Chronos / Kairos II

CHRONOS/KAIROS II Recent works by Shinpei Takeda Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance, 9.22.17 - 11.10.17

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hinpei Takeda is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Tijuana, Mexico and DĂźsseldorf, Germany. His works involve a wide range of themes regarding memories and history. He uses multi-media installations, sound interventions, documentary films, large-scale photography installations, and collaborative community projects to explore memories of human violence, particularly via narratives of exile. His recent projects include Alpha Decay series (2010-2012) and Beta Decay series (2013-2015), in which he created large installations, based on his 8 years of interviews with over 60 atomic bomb survivors living in the North and South Americas, in different sites across the world. Takeda is also a founder and creative director of The AJA Project, a nonprofit that has been dedicated to working with resettled refugee children in San Diego using participatory photography.

His recent documentary films include El Mexico mas Cercano a Japon (2008), which explores the first Japanese photographer of Tijuana in the 1920s, and Hiroshima Nagasaki Download (2010). His recent publications include "Alpha Decay: How can contemporary art express the memory of atomic bomb?" (2014) and "Hiroshima/Nagasaki beyond the Ocean" (2014). He also directed the Tijuanabased noise punkformance documentary Ghost Magnet Roach Motel. From September 17th,2017, his work can be seen in Transpacific Borderland in the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles as part of the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time initiative.

Front page detail: Time, Zeit, Tiempo. Acryl on canvas, 24” x 24” Left detail: Threading the Unknown Future, 2017.

Acryl on canvas, 24” x 31”

Leftl: Alpha Decay 7 Inverse: To Erase Memories (edition 2/3), 2013. C-prints mounted on plexiglass, 24” x 30”. $2,000 Above: Model for Antimonument II, 2015. Copper, nylon, 15” x 30”. $2,500

“In ancient Greek mythology, Chronos is the linear chronological ‘time’ and Kairos is the ‘time’ - the right, critical moment specific to a space for something to occur.

My work has dealt with finding the intersection of Chronos and Kairos, working with histories and memories while understanding how to adopt to the contingent circumstances. In this exhibition, I propose a series of works based on my intent to find the intersection of the sequential objective time and non-sequential subjective time.”

Left: Voice Pattern #5 (Alpha Decay Series), 2014. Wool, 40” x 2”. $800 This page: Time, Zeit, Tiempo. Acryl on canvas, 24” x 24”. $1,500

Leftl: Trinity 72 Years After, 2017. Acryl on canvas, 71” x 83”. $12,000 This page: Threading the Unknown Future (detail), 2017. Acryl on canvas, 24” x 31. $1,800

Top: Beta Decay Edition #2, 2015. Digital print, 13” x 19”. $500 Bottom: Beta Decay Edition #3, 2015. Digital print, 13” x 19”. $500 Right: Fobia prints #1, #2, 2017. Ink on digital print, 24” x 30”. $650

SHINPEI TAKEDA - CV Grants / Awards 2016 San Diego Art Award 2015 Post-production Grants / NRW Film und Medien Foundation Düsseldorf, Alemania 2015- Inaugural AURA-AAAS Endowment Fund Award, Assoc. for Asian American Studies 2014- First award, Estandartes Biennale 2014, CECUT in Tijuana, Mexico 2012 –Best Audience Award at Shinsedai Film Festival, Toronto, Canada 2011 – Ibero Latinamericana Visualities Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana Chanpagne 2011 – Commissioned Public Art, City of San Diego 2010 – Nominated as the new artist of the year, San Diego Fine Arts society 2006 - 2013 – Grant, National Memorial Museum, Nagasaki, Japan 2005, 2006 - Grant, Trans-border Institute, University of San Diego Solo Exhibition 2017 “Fobia” La Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, USA 2017 “Antimonumento” Museo de Arte Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico 2016 “Erinnerungshorizonte” Kraftwerk Mitte, Dresden, Germany 2015 “Inscription” Museum of New Americans, San Diego, USA 2015 “AntiMonument” Nagasaki Art Museum, Nagasaki, Japan 2015 “Memoria(L)” Gallery G, Hiroshima, Japan 2014 “Beta Decay III: Timeline of our Memory” SPAM contemporary, Düsseldorf, Germany 2014 “Beta Decay II : How to unwind the time of violence” Maruki Museum, Saitama, Japan 2012 “Alpha Decay 8: To narrate a new memory” University of Santander Gallery, Colombia 2012 “Alpha Decay 7: To Erase Memory” TJ in CHINA, Beijing, China 2012 “Alpha Decay 5: Margin of History, Scar of Memory” Kyoto Arts Center, Japan 2011 “Aplha Decay 2: Sakugo no Genten” Grizette Gallery, Tokyo Japan 2010 “Decaimiento Alfa” CECUT, Tijuana, Mexico 2005 “Dis-Placed” , Chaing Mai University, Thailand Collective Exhibition 2017 Transpacific Borderland, Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles USA 2016 SPAM Edition, SPAM Contemporary, Düsseldorf, Germany 2016 Kagawa Triennale Triennale 2016 2015 “War and Peace” Hiroshima Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan 2014 11th Edition Estandartes Biennale 2014, CECUT, Tijuana Mexico 2014 “Signos, Sentidos y Deseos: Arte Contemporaño de Baja California” UABC IIC Museo, Mexicali, Mexico

SHINPEI TAKEDA - CV 2013 “Arrópame de los pies” Exconvento San Pablo, Oaxaca City, Mexico 2011 “Dec(s)iertas Sentidos”, FILIJ, CENART, Mexico City 2010 “Confes(s)ions: 6 artists working in Tijuana” Jaus, Santa Monica, USA 2009 “Distancia Relativa” Entijuanarte, Tijuana, Mexico Public Installation 2016 Inter+Face, San Diego Museum of Man, The AjA Project, San Diego, USA 2014 “StoryLines Antenna” public installation, San Diego, USA 2012 “City Heights Mural” Mosaic mural, San Diego, USA 2012 “My Memory on Top of your Memory,” Comissioned Public works, San Diego, USA 2009 “UnderSTAND” Public Installation, NTC San Diego, USA 2008 “Barrio El Progreso” Public Installation, Soacha, COLOMBIA 2007 “in+Grain” Public Installation, San Diego, USA 2006 “Re+Collect”Public Instalation, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA 2008 “Exposición de Bomba Átomica” Museo de Immigrante, Sao Paulo, BRASIL 2004 “Lives in Transition” Exposición, United Nations New York, USA 2003 “Lives in Transition” National Geographic Explorers’ Hall, Washington DC Video/Film 2015 “Ghost Magnet Roach Motel” – Director/Editor/Producer 2011 “Princess of polka dots – a documentary about Yayoi Kusama” – Editor/Producer 2009 “Hiroshima Nagasaki Download” – Director / Producerr/Editor 2008 “El Mexico mas Cercano a Japon” – Director/Producer/Editor Publication 2015 “Shinpei Takeda Antimonument” Nagasaki Art Museum 2014 “Alpha Decay: Can contemporary art express the memory of atomic bomb” Gendai Shokan 2014 “Hiroshima Nagasaki Beyond the Ocean” Yururi Shobo 2007 “Letter from Norway” The AJA Project 2006 “Record of Truth Vol. 1” The AJA Project Education Master of Arts, Organizational Studies, University of San Diego Bachelor of Science, Geology, Duke University

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