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See Contemporary Art in Larger Scale!

Darkness Watchers
Sculptures by Kentaro Isotani

2009 Dec.18th Fri – 2010 Jan. 6th Wed
Opening Reception: 2009 Dec.18th Fri 20.00-22.00
@blinc vase spectacles shop, Omotesando
Curated by
Rodion Trofimchenko

frantic gallery would do anything to attract attention to decent contemporary art: see it closer, perceive it in vaster perspective and recognize its value with sharper gaze.
If it is necessary, we would even provide spectacles, amplifier glasses and other observational tools… to make Japanese Contemporary Art look a little bit more distinct.

frantic Close Up

The idea is simply territorial: not to limit frantic gallery by its physical place, but to be able to present its thinking in any space that shares frantic point of view on art. Thus, several representative art works of frantic artist exhibited in blinc vase is a Close Up on based in Nihonbashi frantic gallery you can experience in Omotesadno.
The idea is interdisciplinary: to generate the rotation between art lovers and other audience, which is in love with contemporary art, but don’t know about it yet. It is an attempt to accelerate the exchange between artists, designers, collectors, fashion journalists, art critics, harajuku girls and others. It is a Close Up on art issues unexpectedly met while shopping in Omotesando.
The idea is provocative: to push Kentaro Isotani (sculptor who works mainly with mud, polyurethane and garbage, playing with the images of bustard, alcoholic and punk) into sublimed spectacles shop, whose main visitors might be delicate highbrows popped in the shop to pick up the last edition of perfectly transparent lenses in ultra light rim.
The idea is, finally, just ironical: to manifest the last step of despair facing ignorance to contemporary art by bringing attention literally amplifying art with the help of the glasses. Oh, by any means we want to make art noticeable!

礒谷権太郎

1975
Born in Tottori
1998
Kanazawa College of Art, B.A. Fine Art course, Sculpture
2000
Kanazawa College of Art, M.A. Fine Art course, Sculpture

Solo Exhibition

2009
"Keep Smiling! God Loves Idiots! The figures of critical grin in the art of Kentaro Isotani", art project frantic, Tokyo
2008
"Instant Dogma", Gallery KINGYO, Sendagi, Tokyo
2005
"Transvestites", Gallery KINGYO, Sendagi, Tokyo
2005
"Kentaro Isotani Exhibition", Kishimojin Temple, Zoshigaya, Tokyo

Group Exhibition

2009
"Let's Pink !" FARM by hiromiyoshii, Tokyo
2009
"My favorite things", art project frantic & unseal, Tokyo
2009
"The Trash" Exhibition, 101 Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair, Akiba Square, Tokyo
2008
"MR1109", NO NAME, Tokyo
2008
"Kingyo of KINGO", Gallery KINGYO, Tokyo
2008  
"Hatsudai Noise Festival", Tokyo
2006
"Toy Box Vol.3", Otuka RED-ZONE (Live House), Otuka, Tokyo
2005
"Seven Sculptors", Gallery 52, Iidabashi, Tokyo
2004
"Kin-no-Bi, Gin-no-za", Ono Gallery, Kyobashi, Tokyo
2002
"Size of The World", Yamawaki Gallery, Ichigaya, Tokyo
2000
"Kawaguchi Art Club", LILIA gallery, Kawaguchi, Saitama