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Toru Hayashi-Travel Agency Garden
June 14-July 14 2001
Gallery Hours: Tuesay - Saterday 12:00 - 6:00 PM
Exhibition Director:Shimizu-Toshio
Exhibition Curator:Reiko Tomii
12 Acrylic Paintings on Canvas
40 Drawings on paper
Ise Foundation Gallery
555 Broadway, New Yrok, New York 10012
Phone:212-925-1649
Fax:212-226-9362
http://www.isefoundation.org
For further information please write to :
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Ise Cultural Foundation has been making efforts to introduce young
artistic talents since the establishment of its non-profit space
in Soho, New York. We have started this year a series of exhibition
"Summer Project" to introduce contemporary artists who live in
the United States, curated by up-and-coming curators.
The first "Summer Project" will be a solo exhibition by Toru Hayashi,
a resident of New York, curated by Reiko Tomii, who is also a
resident of New York.
Toru Hayashi moved to New York in the early 90's and has worked
hard since then to find his own particular form of expression,
this task accomplished by his recents work that involve complicating
and re-expressing reality. He will show in this exhibition two
works "Travel Agency Garden", a visual decipherments of Manhattanand
"equivocal landscape".
In "Travel Agency Garden," you can view many of Manhattan's tourist
spots. Each tourist spot is reduced to its superfluous qualities,
a simple shape, and painted a minimalistic black. The skyscrapers
and chaotic landscape of Manhattan just like coded in Chinese
characters, using characters that evoke nature. The piece is not
only simple but evokes by allusion the desire of the city and
the fulfillment of sensuality.
Another series of works, "equivocal landscape", is a diary-like
collection of the artist's everyday drawings. The artist draws
woods using thin lines in a white notebook that evokes the everyday
life of human beings.
This exhibition is curated by Reiko Tomii, an internationally
acclaimed curator, who is currently curating the Tokyo section
of the "Century Cities" exhibition at the Tate Modern in London.
Shimizu-Toshio
Director
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