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Artist Residence:IKEUCHI
IKEUCHI
Artist IKEUCHI worked at CONTRAST for niketokyo studio 81 client work. IKEUCHI "WD-01n". Photo by Keishin Horikoshi / SS. Courtesy of Gallery COMMON.
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IKEUCHI
Artist IKEUCHI worked at CONTRAST for niketokyo studio 81 client work. IKEUCHI "WD-01n". Photo by Keishin Horikoshi / SS. Courtesy of Gallery COMMON.
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Private Viewing:WAKU
Gallery COMMON's neon artist WAKU held a private viewing at CONTRAST on the occasion of his exhibition at "Art Fair Tokyo 2022". Wakui. Untitled N01.2022.8mm neon glass, argon gas, glass box with steel frame.1356 x 1642 x 942 mm. Photo by Yosuke Torii. Courtesy of Gallery COMMON.
Waku was born in Tokyo in 1996, where he currently lives and works. Waku’s practice centers around the exploration of neon light. Using the medium to challenge our understanding of material, form, and element, Waku probes into deeper questions about how we perceive and relate to the world. Neon, a medium that is often culturally associated with signage, is treated as a final form in and of itself within Waku’s works. The son of a Buddhist temple family, Waku’s childhood exposure to candle-lit prayers and shining golden Buddha statues shaped his ‘formative experience of light,’ and he naturally found himself drawn to the element as a pathway to creating environments. In 2017, he began training as a craftsman at Shimada Neon, one of the leading factories in Japan, before eventually moving to New York where he studied under the tutelage of distinguished neon specialist David Ablon, who also worked on pieces by the late 20th century artist Nam June Paik. A craftsman as well as an artist, Waku’s intimate relationship with the physical hardware that powers neon (glass, electricity, argon gas, etc.) functions as a starting point for his evolving practice, allowing him to flexibly experiment with ways of “setting neon light free” to create new meaning. Following his training period, Waku returned to Japan and established his neon sign studio gokou while continuing to pursue his artistic practice. Recent activities include the solo exhibition “Sobokukou” at CON_ and Domicile Tokyo (2022) and the solo exhibition “In Person” at Gallery COMMON (2020), among others.
Founded in 2010 by creative agency en one tokyo and currently under the direction of co-founder Satoru Arai, Gallery COMMON emerged from the street culture of Harajuku as an intimate space for both Japanese and international artists and trendsetters to interact with the local scene.
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Gureaza 2 - Grateful Others
Mon Koutaro Ooyama
between pixel and particle
Sander Wassink
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Artist Residence & Open Studio : Jacqueline Surdell
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CASE STUDY EXHIBITION 03
Tapetum
Sonic Geometries
Wolfgang Gil
Agoraphobe
Moha MMZ
GOLEM Ph2
Snow Therapy
Timothée Lambrecq
SHU TO / EXHIBITION HUNGRY SCISSORS
Yuki Iwatake
Delusions & Realities
Morphosis
Martin Berteloodt
Overgrowth
Andrea Samory
MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2023 "Time to Change"
Every Subpixel Matters
GADID ANONIEM POPUP STORE
GADID ANONIEM
THE NEW ORDER / ISSUE 30
THE NEW ORDER
It's Gone, It's Going & Thin Translucent Paradise
Scott Wade
Mannequins
Ruby Evers
PRANK PROJECT 23Autumn LOOK
PRANK PROJECT
Memory in Motion: Architecture of Perseverance
Bogdan Seredyak
URUH DEBUT EXHIBITION
ATM by VASARI: Calling from Tokyo
Sky Pixelated
MAKERS SPACE
NIGHT ART FAIR TAIPEI
SOPHNET. 2023-2024 A/W COLLECTION
SOPHNET.
We are Computational Craftsmen
DIGRAPH
YAWN
ENA
LIKE
NOLL
Absences
Luigi Honorat
Reflective Configuration
Hiroyuki Arikawa (WORKSHOP™)
IN FOCUS 10TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION
IN FOCUS
Artist Residence:Shohei Takasaki
Dialogue with
CASE STUDY EXHIBITION 02
Tapetum
Jyu(Chapter1/Takaramachi Danchi)
SEIU
Ray Kunimoto
Private Viewing:WAKU
Artist Residence:Shohei Takasaki
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Daichi Yamamoto 6.2oz. Premium T-shirt Style No.5942-01
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