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10th OASIS 2005
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Dates
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Support
Cooperation
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：May 27 to 29, 2005
：Twin 21 Bldg., Osaka Business Park (Japan)
：OASIS Executive Committee
：Agency for Cultural Affairs / Osaka Prefectural Government / Osaka City / Osaka UNESCO Association / Embassy of Spain in Japan / Kansai Korea Cultural & Public Relations Institute, Consulate-General of the Republic of Korea in Osaka / Direction du Tourisme et des Congres de Monaco (Monaco Tourist and Convention Authority) / Korea Tourism Organization / Consulate-General of France in Osaka-Kobe
：A.M.S.C. Spain / A.M.S.C. France / Chung-Jo Fine Arts Group (South Korea) / Ambassade International des Arts (France) / Festival International d'Art Monaco - Cote d’Azur Executive Committee (France)
：REIJINSHA Co., Ltd.
：Alfonso Gonzalez-Calero / Sakae Hasegawa / Ataru Nakano |
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From its 1st holding in 1994 at the Twin 21 Building in Osaka Business Park, the "OASIS" art festival has been an event with the purpose of introducing works from domestic and foreign artists representing the field of contemporary art to a wide audience.
As a new art festival that transcends the bounds of associations and teacher-apprentice, and eliminates genres and borders, knowledge of the existence of OASIS has spread from art lovers all the way to citizens that just happen to pass by.
Welcoming the milestone of its tenth year, the "10th OASIS 2005"
was held over three days from May 27th to 29th. In addition, started
up from 2005 in parallel with the exhibition in Osaka was "OASIS
INTERNATIONAL", an event will make its stage every country in the
world in an attempt to expand the futuristic vision of the original
exhibition's aim of "transmissions from the artists" and "exchanges
through art" |
Held in Seoul, South Korea, the first international event, "2005
OASIS INTERNATIONAL in KOREA", was officially recognized by
the Japan-South Korea Friendship Year 2005 Executive Committee,
chaired by the painter Ikuo Hirayama, as a commemorative project
of the "Japan-South Korea Friendship Year 2005" and the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs became a major pillar of those activities.
At the opening ceremony on the first day of the exhibition, a congratulatory
address from Mayor Jun-ichi Seki of Osaka City, which has supported
OASIS every year, was read by the Director of Culture Kyosaku Fujita,
and a congratulatory telegram from Governor Fusae Ota of Osaka Prefecture,
a similar support of the event, was introduced as well.
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Visiting Japan from abroad were exhibiting artists
from the "Ambassade Internationale des Arts" group of
southern France and the "Chung-Jo Fine Arts Group" of
South Korea, while from Europe there were artists representing
contemporary Spain, and these participants gave the exhibition
suitable content for its 10th anniversary exhibition.
Along with overall supervisor Alfonso
Gonzales-Calero Gonzales, Josiane Allegri-Vignal (chairperson
of Ambassade Internationale des Arts), and Yang Kye Tak (president
of South Korea's Chung-Jo Fine Arts Group), who all visited Japan,
art critics Sakai Hasegawa and Ataru Nakano circled the venue
and, while politely appreciating each work one by one, offered
brief reviews of the work to the exhibiting artists who were at
the hall.
Interpreters enabled opinions to be exchanged between the artists
and the invited guests from abroad, and this has become a major
mainstay to future creative activities of all the exhibitors.
Year after year, the color of international exchange at the OASIS
art exhibition is becoming stronger and stronger, and we expect
it to do so on into the future. |
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