YOD Gallery Past Exhibitions

□ Exhibition Outline

YOD Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition by Agathe de Bailliencourt, a Berlin based French female artist (b.1974), “My so called life in Japan” that will be hold from April 14 to 2 May.

Bailliencourt has been engaged in many international exhibitions and projects, and has been continuously conducting energetic activities. Her abstract paintings, created with dynamic colours and strokes by using acrylic, crayon and pastel, leave a strong impression with viewers. She translates her daily experiences into works through her unique sensitivity by using primary colours and layers of tracing. She avoids choosing specific themes. Her sensitivity becomes a filter, which all her fresh images passed through and are composed on canvas.

In recent years, she has executed many installations as well as canvases. Her installation works are site-specific. She conducts her installation by sinking herself into the space, the time, the country and the culture where she stays. Images in the installation, created from a result like a chemical reaction between those elements and her sensitivity, cover the space with nonfigurative lines and colours. Those her images become a part of the site where the work is installed.

Bailliencourt has stayed in Japan from this January for the residence program called “cOOOkbOOOk” held by OOO, an alternative workspace in Osaka, with the support of the French embassy in Japan & Alliance Française d’Osaka. She conducted work-in-progress sessions for 3 weeks in this February. During the progra, Bailliencourt also executed an installation at graf salon in Osaka and conducted a workshop in the installation with visitors. We could see a reflection of lots of her experiences in Osaka in the result of installation. In addition, her participation in “Roppongi Art Night” held by several art organizations, such as Mori Museums, Suntory Museum of Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, in Roppongi (Tokyo) on March 28^thwill deepen her understanding of Japan.

This exhibition introduces a new installation especially created for the YOD gallery site & new canvas works executed during her stay in Japan. Please peruse her world view in these works, in which her well-honed sensitivity is sublimated in her experiences in Osaka and Japan with.

□     Agathe de Bailliencourt Biography
1974   Born in FRANCE
1998   Ecole Boulle, Paris, France
1995   Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Cergy Pontoise, France
Based in Berlin

[SOLO EXHIBITIONS]
2009    "Lost & Found", OOO Space, Osaka, Japan
2008    "My so-called life", Galerie Catherine & André Hug, Paris, France
           "Occupation à 6", Hugo Boss Orange Store Mitte, Berlin,　
　　　　 Germany. Curator: Matthias Harder
2007    "Urban 64", Taksu Gallery, Singapore
2006    "Tanglin", Galerie Catherine & André Hug, Paris, France
           "J’aime - J’aime pas",Taksu Gallery, Singapore
2005    "J'aime - j'aime pas Wall", Comme des Garçons Guerilla
　　　　 Store+65, Singapore

[GROUP EXHIBITIONS]
2008     Scope Miami, Magnet, USA. Curator: Jill Clark
            "Intrude Project", Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art,
　　　　　China. Curator: Biljana Ciric
            Art Singapore, Taksu Gallery, Singapore
            "Paint my House", installation realized on the Berliner Dom,
　　　　　Berlin, Germany
2007     "Festival of Lights", installation realized on the IHZ-Building,
　　　　　Berlin, Germany
2006     Singapore Biennale 2006. Artistic Director: M. Fumio Nanjo
2005     "Vision Express International", Shanghai Youth Biennale, China.
　　　　　Curator: M. Fumio Nanjo

[COMMISSIONS]
2009     Live painting installation at Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo, Japan
            Live painting installation & workshop at Graf, Osaka, Japan
            Painting on umbrella for OOO, Osaka, Japan
2008     Wall painting & drawings for Hugo Boss, Berlin, Germany
2007     Painting on shoe for Converse, USA
2006     Wall painting for the National Art Council, Singapore
            Drawings for the Singapore Biennale 2006 with WORK,
　　　　　Singapore
2005     Drawings for WERK Magazine, Singapore
2004     Drawings for Comme Des Garçons, Tokyo, Japan
            Paintings for Song + Kelly 21, Singapore
            Drawings for Ogilvy & Mather – Mental Illnesses print campaign,
　　　　 Singapore
            Gold & Silver Lions at Cannes Lions 2005, Print Winner at
　　　　　London
            International Awards 2004, Best of Show Award from Singapore
　　　　　Creative Circle 2004
2003     Drawings for WERK Magazine & Comme Des Garçons,
　　　　 Singapore

□　Images

4-9-15, Nishitenma, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan, 530-0047 T/F +81 (0)6 6364 0775 Open: 11:00-19:00 Close: Sunday, Monday, Public holidays

Closing day: Every Sunday and Monday, 24th and 25th April □　Supported by Turner Color Works Ltd. □ Opening Reception From 17:00 until 21:00 on 10th April @ YOD Gallery □ Exhibition Outline YOD Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition by Agathe de Bailliencourt, a Berlin based French female artist (b.1974), “My so called life in Japan” that will be hold from April 14 to 2 May. Bailliencourt has been engaged in many international exhibitions and projects, and has been continuously conducting energetic activities. Her abstract paintings, created with dynamic colours and strokes by using acrylic, crayon and pastel, leave a strong impression with viewers. She translates her daily experiences into works through her unique sensitivity by using primary colours and layers of tracing. She avoids choosing specific themes. Her sensitivity becomes a filter, which all her fresh images passed through and are composed on canvas. In recent years, she has executed many installations as well as canvases. Her installation works are site-specific. She conducts her installation by sinking herself into the space, the time, the country and the culture where she stays. Images in the installation, created from a result like a chemical reaction between those elements and her sensitivity, cover the space with nonfigurative lines and colours. Those her images become a part of the site where the work is installed. Bailliencourt has stayed in Japan from this January for the residence program called “cOOOkbOOOk” held by OOO, an alternative workspace in Osaka, with the support of the French embassy in Japan & Alliance Française d’Osaka. She conducted work-in-progress sessions for 3 weeks in this February. During the progra, Bailliencourt also executed an installation at graf salon in Osaka and conducted a workshop in the installation with visitors. We could see a reflection of lots of her experiences in Osaka in the result of installation. In addition, her participation in “Roppongi Art Night” held by several art organizations, such as Mori Museums, Suntory Museum of Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, in Roppongi (Tokyo) on March 28^thwill deepen her understanding of Japan. This exhibition introduces a new installation especially created for the YOD gallery site & new canvas works executed during her stay in Japan. Please peruse her world view in these works, in which her well-honed sensitivity is sublimated in her experiences in Osaka and Japan with. □ Agathe de Bailliencourt Biography 1974 Born in FRANCE 1998 Ecole Boulle, Paris, France 1995 Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Cergy Pontoise, France Based in Berlin [SOLO EXHIBITIONS] 2009 "Lost & Found", OOO Space, Osaka, Japan 2008 "My so-called life", Galerie Catherine & André Hug, Paris, France "Occupation à 6", Hugo Boss Orange Store Mitte, Berlin,　　　　　 Germany. Curator: Matthias Harder 2007 "Urban 64", Taksu Gallery, Singapore 2006 "Tanglin", Galerie Catherine & André Hug, Paris, France "J’aime - J’aime pas",Taksu Gallery, Singapore 2005 "J'aime - j'aime pas Wall", Comme des Garçons Guerilla 　　　　 Store+65, Singapore [GROUP EXHIBITIONS] 2008 Scope Miami, Magnet, USA. Curator: Jill Clark "Intrude Project", Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, 　　　　　China. Curator: Biljana Ciric Art Singapore, Taksu Gallery, Singapore "Paint my House", installation realized on the Berliner Dom, 　　　　　Berlin, Germany 2007 "Festival of Lights", installation realized on the IHZ-Building, 　　　　　Berlin, Germany 2006 Singapore Biennale 2006. Artistic Director: M. Fumio Nanjo 2005 "Vision Express International", Shanghai Youth Biennale, China. 　　　　　Curator: M. Fumio Nanjo [COMMISSIONS] 2009 Live painting installation at Roppongi Art Night, Tokyo, Japan Live painting installation & workshop at Graf, Osaka, Japan Painting on umbrella for OOO, Osaka, Japan 2008 Wall painting & drawings for Hugo Boss, Berlin, Germany 2007 Painting on shoe for Converse, USA 2006 Wall painting for the National Art Council, Singapore Drawings for the Singapore Biennale 2006 with WORK, 　　　　　Singapore 2005 Drawings for WERK Magazine, Singapore 2004 Drawings for Comme Des Garçons, Tokyo, Japan Paintings for Song + Kelly 21, Singapore Drawings for Ogilvy & Mather – Mental Illnesses print campaign, 　　　　 Singapore Gold & Silver Lions at Cannes Lions 2005, Print Winner at 　　　　　London International Awards 2004, Best of Show Award from Singapore 　　　　　Creative Circle 2004 2003 Drawings for WERK Magazine & Comme Des Garçons, 　　　　 Singapore □　Images "My so-called life (in Japan) 10"　2009 116.5 x 91 cm　Acrylic painting, pastels, pencils and markers on canvas "What the heart wants 1"　2008 165 x 90 cm　Acrylic painting, pastels, pencils and markers on canvas "Occupation à 6", painting installation realized in the cellar of the Hugo Boss Orange Store, Berlin, 2008 "Occupation Bleue", painting Installation at Tanglin Camp, Singapore Biennale 2006 "Oh Mon Dieu!", installation realized with Skudi Optix for the "Paint My House" project. Projection of a drawing on the Berliner Dom in Berlin, 2008 Installation realized with Skudi Optix for the Festival of Lights in Berlin 2007. Projection of a drawing on the IHZ-Building near Friedrichstrasse, 2007

□　Exhibition Outline YOD Gallery is pleased to present the solo exhibition by Ken Kagajo "Positive Taboo" that will be held from March 3 to March 21 2009. Ken Kagajo, who studied the traditional paste resist dyeing technique in Osaka University of Arts, tries to open up a new vista of the future in both Japanese Crafts and Contemporary Art with his traditional craft technique. He executes his works with a technique which has been seen as “taboo” in the traditional dyeing craft world by giving inquiries into the relationship between artistic self-expression and Crafts. There seem to be more artists who have developed their background of traditional craft’s techniques in the contemporary art world in Japan. It could be a movement to break the boarder between Arts and Crafts again with the recent suitable themes, such as, to recover the value of traditional hand-made works against the advanced technology in its powerful digital era and to review our identity and history as Japanese in the excessive globalization. However, we should closely inspect each and carefully verify its movement. In Kagajo’s challenge, he expresses himself in his unique and large pieces with a lot of use of techniques of blots, gradation and discharge from the traditional paste resist dying techniques. On the other hand, a dyeing work is required for the equality in quality of size, colour and designs, which is meant to be a representation in Crafts. The technique that he uses has been seen as a failure because his work can not be duplicated. However, he fearlessly executes his powerful abstract form with visible records of a lot of physical movements in the procedure for finding a new identity in the convention of paste resist dyeing with the omitted technique as “taboo” in the tradition, in which the old dyeing technique seems to be betrayed by him at a glance. Kagajo thinks that the tradition can be changed by its sense of value and needs from each period and should not be inherited from force of habit where traditional Crafts are crystallised by continuously taking over hand-made techniques from the past that predecessors made so much efforts. He is not only creating a new possibility in the paste resist dyeing by turning over the old sense of value, but also “positive” to ask for the present state in the dyeing craft and even for what Crafts should be. It also can be a warning against the mentioned-above trend where more craft artists casually participate in the contemporary art world in Japan. We believe that Kagajo’s works should be represented as contemporary art on our mission to find a new sense of value and philosophy in this exhibition where his works ask us how the next generation of Crafts should be by neutralising various values cultivated in the tradition. □　Ken Kagajo Biography 1974 Born in Osaka 2000 Graduated from Osaka University of Arts Graduate School 2003 Lecturer for Kyoto University of Art and Design (-2008) 2007 Lecturer for Kobe Design University (-2008) 2008 Lecturer for Kyoto Seika University 2009 Lecturer for Kyoto Saga University of Arts [Solo Exhibition] 1998 Gallery Maronie (Kyoto) 2001 Gallery Senbikiya (Tokyo), Gallery Maronie 2002 GALERIE SOL (Tokyo), Gallery Maronie 2003 Wacoal Ginza Art Space (Tokyo) 2004 Gallery Maronie 2005 GALERIE SOL, Wacoal Ginza Art Space 2006 gallery den (Osaka), Gallery Maronie, Gallery Senbikiya 2007 Gallery Planet (Nagoya) [Group Exhibition] 1998 3rd Shell Art Award (Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo) 2002 Selected Artists in Kyoto (Kyoto Cultural Museum, Kyoyo, ’06) 　　　12th Some-Seiryu Exhibition (Kyoto Municipal Museum of art, 　　　Meguro Museum of art, ’04, ‘07) 　　　2nd International Tapestry Art Biennale (Beijing) 2004 3rd International Fiber Art Biennale (Shanghai Library Conference 　　　and Exhibition Center) 2005 CRIA (Kyoto Art Center) 　　　Selected Artists in Kyoto (Kyoto Municipal Museum of art) 　　　Two Artists Exhibition (Gallery Keifu, Kyoto, '06, '07, '08) 　　　 Kaunas Art Biennale (Lithuania) 2006 Japanese Suppleness -contemporary art from Japan- (Denmark) 　　　Art Court Frontier 2006#4 (ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka) 2007 International Craft Trend Fair, (COEX, Seoul) 2008 Group Exhibition (Musee de Some Seiryu, Kyoto) [Museums and Commissioned Works] Musee de Some Seiryu (Kyoto), Elsa Tower 55 (Kawaguchi), Truth Co., Ltd. (Osaka) Closing day: Every Sunday and Monday Opening reception: Starting from 14:00 on 28th February □　Pictures Fold - Soldier Dyeing cotton laid on board, 2008 89.0 x 190.0cm Crack - Begining, and then finishing, or "A" Hydrosulfite on velvet laid on board, 2008 125.0 x 240.0 cm Fold - in BOIL Dyeing cotton laid on board, 2008 89.0 x 190.0 cm Discharge - Thunder Hydrosulfite on black velvet, 2007 184.0 x 500.0cm manipulation - Plain Hydrosulfite on black velvet, 2007 92.0 x 400.0cm (each)

□　Venue Gallery & Shop "DO" CLASKA 3F, 1-3-18, Chuo-cho, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 152-0001 Tel: +81 (0) 3 3719 8124 URL: http://www.claska.com/gallery/ Open: 11:00-19:00 Close: 31 Dec - 2 Jan □　Presented by YOD Gallery □　Supported by AZ PLANNING Co., Ltd, Kadokawa Books Co., Ltd, Yoshikawa Paper Co., Ltd,DIME Co., Ltd, KiKi inc., TNK SEMITRANSPARENT DESIGN, GRAPH □　Exhibition Outline YOD Gallery is pleased to present the artworks by Hintobi (the art unit by Issay Kitagawa and Kenshu Shintsubo) in their exhibition, "Invisible Eyes" at Hotel CLASKA in Tokyo. Hintobi formed as an art unit in 2007 by Issay Kitagawa (artist, graphic designer and art director of GRAPH: he held our opening exhibition) and Kenshu Shintsubo (photographer). They had a clear mission to show their works as a unit. Whilst the realm of “Art” has always existed, the realm of “Design” progressed commercially after the war in Japan. Now is the time to create a new sense of value in “Art” and “Design” by going over the boundary between “Art” and “Design” . Kitagawa and Shintsubo have launched a new art movement by departing from their original fields and by working as a unit. The unit name “Hintobi” means, “I hope that the day will give us a hint for creation” (“hinto” in Japanese means “hint” and “bi” in Japanese means “day”). There is also a rhymed hidden meaning of “Dignity and Beauty” in Japanese. Shintsubo’s clean and decent photographs are edited under the direction of Kitagawa by arbitrarily adding the few essences of transformation, such as distorting a composition or cutting them into pieces. Hintobi tries to find preciousness and dignity by paying attention to our everyday life. There are new works by Hintobi with their inspiration from the novel "GOTH" by a famous horror writer, Otsuichi. His novel has been filmed and the movie, "GOTH", is now showing from 20th December. The visual book, "GOTH Morinoyoru" is also published in which Shintsubo took visual shots and Kitagawa did book design. As a result, a new execution has emerged from the junction between the concept of "Hintobi" and the theme of "GOTH". We would see its essence by sharpening our "Invisible Eyes" in this unique space where the vivid reality stands between death dug out in the realm of "GOTH" and our everyday life captured by "Hintobi". □　Pictures (Exhibition work) It Inkjet and mixedmedia on canvas 159.0 x 297.6cm Goddess Inkjet and mixedmedia on canvas 153.0 x 117.5cm Hintobi -Dignity and beauty- (2008, YOD Gallery) LUCKY LUCK SHOW (2007, 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT)

□　Venue Bunkamura Gallery Bunkamura 1F Main lobby floor, 2-24-1, Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 150-8507 Tel: +81 (0) 3 3477 9174 URL: http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/gallery/index.html Open 11:00-19:30 (2-3 Jan -18:00, 12 Jan -17:00) □　Pictures Sakurako hamaguchi I can't say "Happy new year". Acrylic and oil pen on canvas, 2008 100.0 x 80.3cm Natsuki Machida Small night Acrylic on paper laid on board, 2008 145.1x 112.1cm