Frieze Art Fair London | Frame

 

 

AOYAMA|MEGURO is pleased to announce its first year of participation in Frieze | Frame. The gallery will be presenting new Project works by Koki Tanaka. – Koki Tanaka is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. In his early works he visualised an array of hidden qualities lurking behind everyday items and gestures. More recent work involves setting up specific circumstances and documenting how the people involved unconsciously behave, how they consult with one another or how conflicts occur. For Tanaka this work approximates the difficulties of understanding others and doing things together. In 2013, he represented Japan at the 55th Venice Biennale, which had been awarded with a “Special Mention” by the Jury.- artist’s notes on the project: “Precarious tasks,” which I have been organizing collective actions in and out of Japan since last year, refer to the situation of post-quake society in Japan 2011 as a departure point for understanding how we could share experience of such devastating events. In this edition I organize gathering in Tokyo to share Yellow tag, which is symbolic color of anti-nuke protest, with participants to keep aware about protesting in our everyday. Also refer to historical instruction piece about consciousness and body movement “remarks”(1974) by Jiro takamatsu to update Japan’s 60′ political moment to now.

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