Daisuke Takeya

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

by daisukeSeptember 17, 2020September 20, 2020

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

by daisukeSeptember 17, 2020September 20, 2020

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 […]

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‘An artistic transformation through disaster and hope’ By J.C. Wen

by daisukeSeptember 14, 2020September 14, 2020

~ 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

by daisukeSeptember 13, 2020September 13, 2020

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 […]

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Who’s afraid to love Japan? By HEATHER WHITE ~ February 28, 2012 ~ On Now >> Art Sync

by daisukeSeptember 9, 2020September 9, 2020

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

by daisukeJanuary 8, 2016September 12, 2020

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

by daisukeJanuary 8, 2016September 12, 2020

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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with Les AMIS Ensemble

by lucieJuly 15, 2012September 17, 2020

Performed on Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 at Toronto’s Gallery 345 with: Erin Cooper Gay, soprano & horn, Lynn Kuo, violin, and Erika Crinó, piano

with Lynn Kuo

by lucieJuly 7, 2012September 6, 2020

Performed live painting with violinist Lynn Kuo, featuring original composition Interior Design for solo violin by Steven Mackey, at University of Toronto New Music Festival on January 26 2013.

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GOD Loves Japan by Ewan Whyte By Ewan Whyte

by daisukeJune 12, 2012September 12, 2020

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)

by daisukeApril 22, 2012September 12, 2020

“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

by daisukeApril 14, 2012September 12, 2020

“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, […]

Le Petite Canadian Art Collection launched!!!

by daisukeApril 13, 2012September 3, 2020

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

by daisukeMarch 9, 2012September 12, 2020

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

by daisukeFebruary 27, 2012September 12, 2020

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: […]

Light from 311/ Kesennuma: Official project poster painting

by daisukeJanuary 2, 2012September 3, 2020

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 […]

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Daisuke Takeya and Contemporary Poetic Sentiment By Fumio Nanjo, Former Director of Mori Art Museum

by daisukeOctober 24, 2011September 12, 2020

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 […]

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Kara By Gordon Hatt, the Executive Director at CAFKA – Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area

by daisukeOctober 22, 2011September 12, 2020

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, […]

with Vernon Regehr

by daisukeAugust 21, 2011September 6, 2020

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.