Exhibitions | Aoyama Meguro

Ken Sasaki : Confluence（GOMIKE）

31 July – 31 Oct 2021

Opening Hours
11: 00-18: 00
*Open only on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays

Venue
GOMIKE (The Kamakura Project) 915, Junisho, Kamakura-sho, Kanagawa 915, Japan

Details
https://ken-sasaki.com/?page_id=398

Organized by
Ken Sasaki, GOMIKE (The Kamakura Project)

cooperation with
Mieko Sasaki, Ko Sasaki and Makoto Sasaki

Ken Sasaki: temporarily open studio

4, 5, 11, 12 May 2019

We are cordially invite you to temporarily open studio: Ken Sasaki

date: 4, 5, 11, 12 May 2019

opening hours: 12:00 – 18:00

venue: Aoyama Meguro

SASAKI Ken, Untitled (quarry), 2017, Oil on canvas, 116.7 × 91.0 cm

OPEN SITE 2017–2018

Impurity / Immunity

Oct. 14 – Nov. 26, 2017
Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo
11:00 – 19:00 —— Last entry: 18:30
Monday Closed / Admission Free

Access:
Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo — Formerly Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo
2-4-16 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033
http://www.tokyo-ws.org
http://www.tokyoartsandspace.jp

Artist:
OWADA Shun
SASAKI Ken
TANINAKA Yusuke
NAKAMOTO Hirofumi
HYAKUTOU Takeshi
MUKAI Eriko

Organizer:
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Arts Program and Residency Division
Sponsorship
I-O DATA DEVICE, INC., ERIKA MATSUSHIMA, gigei10

Cooperation:
AOYAMA MEGURO, STUDIO TOKOYO, This and That, tochka, PARADISE AIR

Executive Committee of Impurity / Immunity:
Curator: HASEGAWA Arata
Assistant Curator: WAKAYAMA Mitsuhiro
Logo based on: TAKAKURA Kazuki
Design: KUMAGAI Atsushi
Installer: HIJIKATA Dai
Assistant Installer: NISHIO Yuma
Engineer: KUBOTA Kenji
Translator: NISHIDA Maki
Publishing: MASUDA Chie

More info: http://impurityimmunity.jp/

Statement

Impurity / Immunity

HASWGAWA Arata, exhibition curator

‘Impurity / Immunity’, which has been selected for ‘OPEN SITE 2017–2018’ is a project to face our contemporaneity in the form of an exhibition. Participating artists are Shun Owada, Ken Sasaki, Yusuke Taninaka, Hirofumi Nakamoto, Takeshi Hyakutou and Eriko Mukai. This exhibition will tour to Okinawa after the premiere at Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo.

To search for the ways to ‘co-exist’ in the contemporary society where complexity and confusion are seemingly growing greater, this exhibition introduces two concepts; ‘impurity’ and ‘immunity’. Vividly describing a civilisation where attempts of protecting the uniqueness and purity of own ironically results in extinction of their community, Roberto Esposito uses the concept to ‘immunity’. Such attitude seen in the ‘9.11’ or in Nazism, for example, can be explained as a thorough ‘autoimmunization’. Anything can conflict with a certain immune system as an ‘impurity,’ rather, ‘coexistence’ is a continuous active tension between impurities and immunities.

‘Impurity / Immunity’ is a project that confronts the era, together with a faith to be an ‘impurity’.

Ken Sasaki, meow meow, 2017, oil on canvas, 46 × 53 cm

Ken Sasaki: ART FAIR TOKYO 2017 “Get Closer to Art! “Hopin’ Pocketful” Exhibition” (Tokyo International Forum, Lobby Gallery)

3.16 – 19, 2017

Opening Dates:
Thursday March 16th 2017
16:00 – 18:00 Private Preview (Invited guests only)
18:00 – 21:00 Vernissage (Invited guests only)

Friday March 17th 2017
11:00 – 13:00 VIP Advance Admission (Invited guests only)
13:00 – 20:00

Saturday March 18th 2017
11:00 – 20:00

Sunday March 19th 2017
10:30 – 17:00
※Last admission is 30 minutes before closing.

Access:
Venue
Tokyo International Forum,Hall E and Lobby Gallery
3 Chome-5-1 Marunouchi,Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo-to 100-0005, Japan

Tel: 03-5797-7912　E-mail: info@artfairtokyo.com　URL: http://www.artfairtokyo.com
more info: https://artfairtokyo.com/2017/special_sections

About 60 pieces of art by young promising artists have been chosen from the ART FAIR TOKYO 2017 participating galleries to be exhibited and sold at the Lobby Gallery, where entry is free. The “Pocketful” of the title refers to a sense of connecting to another world with a secret sense of hope, as well as the comparatively accessible prices of the works. The works in the exhibit are all chosen by experts and will be sold at prices ranging from around 100,000 yen up to a maximum of 300,000 yen. Bring art and hope to everyday life. This will convey the pleasure of living with art.

Curator : Keisuke Ozawa (Art Tokyo Curator / Art To)
Supervisor : Hozu Yamamoto (Art Tokyo Director / Director of Tokyo Gallery + BTAP)
Venue : Lobby Gallery
Entry : Free
Sponsor: Morimoto
Participating Galleries : Tomio Koyama Gallery SCAI THE BATHHOUSE Tokyo Gallery + BTAP ShugoArts And more

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

installation-view

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

Ken Sasaki : イタヅクシ It a Zoo Kushi (Aichi)

佐々木健が愛知県立芸術大学サテライトギャラリーとSee Saw gallery + Cafeの両会場で開催される展覧会に参加しています。愛知県立芸術大学サテライトギャラリー 2014年5月23日（金）－6月15日（日） http://www.aichi-fam-u.ac.jp/ja/info-art/item/982-it-a-zoo-kushi.html See Saw gallery + Cafe 前期　2014年5月23日（金）－6月15日（日）後期　2014年6月21日（金）－7月19日（日） http://www.cafe-see-saw.com/gallery_schedule/

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イタヅクシ　It a Zoo Kushi 私は「選ぶ」ということを、創造的活動の根源的なものだと自覚し制作をしています。次々に立ち上がる膨大な可能性の中からひとつを選ぶということは当たり前であり、同時にとても大変なことでもあります。今回は同じ作り手として興味（絵肌・抽象・写実）があり、注目している作家たちに展示をお願いしました。自分には到底出来ないことや、思わず真似をしたくなる考え方や制作のあれこれ、など今の私に無いものを秘めた作り手たちです。また、彼らはメディアを自覚的に選び出しているように思えます。油絵を学んだから、と惰性で制作するのではなく、いたずらに懐疑的なだけでもなく、地に足を着け自分から発信しようという覚悟のうえで制作しているようにみえます。そして共通していることは、それぞれが大切にしていることが画面に、表面にあらわれているということです。今回新たな試みとして、イタヅ・リトグラフィックご協力のもと、池奈千江・井上実・佐々木健・髙木大地・田口美穂・横山奈美の6名が扱ったことのないメディアであるリトグラフを制作します。彼らの研ぎ澄まされたメディアに対する反応がどういった作品を生み出すのか楽しみです。［企画：佐藤克久（美術家）］