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POCORART World Exhibition

Chance and Necessity and…

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Sun 2nd May 2021
Tokyo, Chiyoda City and 3331 Arts chiyoda co-organaize

POCORART World Exhibition

Chance and Necessity and ...
Liberating raw expression of artists and people with/without disabilities

Term ：
Venue：

16th July (Fri)- 5th September (Sun) 2021 Open daily
3331 Arts Chiyoda 1F Main Gallery

https://pocorart.3331.jp/world2021/en/

In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the POCORART project, Tokyo, Chiyoda City and 3331 Arts
Chiyoda will hold the international exhibition, “POCORART World Exhibition ʻChance and necessityand ...ʼ- Liberating raw expression of artists and people with/without disabilities” in Tokyo during
July 16th to September 5th, 2021.
We will exhibit the art works (creations) gathered from 6 regions of the world; Asia, Europe, Africa,
South and Central America, North America, Oceania. Close to 50 artists representing 22 different
nationalities will participate in this exhibition that opens up a world beyond art brut or outsider art,
contemporary art, crafts and any categories of creations.
[ contact ]POCORART World Exhibition PR Office

Osako(Mr.), Nakada(Mr.)

Unity 501, 6-12-10, Minamiaoyama Minato-Ku, Tokyo JAPAN 107-0062
Tel：+08 3-6450-5457

Fax：+81 3-5539-4255

Mail：3331@skewinc.co.jp

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POCORART World Exhibition

Chance and Necessity and…

POCORART World Exhibition

Chance and Necessity and…

Liberating raw expression of artists and people with/without disabilities
Term

16th July(Fri) - 5th September(Sun) 2021 Open daily

Hours

11:00~18:00*Last entry 17:30

3331 Arts Chiyoda 1F Main Gallery

Venue

6-11-14 Sotokanda Chiyoda-Ku Tokyo JAPAN 101-0021 Former Rensei Junior High School
GeneralSeniors ＋65 : ¥500, Student under high-school age free entry /Chiyoda
city residents free entry with identiﬁcation / Visitors with handicap freeentry along with one escort. please present handicap certiﬁcate

Admission¥800

Organizers

Chiyoda City, 3331 Arts Chiyoda

SupportSwiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia、Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo

Specialcosponsor

CHUGAI PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.

Cosponsor

MITSUBISHI ESTATE

Endorsed by

Chiyoda City Tourism Association, Embassy of France / Institut français du Japon, Embassy of
Belgium, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, Embassy of Brazil, Associação Nipo Brasileira
Economia e Cultura, British Council, Embassy of Canada, Embassy of the Czech Republic in
Tokyo, Czech Centre Tokyo, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Embassy of Italy,
Italian Cultural Institute of Tokyo, Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco, New ZealandEmbassy, Tokyo, Polish Institute in Tokyo, Embassy of the Republic of Cuba, Embassy of
Sweden, Embassy of Switzerland in Japan, Embassy of the United States of America

https://pocorart.3331.jp/world2021/en/
The schedule and exhibits are subject to change without
notice prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. Pleasecheck the website before visiting. In addition, pleasetake the following measures when entering and viewing
the exhibition.
[ contact ]POCORART World Exhibition PR Office

Osako(Mr.), Nakada(Mr.)● Please wear a mask when entering thefacility and galleries.
● Please disinfect your ﬁngers and handswith the alcohol sanitizer, have yourtemperature checked by a staﬀ member,and ﬁll out an entry form when entering
the facility.
● We may temporarily limit the number ofvisitors depending on the congestion.

Unity 501, 6-12-10, Minamiaoyama Minato-Ku, Tokyo JAPAN 107-0062
Tel：+08 3-6450-5457

Fax：+81 3-5539-4255

Mail：3331@skewinc.co.jp

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Statement

In the time and space in which people spend their day-to-day lives, creativeminds freely express their creativity through activities such as painting,making sculptures, cutting, and pasting.
People are born as “me,” and in the course of living my life, encountering
the immediate environment, society, and others around me, reflect onthings, and occasionally experience happenings.
Science has sought to explain the mysteries of the world around us and ourexistence in it. Philosophy and art also seek the same objectives.
The Greek philosopher Democritus stated that “Everything existing in
the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.”
Like Democritus said, everything on earth, including us, and, in fact, allthings in the universe are the fruit of chance and necessity. Although the artof creative minds deals with the small world with which they are familiar, it issomething that the larger world can identify with.
The larger universe includes smaller universes.
My body is an aggregation of microcosms, and I myself am part of a cosmos
that goes on without end. Can these creations be called art?
Perhaps they can’t be encompassed within the scope of art.
All that is certain is that they are pursuing answers to the mysteries of ourexistence.

Rena KANO

Curator[ contact ]POCORART World Exhibition PR Office

Osako(Mr.), Nakada(Mr.)

Unity 501, 6-12-10, Minamiaoyama Minato-Ku, Tokyo JAPAN 107-0062
Tel：+08 3-6450-5457

Fax：+81 3-5539-4255

Mail：3331@skewinc.co.jp

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Six themes of the exhibition

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The exhibition presents six themes. They extend outwards away fromthe center, commencing with the artist’s mind (my mind).
These six themes are interlinked and move in unison.

1 . Minds of the universe ［Inner self and mask］
What do people understand by me when theymeet me (the artist) ? The me that I perceive
internally is not the same as the me seen via
the society outside me. In day-to-day life, I
observe myself and update my own image ofme, with me being the object that fulfills mydesires. Posing as all sorts of different people,
I wonder who I am, or what it means to be me.
Worlds of myth and fantasy that begin withinme represent the ability to dream, allowing me
to journey endlessly to realms of freedom.
［Artists］

Marian HENEL（Poland）
Josef HOFER（Austria）

KUWABARA Toshiro（Japan）

Tomasz MACHCIŃSKI（Poland）
OBATA Masao（Japan）

Harald STOFFERS（Germany）

Josef HOFER, Untitled, 2009
Pencils, colored pencils, paper, 44×60cm

Leopold STROBL（Austria）
YONAHA Shun（Japan）

2 . Movements of the universe［From action to form］
There comes a moment in time when a certain substance or something done repeatedly—such as
pasting, stacking, inserting, wrapping, gathering, writing, or praying—crosses a line that takes it outof the ordinary. In this primal moment, I (the artist) leave day-to-day life and enter the world ofcreation. Action takes form as the mark it leaves behind.Completely unexpected forms emerge fromdaily routines and actions that are an inevitable part of work or everyday life: pinched clay becomes aspine on the body of an imaginary
animal, soft paper becomes hard andheavy like marble, discarded objects
gathered together become weapons,
and mother’s sewing tools and otherrelics become a large mass.

［Artists］

Laura DELVAUX（Belgium）

KANASAKI Masashi （Japan)

Carlo KESHISHIAN（United Kingdom）
Ezekiel MESSOU（Benin）

Marc MORET（Swiss）

André ROBILLARD（France）
SAWADA Shinichi （Japan）

TAKEDA Hiraku （Japan）

TAKEDA Hiraku, Chopsticks, 2010
Disposable wooden chopsticks, 230×80×100cm, 7 more works
photo:MIYAJIMA Kei

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3 . Bodies of the universe［Mysteries of physical life］
How did the living beings of the earth—people, animals, plants, and other lifeforms—and the things
around us become as they are? The things that I see before me appear to me in many different ways.
This is how shapes, colors, and sizes appear to me (the artist). My imagination extends to creatures ofthe distant past and creatures that have yet
to live in this world.
And, I create new beings by combining
humans with existing animals and plants.
And there are many different perspectives
exploring the mysteries of living beings.
Every me has its own perspective.
［Artists］

Curzio di GIOVANNI（Italy）

Helmut HLADISCH（Austria）

Julia KRAUSE-HARDER（Germany）
NAKAMICHI Kazuki（Japan）

Misleidys Francisca Castillo PEDROSO（Cuba）
Luboš PLNÝ（Czech Rep.）

Julia KRAUSE-HARDER, Juravenator, 2013
Mixed media, 51×40×104cm
Foto: Atelier Goldstein

SHUJI Takashi （Japan）

Charles STEFFEN（United States of America）

4 . Diversity of the universe［From surroundings to form］
Creativity is closely connected to the cultural customs or environment of a particular age, society, or
lifestyle. It can demonstrate a modern Western way of scientific thinking, using experiments to provehypotheses, creating paintings of sound waves. In other circumstances, it can show an approach
like Asian folk beliefs, invoking spirits that relieve pain. In South America, branches of nearby trees
come to resemble all sorts of shapes orcreatures, and in Japan, single
creations can seem to combine animeand novels. In Africa, listening to thesounds of a nearby airport while making
souvenirs for tourists resulted in creating a large plane that looks incredibly
close to flying.
［Artists］

Mohamed BABAHOUM（Morocco）
Julius BOCKELT（Germany）
HIRANO Tomoyuki（Japan）
Davood KOOCHAKI（Iran）
KURODA Katsutoshi（Japan）
Imanuel MAPEU（Namibia）
Elke TANGETEN（Belgium）
Ni Nyoman TANJUNG（Indonesia）
Véio（Brazil）
YOSHIHARA Chojiro（Japan)

Julius BOCKELT, Untitled, 2013
Ink on paper, 19.5×25.5cm©collection abcd/Bruno Decharme

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5 . Nature of the universe［Resonating life］
What is the nature of the world around us? How does it work? Looking down on the world from above
reveals the towns and cities where people live. Buildings and shops line the streets, and transportation networks spread everywhere. Some people imagine a world in which everything is made in ideal
proportions, while others contemplate one made up of particles, or of chi, the invisible element of
Asian thought. In addition to matter, the nature of our world comes from all the things that happen in
the time and space within which we live. And also considered to be elements of the world are natural
disasters and the difficulties of coexistence, suchas discrimination and conflict between groups thatpeople have formed. Spaces with information
about the world and symbols for processing it are
creations.
［Artists］

Kostia BOTKINE（Belgium）
John DEVLIN（Canada）
GUO Fengyi（China）
KOKUBO Norimitsu （Japan）
Jockum NORDSTRÖM（Sweden）
Franz von SAALFELD（Germany）
Martin THOMPSON（New Zealand）
George WIDENER（United States of America）
Entang WIHARSO（Indonesia）

Entang Wiharso, Recalling Home, 2018
Aluminium and car paint, 244.5 × 339 × 15cm
© Entang Wiharso, courtesy Mizuma Gallery

6 . Memories of the universe:［An exploration of memories transcending space-time］

Mechanisms to protect against the loss of hundreds of thousands of years of memories of the universe,
scenes of hometowns once resided in, places holding memories of younger days, words spoken byfamily members, or days spent with people important to us.
Personal things that have happened to me,
events that happened on earth in ancient
times, and historical realities from throughout the period of human existence blend
together, transcend space-time, and arebrought back to life. Things from the past
overlap with the present moment, taking
form before us while becoming intricately
entangled and entwined.

［Artists］

Carlos Javier Garcia HUERGO（Cuba）
Jimmy Tsutomu MIRIKITANI（Japan）
SUGIURA Atsushi SUGIURA（Japan）
TSURUKAWA Koji （Japan）
UEDA Kaito（Japan）
Vanda VIEIRA-SCHMIDT（Germany）
Melvin WAY（United States of America）

TSURUKAWA Koji, Untitled, 2013-2019
Felt-tip pen, ball point pen, aqueous marker, paper, 39.2×27.1cm
photo：MIYAJIMA Kei

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Director / Curator

NAKAMURA Masato

KANO Rena

3331 Arts Chiyoda Supervising Director

CuratorBorn in Odate City (Akita, Japan) in 1963. Professor atTokyo University of the Arts (Department of Painting).
3331 Arts Chiyoda supervising director.
Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021 general director.
A socially aware artist pushing forth diverse art
projects with focus on "art x community x industry".
Represented Japan in the 49th Venice Biennial (2002).
Has supervised over the artist initiative “Command N”
since 1997. Received the Japanese Government’ s
Agency for Cultural Affairs Award in Fine Arts (2010)
and the Appreciation Prize of AIJ 2018.

Born in Hyogo Prefecture.Art anthropologist at theLaboratory of Social Anthropology in EHESS (School
for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences).
Received a Master’ s degree in Art History from
Paris-Sorbonne University. Received a Bachelor’ s
degree in Museolo- gy from École du Louvre. Involved
with categorization of art and its periphery, humancreations research and projects. Currently also a
coordinator for “Pocorart National Open Call” at 3331
Arts Chiyoda.

Committee

O JUN
Painter

SAWARAGI Noi
Art Critic

HATAKEYAMA Naoya

Photographer / Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts
Graduate School of Film and New MediaHOSAKA Kenjiro

Direcotor of the museum of modern art, Shiga

KOIKE Kazuko

Creative Director / President of Sagacho archives

Barbara Safarova

KURODA Katsutoshi, Collapse of humanity, 2011-2015
Filler paper, black pen, colored pen, 29.7×21cm
photo: MIYAJIMA Kei

President of abcd foundation

Lucienne Peiry

Curator / Lecturer of Swiss Federal Instituteof Technology in Lausanne*They participate mainly as selectors of the artists.

[ contact ]POCORART World Exhibition PR Office

Osako(Mr.), Nakada(Mr.)

Unity 501, 6-12-10, Minamiaoyama Minato-Ku, Tokyo JAPAN 107-0062
Tel：+08 3-6450-5457

Fax：+81 3-5539-4255

Mail：3331@skewinc.co.jp

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About "POCORART"POCORART ‘s aim is to create a “core” whereart and people may come together andrepresent themselves without distinction of
disability, their backgrounds, experiences,age, professionals and amateurs. The
exhibition opens up a world beyond art brut or
outsider art, contemporary art, crafts and any
categories of the arts.

POCORART
https://pocorart.3331.jp/en/

About "3331 Arts Chiyoda"3331 Arts Chiyoda is an artist-run
cultural center located in the Akihabara
area of Tokyo. Based in the renovatedRensei Junior High School, 3331 is anindependent initiative that aims to
support a new model of arts
engagement beyond the existing gallery
and museum systems. Our model
invites people of all generations,backgrounds, and interests toparticipate in an open approach to fineart, fashion, design, music, alternative
media, and more.

Company's Outline
・Established : July 2008
・Organizing, producing and facilitating cultural and artistic exhibitions, events, public art programs,
educational programs and community engagement programs.
・Art Schooling・Project Management
・Architectural and city planning, environmental design, graphic design, product design,production of web,moving image and new media contents, event management,creative production
3331 Arts Chiyoda
https://www.3331.jp/en/
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TSURUKAWA Koji, Untitled, 2013-2019
Felt-tip pen, ball point pen, aqueous marker, paper
39.2×27.1cm, photo：MIYAJIMA Kei

KURODA Katsutoshi, Collapse of humanity, 2011-2015
Filler paper, black pen, colored pen, 29.7×21cm
photo: MIYAJIMA Kei

TAKEDA Hiraku, Chopsticks, 2010
Disposable wooden chopsticks
230×80×100cm, 7 more works, photo:MIYAJIMA Kei

HIRANO Tomoyuki, Ms.Miho series Part 4, 2011
Pencil, colored pencil, paper, 30.5×24×2.5cm
photo：MIYAJIMA Kei

KANASAKI Masashi, One milion years, 2012
Magazine, flyer, wood glue, 24.2×15.4×46.9cm
photo: MIYAJIMA Kei

YONAHA Shun, Giant Hospital Ⅲ, 2018
Oil-based pen, calendar, paper, 144×840cm
photo：MIYAJIMA Kei[ contact ]POCORART World Exhibition PR Office

Osako(Mr.), Nakada(Mr.)

Unity 501, 6-12-10, Minamiaoyama Minato-Ku, Tokyo JAPAN 107-0062
Tel：+08 3-6450-5457

Fax：+81 3-5539-4255

Mail：3331@skewinc.co.jp

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