborate to search the river and to shoot documentary videos cruising underwater by the self-controlled camera. See what happens……find something historical objects, so on ?
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Hiroaki Morita・Teppei Soutome：MaS(T)A 「Travel’s Way ≒ Sazaedo」（3331 Arts Chiyoda 1F 3331 Gallery、Tokyo）
9.20 – 10.26.2014
http://www.3331.jp/schedule/002579.html
September 20 (Sat), 2014 – October 26 (Sun), 2014
reception for the artist：September 20 (Sat) 18:00-20:00
Hours：11:00-20:00
Admission:Free
Venue:1F 3331 Gallery
MaS (T) A is a traveling unit formed by Hiroaki Morita and Teppei Soutome. While the two have plenty of experience of traveling as ordinary individuals, they have no idea what it means to”travel as artists”and so challenge towards such an encounter as a creative unit.
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The subject of MaS(T)A’s work suddenly comes to light all at once. The video includes a certain stairs of a building, and conversation touches upon parks and stacking car parks. It is not as though the work seems to
clearly speak of Sazaedo (a hexagonal three storied Buddhist hall) and then takes a sudden twist at the end, rather it is obvious from the start, here, there is a depiction of a different building which shares structural similarities
with the Sazaedo. But what does this mean? And in their approach do they intend to imply that the double helix structure of the Sazaedo is to become the very structure of the work? Perhaps the travelling etc (T) of the unit’s name might offer us some hint? Weaving a labyrinth of signs, even the sweets placed on the table where the two sit form a helix. The work of MaS(T)A is full of puzzles.
Ichiro Fukano / JIKKA
Hiroaki Morita : FUCHU OF MADNESS (LOOP HOLE,Tokyo)
5.3 – 5.31.2014
2014 14:00 – 18:00 (5/3: open 16:00)Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Reception: 5.3 (Sat) 18:00-
参加作家（順不同） 今村仁 EKKO 大久保あり 大槻英世 岡野智史 門田光雅 木下令子 木村俊幸 佐藤万絵子 柴田ジュン 進藤環 玉井健司 梨乃 塙将良 原汐莉 水戸部七絵 宮本穂曇 山田はるか 清水勇気 問谷明希 小林晴郎 秋山幸 今井俊介 光藤雄介 椎木静寧 小川陽一郎 O-JUN 馬渡吟治郎 森田浩彰 冨井大裕 内海聖史 佐々木耕太
“Mono No Aware: Beauty of Things”
16 November 2013 – 9 February 2014 The State Hermitge Museum_The General Staff Building
The State Hermitage Museum and Hermitage 20/21 project introduce to the public the exhibition “Mono-no Aware. Beauty of Things. Japanese Contemporary Art”. The term “mono-no aware” traces its origin to the Heian period (794–1185) aesthetics and means a sad awareness of transience of things. Modern artists do not directly
illustrate the term in their works but rather create a sense of gentle sadness partly in tune with the old poetic attitude that gave birth to it. On view are installations, sculpture, photographs and video art produced lately by Japanese artists Suda Yoshihiro, Kengo Kito, Kanenji Teppei, Kuwakubo Ryota, Onishi Yasuaki, Hiroaki Morita, Shinishiro Kano and Motoi Yamamoto. The State Hermitage Museum: General Staff building 38 Palace Embankment, Saint Petersburg, 191186
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/ http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/00/hm0_4_655.html