Artists in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009
Ended
Tuesday30 June - Sunday2 August 2009
The Artists in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009 is the third in a series of special exhibitions featuring new artists. The art festival ends shortly. Please stop by on this occasion. Held every three years, The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (ETAT) takes place in an area that spans Niigata Prefecture, from Tokamachi City to Tsunan-Cho in Echigo-Tsumari.
Started 10 years ago as a project to revitalize a region adversely affected by aging and depopulation, ETAT sought to highlight the region’s wide variety of cultural and environment assets. This year’s Triennial will feature 350 works installed throughout the region.
Art Front Graphic’s exhibit, “Not Echigo-Tsumari,” contains work from new artists as well as permanent installations created by artists from the first two ETAT exhibits.
Please discover artists' characteristic while comparing the work exhibited in the gallery and the work exhibited to ETAT.
In this exhibition of the first of the series, art works of Naoyoshi Hikosaka, Noe Aoki, Jean-Michel Alberola, Seizo Tashima, Guan Huaibin, Maki Kijima, Oscar Satio Oiwa, are to be exhibitted.
Started 10 years ago as a project to revitalize a region adversely affected by aging and depopulation, ETAT sought to highlight the region’s wide variety of cultural and environment assets. This year’s Triennial will feature 350 works installed throughout the region.
Art Front Graphic’s exhibit, “Not Echigo-Tsumari,” contains work from new artists as well as permanent installations created by artists from the first two ETAT exhibits.
Please discover artists' characteristic while comparing the work exhibited in the gallery and the work exhibited to ETAT.
In this exhibition of the first of the series, art works of Naoyoshi Hikosaka, Noe Aoki, Jean-Michel Alberola, Seizo Tashima, Guan Huaibin, Maki Kijima, Oscar Satio Oiwa, are to be exhibitted.
| Hours | 11:00 ~ 19:00 (closed on Mondays) |
Featured Artists
Oscar Oiwa
Works of Oiwa, as though veiled over the surface, attract the viewers' perspective into the depth of the plane. His interest in social matters, caught at first in newspapers and articles on internet, will be visualized through elaborative research and drawing process. The finished image, sometimes grandiose and apocalyptic, depicts the life and society with his characteristic sense of humor. Born in Sao Paulo, he graduated from Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at Sao Paulo University. While working in an architectural studio in Japan where his parents are issued from, he exhibited gradually in artistic events to become an artist. Awarded the grant from Asian Cultural Council and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he moved to New York in 2002 where he lives since then. Recently he exhibited in Brazil, Korea and Japan. His solo exhibit in 2019 at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa attracted more than 150,000 visitors.