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Seven / Seven:

The Fraught Landscape

About the exhibition

Fergus McCaffrey is pleased to announce Seven/Seven: The Fraught Landscape, opening at the gallery’s Tokyo location on Saturday, January 22, 2022.

This exhibition serves as a conceptual sequel to Fergus McCaffrey’s historic 2019 New York exhibition, Japan Is America. Continuing Japan Is America’s exploration of the Japanese-American creative exchange, Seven/Seven  furthers this transatlantic narrative, applying a cinematic lens to the joint cultural landscape, taking its title from Akira Kurasawa’s Japanese epic Seven Samurai (1954), and the iconic Western film by John Sturges, The Magnificent Seven (1960), that followed suit.

Focusing on a selection of works made by artists predominantly from 1985 to 2021, Seven/Seven  considers the ways in which conscience and self-assertion manifests core concerns for both Eastern and Western contemporary artists. Departing from the archetypes of the epic and the Western, Seven/Seven contemplates the transformative process by which a sequence of static images becomes a moving film; presenting works that engage with the dynamism, drama, and individualistic nature of these genres by artists whose committed path to their craft and vision is the stuff of which epics are made.

Image: Ed Ruscha, Japan Is America, 2020
© Ed Ruscha

The dozen or more artists whose work is presented throughout Seven/Seven represent widely aesthetically varied perspectives on the social, political, and artistic milieus of both Japan and the United States.  Seven/Seven is both historical and contemporary while remaining rooted in film concepts—drawing important, urgent connections between today’s most compelling Japanese and American artists.

Artists include Cecily Brown, Anna Conway, Milford Graves, David Hammons, Tatsuo Ikeda, Tomoko Konoike, Shigeko Kubota, Hiroshi Nakamura, Richard Nonas, Ed Ruscha, Shoji Ueda, Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson, with special screenings by Francesca Gabbiani (screening dates to be announced) among others.

Press Release
 Checklist 
Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha – The Tension of Words and Images | Artist Interview | TateShots
Ed Ruscha – The Tension of Words and Images | Artist Interview | TateShots
Richard Nonas
Richard Nonas: all; at once at Fergus McCaffrey, New York
Richard Nonas: all; at once at Fergus McCaffrey, New York
Richard Nonas: ‘Where None*’ at ‘T’ Space, 2018
Richard Nonas: ‘Where None*’ at ‘T’ Space, 2018
Milford Graves
Japan, 2020
Acrylic on paper
26 x 18 inches
(66 x 45.7 cm)
GRA-0001
Cecily Brown
Installation View, Strange Magic , 2020-2021
Scaled View, Strange Magic , 2020-2021
at home: Artists in Conversation | Cecily Brown
at home: Artists in Conversation | Cecily Brown
Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson
Anna Conway
NSE #464 | Anna Conway with Ann C. Collins
NSE #464 | Anna Conway with Ann C. Collins
David Hammons
David Hammons: Day's End
David Hammons: Day's End
Tatsuo Ikeda
Toy World, 1967
Watercolor and ink on paper
15 3/4 x 12 1/2 inches
(39.9 x 31.9 cm)
IKE-0011
Shoji Ueda
From the “Still Life” series, 1986
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 14.37 x 11 inches
(36.5 x 28 cm)
Framed: 16 2/1 x 20 9/10 inches
(42 x 53 cm)
UED-0002
Mountain Festival; from the “Children in the Year Around” series, 1955-70
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 11 x 14 2/5 inches
(28 x 36.5 cm)
Framed: 16 3/5 x 21 3/10 inches
(42.3 x 54.2 cm)
UED-0001
SHOJI UEDA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY 植田正治写真美術館
SHOJI UEDA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY 植田正治写真美術館
Shigeko Kubota
Installation View
Shigeko Kubota at Art Basel 2021
Shigeko Kubota at Art Basel 2021
Tomoko Konoike
Hiroshi Nakamura
Unknown, 1975
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28 3/5 x 23 9/10 inches
(72.7 x 60.6 cm)
Framed: 29 1/10 x 24 2/5 x 1.77 inches
(74 x 62 x 4.5 cm)
NAKAM-0007
Drip, 1974
Oil on canvas
17 7/8 x 20 7/8
inches
(45.5 x 53 cm)
NAKAM-0004

Video—
Interview with Tomoko Konoike

INSTALLATION IMAGES

March 3–12 —Screening
Francesca Gabbiani, Sea of Fire, 2022

Learn More

Stories

Clashing into “Things” of a New World
by Tatsuo Ikeda (1956)

The following is an example of a simple note that records, step-by-step, the process of my creative practice, while revealing the various issues (questions, mistakes, accuracies) that sometimes arise during my creative process…
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新しい世界の「物体」にぶつかる

前置き 以下は、わたしの創作実践の過程を、順を追って記録し た簡単な手記の一例だが、これによってわたしの創作方法に関する 色々な問題(疑問や、誤りや、正しさ)をひき出していただければ 幸いである…
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