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Announcement of contribution of a Critical Essay by Art Critic Ryosuke Kondo
Art critic Ryosuke Kondo has written a text on Matthew Monahan & Aiku Kurotaki: “Reverb Time 60”, held at SOM GALLERY from August 16 to September 14
Please take a moment to read it below:
https://somgallery.com/en/exhibitions/reverb-time-60
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Ryosuke Kondo
Art critic and curator. Born in Osaka, Japan in 1982, Ryosuke Kondo holds a B.A. from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, University of London, and an M.A. from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo. After serving as a Fulbright visiting researcher at Harvard Graduate School of Design and an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo, he is currently an adjunct lecturer at Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. He specializes in the aesthetics and history of landscape, and his work revolves around researching Japanese, British, and American art and gardens, aiming at understanding landscape as a living environment through both theoretical and practical pursuits. He is the editor and author of several books, including Looking at Tokyo’s Parks from the Perspective of Central Park (Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association, 2023), and produces contemporary art exhibitions, including Urban Sansui (kudan house, 2023).
He is the founding director of the artist collective Sansui Tokyo, which explores contemporary art and society through the theme of sansui (shanshui).
