Courtesy of the artist, Patricia Fleming Projects and WAGON. Photography: Sachiyo Ando.
Scottish exhibition and event for ‘Ilana Halperin: Geologic Intimacy (Yu no Hana)’ will be held at Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen.
WAGON is delighted to announce Leaves Without Routes: 根も葉も無い, an art exhibition featuring work by four Japanese contemporary artists – Yasunori Kawamatsu, Yuki Okumura, Nobuyuki Yamamoto and Kaori Yamashita – at Nan-Men Ting 323 (南門町三二三), a Japanese style house originally built in 1930s during the Japanese colonial period within Taipei Botanical Garden in Taiwan.
WAGON is delighted to announce the group exhibition Mediated Existence, which features work by Joseph Calleja, I-Chern Lai and Katie Paterson at sleeper gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland.
The resulting exhibition of Ilana Halperin: Geologic Intimacy (Yu no Hana), which launched last Autumn, will be held in Kannawa, Beppu. Meet the artist Ilana Halperin and newly formed her geothermal sculptures.
昨年9月にスタートした「イラナ・ハルペリン：地質学的むつまじさ（湯の花）」。１年の時間をかけ生成された新しい地熱彫刻を美しい明治建築で知られる別府・鉄輪の冨士屋Gallery一也百さまにて開催します。
WAGON is delighted to announce the exhibition Atsuo Hukuda + Shuhei Fukuda: RYUHA = Inheritance of School of Art and Inheritance of Style of Art, which will be held at sleeper in Edinburgh.
WAGON is delighted to announce Bushiro Mohri: ‘Message from Mr. A, No 4’ – Work and Document. This exhibition will be held at AIS GALLERY in Gunma, Japan as part of CONCEPT SPACE The 35th Anniversary Programme No.2・AIS GALLERY 2016 Project No.17・【Born in 1982 – 1】.
Naoko Mabon is invited to SSW Public Talk, a series of open talks to accompany SSW’s Summer AiR programme. In this Naoko will share her curatorial practice with the wider community.
EVENT DETAILS
SSW Public Talk: Naoko Mabon
Independent Curatorial Practice from North East Scotland: The Case of Naoko Mabon
Friday 24th June 2016, 7-8pm
Scottish Sculpture Workshop (1 Main Street, Lumsden, Huntly, Aberdeenshire AB54 4JN)
Free, all welcome
For more details on the exhibition please click here.
The fifth on-site photo report by BEPPU PROJECT is now up.
第5回目となる現地レポートがBEPPU PROJECTさんより届きました。
To view the photo report #5, please click here.
Exterior of Duff House, image courtesy: Duff House, photography: Donald MacLeod
WAGON is delighted to announce the exhibition Atsuo Hukuda: SUKI-MONO: Ways Since Rin-pa – Duff House, which marks the first major solo exhibition of Japanese conceptual sculptor Atsuo Hukuda held in Northern Scotland.
Naoko Mabon is invited to talk in Artists’ Talk as part of the exhibition あ い ま い な : am big you us held in Dundee.
This multi-layered, cross-cultural exhibition will combines solo displays by three Japanese artists – 1984/48 by Yasunori Kawamatsu, tempera | ambiguous | painting by Nobuyuki Yamamoto, and a showcase by a Jewellery Designer/Maker Sayoko Kobayashi.
Curated by Lada Wilson
EVENT DETAILS
Artists’ Talk as part of あ い ま い な : am big you us
Sunday 12 June 2016, 3pm-
Meadow Mill Projects (4th floor, Meadow Mill, West Henderson’s Wynd, Dundee DD1 5BY)
Free, all welcome
For more details on the exhibition please click here.
Naoko Mabon is invited to give a talk at Sanki Bunko. She will share her view towards curatorial practices based on her recent, on-going and upcoming international projects.
Sanki Bunko is a private library of more than 20,000 books collected by an art critic/historian Prof Hitoshi Mori. In this beautiful Taisho era Kanazawa Machiya building situated by the Asano River in Kanazawa, artist Akane Nakamori (Suisei-Art) together with Prof Mori is curating a number of international art/cultural programmes.
EVENT DETAILS
Curator’s Talk Vol.1: Naoko Mabon
Sunday 24 April 2016, 3-5pm
Sanki Bunko (5-27, Sakura-machi, Kanazawa 920-0923 Japan)
Free, all welcome
For more information please visit Sanki Bunko website
Progress Report #4 – Ilana Halperin: Geologic Intimacy (Yu no Hana)
The fifth on-site photo report by BEPPU PROJECT is now up.
第4回目となる現地レポートがBEPPU PROJECTさんより届きました。
To view the photo report #4, please click here.
The third on-site photo report by BEPPU PROJECT is now up.
第3回目となる現地レポートがBEPPU PROJECTさんより届きました。
To view the photo report #3, please click here.
Naoko Mabon is invited to give a lecture at Guests @ Gray’s, a regular lecture series from invited professionals in art, design and culture at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen.
Naoko will share her view and approach to work as an independent curator in Aberdeen, a city to which she is foreign, based on her experience and perspective through her recent, on-going and upcoming curatorial practices in the city, region, nation or beyond.
EVENT DETAILS
Friday 26th February 2016 at 1.00pm
Lecture Theatre SB42
Garthdee House Annexe, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen
Open to all
For more information please click here
Naoko Mabon has been invited to contribute to Roger Ackling: Between the Lines, the first comprehensive overview of the work and teaching of the late British artist Roger Ackling (1947–2014). Edited by Emma Kalkhoven, published by Occasional Papers.
The second on-site photo report for Ilana Halperin: Geologic Intimacy (Yu no Hana) by BEPPU PROJECT is now up. BEPPU PROJECTさんより第二回目となる「イラナ・ハルペリン：地質学的むつまじさ（湯の花）」の現地フォトレポートが届きました。
To view the photo report #2, please click here.
The first on-site photo report for our ongoing project Ilana Halperin: Geologic Intimacy (Yu no Hana) by BEPPU PROJECT is now up. 今回「イラナ・ハルペリン：地質学的むつまじさ（湯の花）」プロジェクトをパートナーとしてサポートしていただいているBEPPU PROJECTさんより第一回目の現地フォトレポートが届きました。
To view the photo report #1, please click here.
Two solo exhibitions by one of the most celebrated Japanese artists Tatsuo Kawaguchi will be held at Sankibunko in Kanazawa and Coelacanth – Bushiro Mohri Memorial Museum in Toyama in Japan at the same time from 23 Oct – 16 Nov 2015.
To coincide with the showcases, a new Japanese-English bilingual exhibition catalogue will be published – for which Naoko Mabon is a part of the production team as a translator.
Cultural Interchange Beyond Languages and Locations
Saturday 12 September 2-4pm at Seventeen
Speakers:
Martyna Benedyka (Artist) | Dr Leslie Mabon (Environmental Sociology, Robert Gordon University) | Chris Yuill (Sociologist, Robert Gordon University) | Caroline Gausden (Gray’s School of Art, SCAN) | Naoko Mabon (Independent Curator, WAGON)
To view a year-long silent conversation online, please click here.
To view images from A to/from B showcase, please click here.
To view more on the project, please click here.
Courtesy SCAN and WAGON
Photography: Kirsty Russell
In partnership with Seventeen and Robert Gordon University, SCAN (Scottish Contemporary Arts Network) and WAGON are delighted to invite you to an afternoon of open discussion.
Nice Dream is an open discussion organised by Grampian Hospital Art Trust (GHAT) and WAGON featuring three speakers who are working within specific contexts to integrate arts into the day-to-day experience of people.
Naoko Mabon has been invited to a talk event as part of RINKOU-KAKU PROJECT 2015.
As a liaison, WAGON has been helping the Fukuoka Dance Fringe Festival organiser to collaborate with a Scottish designer Karen Mabon for their eighth festival PR design. And here we are!
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