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2020.06.22 update

The summer of "Takeover," a collaborative project between CADAN and Isetan Men's Store, begins.


The "Summer Takeover" series, a year-long collaborative project between CADAN (Japan Contemporary Art Dealers Association), an organization comprised of leading contemporary art galleries in Japan, and ISETAN ISETAN MEN'S will begin on Wednesday, June 24th. Special installations tailored to the theme of each floor will appear in the cubic exhibition spaces called SI (Store Identity) located on four floors of Isetan Shinjuku Store, Men's Building .

  1. What does the promotional term "Takeover" mean?
  2. Pay attention to the four installations featured in "Summer Takeover."
    1. 1. Satoru Tamura (Affiliated gallery: nap gallery)
    2. 2. Houxo Que (Affiliated gallery: Gallery OUT of PLACE)
    3. 3. Simon Fujiwara (Affiliated gallery: TARO NASU)
    4. 4. Yuta Hayakawa (Affiliated gallery: HAGIWARA PROJECTS)

What does the promotional term "Takeover" mean?

Pay attention to the four installations featured in "Summer Takeover."


"Takeover," a year-long collaborative project between CADAN (Japan Contemporary Art Dealers Association) and ISETAN MEN'S , will feature contemporary art that reflects the current era, showcasing a variety of contemporary art on the floors of ISETAN MEN'S throughout the four seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Works by four artists represented by CADAN member galleries will be displayed in the cubic exhibition spaces SI (Store Identity)* installed on the four floors.

1. Satoru Tamura (Affiliated gallery: nap gallery)


"LOVE Machine #2" keeps moving with love until the motor burns out.

  • ■ Isetan Shinjuku Store, Men's Building 1st Floor = Main Entrance, Men's Accessories

    Satoru Tamura, "LOVE Machine #2" (2014)
    Iron, chain, bearings, motor, shaft, etc., 71.5 x 43 x 40 cm
    Courtesy: TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY, Photography: Yuji Yamazaki
  • Satoru Tamura ● Born in Tochigi Prefecture in 1972. After graduating from the Department of Integrated Design, School of Art and Design, University of Tsukuba, he is a part-time lecturer in the Department of Design, College of Art, Nihon University. He creates letters and marks using industrial products such as chains and bearings. The outlines are composed of chains and sprockets. These are purposeless machines that just keep moving endlessly in that shape. This time, "LOVE Machine #2" and "Star Machine" will be on display at Isetan Shinjuku Store, Men's Building .


2. Houxo Que (Affiliated gallery: Gallery OUT of PLACE)


Another reality that closely resembles the reality displayed on a "living" screen.

  • ■ Isetan Shinjuku Store, Men's Building 2nd Floor = Men's Creators

  • Houxo Que “Death by Proxy” (2020)
  • 48-inch LCD display, single-tube frame, 65 x 112 x 125 cm ©Houxo Que
  • Houko Kyu ● Born in Tokyo in 1984. For this work, he has assembled 10 displays of various sizes in the center of a cube, resembling an iceberg. Each display is broken, with cracked or torn screens, and the corners of neighboring displays are piercing other screens. Yet the displays are "alive," and when powered on, they barely manage to display various images and patterns. The artist himself refers to these glowing boards, the displays, as paintings.


3. Simon Fujiwara (Affiliated gallery: TARO NASU)


What does the cut-out young person "Rebekkah" have to say?

  • ■ Isetan Shinjuku Store, Men's Building 4th Floor = Men's Luxury

    Simon Fujiwara "Rebekkah" (2012)
    Terra-cotta dyed, life sized, cast plaster female figures. Mixed Media Installation
    Exhibition view: Kunstverein Braunschweig, Courtesy of the artist, TARO NASU, Photograph: Bernd Borchardt
  • Simon Fujiwara was born in the UK in 1982 and is currently based in Berlin. His works, created through a variety of media including highly theatrical performances, installations, sculptures, videos, and texts, have received high acclaim both domestically and internationally. His latest work, "Rebekkah," is a terracotta statue made from a mold of Rebekkah, a young woman from a poor background living in London. More than 130 of these statues, modeled after the Terracotta Army of China, have been produced to date. All of the molded "Rebekkah" statues have the same expression, size, and pose, which seems to embody the plight of the modern poor, who are stripped of their individual identity and mass-produced and mass-consumed as "labor."


4. Yuta Hayakawa (Affiliated gallery: HAGIWARA PROJECTS)


A form that remains soft while being tightly bound together.

  • ■ Isetan Shinjuku Store, Men's Building 6th Floor = Men's Contemporary

    Yuta Hayakawa, "i am you" (2018), plaster cast, variable size.

  • Yuta Hayakawa ● Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1984. Resides in Tokyo. Graduated from Musashino Art University Graduate School of Art and Design, Sculpture Course. He incorporates "phenomena" such as gravity, air, and surface tension of water to create sculptures and installations composed of them. In this work, liquid plaster is shaped by gravity and the overlapping shapes of the pieces.

Event Information
CADAN×ISETAN MEN'S: Summer Takeover
  • June 24th (Wednesday) - September 22nd (Tuesday)
  • Isetan Shinjuku Store, Men's Building 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 6th floors

Future plans
CADAN×ISETAN MEN'S: Autumn Takeover
■September 23rd (Wednesday) - December 22nd (Tuesday)
CADAN×ISETAN MEN'S: Winter Takeover
■From December 23rd (Wednesday) to March 2021


Organizer: Isetan Shinjuku Store, Men's Building
Cooperation: Japan Contemporary Art Dealers Association

Text: ISETAN MEN'S net

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