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[ART Ii Biennale] (Finland) catalogue is completed

The ART Ii Biennale catalogue on Northern environmental and sculpture art is completed. The book presents Northern environmental art with the strength of ten artists. The main articles are written by art critic Otso Kantokorpi and environmental artist, Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Lapland Timo Jokela. Kantokorpi asks whether periphery is a trend, and questions the power of the modern art centres. Jokela tackles the structures of Northern art, its mystical and mythical powers.

The other authors represent the top of their fields. Ph.D. Amy Dempsey is known as the curator of Tate Modern in London and as the author of Styles, Schools and Movements: The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art; Per Bjarne Boym has worked as the director of National Museum for Contemporary Art in Oslo and the Munch Museum; Anna Brodow Inzaina works as art critic for several Swedish magazines and is former editor-in-chief of Artes; Margr_t Elisabet Olafsd_ttir is art critic for the main TV channel in Iceland; Pirkko Siitari is the current director of Kiasma and Tuula Karjalainen the previous director of Kiasma. Researcher Janne Kauppinen of the Oulu Museum of Art, Greenland's first gallery owner J_rgen Chemnitz, critic Shimasaki Yoshinobu from Tokyo and leading British craft theorist Glenn Adamson who works at the Victoria and Albert museum have also submitted their articles to the book.

The ART Ii Biennale catalogue presents the following artists: Sir Alfio Bonanno (Denmark), Eyglo Hardardottir (Iceland), Jenni Tieaho (Finland), Vladimir Zorin (Russian Karelia), and Maria Pan_nguak `Kj_rulff (Greenland), Linus Ersson (Sweden), Egil Martin Kurdol (Norway), Maruyama Yoshiko (Japan), Helena Kaikkonen (Finland) and Lars Vilks (Sweden) Works of these frontline artists can be seen in the cultural heritage areas in Wanha Hamina in Ii and around the KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre.

The publisher of the catalogue is KulttuuriKauppila Art Centre, and it has been realized with the support of Nordic Culture Fund, The National Council for Visual Arts, the North Ostrobothnia Regional Fund of the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Ii Valley Ltd, Oulu Museum of Art and the Valto Pernu foundation.

The work was realized for the promotion of Nordic cultural cooperation and for publicity for Northern art, and it is not available for sale. The book will be sent to main libraries, to the libraries of art museums and to international distribution.
Inquiries: info()kulttuurikauppila.fi.
Art Ii Biennale
Remember of the Critic, Akatsuka Yukio

date/ 11 - 23 April, closed on Sunday, 11:30~19:00(~18:00 on the last day )
place/ Ai Gallery (Ginza 1-5-2, chuo-ku, Tokyo. tel.03-3567-8777)
artists/ Akasegawa Gempei, Takahashi Kunio, Kon MIchiko, Wakana Mie, Maruyama Yoshiko, Hirikawa Norio, Fukuda Masakiyo, Kashiwahara Etsutomu, Matsumoto Akira, Nakamura Isao, Nakanishi Natsuyuki, Ono Shigeharu, and so on
promoter/ Akasegawa Gempei, Nakanishi Natsuyuki, Matsumoto Akira, Motoe Kunio, and so on.
Maruyama's work
Kunst I Natur Biennale

residence and exhibition/ July 15−24
place/ North of the polar circle in Yttermark, Kjerringoy, Bodo, Norway
artist/
Camilla Wexels Riiser, Elin Oyen Vister, Evelyn Scobie, Hildegunn Solbo, Mette Camilla Skadberg, Vigdis Haugtro, Ane Overas, Elizabeth Lyseng, Itonje Soimer Guttormsen (Norway), Caroline Ho-Bich-Tuyen DAND (Vietnam, Australia, Norway), Ida van der Lee (Netherland), Jason Rosenberg, Michelle Weinstein (USA), Jerome Durand (France), Monika Nivelinska (Poland), Yoshiko Maruyama (Japan)

An Art in Nature and Land Art Biennale where artists are invited to Stein Ivar Karlsens property on Kjerringoy outside Bodo, north of the polar circle, to work with their respective expressions for an extended week, and to discuss the concept of land art. This invitation is extended to sculptors, painters, dancers, musicians, writers, photographers and others. Cultural professionals and the public will be invited for discussions and viewings.

Geography/
Kjerringoy is place of exceptional natural beauty. The landscape in Nevelsfjorden is wild and stunning, with steep mountains, varied forests and marshlands, lowland and highland lakes, a delta where the valley meets the fjord, all host to a rich variety of animal and plant life. On 67° 31'27” N and 14 45' 42” E.

Kunst I Natur
Maruyama's work

Oku-Aizu Art Garden
(This project was called off in this year because of the disaster in Fukushima on March 11.
I really hope the devastated area and the people will recover, and art in the area also.)


place/ construction in Oku-Aizu, Fukushima
This project relates with [Aizu Urushi Art Festival] that has started from 2010, as the summer program of it. It will be research, workshop and exhibition with the provincial resources in Oku-Aizu area.

Yell for Tohoku

Many artists propose their plan for this project by [Aizu Urushi Art Festival]committee (Fukushima Museum) after the disaster in Tohoku area on March 11.
I also propose 2 plans.
all of yell plans




[INTERNATIONAL OPEN AIR EXHIBITION IN JAPAN]
Trolls in the Park 2011

date/ November 3 - 23
place/ Metropolitan Zempukuji Park and surrounding area, Tokyo
artists/ Inoue Kojiro, Ishii Takahiro, Kawakami Wakako, Kurono Yuichiro, Maruyama Yoshiko, Maruyama Tokio, Murayama Syujiro, Nishiyama Hitoshi, Okada Hiroko, Takashima Ryozo, Yokoyama Aska,
Jaime Humphreys (U.K.), Katrin Paul (Germany), Jak Peters (Netherlands), Billy Styles (U.K.), Antti Ylonen (Finland)

organizer/ Trolls in the Park Organizing Committee
Nominal Support/ Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office, Suginami City Board of Education, Association for Culture of Suginami
Support/ JAPAN ARTS FUND, Association for Culture of Suginami, EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Japan, Youkobo Art Space

http://www.trollsinthepark.com/
Maruyama's work

[collaboration] Silence

date/ November 3 - 23
place/
Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo
artists/ Maruyama Yoshiko, Maruyama Tokio, Antti Ylonen (Finland)

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