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Chikako
HASEGAWA
Gift container 1-1, 2002
Silver, 4x4x5cm |
Artist:
Seiji ARUGA/ Takahiro
FUJIWARA/ Jun FUJITA/Ai FUJIYOSHI/ Hidetaka FURUKAWA/
Kazuhiko HACHIYA/ Chikako HASEGAWA/ Bujin HIRAI/
Izuru KASAHARA/Man-ya KATO/ Hideki KUWAJIMA/ Tatsuo
MAJIMA/ Taka-aki MITSUI/ Keiko MIYATA/ Hideto NAGATSUKA/Tetsuya
NAKAMURA/ Yasutaka NAKANOWATARI/Daisuke NAKAYAMA/
Hideki NAKAZAWA/ Motohiko ODANI/ OGAWA Shinji/ Ari
OHKUBO/ Mitsuhiro OKAMOTO/ Saburo OTA/ Kazz SASAGUCHI/
Isao SATO/ Taro SHINODA/ Yoshihiro SUDA/ Takeshi
TAMAI/ Iichiro TANAKA/ Kyoko TANIYAMA/ Hiroshi YAMADA/
Motoi YAMAMOTO/ Miwa YANAGI/ Kenji YANOBE/Hiroshi
YOSHIMIZU/ Sakuji YOSHIMOTO/ Hidehiro WATANABE
*Antiques provided by Ikeuchi Fine Arts.
Other objects selected and collected by the curator.
Curator:
Tsutomu IKEUCHI
(röntgenwerke,Tokyo)
Exhibition Dates:
Friday, November
14, 2003 to Saturday, January 10, 2004.
Opening:
Friday, November
14, 2003. 6:00-8:00 pm.
SAKE tasting
party:
Saturday, January
10, 2004. 6:00-8:00 pm.
Venue:
Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery, 555 Broadway, Basement
Floor, New York, NY 10012[Between Prince/Spring
St.]
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday, 12 noon-6pm.
Closed on Sundays, Mondays, November 27, and December
25, 2003 through January 1, 2004.
* Gallery will be closed at 3:00 p.m. on December
24.
Admission Policy:
Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and
open to the public.
ISE CULTURAL FOUNDATION has been supporting emerging
curators in the exhibitions made possible in its non–profit
art gallery since 2002. As part of the Program for
Emerging Curators (PEC), the Foundation is pleased
to present the exhibition, 108 (one hundred eight)
curated by Tsutomu Ikeuchi, the owner and the director
of röntgenwerke, an art gallery located in Roppongi,
Tokyo.
108 is the exhibition consists of one hundred and
eight small objects linked by the theme of "desire".
Inspired by the spirit of Mr. Iwao SETSU, who once
was the proprietor of Setsu-Gatodo (Antiques, Tokyo)
and himself a great art collector and dealer, the
exhibition is based on the concept of "Tanagokoro"
(works on the palm ). It stresses a Ågconcept-lessÅh
approach, where the only requirement being that each
artist compress their vision and imagination within
the confines of their object or work.
The title of the exhibition "108"
(one hundred eight) is drawn from the Buddhist notion
of the number of "BON-NOH" desires that
human beings are subject. "BON-NOH" can
be roughly translated into Japanese from the Sanskrit
"kleas" meaning passions that humans are
believed to possess.
The 108 "BON-NOH" are broken down into six
types involving the senses (eyes, ears, tongue, nose,
body and mind) that perceive an object. This object
then be considered desirable, undesirable, or ambivalent,
resulting in a total of 18 possibilities. Given each
feeling can be either be pleasurable or unpleasurable
36 possible emotional responses are possible. These
36 basic passions of man are now multiplied with aspects
of past, present, and future, producing a final total
of 108 "BON-NOH"s. On New Year's Eve in
Japan there is a custom that all temples toll 108
times beginning at midnight to purify those "BON-NOH"s.
The Japanese are fond of things that can be held in
the hand. One can witness the allure of such objects
in a tea set or netsuke. In a broader context, "The
aesthetics of shrinkage" can be considered a
characteristic of Asian culture, exemplified best
perhaps, in such things of "BONSAI" and
"HAIKU". |
Past
Exhibition