Gallery Collaborations

C02

Host

Taka Ishii Gallery

（Tokyo）

Guest

Sadie Coles HQ

（London）

Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to present works by Nobuya Hoki, Zon Ito, and Wilhelm Sasnal in collaboration with London-based gallery, Sadie Coles HQ.
Hoki is known for his distinctive technique of painting with two brushes simultaneously to create doubled lines of dark blue and reddish brown – color separations of black. His latest work is based on his new idea that the roles of elements such as dirt, line, and ground are determined through their mutual relation, realizing a complex spatiality. The creative lines and forms, and their relation, indicate the physicality of the work as well as the potential plentitude of painting.
Ito has created works in numerous media including embroidery, pencil drawings, hand-drawn animation, video, and sculpture. Throughout his practice, Ito, who is interested in the relations between man’s interior and exterior worlds, has been drawn to Japanese mathematician Kiyoshi Oka’s idea that emotional spirits are formed through nurturing. He has been carrying out a “survey of living things” to examine the relationships between the self and organisms, entities, and phenomena that exist outside our recognition. He has produced works through his own means of expression, namely a partially embroidered sculpture which evokes a giant boulder, and a work composed of branches and a drawing made with a single brush stroke. We will be presenting works that depict various forms chained together in embroidery lines.
Sasnal draws on found photographic imagery taken from his surroundings, newspapers, billboards and pop culture, or his own smartphone. Likewise, his practice addresses wide-ranging themes that constitute contemporary life: depicting scenes of his own family, traditional still lifes, as well as more complex social and political subject-matter in the present and from recent history such as migration and the Holocaust.

Host

Taka Ishii Gallery

（Tokyo）

Since its opening in 1994, Taka Ishii Gallery has continued to maintain and develop an exhibition program based on the goals of introducing international contemporary artists within Japan and acting as an international platform for emerging Japanese artists as well as contemporary masters. While the gallery aesthetic is rooted in the photographic, the program is contemporary and represented artists work in a variety of media. A yearly exhibition program of eight solo and/or group exhibitions is supplemented by the publication of catalogs and artists' books, with an emphasis on the promotion of emerging Japanese artists. In addition to the primary exhibition space at complex665 in Roppongi, amanaTIGP focuses on historical exhibitions of pre and postwar Japanese photography and film work. Since 2018, the gallery also operates SHOP Taka Ishii Gallery in Hong Kong which is dedicated to experimental works.

E-mail

elisa@takaishiigallery.com

URL

http://www.takaishiigallery.com

Locations

Tokyo: complex665 3F, 6-5-24 Roppongi, Minato-ku

Tokyo: AXIS Bldg. 2F, 5-17-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku

Hong Kong: Shops 4A & 4B, UG/F, Bo Fung Mansion, No.1 St. Francis Yard, Wan Chai

Roppongi New Space Inaugural Exhibition:“MOVED”, installation view at Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Oct 21 – Nov 19, 2016, photo: Kenji Takahashi

Guest

Sadie Coles HQ

（London）

Sadie Coles HQ is a London-based contemporary art gallery representing around fifty established and emerging international artists. The gallery opened in London in 1997, with its inaugural exhibition – of new paintings by American painter John Currin – presented in parallel with an off-site show by British artist Sarah Lucas, The Law, at St John Street. This pairing established the international breadth of the gallery's programme, which it has since expanded upon over the past two decades. Since its inception, Sadie Coles HQ has operated from a variety of spaces, mounting numerous off-site projects and partaking in collaborative exchanges throughout the city and abroad. The gallery frequently hosts emerging young galleries, curatorial projects and arts programmes in The Shop at Kingly Street, as well as peer galleries; most recently inviting four contemporary galleries based in India to collaborate on a group exhibition at the Davies Street gallery in May 2022. In September 2013, Sadie Coles HQ opened its largest space at 62 Kingly Street in Soho, a second space at 1 Davies Street in Mayfair designed by 6a Architects in 2015, and in April 2021 a third space at 8 Bury Street in St James’s.

E-mail

john@sadiecoles.com

URL

https://www.sadiecoles.com/

Locations