TOKYO art crossing BERLIN/5 different landscapes

EXHIBITION PROGRAM
5 different landscapes
June 5 -11, 2015
Epicentro art

Approach to the landscape by the different technique and medium of five artists.
This exhibition “5 different landscapes” is part of the artproject “TOKYO art crossing BERLIN” from June 5 to 21 in Berlin.
Five artists from Tokyo, Berlin and NY will individually express the “sensitivity” of this project.

異なるジャンルの5人のアーティストによるランドスケープアプローチ
プロジェクトの感度を表現するために選んだTOKYO、BERLIN 、NYのそれぞれ異なるタイプの5人のアーティストによるエキジビションです。

Epicentro art
Joachimstrasse 5 / Gipspark　10119 Berlin
12am – 6pm
http://epicentroart.com/web/
●Opening Reception June 5 19:00-

Artists
Ayaka Nakamura 中村綾花 / woodcut print (Tokyo)
Kazue Iwatsuka 岩塚一恵 / insallation work (Tokyo)
Yoko Naito ないとうようこ/ photograph　(NY)
//from the white room. / video works (NY)
Hitomi Ueoka 上岡ひとみ　/ insallation work (Berlin)

ayaka nakamura中村 綾花 (Tokyo)
woodcut print
hereafter/ 先
Life is fleeting; therefore, zest for life is delicate and magnificent. Myriad life forms make the world and I’m also one of them. I’m thinking about the air current and life’s wave in the process of living, included “myself”.

命は儚い。だからこそ在り続けようとする姿は繊細で壮大だ。無数の命が集まり、世の中があり、自分も又その一つ。一つ一つが存在し続けようとして出来た空気の動きや命の流れ、そしてその一部である”自分”について考え続けている。
1988 Born in Tokyo,Japan
2009-2013 Musashino Art University, Tokyo JP (BA Fine Art, Printmaking) Currently Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
SOLO EXHIBITION
2013
02/12-07/1 “hereafter” Pepper’s Gallery,Ginza JP
GROUP EXHIBITION
2014
28/02-09/03 “JART4th” Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (WAH Center), NY
27/01-02/02 “MA A TO MI MI” Art Gallery ENOGUBAKO, Tokyo JP
2013
17/01-20/01 Graduation works exhibition/ Musashino Art University, Tokyo JP
web: http://ayakanakamura.com

Kazue Iwatsuka 岩塚一恵 (Tokyo)
installation
Accumulation of a certain time ある時間の堆積　
Memory from places, shadows and aftertaste are there to be felt. These are pursued that very moment as elements.　My pieces are inspired by anti-infrastructural spaces to either experience memory/flow of time unique to a place, or to virtually experience déjà-vu by oneself.
ある場に宿る記憶、面影、名残を読み取り、それらをその場の気配の要素として追及する。作品は　場に固有の記憶や時間の流れの追体験、あるいは自身の既視感、そうした体験を想起するための脱構築的空間によって表現される。
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After studying Architecture Design and Science of Art, She became interested in city environment
and overhead view of cities, and started studying and researching on soundscape.
While being engaged in soundscape designing, She wrote “SOUNDING SCAPE” (2005) 
and introduced her study on paper / installation. 
Since then, She started expanding her study from soundscape to the memory (shadow) 
that places / cities / metropolitans have.
She also studies human memory (déjà-vu) 
when making art. She has collaborated with many electroacoustic material production 
and contemporary dance direction as well.
Lives and works in Tokyo.
web: http://kazueiwatsuka.web.fc2.com

Yoko Naito ないとう ようこ (NY)
Photography
In between
Nature exists as a part of the living environment in Iceland.
The simple life in Iceland consists of the correlations of nature, humans, animals and their artifacts.
The juxtapositions with a different kind defines the significance of existence between each other.
These contrasts indicate the sharing of space in one universe.
大自然に囲まれたアイスランドでは、自然は生活環境の一部として存在する。そこでは自然、人間、動物、人工物とが一つの世界の中で共存している。この相互関係はお互いの存在意義と空間の共有を示す。
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Yoko Naito, born in Japan, has graduated from Nihon University College of Art, Tokyo, Japan in 2007.
She has worked as a graphic designer in Tokyo and currently working in New York as a photographer since 2009. In 2015, She was selected as a Finalist in Professional category of Sony World Photography Award (London, U.K.). In 2014, her one of the project was selected for Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts -Young Portfolio(Yamanashi, Japan), juries by Eiko Hosoe, Daido Moriyama, Masato Seto. In 2012, she was selected as an emerging Japanese photographer by RICOH Company, Ltd. She also received some awards such as International Photography Awards, London International Creative Competition and Prix de la Photographie Paris etc. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Japan.
web: www.yokonaito.com

//from the white room.　(NY)
jun ando + misaki matsui 安藤準 + 松井みさき
video / photography / music (Koto - Japanese harp) / installation
white sea
It is the music video with the message of hope "back to whiteness" which is expressed by visual image, quotes, music and dance.
video and quotes : misaki matsui
music : jun ando
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//from the white room.
The collaboration project between Jun Ando (a Koto-Japanese Harp Player and composer) and Misaki Matsui (cinematographer and photographer). They were inspired by simplicity and purity ofwhiteness, and they convey the message of hope “back to whiteness”to restart and reborn by visual arts, music and quotes.
フローム•ザ•ホワイト•ルーム
琴演奏家／作曲家の安藤準と、写真映像作家の松井みさきで結成。
白の持つ、シンプルさ／純粋さ／再生というイメージからインスパイアされた、「真っ白にかえろう」という希望のメッセージを、 映像、写真、音楽、言葉で発信。
web: www.misakimatsui.com

Hitomi Ueoka 上岡ひとみ (Berlin)
paper sculpture 和紙立体
under ground 2015
I express poisonous and eros in coexisting nature and society. The reality of our modern such as migration paper to data i also trying to embody the vividness shape that paper has by the process of making paper myself.
作品は自らが漉いた和紙を立体へとしていく過程にある。素材が持つ特異性を使い自然と社会の間に共存する毒々しさやエロスを表現している。紙がデータ化する現代において3Dとして和紙の存在感と生生しさの具現化を試みている。
web: http://hitomiueoka.net