Taka Ishii Gallery
Taka Ishii Gallery is already established as one of Tokyo's foremost contemporary art galleries, representing high-profile names from Japan and overseas. Their booth at this year's Art Fair Tokyo presented three artists attempting to show that range: Taro Shinoda, Dutch artist Marijke van Warmerdam, and the renowned photographer Daido Moriyama. The disarmingly simple yet powerful Another Day (2011), by Warmerdam, showed a vision of a blazing sunset in a spectrum of tones, repeated on ten silkscreen panels each with the text 'another day.' Their poster quality mimicking advertisements only served to emphasize the monotony of daily life. Shinoda's work was a surprising departure from his usual larger-than-life installations, instead a delicate watercolour and perhaps a preparatory sketch for his environmental works. The almost child-like sincerity of his lines belied a fragile poignancy, like that of a haiku. Moriyama's bold black and white photograph was taken from his Hawaii series, a close-up of some plant-life. One could not help seeing these works together, as a resonant comment on nature and the continuity of the natural world.

Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery / Photo: Kenji Takahashi

Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery / Photo: Kenji Takahashi

Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery / Photo: Kenji Takahashi

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