After launching his collaboration with HYPEBEANS featuring newly designed spaces and merchandise, Spanish artist Javier Calleja travels to Tokyo for a special exhibition curated by NANZUKA titled “MR. GÜNTER, THE CAT SHOW.” While most of Callejo’s works so far focus on his trademark “BIG EYE” characters, depicting surprise and humor in everyday life, his latest exhibition is inspired by his beloved cat Mr. Günter roams freely around the exhibition. In addition to the large sculpture of Mr. Günter on the ground floor, guests will find two large wooden sculptures in the exhibition space alongside new paintings and drawings.
“I am very pleased to be able to introduce our important family, Gunter, to everyone in Japan,” Callejo writes in the gallery notes.
The exhibition will run from June 25 to July 18 at the Parco Museum in Shibuya, Tokyo. Tickets are priced at ¥800 JPY (approximately $6 USD) and entry will be free for elementary school students and younger. Commemorative merchandise including stacked “Heads” sculptures, postcards, posters, and acrylic magnets will be available for sale at the museum gift shop
PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO
PARCO 4F, 15-1 Udagawa-cho,
Shibuya, Tokyo,
Japan
Mimesis and mimicry are the basis of a new group exhibition at Ben Hunter Gallery in London. ‘What do those words mean?’ You might ask. In the former, the New Oxford American Dictionary defines mimesis as a “representation or imitation of the real world in art and literature.” While the latter term denotes “the action or art of imitating someone or something, typically in order to entertain or ridicule.”
Although both terms relate to the act of imitation, curators Jan Tumlir and Jeffrey Stuker, remind the viewer that mimicry “is not necessarily concerned with representation, and certainly not with representational accuracy.” It’s here that the group exhibition Mimicries begins. The multi-room exhibition brings together a cast of international artists, including Arthur Jafa, Jeff Wall and Lynne Marsh, who explore the space between the subject shown and the subject known.
Dubbed the “dark space” by Tumlir and Stuker, the multi-media work invites the viewer to reflect on various forms of artifice that transcend the artist and encompass the entirety of the natural and built worlds. Mimicries recently opened last week and will remain on view at Ben Hunter Gallery until July 21.
In related news, step into Nadia Lee Cohen’s imagined worlds in HELLO, My Name Is.
Ben Hunter Gallery
44 Duke Street St James’s,
St. James’s, London SW1Y 6DD
Exhibiting Artists:
Hedi El Kholti
Victoria Gitman
Arthur Jafa
Clementine Keith-Roach
Louise Lawler
Lynne Marsh
Nicolas G. Miller
Christopher Page
Jeffrey Stuker
Jeff Wall
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