Daniel Buren: Relevant projects
Opening Fanfare (Dance performance)
The opening of Daniel Buren Exhibition will be celebrated by a
collaboration between music and dance; composer
Toshio Nakagawa,
inspired by Buren's work, has created a new fanfare piece, and
Didier Théron Company
of France will give an impromptu dance performance, expressing an
elegant and dynamic joy.
- Date & Time:
- 96/8/3(Sat) 15:00
- Venue:
- Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito
- Admission:
- Entrance fee included in admission ticket for "Daniel Buren"
exhibition
- Dance:
- Didier ThÉron and Michéle Murray
- Performance:
- SOKABE Kiyonori(slide trumpet) and four others
- Music:
- "Fanfare striée" (1996) /
a newly commissioned piece for two slide trumpets, trombone,
bass trombone and tuba
Interview, "With Daniel Buren"
The totality of Daniel Buren's art can not be captured in a few words of
explanation. The artist will be interviewed, and his art is discussed
from various viewpoints.
- Date&Time:
- 96/8/4(Sun) 14:00 to18:00 (Admission begins at 13:30)
- Venue:
- Art Tower Mito, Conference Hall
- Seats:
- available to the first 200 people
- Admission:
- 1,000yen
(800 yen for ATM members,
free for H.T.P. holders)
- The tickets will be sold only on the day of the show.
- Guest:
- Daniel Buren (artist)
- Interviewer:
- OGURA Toshimaru(professor of Toyama University),
- KUMAKURA Takaaki (lecturer of Keio University,
Member of Keio University Art Center),
- SHIMIZU Toshio
(artistic director of Contemporary Art Center,ATM)
- Coordinator and Chairman:
- OGURA Masashi (art critic,
Director of Kita Kanto Contemporary Art Institute)
Rainbow (Flag Project at the arcade of Minami-machi 3 chome
Shopping Street)
Buren's flags, "Rainbows" will be hoisted in the arcade of Minami-machi
3 chome, Mito City (a section along National Highway 50 that passes
near the north gate of Mito Station and Art Tower Mito, halfway
between the station and the museum).
- Period:
- 96/8/6(Tue)- 96/10/20(Sun)
- Place:
- the arcade of Minami-machi 3 chome, Mito City
- Organized by:
- Mito Municipality,
Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito,
Minami-machi 3 chome Shopping Street Promotion Union,
the Mito Storekeepers' Federation,
Mito Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Supported by:
- French Embassy
"Today's Art Space" ( A series of talk shows in four installments)
Artists are working in various kinds of space, from which they are
inseparable in any case. This symposium will be held to reconfirm this
fundamental truth and to understand better and contemplate the
significance of "space," artists' targets and Daniel Buren's activity.
- Venue:
- Contemporary Art Gallery Workshop
- Seats:
- to the first 50 people each time
- Served by a interpreter
- Admission:
- Entrance fee included in admission ticket for "Daniel Buren"
exhibition
- First session: "How Has Space Been Expressed?"
The speakers examine expression of space by historic works of art.
In particular, they consider what "space" means in art, while newly
discussing the space of European perspective, pictorial space in
modern times after Cezanne and the difference in spatial
expression between the East and West.
- Date & Time:
- 96/10/6(Sun) 14:00 -18:00（Doors open at13:30）
- Panelists:
- Jean François Brun(artist),
INAGA Shigemi(specialist in art history and
comparative culture),
SHIMIZU Toshio
(artistic director of Contemporary Art Center,ATM)
- Coordinator and Moderator:
- OGURA Masashi (art critic,
Director of Kita Kanto Contemporary Art Institute)
- Second session:"Space Structure in Contemporary Art--
Form and Metaphor"
What thought or principle do contemporary artists accept as a basis
for giving structure to space? The speakers consider what kind of
space the form or metaphor of any work is related with.
- Date & Time:
- 96/10/13(Sun) 14:00 - 18:00（Doors open at13:30）
- Panelists:
- Jean François Brun(artist),
INAGA Shigemi(specialist in art history and
comparative culture),
SHIMIZU Toshio
(artistic director of Contemporary Art Center,ATM)
- Coordinator and Moderator:
- OGURA Masashi (art critic,
Director of Kita Kanto Contemporary Art Institute)
- Third session: "Real Space / Art Space--Architecture,
Cities and Art"
What thought or process does architecture or urban planning follow?
How does it change real space? What does the change of space mean
in any artist's project? While referring to Daniel Buren's works of
public art, the speakers deal with the relation
between real space and art space, between art and urban space or
between art and society and problems involved.
- Date & Time:
- 96/10/20(Sun) 14:00 - 18:00（Doors open at13:30）
- Panelists:
- Catherine Beaugrand (artist),
Arata Isozaki (architect),
SHIMIZU Toshio
(artistic director of Contemporary Art Center,ATM)
- Coordinator and Moderator:
- OGURA Masashi (art critic,
Director of Kita Kanto Contemporary Art Institute)
- Fourth session: "Art and Space Hereafter"
At present, new technology is changing our space. Electronic
operation makes our visible space into a complicated fabric of
images, which is overlaid with a space of invisible
information circuits. How are real space and artistic varieties of
space being transformed in this changing environment? Also, the
speakers consider what kind of space art should try to realize in the
age of technology characteristic of the last years of the
twentieth century.
- Date & Time:
- 96/10/27(Sun) 14:00 - 18:00（Doors open at13:30）
- Panelists:
- Catherine Beaugrand (artist),
KUMAKURA Takaaki (lecturer of Keio University,
Member of Keio University Art Center),
SHIMIZU Toshio
(artistic director of Contemporary Art Center,ATM)
- Coordinator and Moderator:
- OGURA Masashi (art critic,
Director of Kita Kanto Contemporary Art Institute)
- The subject and panelists of each talk may be
different from those above.
Gallery concert 1 "Two Minimal Pieces"
In the gallery, the audience will hear to two pieces for two pianos, which
have been respectively produced by two contemporary composers, i.e.,
Gavin Bryars (England / 1943-), who creates a space of quietude, and
Michael Neiman(England / 1944-), who creates an emotional dance able
space. The spatial nature of Buren's work is shown plainly with the
contrast between these musical pieces, which are called post minimal.
- Date & Time:
- 96/11/3(Sun) 15:00
- Venue:
- Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito
- Admission:
- Entrance fee included in admission ticket for
"Daniel Buren" exhibition
- Coordinator:
- FUJISHIMA Hiroshi
- Works:
- Gavin Bryars, "First Dedication" (1978)
- Michael Nyman, "Dance of Water" (1985/89)
- Player:
- IF PIANO DUO (IWASAKI Uki , FUJISHIMA Keiko )
Gallery concert 2 "French Electric"
In the gallery, the audience will be able to enjoy short pieces for cello
by Alan Gaussinand Karen Tanaka,
two Paris-based composers whose
clear and fine sounds undoubtedly indicate French peculiarities, and
another work for cello and live electronics, which has newly been
commissioned to Karen Tanaka.
The signal for starting the concert is an electronic buzz designed by
Alan Gaussin.
- Date & Time:
- 96/11/10(Sun) 15:00
- Venue:
- Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito
- Admission:
- Entrance fee included in admission ticket for
"Daniel Buren" exhibition
- Coordinator:
- FUJISHIMA Hiroshi
- Works:
- Alan Gaussin, "Ariane" for cello and tape;
- TANAkA Karen,
"Lyre" for cello (1988) and a commissioned work for
cello and live electronics.
- Acoustic:
- TANAKA Karen
- Technical support:
- XEBEC
- Cooperation:
- XEBEC, Roland Foundation
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