Art Space Tokyo: An intimate guide to the Tokyo art world

MARCH ARTICLE ROUND-UP

Posted by Ashley Rawlings on Thursday, April 2nd 2009

Every month, Art Space Tokyo offers you a round-up of exhibition reviews, interviews, feature articles and news items published on other websites.

Exhibition Reviews

• Shimabuku at the Watari Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]

• Jim Lambie at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art [TAB]

• Tse Su-Mei at Art Tower Mito [TAB]

• “GA Houses Project” at GA Gallery [TAB]

Interviews

• Paule Saviano at Gallery éf [TAB]

• Tekko Itoh on the Kawaguchi i-mono iron cookware brand [TAB]

• Koo Fu jewelry [TAB]

• Hiroyuki Saito on Ikazaki Shachu washi paper [TAB]

• Satoshi Yamashita on Hokubo blade-producing [TAB]

• Naoki Ishibashi on Soejima igusa grass for tatami mats [TAB]

• Shutaro Nomura on Nomura Orimono textiles [TAB]

• Toshihisa Yoshizawa on Nigara Uchihamono Tanzono bladesmithing [TAB]

• Tsuneo Goto on Naruko lacquerware [TAB]

• Japan Knit Brand [TAB]

• Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec on visiting sites of craft production in rural Japan [TAB]

Features

On Realtokyo, Tetsuya Ozaki discusses Kiyoshi Awazu’s retrospective at the Kawasaki City Museum and announces that ART iT and RealTokyo will be downscaling their activities.