~ Nikkei Voice, January 4, 2017 Artist Daisuke Takeya discusses his latest exhibition, ‘Breaking the Waves’ and its connection to disaster, recovery and remembrance of […]
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‘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 […]
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, […]
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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 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, […]
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 […]
Continue readingTORONTO’S WINDOW GALLERIES – All you need is love (or How to live in the real world and still be happy) BY Suzanne Farkas ~ YEAR ZERO ONE FORUM: ISSUE#8
(The following is selected excerpts. For the full story, click here.) There’s definitely something happening here. Window Galleries, a quirky Toronto phenomenon of exhibition spaces, is […]
Continue readingNuit Blanche ’07- ELY2 Short Doc Directed By M. J. Di Rocco (film maker/ ASHITA)
This short doc displays the first one hour footage of “Everybody Loves You 2,” Nuit Blanche in 2007 in Toronto (Zone B: curated by Michelle […]
Continue readingDaisuke Takeya at Christopher Cutts By Matthew Purvis ~ JULY 14, 2010 Blog TO ~ Art Agenda
Over at the Christopher Cutts Gallery, I took a trip out of the city without actually leaving. Daisuke’s painting are pillars of delicately overlapping and textured […]
Continue readingEverybody Loves You By Masanobu Ishii ~ Saison Art Program, Sezon Museum of Modern Art
In a city, thousands of strangers exist and have a community life together. So many different languages fly around mixed with an uproar of a […]
Continue readingUntruely, Unmadly, Shallowly in Love By Jennifer Purvis ~ The Japan Times
Daisuke Takeya went to New York to study art in 1989 and got thoroughly sick of being told by everybody and anybody that they loved […]
Continue readingDaisuke Takeya at Christopher Cutts By Terence Dick ~ June 24th, 2010 ~ AKIMBLOG
A different take on the ineffable qualities of that which surrounds us in on display in spades with Daisuke Takeya’s sky portraits at Christopher Cutts. […]
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