Back Issue -1 June 2007-

Descriptive Sharpness, Painterly Blur: Hiroshi Sugimoto Matthew Larking There is a great deal of similarity and contrast between Hiroshi Sugimoto's "Architecture" and "Conceptual Forms" series that lends an attractive conceptual play to the exhibition "Various Archetypes" at The National Museum of Art, Osaka. Apparently he used the same camera for both, and the works are all the same size, the large-format black and white photographic prints Sugimoto has made his signature. more... On Terunobu Fujimori Thomas Daniell The cheerful misfit at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale was the Japanese Pavilion, a disarming celebration of vernacular building and amateur handcraft. It didn't exactly ignore the Biennale theme of "Cities, Architecture and Society," but it certainly contrasted with the majority of exhibits and their grim focus on metropolitan statistics. more... Descriptive Sharpness, Painterly Blur: Hiroshi Sugimoto Matthew Larking 1 Jun 2007 On Terunobu Fujimori Thomas Daniell 1 Jun 2007 On the Road: The Tokaido Hiroshige Art Museum Alan Gleason 1 Jun 2007 Keiji Uematsu: Touch of Spiral 17 March - 14 April 2007 1 Jun 2007 Gentaro Ishizuka: Stable Metaphor Jeffrey Ian Rosen 2 May 2007 Tadao Ando Construction Site 2006: "A Hard-Fought Process" Thomas Daniell 2 May 2007 Fluidity and Symmetry: Roy Staab's Natural Art Alan Gleason 2 May 2007 Emi Shudo: Art Shows in Japan 6-11 March 2007 2 May 2007 >> Back Issues