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Akihisa Hirata

Keiichi Tanaami: Adventures in Memory

Keiichi Tanaami with editing by the National Art Center, Tokyo

Shiraga Kazuo: Dedicate Everything to Action

Executive Committee for the 100th Anniversary Commemoration Project of Shiraga Kazuo’s Birth with editorial supervision by Hirai Shoichi

Okumura Koichi: The Master in Sceneries of Light

design, crafts, architecture

agnès b. stories

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Yoshitomo Nara: “Traveling with Hazy Humid Day in Penghu” (Penghu Reclamation Hall, Taiwan)

2024.02.29

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🎥📙Sophie Calle 'Parce que' (Japanese edition

🎥📙Sophie Calle 'Parce que' (Japanese edition)
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Because of this story of a passer-by
gushing at a baby in a stroller,
whose mother exclaims
“And you haven’t seen his picture!”
(from the cover)
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The long-awaited Japanese edition of the book by French contemporary artist Sophie Calle.
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Author: Sophie Calle
Language: Japanese
Size: 246 × 175 × 14 mm, 550 g
Pages: 84
Binding: hardcover with cloth binding
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This is the Japanese edition of books originally published in France in 2018 and 2024 by Atelier EXB.
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Good morning from Tokyo🗼☀️ The Tokyo Art Bo

Good morning from Tokyo🗼☀️ The Tokyo Art Book Fair is happening until this weekend! From our new releases to hidden gems, we have a wide range of art book selections waiting for you. We can’t wait to see you all❣️

We are open from 11:00 to 18:00 at booth No. EN020💙

//TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2024//
📅Dates: November 28 (Thu) – Decemer 1 (Sun), 2024
🕋Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo @mot_museum_art_tokyo
📍Address: 4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0022
Official website: https://tokyoartbookfair.com/en/
Admission: General 1,000 yen (tax-included)
🎫Ticket available: https://www.ticketpay.jp/search/?keyword=TOKYO+ART+BOOK+FAIR+2024

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📙New title! Sophie Calle 'Parce que' (Japanese

📙New title!

Sophie Calle 'Parce que' (Japanese edition)

The long-awaited Japanese edition of the book by French contemporary artist Sophie Calle.
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Because of this story of a passer-by
gushing at a baby in a stroller,
whose mother exclaims
“And you haven’t seen his picture!”
(from the cover)
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Sophie Calle’s books 'Parce que' (in French) and 'Because' (in English) were originally published in 2018, in conjunction with her artwork series "Parce que." The series featured photo frames each covered by a curtain embroidered with text explaining why she had taken the picture; gallerygoers first read the text, then lifted the cloth to find the photo and consider it vis-à-vis what the words had led them to envision. The publications, meanwhile, called on readers to peruse a text, then physically pull out a loose photograph from between the pages and reflect on its image—a highly experimental re-creation of the gallery experience in book form.
Created at the request of the artist herself, this edition brings the book experience to readers of Japanese for the first time. The volume offers the same content as the revised 2024 French and English editions—including the six new works added to those books—in a translation supervised by contemporary-art curator Okabe Aomi that brings Calle’s world to life in flowing language.
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This is the Japanese edition of books originally published in France in 2018 and 2024 by Atelier EXB.
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Author: Sophie Calle
Language: Japanese
Size: 246 × 175 × 14 mm, 550 g
Pages: 84
Binding: hardcover with cloth binding
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Her most recent exhibition in Japan, "Absences: Toulouse-Lautrec and Sophie Calle," commemorates the November 2024 reopening of the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo. @mitsubishi_ichigokan_museum
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🎥🥫🗑️'Mishima Kimiyo: Memories for the F

🎥🥫🗑️'Mishima Kimiyo: Memories for the Future'
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A compendium of more than seven decades’ worth of artistic activity.
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Over more than seventy years since the start of her career in the 1950s, contemporary artist Mishima Kimiyo (1932–2024) has consistently astounded viewers with her many masterpieces, from ceramic “breakable printed matter” objets to works themed on empty cans and cardboard boxes or rendered out of scrap iron and other scavenged materials.
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This book presents a look back at Mishima’s career along with roughly ninety works. From overinformation to mass consumption and garbage, these works combine an unsparing gaze on the dark side of modern society with Mishima’s signature playfulness, and—as such—are sure to strike the hearts of readers living today in a world where these same issues are growing ever more immediate and pressing.
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Edited by: Nerima Art Museum
Languages: Japanese and English
Size: 218 × 155 × 25 mm, 580 g
Pages: 224
Binding: hardcover
Release date: 20240530
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New title!🇫🇷 ‘agnès b. stories’ ・ Cel

New title!🏠 ‘Akihisa Hirata: Architecture Ari

New title!🏠 ‘Akihisa Hirata: Architecture Arises at the Water’s Edge for Humans’
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Liminal and entangled spaces: the philosophy behind the works of architect Akihisa Hirata.
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Running through Akihisa Hirata’s oeuvre is the concept of architecture as the creation of “karamarishiro.” This term coined by Hirata, loosely translatable as “margin for entanglement,” denotes spaces that are not clearly delineated, but shot through by “fuzzy interstices”—spaces that are layered one upon the other and that may be considered to adjoin all things.

This richly illustrated book examines architectural embodiments of Hirata’s worldview through conceptual drawings, photographs, and text as well as views of the 2024 exhibition of the same name. Covered are twenty-one projects, including the Masuya building (2006), from his early phase; the prizewinning Art Museum & Library, Ota (2017); the much-acclaimed Center of Yatsushiro Folk Performing Arts (2021); his latest work, Harakado (2024); and the Nerima Art Museum and Nukui Library, scheduled to be completed in 2028.
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Architect Akihisa Hirata was born in 1971 in Osaka Prefecture and earned an MA in architecture from the Kyoto University Graduate School of Engineering in 1997 before joining Toyo Ito & Associates. He established the Akihisa Hirata Architectural Office in 2005 and in 2015 began teaching at Kyoto University, where he has been full professor since 2018. His honors, the SD Review Asakura Award, the JIA (Japan Institute of Architects) Young Architect Award, the 2012 Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition Golden Lion for Best National Participation (co-winner), and three prizes—the Murano Togo Prize, the BCS (Building Contractors Society) Prize, and the AIJ (Architectural Institute of Japan) Prize—for the Art Museum & Library, Ota.
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Author: Akihisa Hirata
Languages: Japanese and English
Size: 279 × 225 × 15 mm, 660 g
Pages: 168
Binding: softcover with PUR binding
Release date: 20240831
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New title❄️'Okumura Koichi: The Master in Scen

New title❄️'Okumura Koichi: The Master in Sceneries of Light'
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The radiance of light, the rustle of falling snow: some 150 masterful landscapes and sketches by a Japanese-style painter.
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The year 2024 marks 120 years since the birth and 50 years since the death of Okumura Koichi, a Japanese-style painter noted for his work with landscapes.

This volume brings together some sixty-five paintings from every phase of Okumura’s career plus roughly a hundred sketches from his travels in Japan and around the world, inviting readers to appreciate his outstanding compositional and sketching skills as well as the immediacy that comes from his practice of venturing out into nature to put himself in the presence of the scenes he wished to render. Postcards, magazine covers, and other miscellaneous works reveal the full range of his artistic activities, while writings in the form of the picture-and-essay contributions he made to newspapers and other publications provide insight into his responses to nature and the processes by which he captured it in his art.
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Okumura Koichi (1904–1974), born in Kyoto, studied at the Kyoto City Specialist School of Painting and under the Japanese-style painter Nishimura Goun. He was selected to participate in the annual state-sponsored Teiten exhibition for the first time in 1929 and subsequently mainly showed his landscape paintings at the Teiten and its successors, including the 1946 Nitten, where he was awarded a special prize for "Fine Morning." In 1948 he joined in the founding of the Sozo Bijutsu group (present-day Soga-kai Association of Japanese Painting) as part of an effort to pioneer new forms of Japanese-style painting. Rigorously reexamining his own art, he shifted from a style marked by delicate brushstrokes to one featuring powerful outlines and bold abstraction; in his later years he focused on landscapes rendered up close so as to highlight trees and their vitality. He was also acclaimed for the sketches he produced of his trips into the mountains, for which he won the moniker “artist of the hills.”
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🎈📣📖The TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2024 has begun

🎈📣📖The TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2024 has begun! We are excited to welcome so many visitors since the opening. We will be open until 7:00 PM today, and we are looking forward to seeing you at booth No. EN020!

As a special offer for TABF, you can get a commemorative holographic sticker celebrating Seigensha's 30th anniversary with any purchase!😉

//TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2024//
📅Dates: 12:00-19:00, November 28 (Thu), 2024
11:00-18:00, November 29 (Fri) – Decemer 1 (Sun), 2024
🕋Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo @mot_museum_art_tokyo
📍Address: 4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0022
Official website: https://tokyoartbookfair.com/en/
Admission: General 1,000 yen (tax-included)
🎫Ticket available: https://www.ticketpay.jp/search/?keyword=TOKYO+ART+BOOK+FAIR+2024

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@tokyoartbookfair

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📣 Starting tomorrow!!! TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2024

📣 Starting tomorrow!!! TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2024 📚📖❤️

We are thrilled to announce our participation in the Tokyo Art Book Fair @tokyoartbookfair once again this year! Please visit our booth at the main entrance—we can’t wait to welcome you all in Tokyo❣️

📅Dates: 12:00-19:00, November 28 (Thu), 2024
11:00-18:00, November 29 (Fri) – Decemer 1 (Sun), 2024
🕋Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo @mot_museum_art_tokyo
📍Address: 4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0022
Official website: https://tokyoartbookfair.com/en/
Admission: General 1,000 yen (tax-included)
🎫Ticket available: https://www.ticketpay.jp/search/?keyword=TOKYO+ART+BOOK+FAIR+2024

#TABF #TOKYOARTBOOKFAIR
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