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Drawing Conclusions

Exhibit of Australian architect Glenn Murcutt allows viewer to examine the nuts and bolts of architecture.

Review in Tokyo Art Beat: TABlog: 2008 July 16

“This is architecture…about the human spirit…serene.” This is how Glenn Murcutt explains his work in Gallery Ma’s architectural exhibition “Thinking Drawing, Working Drawing,” a collection of Murcutt’s single-family homes and an art center, all located in Australia. Murcutt eschews glitzy forms and fashionable theories, pursuing instead the visceral effects of nature and coordinating them into subtle poetic works of integrally environmental architecture. The wonderfully conceived exhibition presents Murcutt, the man and the work, in a systematic manner.

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Gallery Ma
Toto Nogizaka bldg. 3F, 1-24-3 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062
To 2008-08-09

Send You Back to Schoolin’

Bauhaus exhibit Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music brings it back to the basics.

Review in Tokyo Art Beat: TABlog: 2008 July 11

Not since the Beaux-arts school has there been a school of architectural thought as influential as that of the Bauhaus. While the beaux-arts set a curriculum based on classical arts and ideals and its opposite, an institute of technology or polytechnic, (Illinois Institute of Technology, which Mies directed from 1938 to 1959) consists of an engineering or technology-based education, the Bauhaus combined the two approaches into a synthesis of technics and the arts that has influenced nearly every modern architectural curriculum that has followed.

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The University Art Museum - Tokyo University of the Arts
12-8 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo, 110-8714
To 2008-07-21

Shadi Nazarian

July 2 – 25, 2008
Introversions
UB Art Gallery
201A Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY

Shadi Nazarian designed an interactive minimal structure, suspended in midair that is currently on exhibit at the University of Buffalo Art Gallery. Developed at the intersection of art, architecture, and new technologies, the installations uses liquid crystal layered privacy glass to explore cognition and how we navigate environments. Commercially, privacy glass is used for partitions, display cases, and as privacy enclosures, and more provocatively, in dressing rooms and bathrooms, as at Prada Aoyama in Tokyo and Bar 89 in New York. Introversions explores how this new material alters spatial relationships and human perception. Nazarian combines minimalist sculpture, architecture and technology to generate uncanny optical effects by isolating and enhancing disorienting moments, reflections and other strange sights seen out of the corner of the eye.

See it while you can and pick up, while they last, a project pamphlet featuring an essay by Timothy Murray.

For gallery information: www.ubartgalleries.buffalo.edu

closed June 20
Postmodern Primitives
HCG Gallery
1130 Dragon Street #190, Dallas, Texas 75207
214.760.9230

This project with Dwayne Bohuslav was completed late-March / early April. Wall Be / Wall See was originally made in 2002. This version has been updated. Same great packaging with new improved flavor. Ayatana is brand new!

This was in a group show featuring work by Dwayne Bohuslav, Susan Budge, Danville Chadbourne, George Schroeder, Ansen Seale, and Penelope Speier.

Art Space Tokyo

This handy book edited by Ashley Rawlings and published by Chin Music Press will be an indespensible guide for those endeavoring to understand Tokyo's artistic side. Over 270 pages, 20 interviews with key figures in the Tokyo art world and 8 essays by art specialists, Art Space Tokyo offers a thorough exploration of the Tokyo art world and the issues revolving around these spaces.

This guide directed me to some delicious hand-made soba in the Yanaka district while visiting SCAI the Bathouse. It has great interviews with Yoshio Futagawa of GA Gallery and Toshio Hara and Yoko Uchida of the Hara Museum. And it is wonderfully designed. Coming to the US in September!

Read an interview with Ashley and Craig at: Ping Mag

For more information see www.artspacetokyo.com and www.chinmusicpress.com