Hirofumi Isoya :L’Image et son double (Centre Pompidou)

15 Sep – 13 Dec 2021

 

Opening Hours: 
11:oo-21:00
*Closed days: every Tuesday


Venue:
Centre Pompidou, Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris, France

The collective exhibition entitled “L’Image et son double” brings together works generated by a meditation on one of the key properties of photography, perhaps even its most intrinsic, namely reproduction. It sparks a dialogue between historic and contemporary photographic works, shedding light on the very nature of photography and its specific features, such as its deep-rooted ties with the other arts.

Photography is an imprint of reality, reproducing mechanically and chemically what the camera is facing. By means of a negative and digital techniques, photographs can be reproduced to infinity. Captivated by the principle, mechanics and consequences of photographic reproduction, some artists have placed this concept at the very heart of their works. Reproduction thus becomes the subject of the work. Using various devices, they contest the apparent simplicity of this act of reproduction in their own ways. These artists are aware of the issues associated with the multiplication of visual representations—which has increased since the advent of digital technology—thus revealing the utopias and dysfunctions of the processes of repetition and copying. Questioning reproduction also implies rethinking the identity of the artist and their authority.

Such fascination with the very idea and the formal aesthetics of reproduction also indicates a sometimes obsessive relationship with reality and its capture, as fantasised through images. Accumulations, collections and photographic fragmentations of objects and bodies enable this frenzy to be appeased, at least for a while.

More details:
https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/aDd81vh

Artists:
Pierre Boucher, Man Ray, Raoul Ubac, Constantin Brancusi, Berenice Abbott, Hirofumi Isoya, Miklos Erdely, Timm Ulrichs, Paolo Gioli, Sara Cwynar, Kanji Wakae, Wallace Berman, Bruno Munari, Pati Hill, Eric Rondepierre, Susan Meiselas, and Philipp Goldbach

 

Hirofumi Isoya : Interaction: Souls in Synchronicity（TOYAMA GLASS ART MUSEUM）

 

12 Dec 2020 – 14 Mar 2021

 

 

Opening Hours: 
9:30 – 18:00
*Last admission is 30 minutes before closing time (until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays /until 17:00 on 29 December, 2020 – 3 January. 2021)
*On the first day, the exhibition will open after the opening ceremony (10:30~)
Closed days: First and Third Wednesdays, 31 December 2020


Venue: Toyama Glass Art Museum Exhibition Room 1, 2 (2F)
〒930−0062 5-1 Nishicho, Toyama City, Toyama 930-0062, Japan


Sound, light and the flow of time sensed in randomly encountered scenes can summon up personal sensationsand memories, the experience creating an intimate connection between ourselves, and what we see before us.This exhibition takes as its theme “interaction” in the sense of conversation or dialogue, and features threeartists who encourage active engagement with their works by acting on the senses and memories of those whosee those works. AKAMATSU Nelo, ISOYA Hirofumi, and SASAKI Rui all take their cues from familiar phenomena.Superimposed on the installations here—such as Akamatsu’s Chijikinkutsu , which incorporates terrestrialmagnetism; Isoya’s Flowers and Bees, Translucent Archive , which illuminates different types of time andmemory around honey; and Sasaki’s “Liquid Sunshine” series, inspired by the frequently cloudy skies and rainof Toyama—are things the artists have sensed about their own individual connections to the world. As theirsouls touch our souls through these works, we in turn notice our connections with familiar things, and begin tosee the world from new perspectives.

 

Artists
AKAMATSU Nelo, ISOYA Hirofumi, SASAKI Rui

Supported by
THE KITANIPPON SHIMBUN, THE TOYAMA SHIMBUN, Kitanihon Broadcasting Co., Ltd., TULIP-TV INC., Toyama Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd.

 

 

 

Hirofumi Isoya: Syncopation: Contemporary encounters with the Modern Masters (Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa)

 

Aug. 10 (Sat) – Dec. 1 (Sun), 2019
Open daily


Venue: Pola Museum of Art
1285 Kozukayama, Sengokuhara, Hakone-machi,
Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa, 250-0631 Japan

Opening hours: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (No admission after 4:30 pm)

Admission:
Adult 1,800 yen
University / Highschool student 1,300 yen
Child (Age 4 up to Junior highschool student) 600 yen
Senior discount (over 65) 1,600 yen
Junior high school students or younger free

Artists: Oliver Beer, Abdelkader Benchamma, Celeste Boursier-Mougenot, Candida Höfer, Gentaro Ishizuka, Hirofumi Isoya, Alicja Kwade, Susan Philipsz, Prinz Gholam, Wolfgang Tillmans, Yutaka Watanabe, Shizuka Yokomizo


More info: https://www.polamuseum.or.jp/english/exhibition/20190810s01/

 

As our first full-fledged exhibition featuring contemporary art, this exhibition will present a wide range of works of art from the Pola Museum of Art collection, including paintings, sculptures, and Oriental ceramics, along with works by artists active on the front lines of contemporary expression. Here various works by contemporary artists, including installations filling entire rooms, sound art, video art, and a piece exhibited outdoors, are shedding new light on works by the modern masters, encouraging multifaceted interpretation.

 

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, clinamen v.1, 2013
Installation view: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
© Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
Photo: NGV Photographic Services Department
Courtesy: Galerie Xippas, Paris, France; Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC

Installation view at Mori Art Museum

 

Art Fair Tokyo 2019

 

 

7 – 10 Mar 2019

 
 
 
booth # G92

Artist: Hirofumi Isoya
  
 
 
Venue
Tokyo International Forum
Hall E and Lobby Gallery
3 Chome-5-1 Marunouchi
Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo-to 100-0005
Japan 
 
 
Tickets
1DAY Passport
Advance 4,000 JPY/Same-day 5,000 JPY
(Including tax) 

 

 

Opening Dates

Press View
Thursday March 7th 2019 13:00 – 14:00

Private View
Thursday March 7th 2019 14:00 – 16:00

Vernissage
Thursday March 7th 2019 16:00 – 20:00

Public View
Friday March 8th 2019 11:00 – 20:00
Saturday March 9th 2019 11:00 – 20:00
Sunday March 10th 2019 11:00 – 17:00

*Hours are subject to change

 
 
More info: https://artfairtokyo.com

 

Hirofumi Isoya, Flowers and Bees, Translucent Archive, 2018

 

Hirofumi Isoya: Roppongi Crossing 2019
Connexions (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo)

 

9 Feb – 26 May 2019

 

Period:
2019.2.9 [Sat] – 5.26 [Sun]
Open everyday

Open Hours:
10:00-22:00 (Last Admission: 21:30)
* 10:00-17:00 on Tuesdays (Last Admission: 16:30)
* April 30 [Tue] open until 22:00 (Last Admission: 21:30)
* May 25 [Sat] open until 6:00 a.m. the following morning due to “Roppongi Art Night 2019” (Last Admission: 5:30)

Venue:
Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)

Admission:
Adult 1,800 yen
University / Highschool student 1,200 yen
Child (Age 4 up to Junior highschool student) 600 yen
Senior (Ages 65 & over) 1,500 yen

Curated by
Tsubaki Reiko (Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Tokuyama Hirokazu (Associate Curator, Mori Art Museum)
Kumakura Haruko (Assistant Curator, Mori Art Museum)

More info: https://www.mori.art.museum

 

Participating Artists / Artist Groups * in alphabetical order of artists’ (sur)names

ANREALAGE (Established in 2003 / Based in Tokyo / Morinaga Kunihiko: Born 1980 in Tokyo)
Aono Fumiaki (Born 1968 in Miyagi / Lives and works in Miyagi)
Bandai Yosuke (Born 1980 in Tokyo / Lives and works in Tokyo)
Doi Itsuki + Ogawa Kohei + Ikegami Takashi + Ishiguro Hiroshi x Justine Emard (Doi Itsuki: Born 1989 in Hyogo / Ogawa Kohei: Born 1982 in Aichi / Ikegami Takashi: Born 1961 in Nagano / Ishiguro Hiroshi: Born 1963 in Shiga / Justine Emard: Born 1987 in Clermont-Ferrand, France)
Dokuyama Bontaro (Born 1984 in Fukushima / Lives and works in Tokyo)
Enomoto Koichi (Born 1977 in Osaka / Lives and works in Kanagawa)
Hanaoka Nobuhiro (Born 1980 in Hiroshima / Lives and works in Kyoto)
Hayashi Chiho (Born 1988 in Aichi / Lives and works in Kanagawa)
Hirakawa Norimichi (Born 1982 in Shimane / Lives and works in Tokyo)
Hyslom (Formed in 2009 / Based in Kyoto)
Iikawa Takehiro (Born 1981 in Hyogo / Lives and works in Hyogo)
Imazu Kei (Born 1980 in Yagamuchi / Lives and works in Bandung, Indonesia)
Isoya Hirofumi (Born 1978 in Tokyo / Lives and works in Tokyo)
Kawakubo Yoi (Born 1979 in Toledo, Spain / Lives and works in London)
Maeda Yukinori (Born 1971 in Japan / Lives and works in Kyoto)
Maetani Kai (Born 1988 in Ehime / Lives and works in Kyoto)
Mé (Formed in 2012 / Based in Saitama)
Sato Masaharu (Born 1973 in Oita / Lives and works in Ibaraki)
Sugito Hiroshi (Born 1970 in Aichi / Lives and works in Aichi and Tokyo)
Takekawa Nobuaki (Born 1977 in Tokyo / Lives and works in Saitama)
Tamura Yuichiro (Born 1977 in Toyama / Lives and works in Shizuoka)
Tsuchiya Nobuko (Born in Kanagawa / Lives and works in Kanagawa)
Tsuda Michiko (Born 1980 in Kanagawa / Lives and works in Kanagawa and Tokyo)
Tsukuda Hiroki (Born 1978 in Kagawa / Lives and works in Tokyo)
Yamauchi Shota (Born 1992 in Gifu / Lives and works in Kanagawa)

 

The “Roppongi Crossing” series of exhibitions, launched in 2004 by the Mori Art Museum, provide an overall snapshot of the state of the Japanese contemporary art scene every three years. This sixth edition of the series, the first to be jointly curated by three curators of the Museum’s own alone, will showcase the work of around 25 Japanese artists and collectives, primarily practitioners born in the 1970-80s.

“Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions” will take a close-up look at “connections” revealed via contemporary artistic expression. An era such as ours, characterized by the fast-paced development of information, communication and myriad other technologies at an accelerating pace, also brings with it new problems. Though there is greater recognition of diverse values, “divisions” of various sorts are also becoming increasingly apparent – as seen in the problem of the internet, or more particularly in the realm of social media – which by rights ought to foster openness, conversely reinforcing opinions and perceptions of a similar nature; conflict sparked by political bias; and ever-growing economic disparity.

Amid this, artists offer us many types of “connection” through their works: by joining polar opposites, by fusing the heterogeneous, by giving visual expression to connections that already exist. Their efforts also serve as critiques of today’s society, as ways of turning ideas upside down, and perhaps even as clues for addressing “divisions.” It is our hope that the new “connections” born out of this exhibition will offer meaningful opportunities to engage with Japan as it is right now.

Parallax Gesture (Blue, Red)  2016
Framed Lambda print, blue mattress, red sedimentary rock of Chichibu
115 cm × 190 cm × 95 cm

 

 

Hirofumi Isoya: Figured in the drift of things

 

 

Nov 17 – Dec 22 2018

 

 

Hirofumi Isoya “Figured in the Drift of Things”
Dates: November 17 – December 22, 2018
Location: Aoyama Meguro
Opening reception: Saturday, November 17, 19:00 – 21:00

 

 

Aoyama Meguro is pleased to announce “Figured in the Drift of Things,” our third solo exhibition with artist Hirofumi Isoya, after four years since the last one, will be held from Saturday November 17 to Saturday December 22, 2018.

It will feature an installation composed of works combining object and photography, along with a brand new sculptural piece, together pushing forward the artist’s recent pursuit of re-questioning both linearity of our sense of time and the consistency of our perception.

The title of the exhibition, “Figured in the Drift of Things,” alludes to Isoya’s attitude where sculptures and photographs, both normally considered still, are viewed no longer as fixed objects but as events in their own right, as fluxes drifting in time.

A big round frame put on a blue mattress, containing a photograph that captures a situation where the very frame is rendered absent from the present setup — as such, each piece from the series Parallax Gesture playfully betrays our sense of simultaneity associated with the mirror-like form, calling attention to the hidden flux between one event and another.

Made by pairing honey and a fish collecting lamp, Flowers and Bees, Translucent Archive, on the other hand, emits from within somewhat sticky light, the speed of which feels as though slowed down, illuminating the spatiotemporal environment between the work and the viewer, while mediating the past record of the honey, so to speak, archived in its translucent material body itself.

“Time deserves more variety of types and options,” says the artist. Indeed, marked by co-existence of direct physicality due to their essential honesty to the nature of each material and highly humanly humor, his mixed-medium works inform us of how time can be potentially perceived in different ways and how profound it really is to fully recognize what we call an event.

“Figured in the Drift of Things” will serve as quite a unique occasion for the audience to view Isoya’s latest artistic attempts.

Hirofumi Isoya (b. 1978) studied architecture at the Tokyo University of the Arts before pursuing his graduate studies in Intermedia Art at the same, after which he studied fine art on the Associate Research Program at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His work reevaluates the consistency of perception and the integrated conception of time through media such as sculpture, photography and drawing, and through their mutual interaction. Last year, he showed his works in “The Specter of Surrealism,” composed of the Centre Pompidou collection, and is scheduled to exhibit in “Roppongi Crossing 2019: Connexions,” opening at the Mori Art Museum in February 2019.

 

Aoyama Meguro
2-30-6 Kamimeguro Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0051
tell: +81(0)3 3711 4099
mail: info@aoyamameguro.com
Opening hours: Thu and Fri 12:00 – 19:00 / Sat and Sun 12:00 – 18:00
Closed on Mon, Tue, Wed and National Holidays

Parallax Gesture (Red, Green)  2015
Framed Lambda print, red mattress, green stone
112 × 197 × 89 cm

 

 

 

We are pleased to announce that Hirofumi Isoya participates in ASIA NOW 2018
– Special Project Transitional

An exhibition curated by the Mori Art Museum

 

 

17  – 21 Oct 2018

 

 

ASIA NOW Paris Asian Art Fair
– Special Project “Transitional”

Venue:
9 Avenue Hoche,
Paris, 75008

Opening Hours:
Wednesday, October 17: 11am-7pm
Thursday, October 18: 11am-7pm
Friday, October 19: 11am-8pm
Saturday, October 20: 11am-8pm
Sunday, October 21: 11am-6pm

Artists:
-Bontaro Dokuyama
-Chiho Hayashi
-Hirofumi Isoya
-Masaharu Sato
-Nobuaki Takekawa
-Nobuko Tsuchiya

Curators:
-Reiko Tsubaki (Mori Art Museum)
-Hirokazu Tokuyama (Mori Art Museum)

More info: https://www.asianowparis.com/en/2018/roppongi-crossing-prelude-2019/

 

 

The ASIA NOW 2018 Japanese Platform joins forces with two curators from the Mori Art Museum to offer an exclusive preview of select works by emerging artists from Japan.

Japan is often talked about as a mysterious country, under the clean and high-security circumstances, the high-tech city with pop gadgets, as animation and games could co-exist with animism and the primitive sense. On the other hand, with the big issue of the declining birthrate and aging, the acceleration of digital technology including the information communication technology, a new problem is occurring caused by these issues. Contrary to the diversity commonsense, many “gaps” are emerging as well.

In “Transitional”, 6 artists are selected from “Roppongi Crossing 2019” at the Mori Art Museum on the theme of “transitional existence” or “connection between the gaps”. Their works would light up the “connection between the opposite” as “imagination and reality”, “Past and Future”, “Nature and Civilization”, “Cats’ worlds and Human being’s world”. As the third way or point of view, these “transitional” existences could give us the precious opportunity to confront with “nowadays”.

Lag 5

Hirofumi Isoya, Lag 5, 2014

 

 

Hirofumi ISOYA: The specter of surrealism

An Exhibition Celebrating The 40th Anniversary of The Centre Pompidou (Atelier des Forges, Arles, France)

 

7.3 – 9.24, 2017

 

 

Date: 3 July – 24 September
10H00 – 19H30
14 euros

Venue: Atelier des Forges
3 avenue Victor Hugo, 13200 Arles

 

Exhibition curator: Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska.
Publication: Damarice Amao and Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska, Le Spectre du surréalisme, Éditions Textuel, 2017.
Wallpaper by Processus, Paris.
Framing by Blaise Saint Maurice, Barbizon. With support from Enedis, partner for the 40th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou.

 

Eleanor Antin, Hans Bellmer, Jacques-André Boiffard, Brassaï, Claude Cahun, Mohamed Camara, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Evelyne Coutas, Marcel Duchamp, Germaine Dulac, Peter Fischli et David Weiss, Michel François, Agnès Geoffray, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Hirofumi Isoya, Lukas Jasansky et Martin Polak, Ulla Jokisalo, Július Koller, Eva Kot’átková, Jiří Kovanda, Roger Livet, Dora Maar, René Magritte, Anna Maria Maiolino, Nicole Metayer, Karel Miler, Otto Muehl, Gabriel Orozco, Jean Painlevé, Man Ray, Sophie Ristelhueber, Alix Cléo Roubaud, Armando Salas Portugal, Cindy Sherman, Taryn Simon, Dayanita Singh, Alina Szapocznikow, Georges Tony Stoll, Maurice Tabard, Patrick Tosani, Raoul Ubac, Hannah Villiger, Nancy Wilson-Pajic, Erwin Wurm.

 

The Centre Pompidou celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2017 everywhere in France. To share its anniversary with a wider audience, the Centre Pompidou will be presenting a completely new programme of exhibitions, outstanding loans and various events throughout the year. Surrealism is still alive, even if it sometimes leads its life underground—this is a conclusion we can come to by looking at contemporary photography, or more broadly, photography after 1945. Using the photographic collections at the Centre Pompidou, this exhibition returns to a few of the themes born of the interaction between surrealism and photography. It shows the ways in which the artists of the postwar years drew on the surrealist sensibility, and illustrates how they adapted their relationship to reality to their ends, abolishing the rules of art, taking the absurd to extremes and addressing contemporary political issues. Beyond chronological continuity, the exhibition places seemingly disparate artistic projects in dialogue with one another across their similar strategies.
Karolina Ziebinska-Lewandowska

 

More info: https://www.rencontres-arles.com/en/expositions/view/165/the-specter-of-surrealism

 

 

“The specter of surrealism” Installation view at Atelier des Forges, Arles, France