The fourth installment of the "Takeover" series, a collaborative project between CADAN (Japan Association of Contemporary Art Dealers), which comprises 37 of Japan's leading contemporary art galleries, and Isetan Men's, titled "Winter Takeover," will begin on Wednesday, December 23rd. 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 .

The final chapter of the year-long project "Takeover"

"Takeover" is a year-long collaborative project between the Contemporary Art Dealers Association Nippon (CADAN), a general incorporated association organized by leading contemporary art galleries in Japan, and Isetan Shinjuku Store, Men's Building which aims to become the world's No. 1 men's fashion store.

The name "Takeover" originates from a promotional term used on social media platforms such as Instagram. By taking over from each other, ISETAN MEN'S building will be used to offer customers the contemporary art handled by the galleries that make up CADAN as a new and valuable experience.

In the cubic exhibition space SI (Store Identity) installed on four floors of Isetan Shinjuku Store, Men's Building , four artists represented by CADAN member galleries are presenting works that match the theme of each floor. The exhibition has been running since March of this year.

Four installations, each themed to the floor, will be on display.

Hiroshi Isoya (Affiliated galleries: Aoyama | Meguro)

A simple postcard that stirs the mind.

This time, the main entrance will feature two postcard stands of different sizes and a postcard artwork. The artwork uses postcards depicting bananas and red onions, respectively, and shows the process of cutting bananas and red onions. The postcards are also arranged in the shape of banana bunches and onion bulbs on each rack. This is an attempt to create a sense of disruption by shaking up the stable structures of our everyday perception of time, procedures, and space.

• Hiroshi Isoya
• Hirofumi Isoya: Born in Tokyo in 1978. Studied architecture at Tokyo University of the Arts and fine arts at its graduate school and Goldsmiths College, University of London. His sculptures, photographs, drawings, and installations incorporating these elements are extremely serene and poetic, yet possess an architectural sense of scale and precision that shakes the consistency of perception and integrated sense of time.

COBRA (Affiliated gallery: XYZ collective)

A humorous and romantic work created for birds.

The artwork "Story of Eggs (Bird Gallery for birds)" challenges the commonplace notion that paintings in art are created, exhibited, and purchased for human appreciation, instead offering a satirical and humorous perspective. As the title suggests, the paintings displayed within this birdcage are themed around eggs and adventure and were created specifically for birds.

• COBRA
• Kobura was born in Chiba Prefecture in 1981. He is currently based in Tokyo and works as an artist. He runs the artist-in-residence space "XYZ collective". He has produced many works that comically express very ordinary, everyday themes through video. Many of his comical video works are self-produced and self-performed, and the performances often take place only within the video. In recent years, he has created sculptures with pictures of cheese trapped inside for many of the exhibitions he has participated in.

Yuji Honbori (Affiliated gallery: Yamaki Fine Art)

The artwork "Bishamonten" was born from the motto, "Where there is paper to be thrown away, there is a god to pick it up."

Using recycled cardboard and wrapping paper, Honbori creates images of Japanese gods, Buddhas, and religious buildings. With the motto, "Where there is paper to be thrown away, there is a god to pick it up," he continues his work, showing how everyday consumed objects are "reincarnated." Through the duality of transparency when viewed from the front and materiality when viewed from the side, Honbori accurately depicts the balance of modern society.

• Yuji Honbori
• Yuji Honbori ● Born in Kobe City in 1958. Graduated from the Aichi Prefectural University of the Arts, Department of Sculpture, in 1983. Having the opportunity to create works using discarded materials from Shinto shrines, he found his way to engaging with Buddhist statues. Since presenting his "Buddhist Statues Made of Cardboard" at the Kobe Biennale (2009) and a solo exhibition at the INAX Gallery in Tokyo (2010), he has been exhibiting at art fairs and exhibitions throughout Japan.

Shiho Toshibe (Affiliated gallery: KAYOKOYUKI)

By getting closer to objects and listening to the voices they emit, we construct the concepts of creation and circulation within the exhibition space.

Shiho Toshibe has created sculptures using a variety of objects, such as things that are no longer needed in daily life, broken and discarded items found, or building materials that can be purchased at home improvement stores. In Toshibe's work, the everyday meanings and functions of these objects are deconstructed, combined, and joined together to form new relationships, which are then placed within the space.

Toshibe says, "Both the objects that make up the artwork and myself exist according to the same laws of the Earth, and in that sense, the two are connected." Toshibe, who says, "I doubt the rules defined by humans, but I believe in the rules of the Earth and the universe," approaches objects, listens to the voices they emit, and becomes a part of them, constructing in the exhibition space the generation and cycle that can be called the laws of nature.

• Shiho Toshibe
• Shiho Kagabu: Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1981. After graduating from the Department of Sculpture at Bunka Women's University, she completed her graduate studies in sculpture at Tama Art University. From 2017, she was based in Milan for two years with a grant from the Agency for Cultural Affairs' Overseas Training Program for Emerging Artists. She currently lives in Tokyo.

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