Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within
Film by Alan Chin
A tribute dedicated to Toshiko Takaezu, Isamu Noguchi, Darlene Fukuji, and the friends and family who made all things possible.
Featured:
Toshiko Takaezu
Darlene Fukuji
Isamu Noguchi
Leilehua Lanzilotti
Details:
On display from March 20 – July 28, 2024
Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
9-01 33rd Road (at Vernon Boulevard)
Long Island City, New York 11106
718.204.7088
info@noguchi.org
Curation Credits:
The retrospective is organized by The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum with assistance from the Toshiko Takaezu Foundation and the Takaezu family. It is co-curated by art historian Glenn Adamson, Noguchi Museum Curator Kate Wiener, and composer and sound artist Leilehua Lanzilotti. The exhibition was conceived and developed with former Noguchi Museum Senior Curator Dakin Hart.
Sound Clip: “Ka Uluwehi O Ke Kai" by Keith Nakaganeku, Live Performance. 2019
Sound Clip: With These Hands: The Rebirth of the American Craftsman, 1970
Video, TRT 00:54:29
Sponsored by Johnson Wax
Produced by Daniel Wilson
Consulting by Paul Smith and Lee Nordness
Courtesy SC Johnson
Music Composed by Clinton Elliot
Sound recording and clip from: Celebrating hidden worlds: Toshiko Takaezu takes center stage at the Noguchi Museum
Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within
Edited by Glenn Adamson, Dakin Hart, and Kate Wiener
Contributions by Ai Fukunaga, Nonie Gadsden, Diana Jocelyn Greenwold, Laura Kina, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Margo Machida, Laura Mott, and Katy Siegel
368 Pages, 9.25 x 11.00 inches
246 color illustrations + 51 black-and-white illustrations
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780300267402
Published: Tuesday, April 30, 2024
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum has organized a touring retrospective and monograph centered on the life and work of artist Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011). Opening first at the Noguchi Museum from March 20th to July 28th, 2024, ‘Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within' is the first nationally touring retrospective of Takaezu’s work in over twenty years.
The show is co-curated by art historian Glenn Adamson, Noguchi Museum curator Kate Wiener, Dakin Hart, and composer and sound artist Leilehua Lanzilotti, who demonstrates the hidden element of sound in the artist's works.
Acknowledgments:
Toshiko Takaezu Foundation
The Family of Toshiko Takaezu
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
Lenore G. Tawney Foundation
Keith Nakaganeku
Amy Hau
Yutaka Matsuzawa
Directed and edited by Alan Chin & Mattias Russo-Larsson, and narrated by Reiko Tomii
Produced by Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles on the occasion of the exhibitions:
YUTAKA MATSUZAWA
Co-curated by Alan Longino and Reiko Tomii
Originated by Yale Union, Portland, Oregon
&
Yutaka Matsuzawa through the lens of
MITSUTOSHI HANAGA
YUTAKA MATSUZAWA
Exhibition tour:
Yale Union, Portland, Oregon
June 29 - August 18, 2019
Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, California
September 7 – October 5, 2019
Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
November 9 – December 21, 2019
John Young Museum of Art at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
January 26 - May 7, 2020
All works: Collection of Kumiko Matsuzawa
Yutaka Matsuzawa
松澤 宥
2/2/1922 - 10/15/2006
Mitsutoshi Hanaga
羽永光利
1933 - 1999
Nonaka-Hill Gallery and the curators, Alan Longino and Reiko Tomii, wish to thank the Matsuzawa family—Kumiko, Yoko, and Haruo—for their support and guidance for this project. We are grateful for the commitment, focus, and diligence of the exhibition organizers & publishers at Yale Union—Aaron Flint Jamison, Hope Svenson, and Gary Robbins. Equally, thanks is given to Jeff Rothstein, Rachel Valinsky, Nebahat Avcioglu, Louwrien Wijers, Paul Goede, Yoshiko Shimada, Misa Shin, Daniel Kiss, Jan Kaps, Namiko Kunimoto, Matt Jay, and Ignacio Adriasola. In addition, Rodney & Taka Nonaka-Hill wish to thank Taro Hanaga, Hideki Aoyama, Michio Horikawa, William Marotti, Yoshiko Shimada, Ryuta Yokozuka, Noriko Kaneko, Alan Chin, Mattias Russo-Larsson, Soichi Hayashi & Miho Harasawa
©Nonaka-Hill
©Reiko Tomii
©Matsuzawa Kumiko, The Estate of Matsuzawa Yutaka
©Hanaga Mitsutoshi
©Horikawa Michio
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Episode 1: Stan Dann Teaser
Directed by Alan Chin
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After briefly working as an art director at McCann-Erickson advertising agency in San Francisco, Dann formed a boutique design group, 222, with several partners in the 1960s. To call attention to the new firm, he hand-carved a redwood sign. Architects and design firms in the surrounding North Beach area took immediate notice. As the demand for his skills grew, he quit the advertising business and opened the Stan Dann Studio in Oakland, California.
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Directed By Tom Franco + Alan Chin
Produced by Iris Torres, John Toki, Alan Chin, Tom Franco
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Names in the field including Peter Voulkos, John Mason, Viola Frey, Jim Melchert, Robert Arneson, Peter Selz, Ron Nagle, Clayton and Betty Bailey, Mildred Howard, Wanxin Zhang, Richard Shaw, Deborah Butterfield, Anabeth Rosen, Steven De Staebler, Maija Peeples, Jun Kaneko and John Toki.
Current interviews, historical footage and the art works.