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News Release NEWS RELEASE June 16, 2017 en: art of nexus ――Homecoming Exhibition of the Japan Pavilion from the 15th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia Exhibition:Thuesday, September 28 – Sunday, December 10, 2017 Venue: TOTO GALLERY·MA(TOTO Nogizaka Bldg., 3F, 1-24-3 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo) Closed on Mondays and National Holidays except Monday, November 3. Hours: 11:00 – 18:00 Admission: Free Anniversary Symposium：Monday, October 16, 2017 at 18:00 Venue: Kenchiku Kaikan Hall, Architectural Institute of Japan Prior registration required. 1 ＜ NEWS RELEASE ＞ Exhibition Information Title en: art of nexus――Homecoming Exhibition of the Japan Pavilion from the 15th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia Date: Thuesday, September 28 – Sunday, December 10, 2017 Hours: 11:00 – 18:00 Closed on Mondays and National Holidays except Monday, November 3. Admission: Free Venue: TOTO GALLERY·MA (TOTO Nogizaka Bldg., 3F, 1-24-3 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107-0062) Tel: +81(3)-3402-1010 URL: http://www.toto.co.jp/gallerma/index_e.htm Directions: 1-min. walk from Nogizaka Station (Exit No. 3) on the Chiyoda subway line 6-min. walk from Roppongi Station (Exit No. 7) on the Oedo subway line 7-min. walk from Roppongi Station (Exit No. 4a) on the Hibiya subway line 7-min. walk from Aoyama 1-Chome Station (Exit No. 4) on the Ginza or Hanzomon or Oedo subway line Organized by TOTO GALLERY·MA Planned by TOTO GALLERY·MA Planning and Management Committee (Special Advisor: Tadao Ando; Members: Waro Kishi, Kazuyo Sejima, Hiroshi Naito, Erwin Viray) Supported by The Tokyo Society of Architects and Building Engineers; Tokyo Association of Architectural Firms; The Japan Institute of Architects Kanto-Koshinetsu Chapter; and Kanto Chapter, Architectural Institute of Japan. Special supported by The Japan Foundation and Ishibashi Foundation Director: Yoshiyuki Yamana Venue Design: teco (Chie Konno, Rie Allison) Exhibitors: Mio Tsuneyama / mnm (Mio Tsuneyama) Osamu Nishida+Erika Nakagawa（Osamu Nishida, Erika Nakagawa） Naruse Inokuma Architects (Jun Inokuma, Yuri Naruse) Naka Architects’ Studio (Toshiharu Naka, Yuri Uno) Nousaku Architects (Fuminori Nousaku, Junpei Nousaku) miCo. (Mizuki Imamura, Isao Shinohara) Levi Architecture (Jun Nakagawa) Shingo Masuda+Katsuhisa Otsubo Architects (Shingo Masuda, Katsuhisa Otsubo) Koji Aoki Architects (Koji Aoki) 403architecture [dajiba] (Toru Yada, Takuma Tsuji, Takeshi Hashimoto) BUS (Satoru Ito, Kosuke Bando, Issei Suma) dot architects (Toshikatsu Ienari, Takeshi Shakushiro, Wataru Doi) Movies DRAWING AND MANUAL Related Publication Title en: art of nexus Edited by Yoshiyuki Yamana+Seiichi Hishikawa+Masaki Uchino+Masatake Shinohara Issue Date: April 25, 2016 Format 168 × 210mm, Paperback, 160 pages, texts in both Japanese and English ISBN 978-4-88706-358-7 Design Yuzo Kariya + Nao Kakuta / neucitora Price 1,500 Yen + tax Publisher TOTO Publishing (TEL = +81-3-3402-7138 URL = www.toto.co.jp/publishing/) 2 ＜ NEWS RELEASE ＞ Related Program Symposium Title: Homecoming Exhibition of the Japan Pavilion from the 15th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Anniversary Symposium en: art of nexus, and beyond Date: Monday, October 16, 2017 doors open 17:00, starts 18:00, finishes 20:30 Venue: Kenchiku Kaikan Hall (Architectural Institute of Japan, 5-26-20 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo) Fumihiko Maki Moderators: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto（Architect / Atelier Bow-Wow, Professor of the Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School） Yoshiyuki Yamana(Architect, Professor of the Tokyo University of Science; Exhibition Director) Panelists: Fumihiko Maki（Architect / Maki and Associates） Osamu Nishida（Architect / ON design partners） Yuri Naruse（Architect / Naruse Inokuma Architects） Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Fuminori Nousaku（Architect / Nousaku Architects） Satoru Ito（Architect / BUS, Satoru Ito Architects） Capacity: 350 people Admission: Free. Online pre-registration required. Visit www.toto.co.jp/gallerma for details. Registration period is from Tuesday, August 1 to Sunday, September 17. Selected registrants will be notified by Friday, October 6. Gallery Talk Title: my architecture, after the Venice Biennale Date, Speaker Vol. 1: Sunday, October 22 Mio Tsuneyama / mnm, Shingo Masuda+Katsuhisa Otsubo Architects, Levi Architecture, teco ー Vol. 2: Sunday, October 29 Osamu Nishida+Erika Nakagawa, Koji Aoki Architects, dot architects ー Vol. 3: Sunday, November 5 Naruse Inokuma Architects, 403architecture [dajiba, Nousaku Architects ー Vol. 4: Sunday, December 3 Naka Architects’ Studio, miCo. , BUS Hours: 14：00 - 16：00 (all sessions) Venue: TOTO GALLERY·MA Capacity: 50 people/ free admission (all sessions) Admission: Free. First come first served. Online pre-registration required.Visit www.toto.co.jp/gallerma for details. 3 ＜ NEWS RELEASE ＞ About the Exhibition TOTO GALLERY·MA is pleased to announce the exhibition en: art of nexus—Homecoming Exhibition of the Japan Pavilion from the 15th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The original en—art of nexus exhibition presented at the Japan Pavilion in the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (May 28 – November 27, 2016) put the spotlight on 12 groups of architects born after 1975 and lucidly presented the work that they have been engaging in during these difficult times under the three themes of “The en of People”, “The en of Things”, and “The en of Locality”. The exhibition struck a chord with visitors from around the world and was awarded a Special Mention. After sprinting down the path of modernization to match stride with the Western world in the belief it was making progress, seeing its period of rapid economic growth come to an end, and experiencing the disastrous events of March 11, 2011, Japan now stands at a major turning point at which each and every architect needs to ask themselves once again what architecture must strive to achieve in today’s society. The architects featured in this exhibition have been creating new architectural value by meticulously giving form to the small, intimate stories woven through people’s relationships with others and their localities. The presented projects have emerged from a background strongly influenced by a flexible wood-based culture distinct to Asia and disparate from Europe’s rigid stone-based culture that gave rise to modernism. Every one of them can be seen as reflecting the supple fortitude of their architects, who are striving to establish their own unique positions by pushing the possibilities of architecture. The homecoming exhibition will introduce the work being born from the fresh sensibilities of the young exhibitors by building on the original exhibition shown in Venice. It will also show what the architects have been working on since the Biennale with new exhibits such as movies and models. The exhibition and its complementing symposium and gallery talks aim to provide an outlook on the role of architecture and architects in the coming age. TOTO GALLERY·MA Message from the Director Ahead of the en Exhibition in Japan The Japan Pavilion for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale represented an attempt to revisit the various ties, relations, and connections of society—the “art of nexus”—that have been lost to modernism and to reconsider their value within an Asian context. Themed “en” ( 縁 , “karmic connection”), it presented the architectural work of 12 exhibitors through three intertwined and convergent sections titled “The en of People”, “The en of Things”, and “The en of Locality”. When we carefully read into the work of the 12 exhibitors, we can understand them as “architectural” solutions to social problems identified by each of the architects. Each work embodies many naïve yet sensitive ideas, and we can recognize in them an intention to open up the future from within Japan’s present circumstances. The works do not by any means express powerful messages directed at a grand civil society. Their goal is neither to achieve some great common ideal in the way modernist architecture embraced purification, abstraction, and rationality nor to instigate a revolution against the whole of society. Each work responds to real, concrete subjects, and they thoughtfully address the task of improving people’s quality of life. They present themselves as flexibly made bricolages that answer to problems of everyday life in ways best described as improvisational and pragmatic rather than logical. The homecoming exhibition will be based on the en—art of nexus exhibition shown at the Japan Pavilion in the Venice Biennale. The theme cannot be precisely conveyed without its original context, however. So, while preserving the original messiness, density, and fetishistic items that evoked the living spaces of Asia and, by extension, the urban and interior spaces of Japan, we will add exhibits to show what pointers for their future creative activities each exhibitor gained through experiencing the Biennale and display the latest work of these front-running architects who are finding ways to survive under challenging circumstances. Yoshiyuki Yamana, Exhibition Director 4 ＜ NEWS RELEASE ＞ Images for Media Use Japan Pavilion from the 15th International Architecture Japan Pavilion from the 15th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, exhibition view Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, exhibition view Ⓒ Kazuhiro Ishiyama Japan Pavilion from the 15th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale
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