Tag Archives: Megumi Matsubara

Group Show | Poétique du geste | France

POETIQUE DU GESTE

à la Graineterie Centre d’art municipal

exposition du 20 janvier au 10 mars 2018
entrée libre
15h-18h mardi, jeudi, vendredi
10h-13h / 15h-18h mercredi, samedi

avec

Ninar Esber
Megumi Matsubara
Najia Mehadji
Myriam Mihindou
Mari Minato
Julie Nioche – A.I.M.E.
Selma et Sofiane Ouissi
Golnâz Pâyâni
Natalia Villanueva Linares

co-commissariat
Sonia Recasens et Maud Cosson

vernissage
samedi 20 janvier de 17h à 20h
en présence des artistes

Attachée à l’expérience, cette exposition réunit des artistes internationaux à une ré exion sensible autour du geste qu’il soit quotidien, rituel, individuel ou collectif… Leurs propositions transdisciplinaires ont en commun de placer l’œuvre dans le geste et de mettre le geste à l’œuvre pour sonder ses liens avec la trace, l’objet, le signe, le langage, le temps ou l’Autre. Ici, la peinture se confronte au rituel, la photographie à la sculpture,
le dessin à la performance, la danse à l’artisanat… Du dialogue des pratiques de chacun naît une invitation à tisser des liens, à partager et à échanger.

En collaboration avec les galeries Eric Dupont, Maïa Muller et Dohyang Lee à Paris, le Collège des Bernardins à Paris, TRAM Réseau art contemporain Paris / Ile de France.
En partenariat avec l’Institut Français qui accueille Megumi Matsubara – lauréate du programme de résidences à la Cité internationale des arts, la Villa du Parc à Annemasse en lien avec l’exposition de Sonia Recasens « Ailleurs est ce rêve proche » (13 janvier-17 mars 2018).

In Residence | l’Institut français – Cité internationale des arts | France

Megumi Matsubara is in residence at Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France through three months, upon invitation by Institut Français, and in partnership with La Graineterie Centre d’art municipal de la Ville de Houilles.

> About Institut français programme of residence 2018

Announce | IT IS A GARDEN | House in Nagano by ASSISTANT

The architecture firm ASSISTANT is pleased to announce the completion of the house IT IS A GARDEN in Nagano, Japan. Surrounding and surrounded by the trees and plants of the forest, the house was designed as a guest house containing a private art gallery for the owner’s collection. Its shape being flat and square, the one-story house has a floor plan entirely defined by five courtyards alone.

The first publication featuring the project is SHINKENCHIKU JUTAKUTOKUSHU 2017:03 in Japan as its cover story currently available.
https://www.japlusu.com/shop/product/jutakutokushu-201703

Performance | Fossil of Contact | Aichi Triennale

Megumi Matsubara & Sergio Diaz Performance (2)

Fossil of Contact

Megumi Matsubara and Sergio Diaz will be present at Aichi Triennale 2016 within Megumi Matsubara’s installation Fossil of Contact.

Date: Sat 15th & Sun 16th October 2016
Time: 11:10 – 11:25 / 12:10 – 12:25 (twice each day)
Plac: Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Aichi Arts Center, 10th floor, Teizo Kimura Collection Room
*Open to everyone.
*Photo/Video documentation is prohibited.

http://aichitriennale.jp/schedule/1823.html

*About Sergio Diaz
Dancer/Performer/Choreographer based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Born in the United States, Diaz started his dancing career in France with Ballet Preljocaj directed by choreographer Angelin Preljocaj. After 16 years in the company he becomes Preljocaj’s creative assistant, and restages his works around the world. To further expand as an artist, Diaz has now moved his base to Tel Aviv to learn from Ohad Naharin, choreographer and art director of Batsheva Dance Company who created the dance language known as Gaga. Exploring and deepening his field of dance, Diaz practices as an independent dancer/performer/choreographer in collaboration with various contemporary choreographers internationally.

*About Megumi Matsubara’s Fossil of Contact
http://megumimatsubara.com/exhibit/fossil-of-contact/

Thank you for imagining how it was, it is, it will be, to be with—
The work remains faithful to you all.

Performance by Megumi Matsubara & Sergio Diaz
Sound (Acoustic Braille) by Clovis Lemée

Aichi Triennale 2016: Interview with Megumi Matsubara & Sergio Diaz

Reading & Talk | Aichi Triennale

Megumi Matsubara gives a performative talk: reading of her texts followed by an artist talk, and conversation on her work presented at Aichi Triennale including Fossil of Contact: an installation of a new series of ceramics, and A proposal for a textbook to learn Braille, English, an other languages: a series of bronze sculptures, for the opening week of Aichi Triennale International Exhibition.

August 15th 2016, 14h00 – 16h00, Aichi Arts Center 8F Platform
Reading & Talk   Megumi Matsubara
Music (Acoustic Braille)   Clovis Lemée

Aichi Triennale 2016: Lecture view of Megumi Matsubara

 

 

 

Talk | Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

Megumi Matsubara is a guest speaker at Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2016 for Al Multaqa Literary Salon. In this presentation, she will unfold multiple layers of her project “A proposal for a textbook to learn Braille, English, and other languages” (2012-2015, and beyond), including its states of pottery workshop, bronze sculptures, Graphic Braille, Acoustic Braille.

Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
27 April – 3 May, 2016
9:00 am – 10:00 pm

Talk by Megumi Matsubara:
“Seeing Through Eyes”
30 April 2016
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Al Multaqa Literary Salon
“We Read”…
It is an invitation to enhance our lives by reading; “We Read”… because each book has its own life; It is a medium which constantly amazes us, and offers different points of view to life. “We Read”… to intensify a whole collection of lives in our lives to make it more diverse, more integral; This is the 26th Edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, which is Al Multaqa eighth year of participation in the fair. During these eight years we have hosted numerous authors, artists and other quests in the literary world. Our motto has always been to nourish the culture of our nation in its efforts for future advancement.

Reading & Talk | Alley Cat Books | San Francisco

Un Coquelicot: reading & talk by Megumi Matsubara

Megumi Matsubara reads from her book The Tale of the Japanese and the Mosquito, followed by a talk about her perennial subject: red poppy. The space will be scented with the fragrance of the red poppy field that a prominent Moroccan botanist/aromatherapist produced with Matsubara’s tale as inspiration. 

Megumi Matsubara is a Japanese artist who lives and works between Morocco and Japan. She is a guest artist in the city of San Francisco as part of the exhibition ‘SLOW DIALOGUES: Time, Space, and Scale’ guest curated by Slow Research Lab. Her site-specific installation It Is a Garden (2016) is on view at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from April 22 – July 10, 2016.

Time: 2PM – 3PM
Place: Alley Cat Books and Gallery
Contact: +1 (415) 824-1761

*About the exhibition:
‘SLOW DIALOGUES: Time, Space, and Scale’
Upstairs Galleries at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)
Guest curated by Slow Research Lab

Alley Cat Books

 

 

Megumi Matsubara “Un Coquelicot” from slowLab on Vimeo.

3-person Show | SLOW DIALOGUES: Time, Space, and Scale | San Francisco

SLOW DIALOGUES TIME, SPACE, AND SCALE

Megumi Matsubara participates in SLOW DIALOGUES: Time, Space, and Scale: three persons show at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco, U.S.A., presenting a new site-specific installation It Is a Garden interacting intimately with YBCA’s architecture designed by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki:

‘SLOW DIALOGUES: Time, Space, and Scale’
Works by Jorge Otero-Pailos, Megumi Matsubara, Maria Blaisse
Guest curated by Slow Research Lab
Organized and produced by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA)

Opening:
22 Apr 2016, 18:00-
Megumi Matsubara will be present at the opening reception and the following artist talk.

Exhibition:
SLOW DIALOGUES: Time, Space, and Scale
invites holistic, reflective and critical understandings of both our immediate surroundings and our greater environment. Exploring the themes time, space, and scale, three international artists bring their diverse creative perspectives and approaches into site-specific dialogue with social, cultural, and environmental conditions of the Bay Area.

Artist and architectural preservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos continues his ongoing series The Ethics of Dust, exploring what he considers to be humanity’s most prolific, and neglected, cultural product: pollution. Exploring the theme of time, Otero-Pailos was commissioned to create a latex cast of more than one-hundred years of accumulated pollution on the two chimneys of the Old United States Mint. This otherwise invisible and often overlooked material is transferred onto translucent sheets of latex, preserving the material realities of the site, and local histories of labor, resource extraction, industrialization, global capitalism, and urban redevelopment.

Megumi Matsubara’s It is a Garden (2016) engages with YBCA’s building through a site-specific installation of prints, photographs, glass, film, and mirrors. Inspired by the site’s close proximity to the Yerba Buena Gardens, Matsubara asks through her work “What are the invisible elements that define a garden’s presence? The constant effort of watering, caring, acting? The climate? The soil underneath?” Matsubara’s investigation of space through both visible and intangible layers of the site invites visitors to discover new sensorial and mental landscapes as part of a larger, multifaceted ecology of place.

In Traveling Geometry (2008-16), designer Maria Blaisse exhibits a dynamic array of sculptural bamboo forms, demonstrating her vision for the near-future: a humanity-built environment that is flexible and closer to nature. Two woven structures are displayed alongside film and photographs in which dancers engage them in graceful interplay. Another collection of simple bamboo lines suspended from the Grand Lobby ceiling activate the upper registers of the building, and will occasionally be lowered down to the lobby floor and engaged by live performers during the exhibition; a work exploring different scales.

Slow Dialogues is curated by Slow Research Lab, a Netherlands-based multidisciplinary research and curatorial platform that seeks to explore an expanded field of human awareness and activity through research residencies, workshops, exhibitions, reading groups, immersive study experiences, and dialogues.