Online Reading
Tetsuya Ishida
Self-Portrait of Other
Tetsuya Ishida: Self-Portrait of Other is available for online reading through the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía website. Published on the occasion of the museum’s 2019 exhibition, the catalogue includes essays by Teresa Velázquez, Noi Sawaragi, Tamaki Saito, Kuniichi Uno, and Isamu Hirabayashi. Together the texts explore Ishida’s historical and contemporary influences, from manga to realism, capitalist alienation to age-old mythology.
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Tetsuya Ishida: Self-Portrait of Other (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2019)
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Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self
With Cecilia Alemani
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 5pm
Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York
Join Gagosian for a tour of Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self at Gagosian, New York, led by exhibition curator Cecilia Alemani. This comprehensive survey of paintings by the artist, divided into five thematic parts, is the first-ever exhibition of his work in New York. Ishida emerged as an artist during Japan’s “Lost Decade,” a recession that lasted through the 1990s, and his paintings capture the feelings of hopelessness, claustrophobia, and disconnection that characterized Japanese society during that time—even in the wake of its rapid technological advancement.
Cecilia Alemani inside the exhibition Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self, Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, 2023. Artwork © Tetsuya Ishida Estate. Photo: Eleanor Gibson
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Alexandra Munroe and Tomiko Yoda on Tetsuya Ishida
Moderated by Cecilia Alemani
Monday, October 2, 2023, 6:30pm
Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York
Join Gagosian for a conversation inside the exhibition My Anxious Self, the most comprehensive survey of paintings by the late Tetsuya Ishida (1973–2005) to have been staged outside of Japan, and the first-ever exhibition of his work in New York. Alexandra Munroe, senior curator at large, Global Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, will speak with Tomiko Yoda, Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities at Harvard University, in a conversation moderated by exhibition curator Cecilia Alemani. The trio will discuss the societal context in which Ishida developed his work, the artist’s striking representations of the challenges of contemporary life, and his unflinching view of his contemporaries’ inward escape into highly consumable popular media.
Tetsuya Ishida, Prisoner, 1999 © Tetsuya Ishida Estate
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Tetsuya Ishida
Gagosian is pleased to announce the global representation of Tetsuya Ishida, in association with the artist’s estate. Active as an artist for just a decade, Ishida (1973–2005) produced a compelling body of work imbued with a profound sense of alienation and emotional isolation from the contemporary world. Coming of age during the 1990s, an era of nationwide economic malaise known as Japan’s “Lost Decade,” he made art that conveys anxiety, estrangement, and hopelessness. Inaugurating the relationship, the gallery will present Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self, curated by Cecilia Alemani, the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work staged outside Japan, and his first ever in New York.
Tetsuya Ishida, c. 1995. Photo: © Tetsuya Ishida Estate
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