Anne Eastman
"Mountain Passage"
Mountains form when two continental plates meet and neither is subsumed but rather crumple and fold as they push up against each other. What we see as a permanent monuments in the landscape are actually ephemeral and in a perpetual states of flux, continually tearing and breaking apart. This process creates gaps, valleys, precarious and meandering passages through mountain ranges.
Newspaper delivers news of the preceding day, it’s intended to be useful for one day, but the physical paper acquires other uses extending its life far beyond the 24 hour cycle of media. Soon enough (already for most) it will be completely replaced by the digital version.
The fragments of newspaper used this work were found lining drawers, crumpled around ornaments, under boots in the closet, and other unexpected places all around troedsson villa, some of them dating back almost 50 years. Yellowing thin paper allows news of historical or cataclysmic events to bleed through mundane classified ads. Fragments of the past that crumble into the present. I think of them as topographical peaks worn away to reveal the present, or passages traversing metaphysical spaces between epochs, collapsing the personal and the historical.
「Mountain Passage」
2 つの大陸プレートがぶつかり合うと山脈が形成される。どちら側にも取り込まれず、互いに押し合いながら、くしゃくしゃになり、折り重なる。風景の中の恒久的なモニュメントとして私たちが見ているものは、実際にはつかの間のものであり、絶えず流動的で、引き裂かれ、粉砕されている。このプロセスが山峡、谷間、山脈を抜ける曲がりくねった道を作り出す。
新聞は前日のニュースを配信する。1日だけ役立つことを意図されていながらも、物理的な紙は24時間サイクルのメディアをはるかに凌ぐ用途を備えている。もうじき（大部分はすでに）デジタル版に完全に置き換わっていくだろう。
作品に使用されている新聞の切れ端は、引き出しの中敷、装飾品の周り、クローゼットのブーツの下など、トレッドソン邸の思いも寄らない場所で発見された。なかには約50年前のものまであった。黄ばんだ薄い紙のありふれた広告欄から歴史的な出来事や大異変のニュースが滲み出す。過去の断片が砕けて現在になる。それは現在を明らかにするためにすり減った地形的な頂、あるいは、個人的なものや歴史的なものを崩壊させながら、時代間の形而上学的空間を横断する通路なのだ。
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Anne Eastman was born in 1973 in San Francisco, USA, and grew up in the Berkeley, Singapore, and Tokyo. She is based between Brooklyn, NY and Nikko, Tochigi Ken. She studied Cultural Anthropology at Smith College and later attended Yale School of Art where she received an MFA in Sculpture. Working with a variety of media such as moving image, sculpture, collage, assemblage, her work has been shown in New York and internationally. Since 2015 she has also focused her practice in and around Troedsson Villa, her family’s house located in Nikko, Japan where she also invites other artists and writers to stay, and on occasion, organizes exhibitions at Tetsuo’s Garage.
アン・イーストマン 1973年米国・サンフランシスコ生まれ。バークレー、シンガポール、東京で育つ。ブルックリン(ニューヨーク)と日光(栃木県)を拠点に活動。スミス大学で文化人類学を学んだ後、イェール大学で彫刻科の美術学修士(MFA)を取得。映像、彫刻、コラージュ、アッサンブラージュなど、様々なメディアを用いて作品を制作、ニューヨークをはじめ国際的に作品を発表している。2015年より家族が所有する日光のトレッドソン別邸とその周辺を拠点に活動。アーティストや文筆家を滞在させたり、時にはてつおのガレージで展覧会を企画・開催する。
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ONSEN CONFIDENTIAL 2022
Gallery Exhibition Term : September 10th - 25th Opening hours and dates vary from gallery to gallery.
Sponsored by KenKagami,CafeSunday, uruotte Utrecht Special thanks : Hikotaro Kanehira
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What is Onsen Confidential?
Onsen Confidential is a hybrid city-wide gallery share and natural hot spring retreat / conference. The project is meant to bring together like-minded gallerists in a spirit of collaboration and cooperation and to provide a friendly introduction to the unique context of the contemporary art world of Tokyo.
Onsen Confidential was inspired by precedents such as the Milwaukee International, ParamountRanch,Condo, OKEYDOKEY,FriendofaFriend, theVillaProjects(VillaWarsaw, Villa Reykjavik and Villa Toronto), non-profit initiatives such as NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance) and Paris Internationale and gallery organizations such as CADAN (Contemporary Art Dealers Association Nippon) and the IGA (International Galleries Alliance).
Participants
AOYAMA l MEGURO (Meguro)
Kristina Kite Gallery (Los Angeles, USA) Artists:Sydney Acosta Ian Rosen Yutaro Aoki
MUJIN-TO Production (Kinshicho)
Jan Kaps (Cologne, Germany)
Galerie Gregor Staiger (Zurich, Switzerland, Milan, Italy) Artists:Vittorio Brodmann Monster Chetwynd
Albert Leo Peil Kenneth Bergfeld Sachiko Kazama
MISAKO & ROSEN (Otsuka Brussels, Belgium)
47 Canal, (New York, USA)
LambdaLambdaLambda (Prishtina, Kosovo, Brussels, Belgium)
Artists: Antonie Catala Heinz Frank
XYZCollective (Sugamo) KIM? (Riga, Latvia) Artists:Kriss Salmanis
S・ G・Rhodes Reina Sugihara Hana Miletić
4949(Sugamo)
Indrikis Gelzis Maija Kurseva Toru Otani Shogo Shimizu
KAYOKOYUKI (Komagome)
JohnathanHopsonGallery (Houston,USA)
Galeria Wschód (Warsaw, Poland)
Artists: Emily Peacock Julie Devries Steven Evans Cezary Poniatowski
Piotr Janas Mikolaj Moskal Kazuki Matsushita Michi Suwa Noriko Kamikubo
Fig (Otsuka)
Galerie Max Mayer (Dusseldorf, Germany) Artists:Shizuka Okada Nicholas Guagnini
Satoko Oe Contemporary (Kiyosumi-shirakawa)
GoodWeather (NorthLittleRock,Chicago,USA)
A Thousand Plateaus Art Space (Chengdu, China)
Artists:Fylan Spaysky Inga Danyez Chen Qiulin Tadasuke Iwanaga
HagiwaraProjects (Kiyosumi-shirakawa)
Crèvecœur (Paris, France)
Artists: Yohei Watanabe Nobuhiko Nukata Louise Sartor
Take Ninagawa(Higashi Azabu) Air de Paris, (Paris, France) Artists: Pati Hill
ANOMALY (Tennozu)
The Green Gallery (Milwaukee, USA) Artists: Daisuke Takahashi Anne EastmanTomio Koyama Gallery (Roppongi, Tennozu) Chris Sharp (Los Angeles, USA)
Artists: TylerVlahovich