Date:June 28 (Sat.)- August 31 (Sun.) 2008
Closed:Mondays. (If Monday is a National Holiday, the following day will be closed instead)
Time:11:00-19:00 (Admission until 18:30)
Admission:Free
Organize：Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Tokyo Wonder Site
Cooperated by:Yuka Sasahara Gallery (Yosuke Amemiya), Taka Ishii Gallery (Kei Takemura)
Artists:Yosuke Amemiya, Kei Takemura
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Finished
OPEN HOUSE 2008-01
Date: 6/14 (Sat.) 15:00-17:00 (reservation not required)
Venue: Tokyo Wonder Site Aoyama
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Gallery Talk
Yosuke Amemiya and Kei Takemura themselves will explain their concept and process in front of their works at the gallery
Date: 6/29 (Sun.) 16:00-17:00 (reservation not required)
Venue: Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
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Performance by Kei Takemura
Date: 7/6 (Sun.) 16:00- (reservation not required)
Venue: Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
Yosuke Amemiya 《Translator’s high》 Installation view at Yuka Sasahara Gallery 2006
Yosuke Amemiya 《knowledge》 and others 2006-2007 Oil on non foaming urethane foam, wood
Kei Takemura 《renovated coffee cup》 2006 Used German coffee cup, Japanese silk thread, Italian synthetic cloth
Kei Takemura 《with R.M.'s desk》 2007 Japanese silk thread, Italian synthetic cloth,
B&W copy, color copy, transparency, German needle 530 x 265 cm
Tokyo Wonder Site has been putting great effort into the continuous support of young artists, in affiliation with the Tokyo Government-hosted "Tokyo Wonder Wall" (launched in 2000), and as part of a global network of galleries and other cultural facilities. For each installment of this "TEAM" series, we have been selecting talented, up-and-coming artists and other creators who distinguished themselves in exhibitions at TWS Hongo, to exhibit their works at TWS Shibuya. "Mezzanine" in the title reflects our wish to provide through these exhibitions the artists with an intermediate platform from where they can hopefully leap to the next, international level.
Yosuke Amemiya creates spatial arrangements that allow the viewer to travel back and forth between parallel topological levels. Upon entering his microcosm containing a variety of creatures, apples, pieces of furniture and other objects that on closer inspection look fairly odd, the viewer finds himself guided into the interiors of rooms through the mirrors he looks at, to partake visually in the strange occurrences that are going on inside. He will soon realize then that the world around has turned into a totally different space-time where all things appear in a suspicious kind of light, and ultimately begins to consider the possibility that the real world might in fact be happening in a time and space quite different from what he used to call reality.
Kei Takemura observes the behaviors and living environments of friends, reconstructs those in makeshift rooms embroided in organdie or drawn on tracing paper, or maps out her delicately airy constructions in performances. The artist’s focus is on contemporary society, in which things that used to be perfectly natural parts of our daily lives disappear just so, and on earthquakes and other manifestations of the power of nature – things we don’t necessarily care about consciously, but that are always present right next to us. It is Kei Takemura who makes us aware of such phenomena through the gaps between lines and seams in her works.
Yosuke Amemiya Profile
Kei Takemura Profile
