On view
The idea to turn Gallery Koyanagi into a bookstore, now has been realized.
What is going to be displayed are one single book that has been created and selected by 31 artists.
For I know, there has never been a bookstore like this before.
A bookstore that emerges for a limited time on a limited place. Please come visit the miraculous site.
––––– Yoshiyuki Morioka
ONE SINGLE BOOK
Presented by Morioka Shoten and Gallery Koyanagi
April 25 – June 22, 2024
[Opening reception: April 25, 6-8pm]
Morioka Shoten, a bookshop in Gallery Koyanagi’s neighborhood of Ginza, is a unique bookshop that sells only one book. Inspired by this concept, Gallery Koyanagi will present an exhibition on books, entitled “ONE SINGLE BOOK,” in collaboration with Morioka Shoten. Authors or artists from Morioka Shoten and the Gallery Koyanagi artists, in total of around 30 participants will join the exhibition. Each participating artist is invited to choose one book and do something special to make it the only one book. By tracing why each artist selected the book, and the way the book became 'one single book', the exhibition takes you to ponder the relationship between books and art. On the first day of the exhibition, Gallery Koyanagi will hold a reception with a gallery talk by the artists.
Participants
Morioka Shoten:
Mariko Asabuki, Kaori Endo, Junko Oki, Mio Kaneda, Osamu Saruyama, Kentaro Sugi, Atsushi Suwa, Hanayo, HeiQuicchi HARATA, Mariko Hirasawa, Satoshi Hirose, Isao Makino, Tomoko Mukaiyama, Gozo Yoshimasu, Bijoy Jain, Charlotte Dumas
Gallery Koyanagi:
Michaël Borremans, Sophie Calle, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Marlene Dumas, Mark Manders, Christian Marclay, Thomas Ruff, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yoshihiro Suda, Tabaimo, Yuriko Terazaki, Arisa Kumagai, Ebosi Yuasa, Yuta Nakamura, Akiko Hashimoto
*The purchaser will be chosen by lot from the entries.
Related projects
● Tomoko Mukaiyama performs solo piano concert “Imaginal Peace” at the Shiseido Hanatsubaki Hall.
Friday, April 26 7pm
Saturday, April 27 2:30pm 6:30pm
Tickets are available at Peatix of Morioka Shoten
https://linktr.ee/Imaginal_Peace
● Related exhibitions will be held at Morioka Shoten during below dates.
Mariko Asabuki April 23 – 28
Michihiro Hori May 14 – 19
Isao Makino May 21 – June 2
Gozo Yoshimasu June 4 – 9
Mio Kaneda June 11 – 16
Gallery Koyanagi
Thomas Ruff –– Oswald Wiener, Die Verbesserung von Mitteleuropa, Roman (1972)
with the artist’s self-portrait taken in 1984 and pixelated in 2020
Mark Manders, One Standing, One Lying Book, 1992–2004
Yoshihiro Suda: Yumeji Takehisa “Weeds” (1941) with Weed (2024) by the artist
Tabaimo: Kobo Abe “The Women in the Dunes” (1962),
animation of hand drawings by the artist on all pages.
Yuriko Terazaki: Kenji Miyazawa “The Restaurant of Many Orders” (1990)
and acorns and leaves from the mountains in a cigar-box
Morioka Shoten
Kaori Endo: I had a dream in which 8 fell on me. I thought, the formula of “8” perhaps might refer to “Eternal.” I developed this vision with a calligraphy technique, Eiji Happo, and transcribed it onto
a Japanese arithmetic book from the Edo period.
Osamu Saruyama: Kiyoshi Ooizumi “Taste of Grass” (1943)
Encased with old wood and coupled with a flower holder.
HeiQuicci HARATA: Poem-Broidery in PixEL-DORADO YOUME no OUQUI-HASCI,
The Floating Bridge of Dreams. (2010) Book mobile with OUQUI, floats
Mariko Hirasawa: “Return to One” (2024), a mandala of monotype-print
that unfolds vertically and horizontally. Binding: Akie Tsuzuki
Charlotte Dumas: The drawings of stray dogs I’ve been drawing since the book “A Terra” was published——a tribute to my father who was an artist and to the paper he used, Arches. (2024)
