Zona Maco International Contemporary Art Fair
Centro Banamex, Mexico City
6–10 April 2011
http://en.gallery-kaikaikiki.com
Kaikai Kiki Gallery will participate in Zona Maco, the international contemporary art fair held in Mexico City, with an exhibition of emerging and established artists from Japan. The event marks the first time that the gallery will exhibit at a major international contemporary art fair.
Curated by Takashi Murakami, the exhibition will feature eight fresh faces hand picked from the Japanese city of Kyoto, alongside familiar names Chinatsu Ban and Rei Sato. The emerging artists are the first to participate in Kaikai Kiki’s Incubation Program, a recently launched initiative in which Murakami provides space at his production studio for artists to work.
The gallery will also be selling Murakami designed charity t-shirts at the fair, in an effort to raise money for the victims of the recent Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami. 100% of profits from the sale of the t-shirts will be donated to an organization supporting the relief efforts.
The t-shirts were produced in connection with New Day, a Kaikai Kiki organized project that encourages individuals to submit works in response to the earthquake via Twitter and various affiliated image hosting websites. To learn more, visit ameblo.jp or view a compilation of the artworks at togetter.com.
About Kaikai Kiki Gallery
In 2006, Kaikai Kiki moved its headquarters from a small prefabricated studio in Saitama’s Asaka city to an urban office building in Motoazabu, Tokyo. It was also at this time that we began using the basement floor of the building as a private viewing room for select guests. In March of 2008, we took great pride in re-opening this once exclusive space as Kaikai Kiki Gallery.
We have held exhibitions for not only our resident Kaikai Kiki artists, but also international figures like Mark Grotjahn, Matthew Monahan, and Friedrich Kunath. We will continue to invite artists both in and outside of Japan to exhibit, helping to create new and deeper links between art and the world at large.
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Motoazabu Crest Building B1F
2-3-30 Motoazabu
Minato-ku, Tokyo
106-0046
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Press inquiries
Contact Brad Plumb
Email: press [at] kaikaikikiny.net
Phone: 718-706-2213
Fax: 718-706-2218