東京画廊+BTAP参展丨广州当代艺术博览会

1950年東京画廊作为日本最早的现当代艺术画廊在银座成立。画廊最初的经营重点是近代日本具象绘画，曾举办有如1956年鸟海青儿展、57年万铁五郎展、加山又造展等等。1958年经过美术评论家泷口修造的推荐，举办了斋藤义重的展览。

1960年代，画廊第一时间向日本介绍如Lucio Fontana(卢西欧·丰塔纳)、Yves Klein(伊夫·克莱因)、Jackson Pollock(杰克逊·波洛克)、Friedensreich Hundertwasser(佛登斯列·汉德瓦萨或百水先生)等西方艺术家展览，同时积极为高松次郎、白髪一雄、冈本太郎等引领日本当代艺术发展的艺术家们举办展览。

1970年代，多次策划金焕基、李禹焕、金昌烈、朴栖甫等韩国艺术家展览，为韩国当代艺术的迅速崛起给予了很大帮助；并在1980年代着眼当时不为人知的中国当代艺术，举办了徐冰、蔡国强等人的个展, 向全世界发布着以中日韩为中心的亚洲当代艺术信号。2002年在北京的798艺术区内开设了北京东京艺术工程(BTAP)。自此，東京画廊+BTAP正式成立。東京画廊+BTAP(北京空间)自1990年代以来策划了一系列实验性的展览项目，积极向世界推广中国当代艺术，包括“北京浮世绘”、“念珠与笔触”、“什么是物派”等大型学术展览，都为中国当代艺术界产生了积极的影响。近年来，東京画廊+BTAP的展览策划主要围绕“新朦胧主义”系列展而策划，此项目试图整合东亚现代性的独特经验，寻找艺术的可能性，同时力求建立一个原理性的美学观。

Tokyo Gallery, the first contemporary art gallery of its kind in Tokyo, was founded in 1950. Located in Tokyo’s Ginza district, the gallery celebrated its 60thanniversary in 2010. From its inception, the gallery’s core operations centred on the works of modern Japanese figurative painters such as Chōkai Seiji(1956), Yorozu Tetsugorō (1957) and Kayama Matazō. In 1958, following a recommendation by art critic TakiguchiShūzō, the gallery was host to an exhibition by Saito Yoshishige.

 In the 1960s, the gallery was a forerunner in introducing a series of Western avant-garde artists to Japanese audiences, among whom Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Jackson Pollock and Friedensreich Hundertwasser. Meanwhile, it was also instrumental in supporting experimental projects by now internationally-renowned Japanese artists, including Takamatsu Jirō, Shiraga Kazuo, Okamoto Tarō and members of the Mono-ha movement. Tokyo Galleryintroduced their artworks to international audiences through art fairs, collaborations in biennales and acclaimed exhibitions at major museums.

In the 1970s, the gallery began working with Korean artists such as Kim Whangki, Lee Ufan, Kim Tschang-Yeul and Park Seo-Bo. From the 1980’s onward, it also began exhibiting hitherto unknown Chinese artists including Xu Bing and Cai Guoqiang, thus taking on the role of signalling beacon for Asian contemporary art with a focus on China, Japan and Korea. In 2002, the gallery opened a new space named BTAP in the now world-renowned Beijing 798 Art District, marking the establishment of TokyoGallery + BTAP. Under its new moniker, the gallery’s Beijing location organized a series of experimental exhibitions from the 1990’s onward, actively spreading Chinese contemporary art to the world via such large-scale academic exhibition projects as Beijing “UKIYOE”, Prayer Beads and Brush Strokes and What is Mono-ha?.In so doing, it left a positive impact on the Chinese contemporary art world, allowing it to further its mission of discovering and promoting both established and emerging artists. In recent years, exhibition planning at Tokyo Gallery + BTAP has primarily revolved around an exhibition series themed around the notion of Neo-Mōrōism. This[Neo-Mōrōism]project aims to integrate the unique experience of East Asian modernity and explore the possibilities of art while striving to establish an underlying aesthetic vision.