2013/14 - LISTE 18 | The young art fair in Basel

Aoyama / Meguro3/3/1Aoyama / MeguroHideki Aoyama2-30-6 Kamimeguro MeguroJP-153-0051 TokyoT +81 3 3711 4099M +11 81 80 3123 268a@aoyamahideki.comwww.aoyamameguro.comSolo Show at LISTE:Koki Tanaka, 1975, JPOther Artists of the Gallery:Shinya Aota, JPSatoshi Hashimoto, JPHirofumi Isoya, JPChosil Kil, RKLotte Lyon, ROEuan Macdonald, USHiroaki Morita, JPKen Sasaki, JPJunya Sato, JPKoki Tanaka#0 communal teadrinking (from aseries of precarioustasks), 2012Collective acts,photograph and text73 × 110 cmCredits: created withAoyama Meguro,TokyoKoki TanakaGo to a flowermarket and make abouquet of flowersas big as possible,2009Photograph and text68.4 × 102.6 cmKoki TanakaA behavioral statement(or an unconsciousprotest), 2013HD video, 8minPhoto credit: TakashiFujikawaCredits: filming incooperation withKorean CulturalCenter, KoreanEmbassy in JapanCommissionedby The JapanFoundationEquipment support:Artists’ Guild56 / 57Yes, our lives are complicated, you know.And I can say that reality of life consistof abstract things and moments. Let’s thinkabout it. What did you have for breakfastthis morning? I had a peanuts buttersandwich with banana and a couple ofcoffee. Of course, I can remember it butthose things are not real anymore. That ismemory of my breakfast. I just reconstructthe past at the very moment of now.Even if you are eating something right now,you cannot catch all the reality of that food.If you can taste it, you just feel the tastefrom your tongue and mouth. But the foodhas many different kinds of aspect. Let’ssay, peanuts butter could be material forpainting, banana could be trap for makingpeople to slip on and coffee could growbeautiful flowers. We could findout alternative way to view our everydaylives even we are having banal breakfastsame as yesterday. In the very usualmoment, we could see something new atthe same time. There are a lot of abstractthings and moments waiting for usto brake through to a new perspective.If we face the reality of life, I think wecan deepen our understanding of the world.I always try to look for that kind of momentin my life. (Koki Tanaka)Aoyama / Meguro was founded as apreparation office (private gallery) to repre -sent Koki Tanaka in 2004, moved toNakameguro, Tokyo, and officially openedin 2007.Our gallery indicate how to update andopen perception and introduce approx -imately 10 artists mainly from Japan, Vienna,UK and US. in the context of conceptual art.Since the foundation of the gallery,we encourage our artists to engage in awide variety of activities such as,writing, having their exhibition, participatingto talk shows or projects outside the gallery,and so on.One of the most significant event this yearis, our representative artists, Koki Tanaka willrepresent Japan at the 2013 VeniceBiennale.