Kunst 05 Zürich: Capsule Gallery (2005) (r2)

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Capsule Gallery is based in Chelsea, New York, with a focus on japanese artists. Jeffrey is showing us his booth at the Kunst 05 Zürich art fair. For further information: www.capsulegallery.com. November 17, 2005.

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00:00 Okay, so you are Jeffrey, the gallery owner of Capsule Gallery.

00:07 Yes, Capsule Gallery.

00:08 And it's New York based?

00:10 We're in New York in Chelsea.

00:12 We tend to show emerging young artists or even older artists.

00:18 Heavy influence of Japanese artists as well.

00:24 Shinichiro Kitaura.

00:30 What would you like to know about us?

00:32 You said you have Japanese artists?

00:37 Shinichiro Kitaura, Tsukasa Yokozawa, Take Kanayama.

00:44 Is this by coincidence?

00:48 I've been in Tokyo for five years.

00:50 I also think that what the West knows of Japanese art is all wrong.

00:56 Murakami, aka Murakami, just isn't what's happening in Japan.

01:01 Never has been, never will be.

01:03 That's very interesting because in the newspapers here, Murakami is always the Japanese.

01:09 Do you know Mark Kastabi?

01:12 He's the bad artist from the 90s.

01:15 Murakami is the same. He's the Japanese version.

01:18 Just two pieces.

01:20 Yoshitomo Nara. None of that has ever really happened in Japan.

01:24 It happens outside of Japan because foreigners are ignorant and can't argue any criticality with him.

01:32 But when he came to Yale to speak, they asked him a lot of hard questions and he just fell apart.

01:38 He said, "Oh, I don't know." He said it in Japanese.

01:42 So we asked him the questions in Japanese.

01:45 So you try to fix this image of Japanese art.

01:50 Or at least offer another view.

01:53 That's interesting.

01:55 The Japanese are very happy. Majima also.

01:59 So on your website, we can certainly see the artists you present?

02:04 Yes. We have a few more than on our website.

02:08 He'll be having a show with us next month.

02:11 Very good. So we will certainly put a link on our website to your website.

02:17 So everyone can have a look at it.

02:20 Great.

02:22 Did you have already time to visit Zurich, the city?

02:25 Yesterday.

02:27 Yesterday?

02:28 It's my first time here. I usually go to Turkey.

02:30 Okay. And did you like what you saw?

02:33 So far. It's a little small.

02:36 I can understand.

02:38 I work in Turkey, so everything is small.

02:41 Of course. It's not for us, too.

02:44 (audience laughing)

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