Friday, October 26, 2012

篠原ポップス!展鑑賞ツアー

きたる11月18日、NYのMoMAで「東京1955-1970年」展が開催され、篠原有司男の作品も展観されます。

せっかくの機会ですので、MoMA展でNYへいらっしゃる皆様もふくめて、「篠原ポップス!」展に、キュレーター、作家(予定)と一緒に行く鑑賞ツアーを考えました。

一人で行くと思うとニューヨーカーでも遠い気分ですが、一緒に行けば楽しいのではないかと思います。

日時:11月15日木曜日

出発:ポートオーソリティ・バスターミナルより11時半
   集合はバスの行列待ちで11時少し前
   帰りは5時のバス(NY到着7時予定)

費用:バス往復41ドルのほかに、タクシー代、飲食費など個人負担

バスに乗る前に軽い昼食をとる、あるいはバスに軽食を持ち込んでいただいても結構です。到着後にまず展覧会鑑賞。その後、ビレッジ・ティールームでお茶を飲むのがオプションです。(大学ですから学生食堂もあります)

最低の参加者は2人を予定しています。

希望者は shinohara.pops@gmail.com までご連絡ください。

Thursday, October 25, 2012

A New Shinohara Video by The Dorsky Museum

The Dorsky Museum has released a new video on Shinohara Pops! and his Boxing Painting performance on YouTube.

ドースキー美術館制作の篠原ポップス!ビデオがYouTubeで公開されました。是非ご覧ください。


See it on YouTube (larger image)

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Curators' reports in newspapers / 池上・富井の報告記事が新聞掲載

Co-curators of Shinohara Pops! published their reports on the show in Japanese newspapers.

Tomii's report on The Shin Bijutsu Shinbun, October 1, 2012.
Read it online / 新美術新聞オンライン掲載

Ikegami's report is published by the nation-wide YomiuriOctober 18, 2012.
Yomiuri has the readership of 9,330,000!



Catalogue is out! カタログが出版されました!

The catalogue of Shinohara Pops! is out now from SUNY Press.
篠原ポップス!展のカタログがNY州立大学出版会から出版されました。




掲載論文は3本です。
池上裕子
「花魁がオートバイに乗り、ワンダーウーマンが日本刀を振りかざす時、篠原はポップする!

富井玲子
「ボクシング・ペインティング、そして―篠原有司男のアクション三態

マイケル・ロベル
「篠原の70年代―オートバイの芸術」

他に、作家インタビューやテキストの英訳、年譜も充実しています。

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Shinohara's Boxing Painting performance, 9/29

On September 29, 2012, in conjunction with the exhibition Shinohara Pops! at The Dorsky Museum and NYCAS 2012 at SUNY New Paltz, Ushino Shinohara gave a Boxing Painting performance at FAB building's Rotunda.

Shinohara's 1966 print Doll Festival was prominently featured on NYCAS 2012's poster, as well as its program and folder.

Many students and visitors gathered together to see Shinohara's performance.

For this performance, Shinohara used a pair of black gloves, with sponge attached to them (usually he uses a red pair).

He used two colors for this performance: Cobalt Turquoise Light  and Thalo Green.

After the performance.
Look at a guy at lower right in a white T-shirt. He was boxed by Shinohara!

[work data]
Ushio Shinohara
Boxing Painting (Hudson River/New Paltz)
September 29, 2012
Acrylic on canvas (blue and green on white)
5 x 21 feet
In place of his signature, Shinohara put two footprints (lower left).

Interestingly, this post identifies Shinohara  as "boxer" not as "painter"!!!

Monday, September 10, 2012

What is "Shinohara Pops!"?


What is Shinohara Pops! The Avant-Garde Road, Tokyo/New York ?
Speech at public reception, September 8
Reiko Tomii

Tokyo is Shinohara’s hometown, where he was born in 1932 and where he rose to notoriety as an enfant terrible of the avant-garde scene. New York is his second and present home, to which he migrated in 1969.

His art is decisively avant-garde and what connects Tokyo and New York is The Avant-Garde Road, the phrase which we borrowed from the title of his autobiography published in 1968.

One word that encapsulates his avant-garde spirit is Pop of Shinohara Pops!

Pop is the punch he packs to create Boxing Painting, his first key work that he invented in 1960 and revived in the 1990s.

Pop is American Pop Art which he ironically critiqued with his Imitation Art series in the mid-60s, which include in this exhibition Drink More (in the collection of Jasper Johns) and 10 Coca-Cola Plans, modeled after Robert Rauschenberg.

Pop is the zinger he brings into his Oiran series which followed Imitation Art. Oiran means a high-class courtesan, which Shinohara transformed into the personification of Old Japan, inspired by ukiyo-e, Japanese woodblock prints, which is a major popular culture in Japan.

Pop is American popular cultures, which he first experienced in Tokyo under the American occupation and then he avidly absorbed once he moved to New York. You can feel the power and attraction of this Pop in his Motorcycle Sculpture, his first invention in New York.

When all these Pops are rolled into one, we get Shinohara’s versatile drawings, which vividly represent the cultural cocktail he has lived throughout his life.

Taken together, the exhibition narrates a story of an inventive, imaginative, and skillful image maker that is Ushio Shinohara

Installation views / 展示風景

Shinohara Pops! at The Dorsky Museum
Photographed by Reiko Tomii


Shinohara with Motorcycle Oiran Kanzashi



Shinohara thanking Sara Pasiti, The Dorsky's Director



Boxing Painter on Theme Wall


1968 collages, Petit Chopper, and Coca-Cola Delivery Frog on Theme Wall


Imitation Art


Drawing Wall and Motorcycle Sculptures


Display at Seminar Room

Sunday, September 2, 2012

《篠原ポップス!》展がドースキー美術館でオープン

《篠原ポップス!前衛の道、東京/ニューヨーク》展が、ニューヨーク州立大学(ニューパルツ校)のドースキー美術館で8月29日にオープンしました。会期は12月16日までです。


1960年にネオダダの結成に関わった篠原有司男は、読売アンデパンダン展にほぼ毎年出品し、反芸術の旗手として《ボクシング・ペインティング》、《イミテーション・アート》、《花魁》シリーズなどの革新的な作品を手がけました。また、来日した欧米の美術家とも親交を結ぶなど、戦後日本美術史における最重要作家の一人です。1969年に渡米して以降、アメリカの大衆文化を取り入れた《オートバイ彫刻》の新境地を切り開き、現在も意欲的に制作・パフォーマンスを続けています。

本展は、池上裕子と富井玲子の共同企画により、絵画、彫刻、ドローイングや版画、写真や資料、ドキュメンタリーなど約70点を展観して、篠原の50余年にわたる作家歴を回顧します。

9月8日(土)午後5-7時オープニング・パーティ

9月 29日(土)ワークショップ
講演 (10:30am-12:00pm) + ボクシングペインティング公開制作 (12:15pm-)





本展は、国際交流基金と Friends of Shinohara Pops! より助成を受けました。

Shinohara Pops! Public Reception, Sept. 8


On Saturday, September 8th, from 5-7 pm, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art will host a public reception for Shinohara Pops! The Avant-Garde Road, Tokyo/New York.

Shinohara Pops! Workshop, Sept. 29


In conjunction with the exhibition Shinohara Pops! The Avant-Garde Road, Tokyo/New York, a public outreach event, “Doing and Teaching Contemporary Japanese Art,” is hosted by NYCAS (New York Conference on Asian Studies) 2012 and The Dorsky Museum, on Saturday, September 29. The program is open to the public.

Direction to SUNY New Paltz

Please RSVP to: ShinoharaPops@gmail.com


10:30-12:00
Indoor Program
SUB 62/63 (Student Union Building, underground level)

Presentations by curators and contributors of Shinohara Pops! 
with screening of Zachary Heinzerling’s documentary film on the artist.

Chair: Elizabeth Brotherton (SUNY New Paltz)
Speakers:
Hiroko Ikegami (Kobe University)
Reiko Tomii (Independent scholar)
Michael Lobel (SUNY Purchase)


12:15-12:30
Outdoor Program
Terrace in front of SUB

Demonstration of Boxing Painting by Ushio Shinohara


Directions to Shinohara Pops! in New Paltz

The exhibition, Shinohara Pops! The Avant-Garde Road, Tokyo/New York, is held at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, located on the campus of SUNY New Paltz.

State University of New York at New Paltz
1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY 12561
T: 845.257.3844

Link to PDF Campus Map.

If you are taking Trailways Bus from NYC, 
please get off at New Paltz Bus Station and take a cab.

Ask inside the station for a cab; it's 5 minutes, $5.
Tell the driver to take you to Student Union Building (SUB), which is a distinct glass pyramid.
Walk past SUB's atrium and you will see The Dorsky Museum straight ahead.

Note: Some buses stop at SUNY campus. 
Tell the driver you want to get off at Main Entrance, from which SUB is visible.

If you are taking Metro North from NYC, 
please get off at Poughkeepsie and take a cab (20-30 minutes).

If you are driving,
please refer to direction at Museum Visit and also study Parking Info.
You will need a "visitor permit," which is available at the park-and-pay machines located at Hawk Drive at the West entrance, Lot 28 across from the Hopfer Admissions & Alumni Center, and Lot 5 adjacent to Parker Theater, 24 hrs/day.


Shinohara Pops! opened on 8/29 at Dorsky

"Shinohara Pops!: The Avant-Garde Road, Tokyo/New York" has opened on August 29 at Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz.


Curated by Hiroko Ikegami and Reiko Tomii, this exhibition examines the 50-year career of Ushio Shinohara, an indispensable player in the field of global contemporary history. Born in Japan in 1932, Shinohara was was an enfant terrible of the Tokyo avant-garde art scene in the late 1950s with his “action art.” During the 1960s, he went on to invent such signature series as Boxing Painting, Imitation Art, and Oiran. After his move to New York in 1969, he continued with his versatile image-making endeavor, with Motorcycle Sculpture and drawings of street scenes, among other series. The exhibition consists of some seventy paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and a video documentary of the artist’s life. 

On view are some 70 paintings, sculptures, works on papers, documents, and a documentary film.

September 8, Saturday, 5-7 pm: Public reception

September 29, Saturday, 10:30am-noon, 12:15pm-
Workshop (10:30am-noon) + Boxing Painting performance (12:15pm-)
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Museum's exhibition site

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