R3:Scape-City is the third year program of Responding: International Performance Art Festival and Meeting’s third year program, in collaboration with Singapore’s The Artists Village (TAV) […]
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Field Trip Project Asia is in Taiwan’s National Museum of Marine Science and Teqchnology
Field Trip Project Asia has been in Taiwan visiting local school for the past months and now the exhibition is ready at National Museum of […]
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Renewal of Daisuke Takeya Website
After almost a decade, Daisuke Takeya Website has been renewed. People know of my praxis as someone who ‘paints large abstract sky and miniature realistic […]
Continue reading‘An artistic transformation through disaster and hope’ By J.C. Wen
~ Nikkei Voice, January 4, 2017 Artist Daisuke Takeya discusses his latest exhibition, ‘Breaking the Waves’ and its connection to disaster, recovery and remembrance of […]
Continue reading‘Breaking the Waves’ by Daisuke Takeya ~ Generally About Books By Mayank Bhatt
Friday, January 27, 2017 Earlier this month, I participated in the closing reception of Daisuke Takeya’s exhibition of paintings and installation at the Christopher Cutts […]
Continue readingWho’s afraid to love Japan? By HEATHER WHITE ~ February 28, 2012 ~ On Now >> Art Sync
Daisuke Takeya’s new installation, God Loves Japan, reaches to MoCCA’s ceiling: the approximate height, in some residential areas, of the tsunami that dominoed the devastation […]
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Art Exhibit at Maritime Museum Honours Tsunami Relief Effort By Amy Smart ~ TIMES COLONIST, June 19, 2014
Inflatable plastic cones hang from the backpack Daisuke Takeya is wearing; they fill with air using a smartphone-sized solar panel powering a fan inside. Fake […]
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Kinds of Relief on Field Trip Project Asia’s take on the randoseru as relief carrier By JoJo Soria De Veyra ~ diskurso, Filipino art magazine on line, November 23, 2015
ON the third day, November 14, 2015, of the Field Trip Project Asia: Philippines exhibition at UP Vargas Museum, diskurso.com interviewed Japanese-Canadian artist Daisuke Takeya […]
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GOD Loves Japan by Ewan Whyte By Ewan Whyte
Daisuke Takeya’s God Loves Japan is a commemorative installation work honouring the memory of the devastating tsunami in north eastern Japan on March 11, 2011. The title […]
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Daisuke Takeya GOD Loves Japan By Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (MOCA Toronto)
“I think the book is almost more fun to read if you don’t speak Japanese or know any Japanese characters — you have to work […]
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GOD Loves Japan Raises Awareness About Japan’s Recovery Efforts By J.C. Wén ~ March, 2012 ~ Review section, Nikkei Voice
“I feel sorry to ask you, but can you kneel down?” Daisuke Takeya pointed toward a spot on the floor. Inside his closet-sized wooden shack, […]
Continue readingLe Petite Canadian Art Collection launched!!!
I sort of started collecting Canadian art. It is paralleled to my creative process of art making … Artist actually spending money to buy art […]
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GOD Loves Japan – Installation by Daisuke Takeya By Sang Kim ~ March 6, 2012~ Toronto To Japan: Hope Blossom
As we approach the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake/tsunami in Japan, Daisuke Takeya’s latest installation, GOD LOVES JAPAN, keeps the memories of that time top […]
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Aesthetic 999 by Shelia Heti
Originally conceived and conducted in 1999 by Sheila Heti. To learn what artists think about how they work and discover what contemporary artists share. Name: […]
Continue readingLight from 311/ Kesennuma: Official project poster painting
January 1st, 2012, solitary in my Rosedale residence. It has been good so that I can focus on my commission paintings overdue from Christmas. One […]
Continue readingDaisuke Takeya and Contemporary Poetic Sentiment By Fumio Nanjo, Former Director of Mori Art Museum
I first met Daisuke Takeya in Toronto. At that time, he brought with him an installation work that fit into a suitcase and some material […]
Continue readingKara By Gordon Hatt, the Executive Director at CAFKA – Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area
When Daisuke Takeya asked me if I would talk about his work on the occasion of his exhibition at the Japan Foundation here in Toronto, […]
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with Vernon Regehr
Performed on Saturday, September 10 2011, at Bianca’s, St. John’s, NewFoundland and Labrador, Canada. Live painting with cellist Vernon Regehr, accompanying the opening of “No. w. here,” an exhibition of landscape paintings at James Baird Gallery.
Continue readingArt Show to Benefit Victims of Japan Earthquake & Tsunami By Farhana Uddin ~ March 28, 2011 ~ THE TORONTO OBSERVER
The last two weeks have been hectic for Toronto-based artist Daisuke Takeya. His work schedule has changed rather significantly since an earthquake and tsunami devastated […]
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Clara Venice is a Fiddler Diva on the Roof!
One evening on the rooftop of a house in Yorkville … ex- punk cultural hip area now a Toronto’s high-end neighourhood with fashion boutiques and […]
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