Category: Japan
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Analysis of Kanō Tan’yū’s Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers and the Making of an Early Edo Art Market
Few names hold as much weight in the history of Japanese art as the Kanō family and the influential school that bore their name. Founded in the fifteenth century by Kanō Masanobu (1434–1530), the Kanō School shaped Japan’s visual culture for nearly four centuries, sustaining unrivalled authority over official commissions and elite patronage while adapting…
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RUTEN – In Memory of Takehiko Sugawara
From October 9 to November 8, Galerie Tamenaga Paris presents a commemorative retrospective on the works of Takehiko Sugawara. The artist, who was born in Tokyo in 1962, tragically accidentally passed last summer during a solitary trek on Mount Tsurugi to study Toyama’s ancient cedars. His work merges different traditions: he followed the tradition of…
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Frieze London 2025, Preview KAYOKOYUKI
For Frieze London 2025, Tokyo-based gallery Kayokoyuki presents a dialogue between two Japanese artists, Daichi Takagi and Yutaka Nozawa, whose works explore the shifting boundaries between space, time, figuration, and abstraction through painting, photography, and video. Daichi Takagi’s work draws deeply from nature and from the elements that shape our everyday surroundings.Early in his career,…
プロテオドラ Theodora Poulot 