Date: April 20 (Fri) to April 23 (Mon) 2012.
Time: April 20 (Fri) 15:00-21:00
          April 21 (Sat), 22 (Sun) 11:00-20:00
          April 23 (Mon) 11:00-17:00
Opening Ceremony: April 20 (Fri) 17:00
Venue: GALLERIA FORÊT, Convention Hall B2
Our Booth: 15-F (B2)

Takeda Art Co. is pleased to announce that we will participate in galleryseoul from April 20 (Fri) to April 23 (Mon) 2012.

We will exhibit works featured Yoshitomo Nara and
Mee Ai OM .

【Our Exhibition Concept】
Takeda Art Co. presents the works of two artists sharing “similarities and differences” with each other.

One is Yoshitomo NARA, a Japanese male artist representing Japanese Contemporary Art.
The other is Mee Ai OM, a female artist from Korea, who is playing an active role mainly in Singapore and Milan, Italy.

Both of them were born in the same year, studied abroad, and developed their artistic faculties there.There is something in common in their background. Also, now they are working in the same field of art.

However, their works are quite different from each other in the way of expression, the choice of materials, and so on.

Here is what we Takeda Art Co. would like to highlight.

It is for visitors to find some similarities in the two artists’ works displayed in a showcase.
We truly hope that you enjoy our exhibition in many ways, especially in the discovery of “similarities and differences” between the works of these fine artists.

一見すると“ハイヒール” “カボチャ” “蝶”に見えてしまう具象表現の数々。

70年代後半から突如として出現する様々な形象は
いまや草間彌生のアイコンとすらなっている。

しかし、それらの画面をジグソーパズルの様に切って小さなピースに
してみると、大小のドットや、ある規則性を持って広がり続けるネット
だけが描かれていることに気づく。

60年代NYで、ミニマル、ポップ、ニューヨークスクールの
面々と影響しあい、むしろその前衛さにおいて影響を強く
与えたと言うべきKUSAMA。

帰国後、日本のアートシーンのどこにも身の置き場のなかった彼女が
素のままに描き出した“初期”具象作品を中心に展示いたします。

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【展示作品 約30点】
　・フジテレビギャラリーの初個展で発表した1980年制作 100号他
　　1980年代の平面作品6~7点
　・1990年代から2000年代の平面作品 約10点
　・カボチャなどの立体作品 約10点

Yayoi KUSAMA Exhibition

Kusama’s figurative works seem as if they were “High-heels”, “Pumpkin” and “Butterfly” at a glance. These images,which are recognized as Kusama’s icons, had suddenly emerged in the late ’70s.
However, once you cut the face of her work into small pieces something like a jigsaw puzzle, you just see large or small dots and spreading nets with regularity.

In the ’60s, while stimulating each other in NY, Kusama had influenced every artist in the minimal, the pop and the NY school of art because of her avant-garde works.
After returning to Japan, she did not know where to put herself in Japanese art world.
She had painted figurative works as she was, in such a hard time.

Takeda Art Co. presents the following works which were painted in her prime.
We display “Coffee Cup” of a size 100 in 1980, presented in the first solo exhibition at Fuji TV Gallery in 1982.
In addition, we present some 6 or 7 works such as “Dress” and “Necktie” 1982 which are made with a collage.
Her some 10 works on canvas, including paintings from in the ’90s to the recent 2000s, are featured.
About 10 sculptures of “Pumpkin” are also displayed.

We hope that you will enjoy the exhibition.

ギャラリーコレクション展
奈良美智の作品を展示販売いたします。
ドイツ留学以前の80年代の作品から、2000年代までにわたる
奈良美智の名品と併せて、『奈良美智 全作品集 1984-2010』
（3000部限定、税込¥29,400）も限定販売致します。

Gallery Collection Exhibition
Takeda Art Co. is pleased to announce the exhibition of Nara’s works.
We are presenting and selling Nara’s works from in the 80’s before his study in Germany to the ones in the 2000’s.
Besides these masterpieces, the limited catalog “Yoshitomo Nara: The Complete Works” will be on sale.
The tax inclusive rate is JPY29,400.
The catalogs are a 3000 limited edition.

作家：永島千裕 　 坂本友由 　横川ヨコ 　 戸塚くるみ 　大塚亨

Galápagos Fine 2 leaflet (outside) [PDF]
Galápagos Fine 2 leaflet (inside) [PDF]


Digital Photo Book [You Tube]



ガラパゴス・ファイン 2 によせて

画廊移転を機に企画したグループ展の第２回目です。
昨年のメンバーと大きく入れ替わり、平面3名、立体2名による新鮮な
顔ぶれになりました。

昨年に引き続き、永島・坂本・横川の新作を発表いたします。また、これまでも展示企画を通じてご紹介して参りました上記３名に加え、新たに
立体作家の大塚亨・戸塚くるみをご紹介させていただきます。

大塚・戸塚の双方が木を素材にして表現しています。
大塚亨は現代の生活空間で日常的に「手」にする品々を、仏師でもある彼の技法により緻密に再現しています。その正確な再現力は、木という素材を得ることで、見慣れた日用品を新鮮で意外な造形物にかたちを変えてみせるのです。

戸塚くるみが削り出すトリは軍鶏（闘鶏）です。
「紀悄子、王の為に闘鶏を養う」荘子・外編
トサカや足といった末端部をデフォルメした木彫りは、寡黙なモンスターの相貌を見せています。時を経て甦った現代版「木鶏」にご期待下さい。

固有の世界観とテクニックに拘わった彼ら独自の進化型をご高覧下さい。

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　画廊代表　武田泰幸

Group Exhibition Galápagos Fine 2

Place：Takeda Art Co.
Date：November 21(Mon.)-December 22(Thu.) 2011
Time：11:00-18:00 (close on Sun.)
Participating Artists：Chihiro NAGASHIMA,Tomoyoshi SAKAMOTO,
yokoyokokawa, Kurumi TOTSUKA, Toru OOTSUKA

Relating to Galapagos Fine 2

This is the Takeda Art Co.’s second original group exhibition since we moved to the new gallery.

3 painters and 2 sculptors have brought fresh sprit to this exhibition, greatly changing the members of the exhibition last year.
Takeda Art Co. presents new works of our regular artists; Nagashima, Sakamoto, and Yokokawa this year again.

In addition to these 3 painters, we would like to introduce 2 new sculptors, Ootsuka and Totsuka.

Both Ootsuka and Totsuka produce works using wooden materials.
Ootsuka converts daily necessities which are very familier to us into novel and original sculptures, through wooden materials.　
Daily items in the modern living space are precisely reproduced by him who is also a sculptor of Buddhist statues.

Totsuka is being at work “Tori (fighting cocks)”.
Her wooden figures with deformed cock-combs, toes or the end of the other parts are shaped to represent the looks of such, as quiet monsters.
“Chi Hsing Tzu was a trainer of fighting cocks for King Hsuan” Chuang Tzu Story–Fighting Cock.
We would like you to enjoy Totsuka’s “fighting cocks” of modern version which has been revived beyond time and space.

Takeda Art Co. hopes you will visit the evolving “Art Creatures Galapagos” which values their own independent world and striving for more exciting ways of expression.

Gallery Director Yasuyuki Takeda

HIROSHI WATANABE PHOTO EXHIBITION Comedy of Double Meaning

Takeda Art Co. is pleased to announce the “Hiroshi Watanabe Photo Exhibition.”
Watanabe, who plays an active role in the US, presents his works
in this year’s Venice Biennale official program “REAL VENICE” exhibition
as the only Japanese photographer.
Takeda Art Co. will exhibit and sell all the 13 pieces of portrait series of Comedia dell’Arte, made for ‘REAL VENICE’,
centering on the original gelatin silver prints. All of them have a very high quality.
We hope you will enjoy our exhibition.

more>>Digital Photo Book

Date : Aug 26 (Fri) to Aug 29 (Mon) 2011
Time : 11 :00-19:00 (Lasts until 18:00 on Aug 29)
Vernissage : Aug 25 (Thu) 18:30 – 21:00
Venue : Taipei World Trade Center (Area A&D)
Our Booth : B40

Takeda Art Co. is pleased to announce that we will participate in
ART TAIPEI 2011 from Aug 26 to 29, 2011.

We will exhibit works featured Cai Guo-Qiang(蔡國強)
and Zao Wou-Ki(趙無極) from China, Japanese artists such as
Yayoi Kusama(草間彌生), Yoshitomo Nara(奈良美智)
in the large-scale art fair in Taiwan.

Also, some latest works of young promising Japanese painters will be displayed there.

We hope you will have fun.

* いわき万本桜プロジェクト/ Iwaki Flourishing Cherry Blossoms Project [PDF]

　実施日：2011年5月8日(日)、5月22日(日)、6月5日(日)、6月26日(日)
　次回実施日程：2011年10月23日（日）>>>more info [PDF]
　場所：福島県いわき市
　>いわき万本桜プロジェクトHP

　プロジェクト趣旨 [PDF] / Concept [PDF]
　蔡國強といわきの物語 / Story of Iwaki with Cai Guo-Qiang

* チャリティセール / Charity Sale [PDF]
　会期：2011年5月18日(土) – 会期延長中 11:00–18:00（日・祝 休廊）
　会場：たけだ美術

* 復興支援チャリティ展 / Charity Exhibition
「Art for Tomorrow」
　会期：2011年4月9日(土) – 4月14日(木)　11:00–17:00（月曜休館）
　会場：トーキョーワンダーサイト渋谷

横川ヨコ初個展“ピクニック”を開催いたします。

横川ヨコが繰り広げる想像上の世界「フシギ共和国」。
ロールパンを頭にのせた子供。ステーキを口にくわえた子供。自慢の小物を手にしたコドモたち。
一見すると、フシギ共和国の住人は、わんぱく坊主や無邪気な子であったりするようです。
しかしながら、コドモたちは現代社会を見据えており、その目には社会の闇におびえた横川自身が重なり映るのです・・・。

独創的な「フシギ共和国」の約10点を展示いたします。
どうぞご高覧くださいますようお願い申し上げます。

横川ヨコ展覧会リーフレット1_yokoyokokawa Exhibition Leaflet 1 [PDF]
横川ヨコ展覧会リーフレット2_yokoyokokawa Exhibition Leaflet 2 [PDF]
横川ヨコ展覧会リーフレット3_yokoyokokawa Exhibition Leaflet 3 [PDF]

The exhibition, yokoyokokawa 1st solo show ‘picnic’
Takeda Art Co. is pleased to hold Yokoyokokawa’s first solo exhibition titled “Picnic”.
We have selected ten strikingly attractive paintings which represent his distinctive arts from his fantasy world.
The fantasy world, which he calls “the Republic of Wonder”, appears to be cheerful and innocent.
In his world, in his paintings, children have mysterious eyes which are alarmed by fears for life in modern world and darkness of society.
These paintings are depicted based on his personal traumas that he has suffered from society in his life.

東日本大震災復興支援チャリティ展「Art for Tomorrow」
会期：2011年4月9日(土)-4月14日(木)　11:00 – 17:00（月曜休館）
会場：トーキョーワンダーサイト渋谷
主催：Japan Art Donation, Tokyo Wonder Site
たけだ美術出品作家：永島千裕　山極満博　横川ヨコ　ほか

美術業界としてまだまだ満足のいく援助はできていないのが実状ですが
「心」を支えていく役割は、アートにこそあると信じてやみません。
明日に希望をもてるよう、アートに関わる立場から広く長期的な視野で
復興支援に携わっていきたいと考える所存です。

わたしたちの日本のために
そして日本を背負っていく子どもたちのために
「Art for Tomorrow」がその出発点です。
皆様のご来場・ご協力を心よりお待ちしております。

Tohoku/Kanto Earthquake Reconstruction Assistance Charity Exhibition
Date: 9 April (Sat.) – 14 April (Thurs.) 2011
Place: Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
Time: 11:00-17:00 (close on Monday)
C.H. : Japan Art Donation, Tokyo Wonder Site

Takeda Art Co. is pleased to participate in a charity exhibition ‘Art for Tomorrow’, which supports Tohoku/Kanto Earthquake victims.
We are convinced that Art can soothe the soul, though an art industry has not been able to give enough assistance so far.
To give people hope for tomorrow, we will widely and constantly support them as specialists in art business.
For our Japan itself, and for the children undertaking the future of Japan, this ‘Art for Tomorrow’ is the point of our supporting.
We are looking forward to your visit and cooperation.