For those who might be reading this, I was hacked in March. A kind friend kicked out the hacker from the self-appointed Administrative post. That was fantastic! But now I cannot add pages to my portfolio and so on. So I want to see if all the pages are affected.
*Complete version of my portion for a list of favourite exhibitions in 2016 on Tokyo Art Beat.
For me, 2016 was the Year of the Woman Artist. These were the artists whose events I most greatly anticipated or talked about. Their art could be seen at small or large galleries and also at alternative spaces. Their careers cover the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries and several countries.
Sculpture and ceramics are two areas in which contemporary Japanese artists tend to be strong. In fact, many of the artists in the show that do 3D work are also involved in the annual Nitten show in Tokyo. Their work covers a wide range. The International Exhibition of At at the Annex as part of the 30th Kyoto Art Festival naturally has work by many sculptors, glass artists, and ceramicists.
WARNING! This post deals with material of mature subject matter. You should be 18 or older to continue reading.
Megumi Igarashi, also known as Rokudenashiko or 6D745, has been making headlines all over the world with her artwork featuring female genitalia. She gave a talk last Saturday at the Sunday Cafe. That in itself is kind of funny.
Arthur Huang did a presentation at Pechakucha- Tokyo during the period of his exhibition, Memory Walks – Is This the Way I Went? at Hagiso.
Good Sad news! Megumi Igarashi, also known as Rokudenashiko or the “Good-for-Nothing Girl” but more commonly as the “Vagina artist”, was acquitted convicted of the obscenity charges related to the distribution of the data files from a 3D printer used to make a kayak that was a 3D cast of her genitals. (You can tell by the strikethroughs what I thought the verdict should have been.)
