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Australia at ART FAIR TOKYO 2012

30 March 2012 - 1 April 2012

ART FAIR TOKYO 2012 will be held over three days this year during the spring cherry blossom season. For its seventh edition, the fair will present artworks from a range of genres and periods, including antiques, crafts, nihonga, modern art and the latest contemporary art as always, and will feature the more than 130 participating domestic and international galleries. This year, ART FAIR TOKYO 2012 is expanding our venue, taking up all of the Tokyo International Forum Exhibition Hall aiming for further development with fascinating programs and related-events.

From Australia, Tristian Koenig (Melbourne) and Utopian Slumps (Melbourne) will be participating at the “PROJECTS” section, devoted to young contemporary art galleries for the first time.

Tristian Koenig will present a solo exhibition of an emerging Australian artist, Karen Black.

Since graduating art school in 2010, Her work has already been acquired by numerous public and private collections in Australia and abroad, including ArtBank, Macquarie Bank, and Monash University Museum of Art. Her work is also held in private collections in New Zealand, China, Singapore and Taiwan.

Utopian Slumps will exhibit represented artist Misha Hollenbach. Hollenbach’s work to be exhibited at the fair will form a continuation of his 2011 solo exhibition at Utopian Slumps, Holey Hole!, where the artist explored a mergence of contemporary culture and tribalism through the collation of found images and objects to develop new meaning. Furthermore, Hollenbach is one half of clothing label and publisher Perks and Mini and the driving force behind art/music super group THE CHANGES.

In addition, as one of the participating artists for “project in PROJECTS” – a new section set up for exhibiting large-scale artworks and performances that cannot be shown within the confines of a regular booth, Heath Franco, a represented artist of Tristian Koenig, will be presenting his video work.

Furthermore, ANDO GALLERY (Tokyo) will feature a solo exhibition of an Australian artist, Shonah Trescott. The gallery will be presenting approximately 10 artworks including her recent series, “Terra Nullius” and “Two Thirds Sky” which represent one of her core themes in her landscape paintings: the primitive relation between mankind and nature.

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