FOIL ENGLISH BLOG

Shigekazu Onuma "sei sai"

Shigekazu Onuma's solo exhibition, "sei sai" closed yesterday
with great success.
The title "sei sai" was the coinage of Onuma, meaning the contradiction between
calmness and turbulence, which was clearly depicted with his photographs
as well as the exhibition layout.
This exhibition period was not long compared to our usual program, however,
we witnessed untapped talent of the artist to bloom!

Rinko Kawauchi and Syoin Kajii in foam magazine

Our gallery artists, Rinko Kawauchi and Syoin Kajii is featured in foam magazine # 19 with the theme "wonder"!



Kajii's photographs from NAMI series are powerfully shown with foldout of 90cm wide!


The cover image is from the works of Jaap Scheere,
a promising young photographer from the Netherlands.
His comical yet skillful and playful works can be seen in our IANN vol.2 as well!

This weekend's FOIL

Time flies, half of year 2009 has already passed...

As mentioned before, First book fair for art books in Tokyo, "Zine's Mate"
will start from 10th, Fri, and also a group show "DOUBLE FANTASY: Korean
Contemporary Art" at Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of
Contemporary Art will open from 12th, Sun.
(FOIL is publishing the exhibition catalogue to accompany the opening!)


Here you can see the participating Artist, KDK (Kim Dokyun) newly photographed
the architecture of Marugame Museum for the show!
( right hand side of the poster!)

In this connection, FOIL's summer 2009 is pained "Korea" all over!
Inviting guest curator Kim Inseon and co-organizing Gallery Factory,
both from Seoul, FOIL GALLERY will announce a group show "Made of Layers"
with 5 Korean artists. This exhibition will start from 17th, Fri, July.

In addition, we'll also participate in an Art Fair in Busan,
"ARTO BUSAN ARTO FAIR 2009", which will be the first art fair in Busan held
at newly renovated hotel located in central Busan.