Artist interview with Alice de Miramon

Alice de Miramon

Born: Dakar ( Senegal)

Live: South of France

www.aliceheaven.com

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/alicemiramon

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/miramonart/

Alice de Miramon is a French American artist, born in Dakar in 1973. She has been exhibited internationally. Through her vast imagination, she transports us in a contemplative and poetic universe.

Who would you like to buy your art? A famous person? What would you tell him/her about your art so he would buy it?

The art of Alice de Miramon has grown over the years, and her work is promising for the years to come. Her prolific and generous production has seduced many art fans and collectors.   

What drives you?

Often a car, but off the records, I often forget where the brakes are. I just can’t stop.

What is your definition of art?

Art is what connects to life and life is connected to art. It is the constant flow between that brings so much pleasure on making art. When you let that go freely, it is a pure joy to fail every day at making the most of it.

Where do you get your inspiration?

From various sources, the nature, what is going on around me, sometimes I get strucked by something, colors, artworks. It echoes and transform in my daily work.

How do you deal with artist's block?

I don’t, it never happens, I am painting from 150 / 200 pieces a year. I have to deal with trouble taking time off and doing nothing

Where do you see your art going in ten years?

It is hard to tell, it is a day to day work. What I hope is nice projects, making art that I can be proud off.

Can you tell us what you have going on right now?

I am going to sing songs at Mont Fujii, and dance. Make large paintings, and after that have great holidays with my daughters.

Can you tell us what your 'Before I Die' is?

Before I die, I want to be able to say I loved deeply, I created something, I was gifted to live this life. I am glad I already can say most of it, but it will never end.

I know my artwork is finished when…?

I paint a first draft and then I take distance for a few days, let it cool down. Then with a fresh eye I can finish it and put it in perspective with the serie I am working on. Often 10 / 15 drawings together. They are connected with a story, a thought, and visually by set of colors and specific papers I am using.

Best Commissioned artwork ever done was…?

Unlike love it was the first time. I did a wall painting at my highschool, and there was teenagers hanging out suddenly with me to my surprise, I was very shy. And then my English teacher commissioned me to do a painting. It was pretty surrealistic at that time, and she was my first customer ever.

Which are your favorite artists?

The douanier Rousseau, Ingres, Manet, Hirosige, Utamaro, the colors of Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry drove me crazy very young.

Best exhibition ever participated in…?

The first international show I went to was the off Bienal Venice. It was the first professional group show and being in the city was great fun.

Greatest achievements so far…?

I always think it is ahead. I am so surprised and happy to be able to travel with my art, and make it day by day. The road is what is important less than the final achievement, I am always focusing on the next step and how to keep the work interesting

Would love to exhibit my work in …

Tokyo ! So a long story come true. One day I was sick as a child and I never was. In the hallway there was these two Japanese prints. I still have them today and it always has been a great source of inspiration for me.

Artist interview with The Spilt Ink

Johnny (The Spilt Ink) was born in Detroit on a cold October night in 1977.

His first day home from the hospital was on Halloween

where helped pass out candy to all the

colorful ghouls and ghosts.

He was obviously doomed from the start.

Do what you love, love what you do, never listen to “NO” and never stop art.

Who would you like to buy your art? A famous person? What would you tell him/her about your art so he would buy it?

Anyone who is serious about my work can have it. I have had all kinds of people from all over the world get my work and I’m proud of that.

How would you describe yourself? And your artwork?

I’m the only person that I know who is like me and describing myself is like describing neon colors to a blind person. My work… Hmm… I guess you could call it electric lowbrow with a hint of sexy.

What drives you?

Good question. Many things motivate me, loud music (mostly punk and drum&bass) caffeine, the fear of failure and sometimes jealousy. Is that too honest?

What is your definition of art?

To each their own.

Where do you get your inspiration?

Mostly loud music, sometimes alcohol.

How do you deal with artist's block?

Keep on working, it’s a battle sometimes.

Where do you see your art going in ten years?

Can anyone truly answer this question?

Can you tell us what you have going on right now?

I just finished a European tour. I painted live at night clubs and had shows in Amsterdam, Paris, & Berlin. I wanted to stay but I had to paint live in Tokyo, which isn’t a bad thing.

Can you tell us what your 'Before I Die' is?

Honestly, I want to continue painting and expressing myself through my art. If I can continue doing that until the very end, I’ll be happy.

I know my artwork is finished when…?

Good question, sometimes it’s more than obvious and other times it’s not.

Best Commissioned artwork ever done was…?

I’ll answer that one on my deathbed.

Which are your favourite artists?

They rotate a lot but currently I am enjoying the work of Szukalski, Glenn Barr, Dragon76, and can I add myself to this list?

Best exhibition ever participated in…?

There have been quite a few good ones, I don’t want to say which one is my most favorite because I don’t want to bruise anyone’s feelings.

Greatest achievements so far…?

That’s a tough one too. Can I answer this one after the show?

Would love to exhibit my work in …

I’ve shown my work in a lot of places and with the internet it’s really seen all over the world but If I could show my physical work somewhere or paint live I wouldn’t mind New York or Hong Kong.

Artist Bio/Statement EXTENDED:

“It all started with Camel Cigarette ads and Iron Maiden records.”

Johnny (The Spilt Ink) was born in Detroit on a cold October night in 1977.

His first day home from the hospital was on Halloween

where helped pass out candy to all the

colorful ghouls and ghosts.

He was obviously doomed from the start.

In his youth, he didn’t pursue the usual

school activities, instead he spent countless

hours drawing Joe Camel ads, comics and

Iron Maiden record covers,

“They were my friends and I loved that they

were packed with action and color.”

As a teenager he moving to San Francisco to

attend art school. There he invested all his time in DJing, art and photography.

After graduating, he had a brief stint in advertising until he found himself unemployed due to the sudden burst of the

dotcom bubble. With nowhere to go and

nothing to do he was saved by his Japanese friends in Tokyo.

“I was invited out to DJ and hang out

for a bit, but then I fell in love with the city

and its art filled culture.”

At this time, he developed his current style.

Be it the excitement of the clubs or the electricity

in the streets, something exhilarating

happened to him and his art.

Since then Johnny has traveled the world on

tour painting live at music events in Amsterdam,

Athens, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo & the USA.

Johnny currently resides in Tokyo where he

focuses on new paintings for clients, painting at

music events, planning his next tour,

sketching at cafes and drinking.

Artist interview with Joshua Bernard

Artist Name: UWA

Born: Jakarta, Indonesia

Live: Tokyo

Website url: https://joshuabernardnugro.wixsite.com/encryptedmagic

Instagram : @joshuauwabernard

UWA was born in Jakarta , Indonesia.

He was never dream to pursue or become a painter, it was his father that once told him when he was still 10 years old that in a dream his father see that he’s doing a painting.

Since a child UWA was obsessed about the nature of state of realities  and fail to find purpose or a decent answer to some human most fundamental questions.

UWA’s journey had led him to the metaphysical and beyond, he survived many near death experiences and had experienced other dimensions encounter.

UWA doesn’t considered himself an artist nor his work as an art rather associate his work as with his own personal term an Encrypted Magic.

UWA believes that human race have to evolve collectively and we all need to befriend with the infinity that we’ve forgot.

UWA see his work “Encrypted Magic” as a note between the source/ God/ Infinite and him.

He was guided through a voice often to direct which colors he should pick, how many lines, and occasionally to disrupt and change a piece of work he personally have considered done or beautiful.

Who would i like to buy my art?

Masayoshi Son , I would tell him that I will replace all of We Work’s building light installations with my encrypted magic and I’m convinced that the whole world will be more hyped in chasing the infinite and doing their own light works no matter what the form is.. because my works are simply much better looking and will inspired the whole world to embrace and advance the coming and the need for Singularity and all the other future yet to come.

Rather than a widespread various  casualty in the anomalies variations in post robot-human merge the whole world could shift it’s focus to what really matters and required for us civilization type 0 to evolve into the next.

This is of the utmost important and we do need all the resources that we have and currently we are doing far, far from enough.

What drives me?

The infinte.

I would like to quote from H.G Wells

Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe... unified, disciplined, armed with the secret powers of the atom, and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

Where do i get my inspiration?

It’s given. Sometimes even dictated by the voice- like i mentioned in the artist statement.

How do i deal with artist block?

If there are two thing that i know for certain that are constant is that 1. Change and 2. Artist block is not in the vocabulary of UWA. Haha

I mean i’ve had around 4,000 encrypted magic at my disposal right now ready to unleashed. During my time between 17-24

Where do i see my art is going in 10 years?

To the most respectable places, to the streets, replacing tons of advertisements that hurts the feeling of so many people and making everyone feel depressed, the world needs light and colors and a reminder of what’s really important.

I imagine my encrypted magic can fill not only conservative art representation places but also in more public places, but we are going to VR world and beyond, and that’s where i see more fitting and yeah...

I would like to see the encrypted magic are being associated with the movement of this forces of technological advancement and the companies that represent it.

I think there’s no limit to where it can touch.

Can you tell what you have going on right now?

I’m going to the Tokyo Intl Art Fair this upcoming june 7-8

Before I Die...

That’s the thing about all of this, i’m not planning to die and I don’t want to die, and people need to embrace the fact that death will be a thing of the past , in a form of way, and think deeper about now what we’re gonna do about it once we received immortality in a form- and that back to my statement regarding what’s really important being a human being and that there are no limits and we need to collectively focus on what’s really matter , to advanced as a species.

I know my artwork is finished when..

It’s finished

Best commissioned artwork ever done was?

The best is always yet to come

Which are your favorite artists?

I have the utmost respect and love for Yayoi Kusama.. there’s no word on this planet to define her vigor and it’s just Yayoi and her infinite thingy too, but we have to go double infinite this time.

And of course Inoko-san of TeamLab.. he invented what i would call , the right way of doing it, and i know it’s only just the beginning, i hope so.

Best exhibition ever participated in.

Late night Solo exhibition at The Gate 88 , Bali.

@thegate88bali

Greatest achievement so far..

Still being alive after seeing things which are not meant to be seen for everyone and experience things which border to the point of the most schizophrenic etc etc etc..

Thats why nowadays kids need to be tougher and focus more on the “light”.

がんばって ください！！

Would love to exhibit my work in...

The Catacombs of Paris.

It’s dark and perfect for my encrypted magic.

HIGHLIGHTS TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2019 - BELLESALLE, ROPPONGI 7-8 JUNE 2019

Tokyo International Art Fair

東京インターナショナルアートフェア

5th Edition, 07-08 JUNE 2019 | 2019年6月7日-8日

Belle Salle Roppongi

The award-winning Global Art Agency selects the highlights for the fifth Tokyo International Art Fair, taking place at the Belle Salle Roppongi on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th June 2019. www.tokyoartfair.com

Padi Faraji

Title: Fishpond by Padi Faraji

An abstract artist originally from Iran now based in Japan.  Faraji takes her inspiration from nature, in particular the ocean.  Designs, colours and textures of layers upon layers with dramatic movements often play out in her works. Paint is not just a colouring material; by applying paint layer by layer the artist creates a sculptural expression.

Cho, Hui-Chin

A resist-destiny female artist suffering from the distorted world who enjoys creating distorted artworks. Her grotesque yet serene artworks explore the existence between life and death, investigate the darkest humanities and reveal the fetish. She works across painting and sculpture and with deeply symbolic materials, explaining their association with "life once lived".

Jatin Khan

Khan's art focuses on the fundamental commonality of all humanity, specifically emotion, evolution and ascension. It simultaneously aims to transcend all concepts of regionalism, stereotype herd culture and societal programming, with a unique unrepeatable quality to each work. The imagery tends to unfold in duality; the complete picture with its primary impact, and the emergence of various minute elements which compound upon the primary impact. Each work is a different experience in itself aimed at evoking pure emotion, carrying its own unique energy signature.

UWA

A continuous tour between our inner landscape toward our idea of “light”, our  very nature of existence in this present universe. Befriend with the Infinity you forgot. It’s about The portrayal of your own ‘bigger’ or higher self, God according to your own image, across the portal, digging through dimensions. Surrounded with ice, maybe water, a spectrum of colours not yet known to earth standing beyond him the one who always guides him, his own future self. The infinite encryption - from simple cells to making what’s beyond here and now.

Araki Nobuyoshi

The 3D sculpture is a handmade, hand-painted ceramic based on Araki’s childlike drawing in his publication Dotei Datcho-Kun, 1995. The elephant artwork DELON KUN presents a symbol of a man, showing when several men compete to win the best woman first.  However they are so fiercely competitive that they can't move together and finally all fail and show a state of sagging, just like human sexuality and  physiology. 

Alexander Yaya, Crisolart Galleries

The artist is prone to decorativeness; his works work equally well as monumental graffiti on the wall of a house or a stylish fabric print. He stylizes the proportions of human bodies, making his models thinner and taller, lengthening their hands, generalising the silhouettes. All his heroines look fragile and the girl here is melancholic, whilst the fish watches with a playful smile.  The viewer wonders who plays the lead and who is pulling whom forward. Yaya plays up the clash of primary colours: the yellow is open and red turns a cherry hue, cooled down to avoid discord with other tones. Perhaps, if the composition on the right were cut off earlier, the work would look more harmonious, adjusted and stable. The girl would be exactly on the central axis, and there would be no doubt about who the scene is centred around.

Harry Arling

Dutch artist Arling creates Kosmotronics,  works of art made from plastic waste.  Kosmotroniks is the Art of Alchemy, where the discarded and unwanted, the waste of a consumer society, is transformed into the dreams of the child in us all, in the fantastical and beautiful. Arling's work is characterised by colour lifting the spirit and detail delighting the eye. The mechanical whimsical; the joyous unreal made solid.

Andrei Tunikov, Crisolart Galleries

Striving to convey dynamics and character through plastics, Tunikov turned to the image of birds and discovered an amazing world of their feelings, full of emotions. Angrily shifted eyebrows, open beak, ruffled neck - these details are capable of conveying characters and psychological conditions.  The choice is migratory birds forced to move around in search of warm places for hunting and propagation. The artist emphasises and expresses this life path full of discoveries, challenges and victories. His work reflects all the details of anatomical and physical resemblance to life model, requiring a painstaking everyday work to elaborate all the details of feathers, taking a year to complete.

Michele Righetti

Singapore-based painter and sculptor Michele Righetti is an incisive contemporary thinker of art able to master inter-disciplinary techniques and styles through paintings, sculpture and graphics. A unique and fascinating imaginary world is celebrated through artworks telling stories deeply rooted within life experiences, memories, culture and fascination for nature elements.  http://www.righettiart.com/portfolio/ 

雙勺冰淇淋 Ron English 經典獨家販售的口味

Ronnnie Rabbbit 和 Starskull。

快樂亦好吃！最新創作作品，看起來可怕又可愛，矛盾的組合創作方式。

Double scoop ice cream Ron English signature flavours: Ronnnie Rabbbit and Starskull. Happily delicious!

Ron English, APPortfolio, China

One of the most prolific and recognisable artists alive today, Ron English has bombed the global landscape with unforgettable images, on the street, in museums, in movies, books and TV. He coined the term POPaganda to describe his signature mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones, from superhero mythology to totems of art history, populated with his vast and constantly growing arsenal of original characters. Other characters carousing through English’s art, in paintings, billboards and sculpture include three-eyed rabbits, udderly delicious cowgirls and grinning skulls, blending stunning visuals with the bitingly humorous undertones of America’s Premier Pop Iconoclast.

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Tokyo International Art Fair 2019

Dates & Times:
Friday 7th June 2019, 18.00 - 21.00 - Opening - private view by invitation & ticket only. Including Champagne Reception, Private View and Vernissage and music from DJ Katsuya Everywhere.  Tickets available here http://www.tokyoartfair.com/tickets

Saturday 8th June 2019, 11.00 - 18.00 - Open to public, free entrance.

Live painting and the Global Art Awards Ceremony at 17.00. Pre-book tickets here http://www.tokyoartfair.com/tickets

Venue:

BELLE SALLE Roppongi

Japan, 〒106-0032 Tokyo, Minato, Roppongi, 7 Chome−18−18, 住友不動産六本木通ビル

For more information about the Tokyo International Art Fair, please go to www.tokyoartfair.com

ENDS

Press contacts:

(English speaking) Sarah Pracey + 44 7985 112 777 / sarah@praceypr.com

or

(Japanese speaking) Jun Ueda +81 8063047000 / agent@globalartagency.com

グローバルアートエージェンシー主催 TOKYO†INTERNATIONAL†ART†FAIR

グローバルアートエージェンシー主催

TOKYO†INTERNATIONAL†ART†FAIR

２０１９年6⽉７・８⽇

グローバルアートエージェンシーが主催する『TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR』

が開催されます。東京では5回⽬となる本フェアは、⾔語や⽂化をこえ、アートを通じて

国際交流をするための祭典として、世界40ヶ国以上から150名を超える参加アーティストが、

⼀堂に会し、⾄極の空間で様々な素材や技法を⽤いた現代アートを展⽰します。絵画・彫刻・

写真・イラストなど、さまざまな現代アートが楽しめる同アートフェアではアーティストと

コレクターが直接取引ができるとても貴重でユニークなイベントとなっています。

TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 開催概要

⽇程：2019年6⽉7⽇（⾦）18:00〜21:00

オープニングセレモニー・プレスイベント（要予約）

チケット：1,500 円 チケットはこちら http://www.tokyoartfair.com/tickets

2019年6⽉8⽇（⼟）11:00〜18:00

⼀般公開 ⼊場無料

ライブペインティング・アート作品展⽰・販売・授賞式

会場：Belle Salle Roppongi

〒106-0032 東京都港区六本⽊7 −18−18 住友不動産六本⽊通ビル1F

公式URL: http://www.tokyoartfair.com/

主催:グローバルアートエージェンシ

【お問い合せ】 Joëlle Dinnage + 44 7825 443925 office@globalartagency.com

Jun Ueda + 81 80 6304 7000

The count-down is on for Tokyo's most vibrant art event this year

Expect over 100 exhibitors to take over Belle Salle Roppongi for the 5th Edition of Tokyo's must-see art event!

東京インターナショナルアートフェア

07-08 JUNE 2019 | 2019年6月7日-8日

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“Ice Cream” by Ron English

Ron English's POPaganda is one of the headliners of the 5th edition of the Tokyo International Art Fair 2019. English's Cereal Killers and other characters from his renowned POPaganda art will be bursting onto the Toyko art scene next month when one of the world's most prolific and recognisable artists takes centre stage at the Tokyo International Art Fair.

English, famous for his signature mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones, joins other leading artists and galleries from around the globe making for the fifth edition of the city's must-see art event.

Set in the stunning Belle Salle Roppongi, just a stone's throw from the Mori Art Museum, the Tokyo International Art Fair brings together under one roof some of the most exciting and challenging artwork ever seen in the city.

More than 100 artists and galleries will take part, transforming Tokyo's artistic landscape. Art collectors and enthusiasts alike will get a one-off opportunity to view the wide range of art on show, talk to the artists to learn what inspired them and buy unique art for their home, workspace or garden. They can also enjoy an exclusive preview by attending a champagne private view when the art fair opens its doors on the evening of Friday 7th June.

Paintings, sculpture, photography, illustrations, jewellery and bespoke crafts created using a wealth of different media and techniques are just some of the artworks at the two day event, with each artist carefully selected for the calibre, style and individuality of their work.

In launching the fifth edition of the hugely successful Tokyo International Art Fair, Joëlle Dinnage of the award-winning Global Art Agency says, "This year's event will be a highlight on the vibrant Tokyo art scene, bringing a spectacular collection of contemporary work from established as well as emerging artists from across the globe – exhibitors from over 23 countries including many from Europe and Asia. I am thrilled to see a lot of Pop Art style work this year, which I am sure the local people will also be excited with.

Damien Hirst

“Gato Samuray” by TOT (Colombia) represented by HighArtGallery (Japan)

"Big names, among them Ron English represented by APPortfolio (China), Cho, Hui-Chin (Taiwan), Gallery 21 (Japan), Damien Hirst represented by Dutch Curator and many more, will be there, so the quality and the sheer diversity of the work on show will be outstanding. We want to fill the city with colour and get everyone talking about and buying art. The event will inspire and enrich everyone who steps foot through the door."

Alongside the art on show, the fair will feature live painting, also live music by DJ ‘Katsuya Everywhere’, expect Geisha’s to pour champagne on the opening evening, and there is the chance for every visitor to attend the Global Art Awards Ceremony on Saturday 8th June. The culmination of the event, the Global Art Awards recognise and acknowledge the hard work of all artists and galleries taking part, singling out one overall winner and two runners-up for particular praise.

In the meantime, Dinnage and her team has picked out her personal selection for must-see work this year:

Padi Faraji

Padi Faraji

An abstract artist originally from Iran now based in Japan, Faraji takes her inspiration from nature, in particular the ocean. Designs, colours and textures of layers upon layers with dramatic movements often play out in her works. Paint is not just a colouring material; by applying paint layer by layer, the artist creates a sculptural expression.

Harry Arling

Dutch artist Arling creates Kosmotronics, works of art made from plastic waste. It's the Art of Alchemy, where the discarded, unwanted and waste of a consumer society is transformed into the dreams of the child in us all, in the fantastical and beautiful. Colour lifts the spirit and detail delights the eye. The mechanical whimsical; the joyous unreal made solid.

Cho, Hui-Chin

Cho, Hui-Chin

A resist-destiny female artist from Taiwan suffering from the distorted world who enjoys creating distorted artworks. Her grotesque yet serene artworks explore the existence between life and death, investigate the darkest humanities and reveal the fetish. She works across painting and sculpture and with deeply symbolic materials, explaining their association with "life once lived".

Jatin Khan

Jatin Khan

Khan's (India) art focuses on the fundamental commonality of all humanity, specifically emotion, evolution and ascension. It simultaneously aims to transcend all concepts of regionalism, stereotype herd culture and societal programming, with a unique unrepeatable quality. Each work is a different experience in itself aimed at evoking pure emotion, carrying its own unique energy signature. https://www.instagram.com/jatinkhanart/

UWA

The Indonesian artist's work is a continuous tour between our inner landscape towards our idea of “light”, our very nature of existence in this present universe. It’s about the portrayal of your own ‘bigger’ or higher self, God according to your own image, across the portal, digging through dimensions. Surrounded with ice, maybe water, a spectrum of colours not yet known to earth standing beyond him, the one who always guides him, his own future self.

Alexander Yaya, Crisolart Galleries (Barcelona, Spain)

A prominent representative of the so-called “highbrow” art movement, largely focused on figurative and abstract sculpture and painting, Yaya's works are distinguished by organic forms and spectacular colours that create a harmonious balance between nature and human. The artist is prone to decorativeness; his works work equally well as monumental graffiti on the wall of a house or a stylish fabric print.

Michele Righetti

Singapore-based painter and sculptor Michele Righetti is an incisive contemporary thinker of art able to master inter-disciplinary techniques and styles through paintings, sculpture and graphics. A unique and fascinating imaginary world is celebrated through artworks telling stories deeply rooted within life experiences, memories, culture and fascination for nature elements.

Ron English, APPortfolio, China

One of the most prolific and recognisable artists alive today, Ron English has bombed the global landscape with unforgettable images, on the street, in museums, in movies, books and TV. He coined the term POPaganda to describe his signature mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones, from superhero mythology to totems of art history, populated with his vast and constantly growing arsenal of original characters.

Araki Nobuyoshi

The 3D sculpture is a handmade, hand-painted ceramic based on Araki’s childlike drawing in his publication Dotei Datcho-Kun, 1995. The elephant artwork DELON KUN presents a symbol of a man, showing when several men compete to win the best woman first. However, they are so fiercely competitive that they cannot move together and finally all fail and show a state of sagging, just like human sexuality and physiology.

Andrei Tunikov

Striving to convey dynamics and character through plastics, Tunikov turned to the image of birds and discovered an amazing world of their feelings and emotions. His choice is migratory birds forced to move around in search of warm places for hunting and propagation. The artist emphasises and expresses this life path full of discoveries, challenges and victories, reflecting the details of anatomical and physical resemblance to life.

The Tokyo International Art Fair takes place on Friday 7th and Saturday 8th June 2019.

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Dates & Times:
Friday 7th June 2019, 18.00 - 21.00 - Opening - private view by invitation & ticket only. Including Champagne Reception, Private View and Vernissage sponsored by Wall Street Journal and DJ Katsuya Everywhere. Tickets available here http://www.tokyoartfair.com/tickets

Saturday 8th June 2019, 11.00 - 18.00 - Open to the public, free entrance.

Live painting and the Global Art Awards Ceremony at 17.00. Pre-book tickets here http://www.tokyoartfair.com/tickets

Venue:

BELLE SALLE Roppongi

Japan, 〒106-0032 Tokyo, Minato, Roppongi, 7 Chome−18−18, 住友不動産六本木通ビル

For more information about the Tokyo International Art Fair, please go to: www.tokyoartfair.com

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ENDS

Press contacts:

Sarah Pracey + 44 7985 112 777 / sarah@praceypr.com

or

Joëlle Dinnage + 44 7825 443925

office@globalartagency.com

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Araki Nobuyoshi | Japan

Volunteer for one of the biggest International Art Fairs in Tokyo

Interested in interning or volunteering for an international art fair? Then look no further!

Opportunities are available to learn about every aspect of building a fair, including being on-site and working the actual event.

The volunteers receive (upon successful completion): 
- ‘Certificate of Completion Tokyo Art Fair volunteer Assistant” 2019.
- Official thank you letter signed by the Director of the organisation. 
- Invitation for 2 for the VIP After-Party on Sat 8th June at 21.00pm
- Free Catalogue Tokyo Art Fair 2019 
- Free 2 VIP Tickets Fri 7th June Champagne Reception to invite key contacts.

To find out more please fill in the form below and we will contact you about current openings.

Volunteers will have to work on both art fair days: Friday 7th June from 12noon till 21.00pm & Saturday 8th June from 11.00am till 18.00pm 2019.

Or email your CV with photo to: office@globalartagency.com

Tokyo International Art Fair 2018 success at Roppongi BelleSalle

More than 7000 art aficionados were eager to enter through the doors of BelleSalle Roppongi over the weekend (Friday 25th and Saturday 26th May 2018) as Tokyo city hosted the fourth Tokyo International Art Fair organised by the Global Art Agency (GAA Ltd).

Roppongi BelleSalle was arranged to perfection with over 100 artist and gallery stands from over 30 countries from around the world. The atmosphere was charged with positive vibes as visitors took in the wide range of original art available and took pieces they had purchased home.

Charles Ho from The Wall Street Journal said: "What an evening in Roppongi, where international artists meeting global insights, a superb platform for uprising talent."

New York Gallery from Japan sold within the first hour an original painting by the artist FLORE for 1.2 mill JPY, followed by many more during the art fair.

First prize winner of 2016 Best TIAF Artist Award August Vilella who sold 3 artworks last year worth $ 45,000 USD was back again this year making another outstanding performance... "It is like being family over-here, always a pleasure to exhibit with such a fine organisation."

The weekend culminated in the announcement on Saturday afternoon of the winner of the "Best Tokyo International Art Fair Artist" in by both the panel of judges and members of the public.

1st Prize: Bharat Thakur
2nd Prize: New Now Gallery
3rd Prize: Cristina Jin (Sun Gallery, New York)

From left to right: Manu Alguero, Natal Vallve, Igor Abramovich (New Now Gallery) Barat Thakur, Cristina Jin, New Now Gallery, Joëlle Dinnage.

First prize went to Bharat Thakur who displayed a miracle of realism portraits (for some on the border shuddersome) although technique and style of the highest form! The second prize went to New Now Gallery, owned by Igor Abramovich who's vision lays with Ukrainian art and helping create painting collections in Ukraine. Promotes cooperation between Ukrainian painters and renown auction houses of the world — Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Phillips and Bonhams. Believes that nowadays national art is becoming a worthy partner of international cultural dialogue. Third prize went to Cristina Jin ( New York) originally comes from New Zealand and she believes our purest form of emotion are in the moments. Those emotion is the most honest, natural and emphatic. She wants to keep that entrance of memory, no matter she goes back or not. Christina always carries her easel wherever she goes. Painting for her is to capture the natural first-hand reaction to her encounters, the thrill and the fear and the realization of her adventure.

Organisers of the fair; Joëlle Dinnage and Natal Vallvé from the Global Art Agency added their appreciation to the city's reaction to the event and the enthusiasm they found from artists and visitors alike.

"TIAF 2018 was a great success not only for the big selection of exhibitors from all around the world. It was a window of what's going on in the contemporary art world nowadays" Natal Vallvé said.

"We'll be back for more in 2019 and are already planning next year's event," Joëlle Dinnage said.

For more information on next year's Tokyo International Art Fair and other forthcoming events, please visit www.tokyoartfair.com or www.globalartagency.com Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GlobalArtAgency and follow us on Twitter
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Alexandra Mekhanik; "Unfinished phrase of my brush gives the opportunity to enlarge the viewers’ imagination."

Artist and Photographer Alexandra Mekhanik was born in Moscow in October ’78 in the 4th generation of architects and artists of her father’s family. Graduated as a Master of Technology and Interior Designer of Architectural spaces. Alexandra has been working as an interior designer and decorator for 15 years making public and private spaces in mainly in France, Russia, and Germany.

She describes her artwork as Monochrome. Minimalism. Elegance. Harmony.

"Unfinished phrase of my brush gives the opportunity to enlarge the viewers’ imagination. In general the message of my works is to Welcome to the Harmony of your Mind and Soul!"

How would you describe yourself? And your artwork?

Clearly readable minimalism and harmony in everything. Dignity is highly appreciated in my heart. About myself,.. open hearted, easygoing and understanding. My credo is “treat others as you want to be treated”.

My works are slightly unfinished to offer the space for the viewers’ imagination and fantasy.

As to photography, they are taken in a special way to show out the idea, to make the viewers appreciate even tiny details which we could hardly ever notice in our fast life. Color combinations are chosen to be so delicious to give a pleasure to the viewers looking at them longer and longer, discovering more interesting unusual details.: 

What is your definition of art?

Art has no rules. Endless quantity of different technics and mixed media of art now allows the artist’s heart speak genuinely to the viewers, becoming one of international language of peace and life philosophy. Art is a mission living deep inside while artist is collecting his inspiration until the explosion of  his feelings and emotions.

Where do you get your inspiration?

Night is the most inspiring time for me to create.

Talking about collecting the inspiring moments, I find them everywhere. And of course, I need to travel. Comparing cultural deference, learning all the time, looking, noticing beauty in unexpected places, in hardly visible details..

Where do you see your art going in ten years?

Ideally it’s going to become a multifunctional capsular atelier for different art media such as painting, drawings, sculpture, photography, installations, furniture design, homeware and home wear. As far as, anyway, all this connected with printing, it would be great to organize a publishing/typographical space there for making coffee table art books, fine art photography books, as well as coffee tables themselves, which I have patented recently. I also see my own gallery where I would be happy to gather the works of the most interesting artists from all over the world, to organize Art Exhibitions, Art Fairs, and Charity Galas for those who appreciate art of any kind and see the depth of the artworks as well as their message to the world.

Can you tell us what you have going on right now?

One of the most exciting project for me now is Four Elements on canvas. It’s a kind of challenge for me, because I’ve never worked in this style. But astrology has always been an attractive subject for me, as well as the knowledge about zodiac signs, different associations around it. The moon power gives me a lot of inspiration and motivation to dare. Hopefully It will grow into an extraordinary project in collaboration with a great Astro scientist.

Website url: http://alexandramekhanik.simpl.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_artist.alexandra/?hl=en

Facebook: Alexandra Mekhanik

Florencia Zampieri composing her dynamic world at the Tokyo International Art Fair

Florencia Zampieri (22nd March 1973) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since she was a little girl she used to spend her time painting and drawing. She was inspired by all kind of art expressions, so, while she was studying at primary school she started dancing Classic and Contemporary Dance as a hobby. When she finished school she became a Dance teacher at only 17 years old.

Her passion and love to all artistic expressions, inspired her to study Architecture and then Image and Visual Merchandising. In 1998 she graduated from The Buenos Aires University of Architecture and Urbanism.

When she was 24 years old, she started as a University Design Professor and she introduced her self into Habitat Theory Investigation.

Florencia studied different art expression with few teachers that gave her a solid basement to continue her career. Abstract, collage, colours, acrylic, oils, pencils, papers, textures are her tools to compose her dynamic world.

This is a Q & A with Florencia Zampieri, exhibitor at the Tokyo International Art Fair 2018.

Q: How would you describe yourself? And your artwork?
A: My artwork reflects what I am, a Woman in Movement. 

Q: What drives you? 
A: The pleasure that gives the power of art creation, play with colours and textures.

Q: Where do you get your inspiration?
A: Images, photos, traveling…life experiences, moments, topics…

Q: Where do you see your art going in ten years?
A: Trascending new frontiers, in constantly movement. 

Q: I know my artwork is finished when?
A: When I feel satisfied

Q: Best exhibition ever participated in?
A: The Next One!

Q: Would love to exhibit my work in?
A: No limits

Website: www.visualwork.com.ar

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/visual.work/

Art painter and Art Fashion Designer Hiroko Saigusa from Tokyo expresses the power of life we create

At first glance, Hiroko Saigusa’s vibrant paintings are mesmerizing. Working in predominantly acrylic on canvas, HIROKO seamlessly weaves bold lines, geometric planes, and energetic fields of color that comprise her dynamically abstract oeuvre. Her works are at once playful and emotive. In paintings such as Power, curved organic shapes composed of bright red, chartreuse, and navy tones dance and writhe around each other in a nearly dizzying manner. HIROKO’s The 60s evokes a similar playfulness, incorporating bright tones of orange, green and yellow contained within shapes that are reminiscent of the Flower Power movement. Passion elicits a mood of cheerful frenzy as contrasting shades of red, blue, orange, and yellow endlessly twirl around each other.

Born in Japan, the artist is heavily influenced by activities such as drawing, textiles, fashion design, graphic design, and space design. Throughout much of her oeuvre, HIROKO frequently incorporates the color red. She states: “[Red] represents human blood and I feel that I can expresses the power of life we create. It represents vitality, capability, and emotions of human beings.” The artist currently resides in Japan.

This is a short Q&A with HIROKO SAIGUSA.

Q: What is your definition of art?

A: I think that what is alive is art. I am very active and I want to make friends with people all over the world.

Q: Where do you get your inspiration?

A: Passion and fashion

Q: How do you deal with artist's block?

A: Never experienced it 

Q: Where do you see your art going in ten years?

A: Paris collection; That my art makes it to fashion.

Q: Can you tell us what you have going on right now?

A: Study of psychiatry

Q: Can you tell us what your 'Before I Die' is?

A: Have my own shop and say thank you my memories friends and family

Q: Best Commissioned artwork ever done was…?

A: Received the Grand Prize at the Japan-China-Korea Art Exhibition. And interview with magazines

Q: Which are your favourite artists?

A: Jean-Michel Basquiat

Q: Greatest achievements so far…?

A: My paintings are currently designed on clothes on show in San Francisco.

Q: Would love to exhibit my work in...?

A: I am praying for activities in New York, Berlin, France and around the world.

Website url: www.hirokosaigusa.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hiroko.saigusa

Stephen Hawking inspired art, and a Dalai Lama SUMO-sized surprise at the Tokyo International Art Fair 2018 - Press Release English Version

The city of Tokyo will be playing host to hundreds of talented artists from all around the world when it stages the fourth edition of the Tokyo International Art Fair on 25-26 May 2018, Bellesalle Roppongi. More than 100 exhibitors from over 30 countries will be filling the prime located venue with an incredible display of art, with more pieces than ever before gathered under one roof for visitors to admire and to buy in the city’s largest Artist showcase of modern and contemporary art.

This year, the organisers Global Art Agency joined forces with BELLESALLE Roppongi to host the fourth Tokyo International Art Fair - yet again expecting thousands of art loving visitors and huge sales. Roppongi (六本木, literally "six trees") is a district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, famous for the affluent Roppongi Hills development area which includes the famous Mori Art Museum.

Organisers Joëlle Dinnage and her business partner Natal Vallvé from the Global Art Agency are making the fantastic (free) two-day art extravaganza a versatile art happening for the locals of Tokyo. A huge variety of artworks, offering every visitor something to suit their style, all in an affordable price-range to buy and to take home on the day. "We are extremely happy with the new venue, it will be another spectacle." they said.

On show will be paintings, sculptures, photography art, illustrations, printmaking, and jewellery, with a live painting and music show at the event.

“Almost 10,000 people visited the event last year, connections were made, and great sales happened, so everyone was extremely satisfied. There was no doubt to continue and build on the success of the previous editions. We have worked very hard to get a brilliant new venue in one of Tokyo's hotspots attracting art aficionado's from all over the world, and partnering up with The Wall Street Journal has been a great bonus too!" said organiser Joëlle Dinnage.

"We have new talent exhibiting this year as well as some known names, some of them exhibited also with us last year, and of course there are the famous names such as Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Pure Evil and works by Takashi Marukami"

HIGHLIGHTS:

TASCHEN (Japan) will be exhibiting a World Heritage landmark, this SUMO-sized publication presents the most precious surviving murals of Tibetan Buddhist culture.  For the first time, these astonishing and intricate masterpieces can be appreciated in blazing color and life-size resolution. Signed by his Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, coming with a bookstand designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect  Shigeru Ban. 

DisQuiet Gallery (Singapore). There are elusive beasts, and they are called mental illnesses. DisQuiet, an art collective comprising 4 Singaporean artists, aims to create awareness on them. The apparent clash of artistic styles is to tell the narrative that anyone, no matter how different, can succumb to the fragility of the mind. And within each artist’s collection, the pieces depict how the artist views the torment that the sufferers have to go through.

GArtGallery (Russia) is a Moscow-based gallery will be creating a special story in order to present arts in an unusual form with a new conceptual reading at the Tokyo International Art Fair.

Keiko Imaizumi (Canada) will be showing positive enlightened prints presented with LED light backing with a Japanese natural frost motive which reflects the sincerity of the nature of Japan.

Franco The Creator (UK) his creative philosophies are united by eternal values and REVIVAL of spirituality, and serve as an impetus to reconnect with a mode of life most of us have only ever heard about. This driving power that motivates Franco's search for EMOTIONAL TRUTH. He believes that color and geometry can greatly affect how we perceive this meaning. Geometry questions shape, size, relative position of figures, and the properties of space... it almost sounds if Stephen Hawkins had an influence on his works.

Cuen Gallery (Mexico) Expect conceptual design from artist Ramon Jimenez Cardenas creating objects and sculpture pieces. His typologies and materials seen in objects are often derived from design insights seen in his hometown Oaxaca, Mexico. These insights are mostly seen in architectural structures which carry narrative and a graphic language of their own. 

Christopher Parker (USA) Ever heard of ArtLampoons? Well this is your chance to see them... Rice paper lanterns with watercolour, gouache, pen and glycerin.

WOW Art Gallery (HK) Kaya believes that art and design share an inseparable relationship with limitless possibilities. The creative process is a cycle in which people continuously transform, edit and improve the concept, where the purpose is to create creativity in the hope of achieving self-actualization.

Christina Jin (USA) originally comes from New Zealand and she believes our purest form of emotion are in the moments. Those emotion is the most honest, natural and emphatic. She wants to keep that entrance of memory, no matter she goes back or not. Christina always carries her easel wherever she goes. Painting for her is to capture the natural first-hand reaction to her encounters, the thrill and the fear and the realization of her adventure.

And also watch out for EStYLE Art Gallery (Taiwan), ABU Gallery (Guinea-Bissau), Manu Algueró, Suzi Nassif.

Best Artist Award Oxford International Art Fair 2018:

Bogdan Mihai Radu, a Romanian artist whose works spoke volumes at the entrance to the Oxford International Art Fair. On an immense scale that’s immersive, Bogdan’s abstracted expressionism is bold and striking, dense with mood and emotion telling a story of his life, a traumatic episode and a challenging psychological state with which Bogdan worked through in these paintings. ‘I cannot live without painting,’ says Bogdan, ‘because it’s only when I paint that I feel truly alive.’ He is thrilled to have won this award, and will be exhibiting at TIAFA 2018 with pride to show his works to the Asian collectors.

Local Highlights:

AYA Gallery (Japan) Finding inspiration in nature, visualising colours, shapes and lines that feel warm and vibrant. In this exhibition, AYA deal with Japanese agricultural landscapes.

Generative Art Studio (Japan) Expect unpredictable artworks created by programming, 3DCG, MotionGraphics. Without listening to the sound, producing music... it's an experience!

Colleen Sakurai (Japan) Her artistic goal is to keep things simple. Shapes and forms that reveal and accentuate the undulating beauty of the material. 

Also keep a look out for Hiroko Saigusa (Japan), A&S Group (Japan) that have work on from Alex Einbinder and Sachiko Shigeta.

These artists are among the more than 112 showing their work at this year’s fair, which takes place on May 25 and 26. The event aims to showcase both rookie and veteran artists, as well as create chances for networking and buying the art on display.

As the fair runs on two days, it will also be split into private and public viewings. First up is the private, which costs ¥1,500. That provides potential buyers with first pick of the art on offer and includes a serving of Champagne. The public viewing is free, but a lot of people are expected to show up: the inaugural Tokyo International Art Fair last year welcomed more than 10,000 guests.

Dates & Times:
Friday 25th May 2018 : 18.00pm - 21.00pm
Including Champagne Reception, Private View and first opportunity to buy art.

Saturday 26th May 2018 : 11.00am - 19.00pm
Live painting, Buy Art Show, Global Art Awards Ceremony (18.00pm) FREE ENTRY

Tickets: Available here

Venue: BELLESALLE ROPPONGI. Japan, 〒106-0032 Tokyo, Minato, Roppongi, 7 Chome−18−18, 住友不動産六本木通ビル

Website: www.tokyoartfair.com

TIAF 2017 REVIEW - Tokyo International Art Fair 2017, Hikarie, Shibuya.

More than 6000 art aficionados were eager to enter through the doors of Hikarie Hall over the weekend (Friday 26th and Saturday 27th May 2017) as Tokyo city hosted the third Tokyo International Art Fair organised by the Global Art Agency (GAA Ltd).

Hikarie Hall was arranged to perfection with over 150 artist and gallery stands from over 30 countries from around the world. The atmosphere was charged with positive vibes as visitors took in the wide range of original art available and took pieces they had purchased home.

Visitors were sipping away on Bombay Sapphire Cocktails sponsored by Bacardi Japan, whilst looking around to invest into a piece of original art.

Exhibitor Sabet from California who sold one of his original paintings "Snow Monkey" for a substantial price of $ 12,000. Was back again this year and performed some live painting sessions to the crowd of Tokyo. He said: "It has been yet again amazing and I'll forever be grateful to the GAA team! Cannot wait till next year!"

Exhibitor Victoriano said: "Tokyo International Art Fair 2017 has been an amazing experience, It was the first time I shown part of my new CMYK collection so I wasn't sure what to expect, but was overwhelmed by all the nice comments, and I sold my 2 star pieces. All in all a great event, thanks GAA team!"

The weekend culminated in the announcement on Saturday afternoon of the winner of the "Best Tokyo International Art Fair Artist" in by both the panel of judges and members of the public.

From left to right: LOC, Mr Vallve, Ms Dinnage, Ben Mori, Mr Maruhashi, Shinichi Tashiro.

Art by Shinichi Tashiro

First prize went to Japanese street artist Shinichi Tashiro (represented by TOKYO Gallery Singapore) Tashiro who is known for constructing highly inventive collages that make humorous commentaries on subjects from fashion to consumer culture. The second prize went to Ben Mori (represented by SEZON Art Gallery) who was born in Tokyo to a Japanese Father and an American Mother. After graduating from Keio Jr. High, he then attended school on the East Coast where he graduated from the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design, majoring in Graphic Design. And the third prize went to LOC Gallery (Hong Kong) LOC pride themselves for being a bridge for art, interior design and children's education, pushing the boundaries of what a traditional design firm should be - and our Jury agreed.

Organisers of the fair; Joëlle Dinnage and Natal Vallvé from the Global Art Agency added their appreciation to the city's reaction to the event and the enthusiasm they found from artists and visitors alike.

"TIAF 2017 was a great success not only for the big selection of exhibitors from all around the world. It was a window of what's going on in the contemporary art world nowadays due the best artists " Natal Vallvé said.

"We'll be back for more in 2018 and are already planning next year's event," they said.

For more information on next year's Tokyo International Art Fair and other forthcoming events, please visit www.tokyoartfair.com or www.globalartagency.com Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GlobalArtAgency and follow us on Twitter
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ダミアン・ハースト、D*FACE、ミスターブレインウォッシュなど 現代アートのスーパースター達の作品が⼀堂に集結！

＜プレスリリース＞

グローバルアートエージェンシー

2017 年５⽉ 10 ⽇

ダミアン・ハースト、D*FACE、ミスターブレインウォッシュなど 現代アートのスーパースター達の作品が⼀堂に集結！ 「TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2017」 5 ⽉ 26 ⽇（⾦）、27 ⽇（⼟）に渋⾕・ヒカリエホールで開催！！ 公式サイト：www.tokyoartfair.com

現代アートの国際的なプラットフォームを提供しているグローバルアートエージェンシー（The Global Art Agency／略称：The GAA Ltd.、本部：イギリス、代表：ナタル・ヴァルヴ ェ）は「TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2017」を 5 ⽉ 26 ⽇（⾦）、27 ⽇（⼟）に開催 します。渋⾕ヒカリエ９階「ヒカリエホール」に世界 40 カ国以上の国々から 150 名以上のアー ティストやギャラリーが⾔語や⽂化の垣根を越えて⼀堂に会します。 5 ⽉ 26 ⽇（⾦）には、招待者およびチケット購⼊者が参加できるレセプションパーティーを開催 します。翌 27 ⽇（⼟）は⼊場無料で公開、どなたでも作品の鑑賞・購⼊やアーティスト達との交 流をお楽しみいただけます。また同⽇ 18 時より最も優れた出展者を表彰する「Global Art Award」授賞式を執り⾏います。 「TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR」（TIAF）初開催の 2015 年は原宿クエストホールに⼆ ⽇間で七千⼈以上が、昨年は表参道ヒルズ「スペース・オー」に⼆⽇間で⼀万⼈以上の来場者が 集まり、出展アーティストやギャラリーと共に、この現代アートの祭典を盛り上げました。 ⽇本において三度⽬の開催となる今年は、会場を渋⾕ヒカリエ 9 階「ヒカリエホール」に移して 更にバージョンアップ！来場者がそれぞれの趣味嗜好に合った作品を⼿ごろな値段で購⼊して持 ち帰ることができる、アートファン⾄極の⼆⽇間が今年も繰り広げられます。 「TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2017」では、ダミアン・ハースト、D*FACE、ミスタ ー・ブレインウォッシュ、シェーン・ボーデンなど現代アートのスーパースター達の名作をはじ め、絵画・彫刻・写真・イラスト・ジュエリーなど多種多様な作品の展⽰・販売を⾏います。ま た、現代アートを⽣で体感していただくために、ライブペインティングやミュージックショーな ども開催します。 現代アートの最前線を⾛る、世界中のアーティストやギャラリー関係者たちと同じ空間を共有 し、彼らとの会話を楽しみしながら作品が⽣み出された背景や想いに⾝を馳せる・・・誰もが思 い思いに現代アートを五感で楽しみ、⾝近に感じられることこそが、TIAF 最⼤の魅⼒と⾔えるで しょう。 GAA 代表者は「TIAF は今年も新しい才能を迎え⼊れます。特に「現代アートの⾵雲児」ダミア ン・ハースト、ストリートアートを代表する D*FACE の作品が出品されるのは今年の⼤きな⽬⽟ です。そして 2015 年の TIAF 初開催から毎回参加し、⼤きな反響を得ているミスター・ブレイン ウォッシュや、「ステロイド注⼊されたアンディ・ウォーホル」と称されるシェーン・ボーデン など、現代アートを代表するスーパースター達も数多く参加します。更にスケールアップして再 上陸する TIAF を楽しみにしていてください」とコメントしています。

【イベント概要】

名称：TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2017 会場：渋⾕ヒカリエ９F「ヒカリエホール」

住所：東京都渋⾕区渋⾕２-21-1 ＜レセプション/プライベートビュー＞

⽇時：2017 年 5 ⽉ 26 ⽇（⾦）午後 6 時〜午後 9 時 内容：シャンパンレセプション、ライブペインティング、アートショー ＊ ご⼊場は、招待者およびチケット購⼊者のみです ＊ チケット販売ページ：http://www.tokyoartfair.com/tickets/

＜⼀般展⽰およびアワード授賞式＞

⽇時：2017 年 5 ⽉ 27 ⽇（⼟）午前 11 時〜午後 7 時（⼊場無料） 内容：作品の展⽰・販売、アートショー、Global Art Award 授賞式

主な参加アーティスト/ギャラリー：

ダミアン・ハースト（イギリス）、DFACE（イギリス）、ミスター・ブレインウォッシュ（フラン ス）、シェーン・ボーデン（オーストラリア）、シンクレア・ワトキンス（アメリカ）、ニューヨー クギャラリー（⽇本）、「クリスタル＆グラム」ギャラリー（⽇本）、ジャ・シャンタン（台湾）、 シンジ・ホリムラ（⽇本）、レイチェル・ホープ・アラン（ニュージーランド）、アナ・テオドロ ール（タイ）、ジャンニ・コルダ（イタリア）、ユアン・モロニ（アルゼンチン）、アンジェリカ・ カール（ドイツ）、アド-リフレックス（南アフリカ）、シェン・フンリン（台湾）、エル・ミエド （チリ）、ユリ・ザタライン（メキシコ）、ケーシー・フリーマン（オーストラリア）、ベン・アラ ン（UAE）、他、

▼公式サイト： http://www.tokyoartfair.com/

▼公式 facebook ページ： https://www.facebook.com/tokyoartfair

【グローバルアートエージェンシーについて】

グローバルアートエージェンシーは、2010 年にイギリスで設⽴された国際的なアート団体です。 イギリス、スペイン、オランダをはじめ世界各国での「INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR」開催を中⼼ に、その活動は年々拡がり続けています。またアートブックの出版や、チャリティオークション、若 ⼿アーティストの発掘・⽀援など、現代アート全般のプロモーション活動を⾏っています。

【報道関係者様からのお問い合わせ先】

Global Art Agency 広報代理 (株式会社 G マーケティング) 担当者 ：駒崎宏典 TEL：090-2204-8861

E-mail：hkoma0124@gmail.com

Jackson Pollock inspired art and twisted imagination by Damien Hirst at the third edition of the Tokyo International Art Fair

THE PREVIEW

"It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw." Damien Hirst a successful and controversial artist, born in England. His works, which include dead animal displays and spin-art paintings, have sold for exceptionally high prices. The InVogue Art Gallery (London) will be exhibiting some famous 'Skull' pieces by the well-known artist, a true must-see at the third edition of the Tokyo International Art Fair 26-27 May 2017 at Hikarie Hall, Shibuya. 

Some other highlights of this year's TIAF 2017

Jackson Pollock inspired artist Ben Alan is a Parisian abstract artist expressionist currently living in Dubai. He has the ambition of painting the feeling of success and motivation. “All my paintings are a sum up of personal development books”. To access success and motivation by visuals of colourful and positive images.

Ben Alan

Painter Anastasia Schipanova (Russia) style has evolved beyond the traditional framework of abstractionism, expressionism and symbolism. She describes her own style as ‘energo-abstractionism’.  Tokyo born artist Keiko Imaizumi (Canada) was selected as the official Photographer for the Japanese Royal Family’s visit to Canada in 2007. Her latest series focuses on using metallic prints, DiBond aluminum boards and plexi glass to share an original and unique perspective that cannot be captured or represented on a computer.

Sun Gallery New York will be representing the works of Mengdi Cheng - The artist explore and express her inner thoughts and feeling through colors, strikes and lines. Swedish artist Ewa Borin famous for her oil paintings to be her pièces de résistance. Ewa aims to convey positive energy and radiate confidence through her art. Something to come and see for yourself at the art fair.

The young Latin American Artist Natasha Estanga began painting at the short age of 7 years old. She became double winner of the Ibero-american Art Fair in Caracas (FIA) in 2007 and 2008. And has been awarded with the Ashta Art Academy prize in Moscow in 2011. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Olivia Kapoor has an associate's degree in art and was the 2009 National Award Winner of the American Red Cross art competition. Olivia prefers to call her paintings a representation of "Psychedelic Abstraction".

Keiko Imaizumi

"Life is beautiful” is a phrase that clearly applies to street artist Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash. In just a matter of years, he went from spray-painting alleyways to selling art installations worth thousands. He even collaborated with pop star Madonna.

These artists are among the more than 112 showing their work at this year’s fair, which takes place on May 26 and 27. The event aims to showcase both rookie and veteran artists, as well as create chances for networking and buying the art on display.

As the fair runs on two days, it will also be split into private and public viewings. First up is the private, which costs ¥1,500. That provides potential buyers with first pick of the art on offer and includes a serving of Champagne. The public viewing is free, but a lot of people are expected to show up: the inaugural Tokyo International Art Fair last year welcomed more than 10,000 guests.

Dates & Times:
Friday 26th May 2017 : 18.00pm - 21.00pm
Including Champagne Reception, Private View and first opportunity to buy art.

Saturday 27th May 2017 : 11.00am - 19.00pm
Live painting, Buy Art Show, Global Art Awards Ceremony (18.00pm) FREE ENTRY

Tickets: Available here

Venue: SHIBUYA HIKARIE  |  HIKARIE HALL 9F. 2-21-1 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan zip 150-8510

Website: www.tokyoartfair.com

Anastasia Schipanova

Mr Brainwash

Ewa Borin

Shane Bowden

Keiko Imaizumi

La Galerie De L'Instant

Natasha Estanga

Olivia Kapoor

Sun Gallery New York

Damien Hirst

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TIAF 2017 | Press Release Japanese Version

＜プレスリリース＞

グローバルアートエージェンシー

2017年３月14日

現代アートの国際的なプラットフォーム、グローバルアートエージェンシー（The GAA Ltd. 本部：イギリス）主催による「TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2017」が 5月26日（金）と 27日（土）に開催。渋谷ヒカリエ９階「ヒカリエホール

に世界35カ国以上の国々から 150名以上のアーティストやギャラリーが言語や文化の垣根を越えて集まります。

5月26日（金）には、招待者およびチケット購入者が参加できるレセプションパーティーを開きます。翌日 27日（土） は、どなたでも無料でご入場していただき、作品の展示・販売やアートショーを開催。また18時より「Global Art Award」授賞式を執り行う予定です。
 

「TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR」（TIAF）初開催の2015年は原宿クエストホールに二日間で6,000人以上が、昨年は表参道ヒルズに二日間で7,000人以上の来場者が集まり、出展アーティストと共に現代アートの祭典を盛り上げました。日本において三度目の開催となる今年は、会場を渋谷ヒカリエ9階「ヒカリエホール

に移して更にバージョンアップ！来場者がそれぞれの趣味嗜好に合った作品を手ごろな値段で購入して持ち帰ることができる、アートファン至極の二日間を実現するために準備を進めています。

GAA日本代表の丸橋聡は「今年は新たに「ヒカリエホール

というアート展示に最適な会場で開催できることを非常に喜ばしく思っています」とコメントしています。

当日は、現代アートを生で体感していただくために、絵画・彫刻・写真・イラスト・ジュエリーといった多様な作品の展示・販売に加え、ライブペインティングやミュージックショーなども開催いたします。

GAA代表のナタル・ヴァルヴェは「昨年は7千人もの来場者を迎え、多くの方々に作品を購入いただき、出展者、来場者ともに非常に満足度の高いイベントになりました。三度目のTIAF開催は必然だと考え、世界中のアートファンを迎えるために最適な会場で開催できるようベストを尽くしました」と、GAA共同代表のジョエル・ディナージェは「これまでTIAFに参加された著名アーティスト達に加え、今年も新しい才能を迎え入れます。もちろん、一昨年から毎回参加し、大きな反響を得ているMr. Brainwash（ミスター・ブレインウォッシュ）や、「ステロイド注入されたアンディ・ウォーホル」と称されるShane Bowden（シェーン・ボーデン）など、現代アートのスター達も参加します」とコメントしています。

現在、TIAF2017出展者の最終受付・選考を行っています。出展希望される方は公式サイト（http://www.tokyoartfair.com/）をご参照ください。

【イベント概要】

名称：TOKYO INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2017

会場：渋谷ヒカリエ９F「ヒカリエホール」

住所：東京都渋谷区渋谷２-21-1

＜プライベートビュー＞

日時：2017年5月26日（金）午後 6時〜午後 9時

内容：シャンパンレセプション、ライブペインティング、アートショー

• ご入場は、招待者およびチケット購入者のみです

• チケット販売：　http://www.tokyoartfair.com/　

＜一般展示およびアワード授賞式＞

日時：2017年5月27日（土）午前 11時〜午後 7時（入場無料）

内容：作品の展示・販売、アートショー、Global Art Award授賞式

主な参加アーティスト：

シンクレア・ワトキンス（アメリカ）、シェーン・ボーデン（オーストラリア）、ミスター・ブレインウォッシュ（フランス）、ニューヨークギャラリー（日本）、「クリスタル＆グラム

ギャラリー（日本）、ジャ・シャンタン（台湾）、シンジ・ホリムラ（日本）、レイチェル・ホープ・アラン

（ニュージーランド）、アナ・テオドロール（タイ）、ジャンニ・コルダ（イタリア）、ユアン・モロニ（アルゼンチン）、アンジェリカ・カール（ドイツ）、アド-リフレックス（南アフリカ）、シェン・フンリン（台湾）、エル・ミエド（チリ）、ユリ・ザタライン（メキシコ）、ケーシー・フリーマン（オーストラリア）、ベン・アラン（UAE）、他、

▼公式サイト：　http://www.tokyoartfair.com/

▼公式facebookページ：　https://www.facebook.com/tokyoartfair

Tokyo International Art Fair 2017 - Press Release

Building on the success of the first and second edition - the GAA Ltd also known as the Global Art Agency are organising the third Tokyo International Art Fair for 26 & 27 May 2017 at an amazing new venue "Hikarie Shibuya" which is located in the heart of Shibuya.

More than 150 exhibitors from over 35 countries will be filling the Hikarie Hall in 9F at the Hikarie Shibuya venue with an incredible display of contemporary art and thousands of artworks for sale. Organisers Natal Vallvé and his business partner Joëlle Dinnage from the Global Art Agency are making the fantastic (free) two-day art extravaganza a versatile art happening for the locals of Tokyo. A huge variety of artworks, offering every visitor something to suit their style, all in an affordable price-range to buy and to take home on the day.

Satoshi Maruhashi who is part of the organisation says: "I am extremely happy with the new venue, it will be a better atmosphere to display art."

On show will be paintings, sculptures, photography art, illustrations, printmaking, and jewellery, with a live painting and music show at the event.

“Almost 7000 people visited the event last year and lot of sales happened, so everyone was very satisfied. There was no doubt to organise a third edition, and we have worked very hard to get a bretter new venue in one of Tokyo's hotspots attracting art aficionado's from all over the world." said organiser Natal Vallvé.

"We have new talent exhibiting this year as well as some known names that exhibited other year, and of course there are the known New York Art Gallery who will showing Mr Brainwash, as well as Shane Bowden - also known as the Andy Warhol on steroids - who did very well last year." said organiser Joëlle Dinnage.

Ben Alan

HIGHLIGHTS: Sinclair Watkins (USA), Shane Bowden (Australia),, New York Art Gallery (Japan), Krystal Glam Art Gallery (Japan), Ja Shang Tang (Taiwan), Shinji Horimura (Japan), Rachel Hope Allan (New Zealand), Hannah Theodorou (Thailand), Gianni Corda (Italy), Juan Moroni (Argentina), Angelika Kahl (Germany), AD-Reflex (South Africa), Shen Fung Lin (Taiwan), El Miedo (Chile), Yuri Zatarain (Mexico), Casey Freeman (Australia), Ben Alan (United Arab Emirates), Alisa Rawls (USA), Keiko Imaizumi (Canada), La Galerie De L'Instant (France), and many more...

Casey Freeman

The fair opens on Friday 26th May with a private view and Vernissage for invitees only starting at 18.00pm to 21.00pm (limited tickets are also available to purchase online). On Saturday 27th May the art fair is open to the public from 11.00am to 19.00pm with the Global Art Awards happening at 18.00pm that day announcing the best Artist of the fair.

Tickets to the Tokyo International Art Fair 2017 are free and can be booked online by going to their website www. tokyoartfair.com The event takes place from Friday 26th May to Saturday 27th May 2017 at HIKARIE SHIBUYA, Hikarie Hall 9F, 2 Chome-21-1 Shibuya, Tokyo 150-8510, Japan.

For more information about the event and to visit please visit www.tokyoartfair.com

Success for second Tokyo International Art Fair 2016 - Omotesando Hills

More than 8000 art aficionados were eager to enter through the doors of Omotesando Hills over the weekend (Friday 13th and Saturday 14th May 2016) as Tokyo city hosted the second Tokyo International Art Fair organised by the Global Art Agency (GAA Ltd).

The Space-O hall at the venue was arranged to perfection with over 150 artist and gallery stands from over 30 countries from around the world. The atmosphere was charged with positive vibes as visitors took in the wide range of original art available and took pieces they had purchased home.

Visitors were sipping away on Martini Champagne and Bombay Sapphire Cocktails sponsored by Bacardi Japan, whilst looking around to invest into a piece of original art.

Exhibitor Sabet from California sold one of his original paintings "Snow Monkey" for a substantial price of ¥1,300,000. He said; "Thank you to Global Art Agency for giving me a platform to sell here at the Tokyo International Art Fair - it has been amazing and I'll forever be grateful to the GAA team! Can't wait till next year!"

Tahe D from Tahiti said; "Thanks to this event I have sold my art and most importantly I am now sponsored by Air Tahiti and Tropical Vision. It has been amazing!" 

Ernesto Heen who was represented at the Digital Art Showcase: "Thank you for the great Tokyo International Art Fair. Promoting my work that was shown on the Digital Art Screens even if I couldn’t be there in person. I look forward to the next occasion and would like to congratulate all participating artists and the GAA Art Event Team for their great work." 

Frank van der Meijden from the Netherlands sold completely out after he met a collector coming all the way from Spain to the event. "I am over the moon, I had one of the biggest stands and I completely sold out. Big thanks to the organisation."

Frank wasn't the only one that sold out. Shane Bowden (Australia, living in San Diego) represented by the New York Gallery (Japan) sold also completely out and was one of the highlights of the show. 

Visitors also enjoyed the Me-Fie booth were they could create long-lasting TIAf 2016 memories in the form of selfies with special effects. 

The Contemporary Art of Excellence Book Volume II was in populair demand at the event, with over 150 books sold at the fair to collectors coming from as far as United States, Singapore and Hong Kong.  

The weekend culminated in the announcement on Saturday afternoon of the winner of the "Best Tokyo International Art Fair Artist" in show by both the panel of judges and members of the public.

First place went to August Vilella (Barcelona) who creates oil paintings by means of a surreal-intuitive method. Second place went to Sezon Art Gallery (Tokyo), and third price to Shingo420 (Tokyo). The Facebook competition winner voted by the public went to Babtiste Tavernier

Organisers of the fair; Satoshi Maruhashi, Joëlle Dinnage and Natal Vallvé from the Global Art Agency added their appreciation to the city’s reaction to the event and the enthusiasm they found from artists and visitors alike.

“TIAF 2016 was a great success not only for the big amount of visitors and sales, but also for the fine selection of exhibitors from all around the world. It was a window of what's going on in the Contemporary Art world nowadays due the best artists from different countries from around the world represented the style, the concept and new languages from each country showing the different personalities in the art world." Natal Vallvé said.

Joëlle Dinnage organiser added: "I am extremely happy with the sales this year, it has exceeded last year's event in Tokyo. The first prize winner of this year's Best TIAF Artist Award August Vilella is in the process of selling 3 artworks worth $45,000 in total. This is a substantial amount for an individual emerging artist, and shows how much new talent is out there that has huge potential. Seeing the exhibitors so fulfilled makes us very happy." 

“We’ll be back for more in 2017 and are already planning next year’s event,” Satoshi Maruhashi said.

For more information on next year’s Tokyo International Art Fair and other forthcoming events, please visit www.tokyoartfair.com or www.globalartagency.com Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GlobalArtAgency and follow us on Twitter
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PREVIEW BY THE JAPAN TIMES - TIAF 2016

Tokyo International Art Fair 2016 | Omotesando Hills

"Life is beautiful” is a phrase that clearly applies to street artist Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash. In just a matter of years, he went from spray-painting alleyways to selling art installations worth thousands. He even collaborated with pop star Madonna.

Life is just as beautiful for painter Dawn Ward, aka Sunrise Welward Art. Last year she traveled to Tokyo from Okinawa for the Tokyo International Art Fair, sold most of her paintings there, and afterward received queries from galleries and potential clients.

Both artists are among the more than 150 showing their work at this year’s fair, which takes place on May 13 and 14. The event aims to showcase both rookie and veteran artists, as well as create chances for networking and buying the art on display.

As the fair runs on two days, it will also be split into private and public viewings. First up is the private, which costs ¥1,500. That provides potential buyers with first pick of the art on offer and includes a serving of Champagne. The public viewing is free, but a lot of people are expected to show up: the inaugural Tokyo International Art Fair last year welcomed more than 6,000 guests.

In addition to New York Art Gallery exhibiting Mr. Brainwash and Sunrise Welward Art, keep an eye out for artists such as Michael Lam, the New York-based artist famous for his single stroke calligraphy, and Shane Bowden, who has been described as “Andy Warhol on steroids.” London-based director James Skeritt will be using this year’s art fair to unveil two new films, “Sleeping” and “What is 9thWaveGallery.” Both pieces feature the works of Japanese, Hawaiian and Irish artists. (Drew Bateman).

Dates & Times:
Friday 13th May 2016 : 18.00pm - 21.00pm
Including Champagne Reception, Private View and first opportunity to buy art.

Saturday 14th May 2016 : 11.00am - 19.00pm
Live painting, Buy Art Show, Global Art Awards Ceremony (18.00pm) FREE ENTRY

Tickets: Available here

Venue: Omotesando Hills, Main Building, B3F SPACE O. 4-12-10 Jingumae,Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001 JAPAN

Website: www.tokyoartfair.com

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