eitoeiko is pleased to announce the group exhibition 'Football Exercise' by Junta Egawa, Gil Kuno, Nipporini and Satoshi Uchiyama. In this exhibition, each artist is regarded as a football player. And the player handles black and white ball. Even though a half century has passed since the dawn of minimalism in art, can we find where the today's goal of the artist is?

Junta Egawa won the Tokyo Wonder Wall prize last year, and was selected by VOCA (the Vision of Contemporary Art, the Ueno Royal Museum, 2013) this spring. As his recent attempts to touch his unknown realm, Junta Egawa is working with monochrome paintings. In his painting 'You are looking. I thought about somewhere far beyond.', white and black collides and ashes are turned out. Egawa's painting is a recorded live broadcast which caught the light and the darkness of the society which changes continually.

'Everything and Nothing' by Zapf!(Gil Kuno and Laurel Bybee) is a cheerful object. It presents a Zen dialogue. When it switched ON, the universe appears. When it switched OFF, nothing appears except reality. The binomial confrontation was shown instantly by the light and darkness of light, as well as a synonymous subject called ON and OFF.

Satoshi Uchiyama changes a labor to a weight. In his 'It's growing up', the thorough subordination to monotonous work of rolling a paper streamer returns to the white which means freedom. And new black one looks like a Giacometti's figure tried the diet further. The painting is made from paints of the material level exposed to the battle of fixing strength and gravity.

Nipporini uses a computer display instead of a film viewer in 'Solution' for pointing an ironical solution to the problem between analogue and digital camera fans. In Nipporini's 'Maturation', the artist takes us from a past known as the present to a present known as the future. Nipporini splices together time as if he were connecting the first and last frames of a movie.
In 'Maturation', the artist attempts to call attention to a phenomenon which is often overlooked in everyday life. When we discover them, we realize that we ourselves are time travelers. This is the clock for those who travel in Alter Modern.

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