©Kyoto Machiya AIR 2015

Kyoto Machiya AIR14 ＠ANEWAL Gallery

K YO TO M AC H I Y A AR TI ST IN RESIDENCE 2 0 1 5
Beginning in 2011, the Kyoto Machiya Artist in Residence Program (KyotoMachiya AIR Program) has invited Dutch artists to Japan with the goal of
deepening cross-cultural relationships in the art world. Organized aroundthe idea of helping our local community, each year we accept applications
and select nine Dutch artists working in various media (e.g., oil painting,architecture and graphic design) who we feel are best able to help
strengthen the ties between our two countries.
For foreign artists - who come with experiences, interests and senses ofvalue that are completely diﬀerent from those typically found in Japan relating their everyday experiences here tends to make for slightly strange
tales. Such tales often include instances where their confusion about what
they are witnessing provides a fresh perspective that helps to enlighten
Japanese people about their own culture. They also commonly explore
new aspects of culture in ways that are illuminating to people from allnationalities.
This yearʼs Kyoto Machiya AIR Program ran from September to December
and sponsored two artists to live and work in traditional machiya houses in
the Kamigyouku district of Kyoto. By holding workshops and exhibitions,the artists were able to connect with the local residents and show themparts of the artistic experience that usually take place in private. In return,by talking with, learning from and working with local artists, they wereable to extend their experience in Japan beyond mere sightseeing, andwere able to both understand Japanese culture better and also introduce
elements of their own culture to the Japanese public.

Period：9/25~12/16
Exhibition：

12/4~6 (Plan)
S p o n so re d b y :ʼ t Ja p a n s C u lt u r ee l C en t ru m ( JC C )K y o t o C en t e r f o r C o m m u n it y C o ll a bo r a t i o n ( KC C C )S p ec iﬁ e d N o n p r o ﬁ t C o r p o ra t io n A NE W A L Ga l l e r y
S u p p o rt e d b y :E m b a ssy o f t h e K in gd o m o f t h e Ne t h e r l a n d s& C o n su la t e G e n era l o f t h e K in gd o m o ft h e N e t h erla n d s in O sa k a / K o b e
M a c h iy a R e sid e n c es:
A N E W A L G a llery , Y o n e d a Ho u se

InfoSpeciﬁed Nonproﬁt Corporation ANEWAL Gallery
156 Jissoin-cho , Kamigyo-ku , Kyoto City
MAIL：contact@anewal.net

TEL：075-354-8701
FAX：075-354-8704

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ArtistJikke van Loon
formative arts・drawing・visual arts

Sculptures, drawings, visuals arts.

Jikke van Loon was born in 1971 in Den Haag, theNederlands. She is a visual artist who takes the humanmind as a point of departure in her sculptures, drawings and installation artworks. Lately especially values
in Japanese culture and arts such as ʻcontemplationʼ

and ʻimperfectnessʼ catch her attention. During thisArtist in Residence Program, she aims to deepen her
insight into these values, possibly using these as ameans of expression in her own works as well.
jikkevanloon.com

Iteke

Iteke and Tjitske Hemkes
Design・fashion・ ﬁlm・performance

The sisters Iteke (1984) and Tjitske Hemkes (1980) wereborn into an artistic family. Iteke got her bachelor

degree in Fashion & Textiles and Graphic Design at theRoyal Academy of Art in The Hague. Currently she works

in the areas of illustration, ﬁlm and performance. Tjitske

graduated at the Design Academy in Eindhoven and nowworks as a freelance designer in Amsterdam. Her work
can be described as work that falls in between art anddesign, ranging from video, fashion, performance andproduct design.

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WorksJIkke van Loon

“ The Full Solution, part 1” (2014)
An attempt in wax to solve all the questions under our sky and question
our clinging on to ʻformʼ.

“Named or not named, Known, or Unknown” (2012)

A carillon performing songs composed for the babies and childrenthat where buried there without the knowledge of parents and siblings.

Iteke and Tjitske Hemkes“Now/Here” (2014) Iteke Hemkes

Series of illustrations for a children's book about getting lost,which means you will discover more when you are not knowing.

“Olla Vogala” Tjitske Hemkes

A series of patterns that where created by mimicking natural processes likethe formation of marble or grow of fungus. In this proces its important to
let go of 'control' and 'outcome' and let the experiment lead the way.
The technique can be applied on any kind of object or surface.

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Residence

ANEWAL Gallery
The concept, “an outgoing gallery”, is our basis
and motivation in ﬁnding local new values andunutilized resources through producing activities related to art, design and cultural experiences. Also at ANEWAL Gallery, our stronghold,we have been producing many events and exhibitions that somehow relate to the nature of
our venue, a traditional Japanese housing of
Kyo-Machiya with more than 130 years of history.
gallery.anewal.net

Yoneda House
A house that has been built by the fourth generation of the Yoneda clan and that has been
restored by the sixth and seventh generationsof the same family in 2000. While maintaining
the atmosphere of an old machiya, new life has
been put into the Yoneda Residence. By letting
foreign artists stay at their house, the Yoneda
family also positively engages in the Artist inResidence project.