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Installation view of Making a Home: Japanese
Contemporary Artists in New York at Japan Society Gallery
FLOWER gallery (2007) by ON megumi Akiyoshi
Photo: Richard P. Goodbody

MAKING A HOME: JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
IN NEW YORK
October 5, 2007 - January 13, 2008
JAPAN SOCIETY
333 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017

http://www.japansociety.org

FEATURED EXHIBITION OF THE CENTENNIAL PROGRAM
JAPAN100: CELEBRATING A CENTURY (1907 - 2007)

To celebrate the strong and historic cultural links between Japan and New York, Japan Society Gallery presents Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York from October 5, 2007 to January 13, 2008. The second featured exhibition of Japan Society’s 2007-08 centennial celebration, Making a Home is a large-scale group exhibition featuring the work of 33 Japanese contemporary artists who call New York City home. The show not only includes a broad range of media–from painting, sculpture, and photography to fashion, architecture, and sound art–but also covers diverse age groups, identities, experiences, and styles that display the breadth and depth of Japanese contemporary art as developed, practiced, and presented in New York. Although their individual practices are unique, these artists share the common trait of venturing from their homes in Japan to stake claim to the capital of the international art world, New York City, where each has created a new aesthetic vo
cabulary influenced by Japan, New York, and the world beyond. Ranging from Misaki Kawai’s playful sculptures that capture the artist’s interior fantasy world to the renowned artist Yoko Ono’s poignant conceptualism, the artists and works included in the exhibition provide insight into ideas and processes stimulated by the confluence of cultures that is New York City.

The exhibition, curated by Eric C. Shiner, is divided into six sections, each closely connected to the notion of what separates a mere “place” from a “home”: “Building Environments,” “Intimacy and Identity,” “Coping with Loss,” “Meditative Space,” “The Process of Making,” and “Referencing
the Landscape.”

Artists featured in Making a Home are: ON megumi Akiyoshi, Noriko Ambe, Ei Arakawa, Satoru Eguchi, Ayakoh Furukawa, Toru Hayashi, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Yoshiaki Kaihatsu, Takahiro Kaneyama, Emiko Kasahara, Misaki Kawai, Miwa Koizumi, Yumi Kori, Nobuho Nagasawa, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Yoko Ono, Hiroki Otsuka, Katsuhiro Saiki, Kyoko Sera, Noriko Shinohara, Ushio Shinohara, Go Sugimoto, Kunie Sugiura, Hiroshi Sunairi, Mayumi Terada, Yuken Teruya, Yasunao Tone, Momoyo Torimitsu, United Bamboo, Aya Uekawa, Junko Yoda, Toshihisa Yoda and Yoichiro Yoda.

A full-color catalogue authored by Eric Shiner and Reiko Tomii, a leading scholar of contemporary Japanese art who has worked on many previous Japan Society exhibitions, is available.

RELATED PROGRAMMING:
Centennial Speaker, Martha Stewart: A Passion for Making a Home
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 6:30 pm

A talk exploring her life-long passion for “making a home” as well as her interest in Japan and Japanese contemporary art. Followed by a reception.

ABOUT JAPAN100: CELEBRATING A CENTURY (1907 - 2007)
Japan Society celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding with an unprecedented array of high-profile programming in 2007-08. The celebration occurs throughout New York City and in Japan with further national and international exposure through traveling exhibitions, performing arts tours, symposia, fellowships, and exchanges. Visit http://www.japan100.org for more information on centennial events and a historical tour of the Society.

GALLERY HOURS:
Tuesday through Thursday, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.; Friday, 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; the Gallery is closed on Mondays and major holidays.

ADMISSION:
Japan Society members and children under 16 free. Admission is free to all on Friday nights, 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

MEDIA CONTACTS:

Kellie Honeycutt
Blue Medium, Inc.
T: (212) 675-1800
E: kellie@bluemedium.com

Shannon Jowett
Japan Society
T: (212) 715-1205
E:sjowett@japansociety.org

Lund Konsthall

Nicolae Maniu: Portrait of Nicolae Ceausescu
Collection of MNAC, Bucharest

See Us Act
Harun Farocki/Andrei Ujica,
Melik Ohanian
22 September - 11 November 2007

Portraits of Nicolae Ceausescu from the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest
Lund Konsthall
Mårtenstorget 3
SE-223 51 Lund, Sweden
Phone: +46(0)46-35 52 94
Fax: +46(0)46-18 45 21
http://www.lundskonsthall.se

How do individuals act in extreme political situations? This autumn’s first exhibition at Lund Konsthall is about revolution. It articulates issues of political action, political power, political upheaval.

The title is a paraphrase of the Latin expression spectemur agendo, which the philosopher Hannah Arendt translates as ‘let us be seen in action, let us have a space where we are seen and can act.’ Political action, for her, starts with our use of language to influence and convince each other. Such action makes us visible as political beings, and is therefore a liberating force. Revolutions, Arendt says, are finally always about freedom.

The artworks in the exhibition allow viewers to experience political action. They use different methods to let us see other people act. But isn’t our viewing also an act?

In the film Videogrammes of a Revolution (1992) by the German experimental filmmaker Harun Farocki and his Romanian colleague Andrei Ujica we are catapulted back into the events in Romania in December 1989, which led to the execution of the dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Yet the film shows that what we don’t see may be just as important as what we see. No one can tell for sure what actually happened during the ‘Romanian Revolution’.

The installation September 11, 1973_Santiago de Chile 2007 (2007) by the French artist Melik Ohanian juxtaposes the sound track from The Battle of Chile (1976) by the Chilean documentary filmmaker Patricio Guzmán and Ohanian’s own footage from today’s Santiago. The work, premiered at the Venice Biennial this summer, creates a space that allows us to travel between two points in time.

We have also been able to borrow some thirty official portrait paintings of the Romanian dictator Ceausescu from the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) in Bucharest. They have been selected by Mihnea Mircan, Curator at MNAC. Today these portraits have become interesting historical documents, but they also remind us of what happens to art when politics is forced on it.

Our warmest thanks to the Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm for the collaboration and their generous support for this exhibition.

The filmmaker and artist Andrei Ujica will lecture at Lund Konsthall during the last weekend of the exhibition, 10-11 November. Please contact us for the exact time.

LAXART

Adrià Julià, A Means of Passing the Time (film still), 2007, 16mm single-channel film installation,
6:00 minute loop, courtesy of the artist and LAXART

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FEATURING OVER 100 WORKS FROM ESTABLISHED AND EMERGING ARTISTS

Edgar Arceneaux, Kamrooz Aram, Ethan Ayer, John Baldessari, Kelly Barrie, Justin Beal, Whitney Bedford, Walead Beshty, Andrea Bowers, Mark Bradford, Brian Bress, Kimberly Brooks, Jedediah Caesar, Jeff Chabot, Terry Chatkupt, William Cordova, Meg Cranston, Gregory Crewdson, Zoe Crosher, Krysten Cunningham, Francesca DiMattio, George Dinhaupt, Sam Durant, Brad Eberhard, Shannon Ebner, Lisa Eisner, Kirsten Everberg, Rob Fischer, Harrell Fletcher, Eve Fowler, John Furmanski, Charles Gaines, Shelly George, Ken Gonzales-Day, Joe Goode, Alexandra Grant, Sherin Guirguis, Wade Guyton, Terry Haggerty, Karl Haendel, Marc Handelman, Micol Hebron, Drew Heitzler, Leslie Hewitt, Evan Holloway, Salomon Huerta, Marie Jager, Danny Jauregui, Vishal Jugdeo, Adrià Julià, Isaac Julien, Glenn Kaino, Matt Keegan, Mary Kelly, Karen Kimmel, John Kleckner, Marcus Knupp, Terence Koh, Alice Konitz, Jason Kraus, Elad Lassry, Lauren Lavitt, Thomas Lawson, Glenn Ligon, Kalup Linzy, Mara Lonner, Michelle L
opez, Matt Lucero, Shana Lutker, Nathan Mabry, Euan MacDonald, Erlea Maneros, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Alexander May, Kevin McCarty, Julie Mehretu, Yunhee Min, Julio Cesar Morales, Kori Newkirk, Eric Niebuhr, David Noonan, Chris Oatey, Ruben Ochoa, Yoshua Okon, Chris Oliveria, Catherine Opie, Eamon Ore-Giron, Arthur Ou, Virginia Overton, Laura Owens, Marlo Pascual, Florencia Pita, Raymond Pettibon, Paul Pfeiffer, Antonio Puleo, Michael Queenland, Michael Rashkow, Marco Rios, Amanda Ross-Ho, Peter Rostovsky, Allen Ruppersberg, Robert Russell, Analia Saban, Dean Sameshima, Eduardo Sarabia, Matt Saunders, Julia Scher, Maya Schindler, Kim Schoenstadt, Anna Sew Hoy, Alex Slade, Meredyth Sparks, Greer Howland Smith, Lisa Tan, Joel Tauber, Mungo Thomson, Lesley Vance, Mark Verabioff, Kelley Walker, Jim Welling, Mary Weatherford, Mark Wyse, Liat Yossifor, Brenna Youngblood, Carrie Yuri (list in progress)