Series 2: Artists in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009

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Tuesday4 August - Sunday30 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 takes place in an area that spans Niigata Prefecture, from Tokamachi City to Tsunan-Cho in Echigo-Tsumari.

Please discover artists' characteristic while comparing the work exhibited in the gallery and the work exhibited to ETAT.

In this exhibition of the second of the series, art works of Cai Guo Qiang, Noe Aoki, Tadashi Kawamata, Seizo Tashima, Guan Huaibin, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Maki Kijima, Jun Honma, Oscar Satio Oiwa, are to be exhibitted.

Tickets and maps to the event are available at Art Front Graphics.
Started 10 years ago as a project to revitalize a region adversely affected by aging and depopulation, the triennial 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 Echigo Trienniak exhibitions.
Hours11:00 ~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.

Tadashi Kawamata

Since participating in Venice Biennale in 1982, the aritst is working as international artist. His works shows that the working process to create art is a part of the artwork. In his large installations, the artist uses woods and the newly discovered space in the work becomes the artwork. In his work, movement of the audience also plays an important role and is the process of the creation of the work. Drawings or models of his installations are not merely showing his plans, but are individual works which content each of his working process, and are becoming more popular nowadays.

Cai Guo-Qiang

Works basically using fireworks and creates paintings or does performance. He also works with installations, based on his background in Chinese or Asian culture . Cai also works as curators for various exhibitions.