This project has been four years in the making. I am excited to finally present Anselm Ryele’s solo exhibition in Japan. This is a deeply meaningful, personal exhibition for me. I would like to explain the reason why and the background leading to the show, starting with our encounter. First, please read the statement from […]

Anselm and I moved to the world’s most prominent gallery, Gagosian, in NY, around the same time, and his works’ price went up explosively as well, just as mine did. He constantly produced works, responding to the needs of the market. Not only that, he was creating works with brand new ideas. His works sold […]

I’m now going off on a tangent here: I often encounter those, especially in Japan, who look merely at the surface of the contemporary art market, which is in truth the vortex of such human greed, beauty, jealousy, and more, and criticize knowingly, “How dare they make quick, easy money?” I look at them and […]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Kaiyodo’s famous catch phrase “Zero sen ha Akaku Nure” (“Paint the Zero Red,” coined by current Kaiyodo Museum Director Osamu Miyawaki). As Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Wind Rises” builds dominance over the box office charts and much of the conversation taking place in Japan at the moment, there has […]