October 3 - October 13, 2007
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Artotheque Arene Collection (Laon, France) Presents New Collection  Tree of Photosythesis Shigeko Hirakawa la Maison des Arts et Loisirs place Aubry 02000 LAON CHABERT Cyprien, CUECO Henry, DEBRE Olivier, ERRO, FROMANGER Gérard, HIRAKAWA Shigeko, LEVISTE Delphine, NEMOURS Aurélie, NILS-UDO, PRAS Bernard, STOCKMAN Marc, TITUS-CARMEL Gérard, TROUVE Tatiana, WATTEL Adriana Supported by : City of Laon, Regional Council of Picardie, Departement Council of l'Aisne, France Contact : Association Arene Collection 41, rue du Colombier 02000 LAON, France Tél: 33 (0)6 79 58 28 56 |
September 29 - November 17, 2007
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Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (New York, U.S.A.) Presents "Jamaica Flux" WORKSPACE & WINDOWS 2007
September 29, 2007 through November 17, 2007 Companion exhibition at JCAL: September 29, 2007 through January 12, 2008 Opening Reception with Artists' and Curators Talks: Saturday, September 29, 2007, begins 10:00AM Artists On/Megumi Akiyoshi, Grimanesa Amoros, Shelly Bahl, Aileen Bassis, Lishan Chang, Jon Cuyson, Stephanie Dinkins, Shigeko Hirakawa, Leslie Hewitt & William Cordova, Christopher K.Ho, Akiko Ichikawa, Soon Jin Jo, Susan Kleinberg, Haejae Lee, Diane Meyer, Carol Pereira, Jenny Polak, Ruey-Shiann Shyu, Lisa C. Soto, Anna Stein & Athena Robles, Steed Taylor, Wei Weng & Heather Hart, Saya Woolfalk, The Rider Project (featuring Michele Gambetta, Landon Jones, Adam Lister, Mary Pinto and Mark Rentschler) Curators Project Director/Curator: Heng-Gil Han Co-Curator: Koan Jeff Baysa, Juliana Driever, Olu Oguibe Curatorial Assistant: Aniko Erdosi Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY 11432, U.S.A. Tel: 1-718-658-7400 http://www.jcal.org  JCAL |
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Jully 10 － September 30, 2007
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The City of Fontenay-le-Comte, France, organizes Parcours
contemporain / Contemporary Course
Site Specific Installations in the Histrical Center of the City |
June 15 － September 30, 2007
Solo Show - Shigeko Hirakawa
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April 19 － June 10, 2007
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Vers Paris/ To
Paris,
Dream of Painters for One Hundred Years
Museum of the Tokyo
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February 24 - March 23, 2007
"Japanese Painting"Opening: February 24 at 5pm Organization of the Saint Quentin City, France 10 artist group show Performances Gallery Saint-Jacques 14, rue de la Sellerie - 02100 Saint Quentin, France Entrance free Open hours: week day from 1pm to 6pm Saturday and Sunday from 2pm to 6pm Japon Creation, Centre d'Art Actif Lesur & Yamaha M.B.K. |
October 9 - December 2, 2006
Solo Show - Shigeko HirakawaOrganized by the Direction of Cultural Development of the City of Argenteuil in France "Tree of Photosynthesis" - new artwork(Realization with the full support of the City of Argenteuil) Tree of Photosynthesis in daylight, Grounds of the City of Argenteuil October 2006 Tree of Photosynthesis "Tree of Photosynthesis" has been produced for the first time in Argenteuil. "Tree of Photosynthesis" is the key element of the project « Air in Peril » which was conceived in 2004 - in the same year I produced "Molecule of Oxygen" in New York. The 20-meter-high tree tries to revive photosynthesis, coloring the forests with 1500 plastic discs which contain photochromic pigments. The plastic leaves with photochromic pigments react in proportion to the quantity of ultraviolet rays and are violet while receiving solar rays but become translucent milky-white by night. This startling "Tree of Photosynthesis" might make people reflect for a moment on the relationship between nature and human activities. (S. H.) Grounds of the City Hall of Argenteuil 12-14, Bd Léon-Féix 95100 Argenteuil DDC of the City Tel : +33 (0)1 34 23 44 70 Access : RER C, 10 - 20mn from St Lazarre Stn. to Argenteuil 10mn walk from Argenteuil Stn. to the City Hall Open (Grounds and Park) : Monday to Saturday, 8am to 7pm Video of the project (10mn) in the City Hall Monday to Friday 8:30am to 5pm, Saturday 8:30am to noon Review http://www.ville-argenteuil.fr/2bgal/serie.php?id_album=12&offset=18 http://www.art-nature-project21.org/spip.php?article1174  sunset time |
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September 9 to 23, 2006
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Inaugural Exhibition of the new space in Paris of Gallery Pascal Vanhoecke presents the artists of the gallery.  |
July 2006 - July 2007
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation (NY, U.S.A.) Grant Holder |
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June 10 - end of September 2006
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province of Liege in Belgium organizes the open-air Exhibition "Poetic Spaces" at the Chateau of Jehay. Commissioner of Exhibition: Philippe Hoonaert  Winged Trees 2006 Site specific installation: conception in February 2006, realization in May-June 2006 5 wings from 4m to 9m, installation for three trees Certain trees produce seeds equipped with a wing of thin skin. The wing permits seeds to go far away in the wind. The wing of the seed of maple is so well shaped that it looks like the wing of dragonfly. Could the rooted trees dream to fly themselves? I will try to make their dream come true." Inspired by a winged seed of maple, I conceived this project of site specific installation in February 2006 and realized it in May-June 2006 at the Chateau of Jehay in Belgium. (Shigeko HIRAKAWA) Château de Jehay tel: + 32 (0) 85 82 44 00 info@chateaujehay.be Cultural Service of the Province of Liege, Belgium ep.culture@prov-liege.be hppt://culture.prov-liege.be ESPACES POETIQUES |
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May 20 - 21, 2006
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Festival de l'Oh Organization by Choisy-le-Roi City Partenership from the Prefectrial Council of the Val de Marne 
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May 5 - July 2, 2006
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Biannial of Contemporary Art - The Environnementales At Tecomah in Jouy-en-Josas, France Commissioner of Exhibition: Jean-Marc Barroso  Gods' Slide 2006 The whole of our planet has been transformed into a gigantic economic garden, in which everything is considered in terms of monetary value. In the meantime, the planet has been suffering from its evil effects such as greenhouse effects and climate changes, threatening lives on Earth. I have been working with the French environment for more than two decades; the global vision described above, however, makes me and my work turn more and more toward larger, planetary environmental concerns. In Japan, the garden was originally a secluded place where people, wishing to cultivate the fields successfully in the midst of savage nature, prayed to calm the soul of nature. Once upon a time, we had 8,000,000 gods. Amongst these were two gods of the garden – one was NIWATSUHIKO and the other was his brother, NIWATSUHINOHIKO, the sun of the garden. Both of them were the sons of the god of agriculture and helped people to maintain morale. In order to calm our fear faced with the anger of nature and bring peace to our souls, I have decided to create a landmark which would guide and help the gods in descending to earth. It is well known that Gods came down to earth from their country TAKAMAGAHARA with the help of high trees. I thus came to the idea of making a large-scale slide suspended on high trees with which the gods would came down more easily. It took me two and a half days to find two suitable high trees for the project in the domain of Tecomah (School of Environment). They are about 30m high. The length of the Gods' Slide, calculated from the dimension of the trees, is 66m. The vertical dimension of the installation are 20m x 10m. Two sorts of technical fabrics (aluminium and PVC) are used. Other materials are 100 hoops, ropes etc. I conceived the Gods' Slide concept in winter 2004 and realized it in 2006 over two and a half months. The exhibition was held by the School of Environment as the Biennial of Contemporary Art "With and In Nature" from May 5 to July 2, 2006. Gods' Slide: conception in November 2004, realization in March-April 2006 66m long in total, technic fabrics (aluminium, pvc) for agriculture, 100 hoops Installation: two trees 30m high,  
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September 23 - November 6, 2005
| Monos
Gallery presents Michael BURGES (D) Shigeko HIRAKAWA (J) Invited artist :
partial view of the exhibition Monos Gallery |
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February 25 - March 27, 2005
| Mining Museum in the Nord/Pas de Calais, France, Presents Shigeko Hirakawa's show
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January 15 - February 26, 2005
One person Show"Air & Water"Gallery Parisudwww.parisud.net/index2.html <span style="font-weight: normal;">   installation "Sky - Water"
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Novembre 17, 2004
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& Garden" Novembre 17, 11:00am Ecole supérieure Estienne des arts et industries graphiques The 19th Cultural Week on the theme of GARDENS 18 boulevard Auguste-Blanqui, 75013 Paris, France |
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October 21 - 25, 2004
| ARTPARIS Louvre Carrousel With C.I.A.C.C. Gallery Pascal Vanhoecke |
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June 27 - July 19, 2004
| Artist in Residence at Art Omi New York, U.S.A. Outdoor installation : Molecule of Oxygen 2004 25m long, inflatable element with 4 ventilators, bubble machine (Opening Day, July 18, 2004)    inflatable structure 2.2m high x 1.8m of diameter    Indoor installation : Air in Danger Drawings of Molecule of Oxygen, Tree of Photosynthesis and Bubbles Inflatable sculptures, etc. (Opening Day, July 18, 2004)     |
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visit Art Omi
"invited
artists 2004" page
Shigeko Hirakawa thanks so much to all the people who she met at Art Omi for the excellent
experience as
well as the encounters she could do.
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June
5 - September 5, 2004
| Contemporary Art Journey in the
country "des toiles et des astres" opening : june 4, 2004  Solar System 2004  Solar System 2004, partial view Maison Pierres & Nature Le Bourg - 35420 Mellé France Tél: 02 99 17 14 25 Des Toiles et des Astres |
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June
24 - September 10, 2004
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16 finalists (the contemporary art competition for the "Forêt de Sénart")  photomontage for "Air Wheel"  drawing for "Molecule of Oxygen" Office National des Forêts La Faisanderie Forêt de Sénart France |
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September
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completed an
artistic research, thanks to a fellowship from the Agency of Cultural Affairs of the Government of Japan. I do thank the people who kindly helped me. |
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