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Manga Jiman '150' Exhibition
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6 February - 3 April 2009, The Embassy of Japan, 101-104 Piccadilly, London W1J 7JT
Opening times: Weekdays 09.30 - 17.30, closed weekends. Tel: 020 7465 6589
The Embassy of Japan first launched Manga Jiman, a manga-writing competition open to UK residents, with great success in 2007. Now in its second year, the competition adopted a special theme to mark the 150th anniversary year of diplomatic relations between Japan and the UK. The winning entries are now being displayed in this special MANGA JIMAN ��150�� EXHIBITION at the Embassy of Japan.
Admission free, but photo id necessary to gain entry to the Embassy. |
'Dog' by Loren Lam
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Barock Plastik
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12 February - 28 March 2009, 23 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3PB
Email: imyuprojects@gmail.com
www.i-myu.com
An explosive group show of ten artists, featuring works by Japanese artists Akiko Takizawa, Yutaka Inagawa, Toshiaki Hicosaka, Kengo Kito. Kounosuke Kawakami and Kentaro Kobuke. |
KENTARO KOBUKE Ricca
84.1x59.4cm, Colour pencil on cherry wood, 2008
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How Manga Took Over the World!
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17 February - 19 April 2009, 10 - 5pm every day, Hub: National Centre for Craft & Design, Lincolnshire
www.thehubcentre.info
The Hub is the largest gallery in the UK solely dedicated to the exhibition and celebration of contemporary craft and design practice. This February the Hub opens 'How Manga Took Over the World', an exhibition about the global phenomenon of Manga, tracing its traditional roots through to its influence on all facets of contemporary culture today. The exhibition does not intend to provide a chronological or an in depth survey of the history of Manga. Instead this unique graphic art form is explored through its manifestation in everyday 21st century life - looking at the effect Manga has had on advertising, fashion, music, education and more.e making of signs, posters, flyers, banners, tickets, programmes, books and even CD covers.
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"DOI"
Hiroyuki DOI (b.1946) - First Solo Exhibition in London |
11 March 2009 - 9 April 2009, Thomas Williams Fine Art, 22 Old Bond Street, London W1
Gallery hours: 10am - 6pm, Monday - Friday
www.thomaswilliamsfineart.com/
Tokyo artist Hiroyuki Doi will present his first solo exhibition in London this Spring. His remarkable, large-scale pen drawings will be on show. Using only one shape, a circle, (en in Japanese), repeated many thousands of times in a variety of sizes, DOI creates extraordinarily complex compositions. The resulting images resonate with associations to the familiar, physical world and yet are entirely abstract. They call to mind objects that are seemingly both cosmic and microscopic in scale, from galaxies to groups of atoms.
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The Cosmos, 2002
68.58 x 139.7 cm.
Ink on Japanese handmade paper (Kozo)
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FUJIO AKAI ��Five Seasons�� |
10 - 28 March 09, Adam Gallery, 24 Cork St, London W1S 3NJ
Tel: 020 7439 6633,
E-mail: info@adamgallery.com
Gallery Hours: 10am - 6pm, Monday - Friday, 11am - 3pm, Saturday
www.adamgallery.com
Following the success of his first solo exhibition in the UK in 2006, Adam Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Fujio Akai. The artist uses water-based media to produce translucent layers of vibrant and luminous colour. The dynamic forms are bold yet delicate and seemingly free-floating in the compositions. These water-paintings are overflowing with colour and life; yet retain a sense of tranquillity.
Japanese cultural traditions have had an important influence on Fujio's artistic practice and output. His paintings often contain references to the natural world in Japan.?
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Echoes through nature: Woodcuts by Katsutoshi Yuasa
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21 January - 19 March 2009, Mon - Fri 9.30am - 5.00pm
Late night openings until 8pm, 5 February & 5 March 2009
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1 4QP
www.dajf.org.uk
Yuasa makes large monochrome woodcuts based on his own photographs, which are not so much observations but rather contemplations of the world around us and invite more questions that they reveal.
The exact source of the images feels uncertain, with delicate, semi-abstract image of domestic objects and scenes, cityscapes and flora, at once containing the pin-sharp realism of a photograph, while simultaneously revealing something more fragile as if part of the image has somehow been stripped away. |
Echoes, 2008, woodcut on paper
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Imagine finding me: Photographs by Chino Otsuka
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6 April 2009 - 5 June 2009 Monday-Friday, 9.30am-5.00pm (closed bank holidays)
Late night openings (until 8.00pm): 28 April & 21 May 2009
Private view: Tuesday 7April 2009, 6.00pm ? 8.00pm
(Introduction by Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs at the National Media Museum, from 6.30pm)
book a place
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, 13/14 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1 4QP
www.dajf.org.uk
UK-based Japanese Visual Artist, Chino Otsuka, will show her Imagine finding me series in London for the first time.
In these digitally manipulated and composite images, Otsuka explores themes of belonging, identity and memory. |
Imagine finding me: 1976 and 2005, Kamakura, Japan (Double self-Portraits)
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Japan from prehistory to the present
The reopening of the Japanese Galleries at the British Museum (from 13 Oct 2006) |
The British Museum, Great Russell Street,
London WC1B 3DG
Tel: 020 7323 8000; information@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Open daily, 10:00am - 5:30pm;
Late opening, Thursday & Friday until 8:30pm
The Japanese collections at the British Museum hold some 30,000 objects, they comprise fine and decorative arts, antiquities, ethnographic and historical materials dating from ancient prehistory to the present day.
The refurbishment of the galleries has provided a chance to re-think the presentation of objects, and the techniques used to interpret them. Japan from Prehistory to the Present is a sequence of significant stories told by remarkable objects which are explored from many angles. From Ancient Japan (before 1200) through Medieval Japan (1200-1600) and Edo Japan (1600-1868) to Modern Japan (1853 to present), the galleries provide a chronological journey of the development of this intriguing nation.
Monthly public presentations of ��The Way of Tea�� by the Urasenke Foundation, using the traditional teahouse will also be held inside the Japanese Galleries. |
Samurai Armour
© The Trustees of the British Museum
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