アーバン山水 Urban Sansui

March 10 (Fri) – 19 (Sun), 2023
11:00-18:00 daily (no admittance after 17:00) | Timed-entry reservation
kudan house 1-15-9, Kudankita, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-0073, Japan

Tomohito Ishii / Asako Fujikura / Taisuke Makihara / Rui Mizuki
Curator: Ryosuke Kondo
Researcher: Naoki Saito
Assistant: Muen Koh

Organized by Sansui Tokyo
In cooperation with kudan house
Technical support by YOKOITO Additive Manufacturing
Supported by Toshiaki Ogasawara Memorial Foundation, Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), Nomura Foundation

Contact: sansui3020@gmail.com
Reservation: https://urbansansui-general.peatix.com/view

Sansui Tokyo is a collective that considers contemporary art and society under the theme of sansui thought to be peculiar to East Asia. Sansui is often regarded as a classical subject represented by landscape painting (sansuiga/shanshuihua) and rock gardens (karesansui), but an underlying human non-agency presents us with many implications in the 21st century.

Ryosuke Kondo, who presides over Sansui Tokyo, has long been interested in an understanding of nature rooted in East Asia and found in fieldwork in both Chinese feng shui and Japanese gardens while researching the history of the Western landscape. The term “landscape,” derived from the West, is premised on the binary opposition between humans (the subject) and nature (the object), whereas sansui, in East Asia, presupposes that both humans and nature exist undifferentiated in the flux of all things.

A perspective such as that of sansui, which does not fit within a limited framework of nature and landscape, can be effective when facing a present-day society in which modern Western values are ​​reaching a deadlock. Sansui Tokyo explores the world of sansui in a unique way and aims to build a new relationship between art and society.

• Individual Sansui

  Tomohito Ishii / Shinichi Takashima + Shu Nakagawa / Taisuke Makihara / Rui Mizuki
  Organizer: Ryosuke Kondo (art critic)
  Venue: Komagome SOKO
  Sat. 15 February – Sun. 8 March, 2020
  12:00 – 19:00 daily (Fri., Sat., Sun., and National holidays)

  Concept

  We are pleased to present Individual Sansui, an exhibition featuring four groups of artists at Komagome SOKO.

  Ryosuke Kondo, who organized this exhibition, has been interested in an understanding of nature rooted in East Asia through fieldwork in both Chinese Feng Shui and Japanese gardens, while researching the history of Western landscape. The term “landscape,” derived from the West, is premised on the presence of humans (the subject), whereas sansui originates in China and does not clearly distinguish human beings from nature. Rather than a visible world consisting of mountains and water, it is a symbol of polarities: yang and yin, static and dynamic, tangible and intangible; and it is believed that both humans and nature exist undifferentiated in the chain of things.

  Such a perspective of sansui is not limited to East Asia’s view of nature, but is also rich in suggestions for considering art and society in the age of globalization. For example, originals and reproductions that the modern art model regarded as a master-and-servant relationship will be reinterpreted as complementary. In addition, a human agency that is undermined by artificial intelligence and biotechnology may not be a given in the first place. In other words, sansui can be a keyword neither for nationalism nor for criticism against Western modernism but for thinking about the near future.

  The four groups of artists in this exhibition are diverse in terms of both mediums and interests, but they share an approach which intuitively seizes everyday objects, and they throw themselves into heteronomous thinking through physical relationships with materials, i.e. matter. The worlds they respectively evoke may be called sansui as a “topos” where people and nature are undifferentiated as substances and actions exist prior to thinking. This exhibition presents such potential of sansui. During the exhibition period, a series of gallery talks will be held with a variety of special guests to further explore the art of sansui.

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• 2020.03.07

  “Gallery Talk”

  Guest: Yuri Mitsuda (Art critic)

• 2020.02.29

  “Civil Engineering of Rock Garden : Topography and Borrowed Scenery”

  Guest: Takashi Awano (Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture)

• 2020.02.22

  “Artist Talk”

  Guest: Artists featured in the exhibition

• 2020.02.15

  “A Range of Chinese Landscape Painting : Imaginary Tour and Reproduction”

  Guest: Motoyuki Kure (Curator, Kyoto National Museum)

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  Tomohito Ishii

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  Tomohito Ishii

  1981	Born in Tokyo Japan.  Lives and Works in Tokyo

  Education

  2006	Musashino Art University, M.A.

  Solo Exhibitions

  2019	Plane of  Jouissance, CAPSULE ,Tokyo
  2017	House of future,  Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
  2011	Complex Circuit,  Gallery αm ,Tokyo , Japan

  Group Exhibitions

  2020	The Alpha and the Omega, Uriwari Sekitei Park, Yamagata, Japan Individual Sansui, Komagome SOKO, Tokyo, Japan
  2019	Distance and Transmission , gallery N, Tokyo, Japan
  2018	SURVIBIA!!, Digital Hollywood University, Tokyo, Japan Backlash, Space TGC, Tokyo, Japan Neo Moroism 5, Tsinghua University Visual Artcenter, Beijing, China
  2017	Pharmakon: Medical-ecological approach for artistic sensibilization,  The Terminal Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan  New flat field,  Digital Hollywood University,  Tokyo, Japan
  2016	The Greater Taipei Biennial of Contemporary Arts,  NTUA, Taipei, Taiwan Neo Moroism 4,  798 Art Factory BTAP, Beijing, China Adachi Delta,  Adachidelta, Tokyo, Japan
  2015	Siding Railroad  2015 ,  Ex-Tokorozawa Meal Center, Tokyo , Japan My hole, Art of hole,  Space 23℃, Tokyo , Japan Neo Moroism 2,  Red Tory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou. Guangzhou. China Daiwa Collection Ⅶ,  Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum. Okinawa Innocence,  Temple du gôut, Nantes ,France
  2014	Parplume UniversityⅡ,  Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto Neo Moroism 2,  798 Art Factory BTAP, Beijing, China Parplume University,  YAMASHITABILDG, Nagoya, Japan Summer and Painters,   ARATANIURANO, Tokyo Japan
  2013	Biennial Open Exhibition,  NN Contemporary art, Northampton, Uk ILYAURA The Window,  The Window, Paris, France Day(s) dreaming,   Le 59 Rivoli, Paris, France SOMANYIMAGES,  Sprout Curation, Tokyo, Japan
  2012	Pandemonium,  XYZ collective,Tokyo,Japan
  2011	4 Artist show,  Shugo Arts, Tokyo,Japan
  2008	15years,  WAKO WORKS OF ART ,Tokyo ,Japan
  2007	Portrait Session @NADiff ,  NADiff ,Tokyo ,Japan Portrait Session,  Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art , Hiroshima ,Japan
  2006	Masada Takeshi & Tomohito Ishii ,  WAKO WORKS OF ART ,Tokyo, Japan  Completion works,   Musashino Art University ,Tokyo , Japan
  2005	flom/to #3,  WAKO WORKS OF ART ,Tokyo ,Japan
  2004	Graduation works,   Musashino Art University ,Tokyo ,Japan

  Scholarships and Awards

  2019	Single Grant, Arts Counsil Tokyo
  2012	Paris award  Musashino Art University
  2005	Cité International des Arts (Paris)

  Curation / Direction

  2019	My Hole: Hole in Arts series (2019), Curation, Space23℃/ CAPSULE/ clinic
  2018	My Hole: Scab of the 21st Century,  Curation, Space23℃
  2017	New flat field,  Direction, Digital Hollywood University
  2016	Adachi Deltra,  Direction,  Adachi Delta
  2012	Pandemonium,  Curation,  XYZ Collective

  Project

  2019	My Hole: Scab of the 21st Century,  Catalog Published
  2016	My hole, Art of hole,   Catalog Published
  2013	ILYAURA The Window,   Nuit Blanche joint event ILYAURA,   Art Association ILYUAURA established

  Text

  2019	My swollen hand, Wolf and wolf, by Ryo Katsumata, 2019
  2018	New flat field,  BT, by Takuya Nakao, 2017
  2012	Pendulum of image,  Pandemonium art book, by Keisuke Mori
  2011	Art Anatomy,  Kyoto Newspaper, by Yasuyuki Nakai, 2011 Topography of /,   BT, by Tomohiro Masuda, 2011 The Pandemonium of Image,  αM Project, by Masayuki Tanaka
  2005	Gallery Reviews,  BT, by Yuichiro Takashima, 2005

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  Shinichi Takashima
  + Shu Nakagawa

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  Shinichi Takashima
  + Shu Nakagawa

  This unit is composed of Shinichi Takashima (born in 1978 in Tokyo), an artist who works on performance pieces and writes critiques, and Shu Nakagawa (born in 1980 in Kochi), a photographer and videographer who is specialized in natural materials and craft products. In 2014, they started collaboration to produce video works, which are based on the motility of the camera which is not visually captured in its own frame. They depict the world without human beings by their own method like the measurement by use of motion parallax.

  Solo Exhibitions: “Perspective and Pivot Point: The Shortcut Road Movie” Media Shop gallery, Kyoto, Japan, 2019.

  Group Exhibitions: “IMG/Exhibition of video works by three artists” Sprout Curation, Tokyo, Japan, 2019. “Mapping the Invisible: Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions” Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 2018. “Railroad Siding 2017” the 2nd Center for Meal factory of Tokorozawa City, Saitama, Japan, 2017. “Unconditional Restoration” milkyeast, Tokyo, Japan, 2015.

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  Taisuke Makihara

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  Taisuke Makihara

  Born in Hiroshima in 1977

  Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan

  Education

  2003	MA in Fine Arts (Painting), Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
  2001	BA in Fine Arts (Painting), Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

  Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

  2016	‘Nature Study’ gFAL, Musashino Art University, Tokyo ‘Nature Study’ Gallery MUSÉE F, Tokyo
  2013	‘River’ MIYAKE FINE ART, Tokyo
  2010	‘Recent Work’ Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
  2008	‘Road Runner’ Gallery MUSÉE F, Tokyo ‘flooring’ Shiseido art egg 2, SHISEIDO GALLERY, Tokyo
  2007	‘display’ αM project, ON THE TRAIL vol.1, art space kimura ASK?, Tokyo
  2003	INAX gallery 2, Tokyo
  2001	AKIYAMA GALLERY, Tokyo

  Group Exhibitions (Selected)

  2020	‘Individual Sansui’  Komagome SOKO, Tokyo
  2018	‘REENVISIONING JAPANESE GARDEN’  kudan house, Tokyo
  2017	‘To Die in Vain (or Not)’  TALION GALLERY, Tokyo
  2012	‘UTOPIA -As an anonymous place’ ART BASE MOMOSHIMA, Hiroshima
  2011	‘FLORENCE TRUST 2011’ The Florence Trust, London
  2010	‘almost the same, but not quite’ 48 Stunde Neukölln, Damen Salon, Berlin
  2008	‘Gunma Biennale for Young Artist 2008’ The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
  2007	‘Hiroshima Art Project’ Former Hiroshima Branch of Bank of Japan, Hiroshima
  2006	‘Kiryu-saien12’ Kiryu Moriyoshi Factory, Gunma
  2004	‘Integrate’ Gallery Omotesando, Tokyo

  Grants and Awards

  2009	Fellowship of Overseas Study Program for Artists by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan (London, 2009-2011)
  2008	Shiseido art egg prize, Japan

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  Rui Mizuki

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  Rui Mizuki

  1983	Born in Kyoto, Japan.
  2006	Graduation from KCUA, Kyoto, Japan
  2016	Finished Ph.D. program (Media arts course) in KCUA, Japan

  Solo Exhibitions

  2019	AZUMAKUDARI / WAITINGROOM (Tokyo,JP)
  2018	FM (Flexible Mindset) / haku exhibition (Kyoto,JP) Mosaic of City / ARTZONE (Kyoto,JP)
  2017	C’s / RMIT PROJECT SPACE (Melbourne,AU) Mirror behind hole : Photography into Sculpture vol.3 Rui MIZUKI / gallery αM (Tokyo,JP)
  2005	liquid space / Honenin (Kyoto,JP)

  Group Exhibitions

  2021	constellation #02 / rin art association (Gunma) Symptoms – Four thoughts and physicality – / Artspace Kan (Kyoto)
  2020	GINZA ROOFTOP PROJECT / GINZA TOKYU-PLAZA｜KIRIKO TERRACE. WATER SIDE (Tokyo) VOCA 2020 / The Ueno Royal Museum (Tokyo) Individual Sansui / Komagome soko (Tokyo)
  2018	Compiling behaviors, digesting actions / TOKAS Hongo (Tokyo,JP)
  2016	NEO-EDEN / Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum (Suzhou,CH)
  2015	Urbanism – Cityscapes/Residences / kanakawanishi Gallery (Tokyo,JP) STEP OUT! New Japanese Photographers / IMA Gallery (Tokyo,JP) still moving / Former Suujin Elementary School (Kyoto,JP) ARTIST WORKSHOP @KCUA “The Catalogue” by Rinko KAWAUCHI / @KCUA (Kyoto,JP) Series”Spin Photograph #01″ / Bloom Gallery (Osaka,JP) TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD NEW VISIONS #1 / G/P+g3/ gallery (Tokyo,JP)
  2014	TERRADA ART AWARD / T-Art Complex (Tokyo,JP) NIPPON NOW　Junge japanische Kunst und das Rheinland / E.ON (Düsseldorf,Germany)
  2013	flowing urbanity / ART68 (Cologne,Germany) TSCA Rough Consensus / HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO (Kyoto,JP)
  2012	KAGEUTSUSHI―reflections, transition, infection― / @KCUA (Kyoto,JP) INTERIM SHOW / Kyoto City University of Arts (Kyoto,JP) Exhibition of the Works of Doctoral Students / @KCUA (Kyoto,JP)
  2011	INTERIM SHOW / Kyoto City University of Arts (Kyoto,JP)
  2010	Turm 3. made in Japan / Galerie pack of patches (Germany)
  2009	WAKUWAKU JOBAN-KASHIWA Project / TSCA (Chiba,JP) now here , nowhere / Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto,JP)
  2008	Double Chronos (Curated by Yuko HASEGAWA seminar) / ZAP (Tokyo,JP) sensuous / AD&A gallery (Osaka,JP)
  2007	Views of Water：From Monet and Taikan to the Present / Yokohama Museum of Art (Kanagawa,JP) P&E 2007 / ARTCOURT Gallery (Osaka,JP)
  2006	STAIRS / CASO (Osaka,JP) GINZA KOMATSU ART PROJECT 06 / GINZA KOMATSU (Tokyo,JP)

  Project Support

  2014	Temporary foundation
  2014	Yokohama Triennale 2014　/　Yokohama Museum of Art (Kanagawa,JP)

  Grants and Awards

  2014	TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD 2014 #4, Jury Prize

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  Ryosuke Kondo

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  Ryosuke Kondo

  Born in Osaka, Japan in 1982. Ryosuke Kondo is an artist and art critic. He obtained his B.A. from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, the University of London, and his M.A. from the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He was a JSPS Research Fellow (2014-16) and a Fulbright visiting researcher at Harvard Graduate School of Design (2016-17). 

  
  Specializing in Aesthetics and History of Landscape, his research primarily focuses on the theory of painting and gardening in modern Britain, America, and Japan. In addition to academic articles, he writes reviews for art and culture magazines, such as Bijutsu Techo and Ohararyu SOKA, and organizes contemporary art exhibitions, including Individual Sansui (Komagome SOKO, 2020) and The Genius Loci of Kudan and the Niki of the Japanese Garden (kudan house, 2018).