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Japanese Art Sound Archive: Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe, Tautology, 1973.

　

The Japanese Art Sound Archive presents an exhibition looking back on Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe’s exhibition series Tautology held in 1973. After meeting at “Juku,” a private art school run by Jiro Takamatsu, both artists started living together and running a painting school in 1972. Beginning January of the following year, the Tautology series was held about once a month at their home and other venues like galleries and continued to the eighth exhibition.

The Japanese Art Sound Archive exhibition will reflect on this series by showing photo documents and works newly reproduced by Erize Hori (Erize Watanabe). In addition, the exhibition will reenact the Weaving Time performance, which marked the last piece in the series, and feature Erize Hori’s new performance.

　
　
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Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe, Weaving Time, 1973　Black clothes for blindfold, Table, 2 chairs, Plastic clothes, Cards (white drawing papers), 2 black pens (bold)　© Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe　Unidentified photographer
　
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Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe, In Vacuity, 1973　Chair, Books, Plywood wall, Tape recorder, Speaker　© Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe　Unidentified photographer
　
　
　
　
Japanese Art Sound Archive: Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe, Tautology, 1973.

June 23rd (Thursday)- 26th (Sunday), 2022　13:00-19:00　The last day 13:00-17:00
BUoY Arts Center Tokyo　(49-11, Senju-Nakacho, Adachi-ku, Tokyo)　 https://buoy.or.jp/
　
Exhibition
Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe, Ariadne’s Thread, 1973/2022 (Reproduced by Erize Hori)
Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe, In Void, 1973/2022 (Reproduced by Erize Hori)
Erize Hori, You Are Always Stronger Than Me　You Are Always Weaker Than Me, 2022

Material Exhibition
Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe, Tautology, 1973

Performance and Artist Talk
June 24th (Friday) and 25th (Saturday), 2022　19:00-20:30
BUoY Arts Center Tokyo
Entrance free
Maximum allowed 30 persons
Booking｜Japanese Art Sound Archive　japaneseartsoundarchive -at- gmail.com　(Please indicate your name, desired date, and number of people)
Performance｜Kayoko Ueda and Erize Watanabe, Weaving Time, 1973/2022　Performers｜Chiho Oka / Aoi Tagami (24th) / Ayako Ishiba / Mayuka Kawakami (25th)
Artist Talk｜Speakers｜Erize Hori / Tomotaro Kaneko (24th and 25th)

　
　
　
Kayoko Ueda (1948-2011)　Biography

1948　Born in Tokyo
1971　Graduated from Tama Art University, Department of Painting
1971　Studied at Jiro Takamatsu’s “Juku”

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1973　Tautology series with Erize Watanabe
1974　Nirenoki Gallery, Tokyo
1975　Maki Gallery, Tokyo
1976　Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo
1977　Ai Gallery, Tokyo
1978　Ai Gallery, Tokyo
1979　Ai Gallery, Tokyo
1981　Komai Gallety, Tokyo
Tamura Gallery, Tokyo
1982　Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo
1983　Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1984　Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1985　Gallery Iteza, Kyoto
1986　Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo
1987　Gallery Center Point, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions
1973　“Kyoto Independent” with Erize Watanabe, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1975　“Kyoto Independent”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1976　“Space Today”, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa
1986　“The First Saikawa Art Festival”, Nagano
“Art Space ‘86”, Shizuoka City Culture Hall, Shizuoka

Selected Publications
1990-1992　“Children’s Paintings” Series, in Izu Shinbun
1996　Me Me Me, Te Te Te, Bakushusha
2014　Kayoko Ueda, Takashi Ogura, “Conversation between Children and Teachers in the Atelier: From the Diary of Kayoko Ueda’s Arts and Crafts Class”, in Child Study, no.985, Kaneko Shobo

　
　
Erize Hori (Erize Watanabe)　Biography

1948　Born in Gunma
1970　Left Tama Art University, Department of Painting
1970　Studied at B-semi
1971　Studied at Jiro Takamatsu’s “Juku”
1975-77　Worked as a collaborator and performer of the performance of Kosai Hori
1998-　Worked as “Unit 00” with Kosai Hori and Minoru Hatanaka
2011-　Worked as “Kosai Hori + Erize Hori” with Kosai Hori

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1973　Tautology series with Kayoko Ueda
1974　Nirenoki Gallery, Tokyo
2019　As “Kosai Hori + Erize Hori”, Maruki Gallery, Saitama
2021　As “Kosai Hori + Erize Hori”, √K Contemporary, Tokyo

Selected Group Exhibitions
1973　“Kyoto Independent” with Erize Watanabe, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
1977　“10e Biennale de Paris” with Kosai Hori, Paris
1998-　As “Unit 00”, “Attitude 2002” (Kumamoto Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002), “The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale” (2003, 2006), Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, and Tama Art University Museum etc.
2011-　As “Hori Kosai + Erize Hori”, “Aizu Urushi Art Festival” (2012), and “Busan Biennale” (2016) etc.

　
　
　
　

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