Bouke de Vries (Netherlands,1960) started to elaborate in 2008 sophisticated sculptures. As he developed over the past twenty years the highest skills, and worked as a ceramic conservator and restorer, he also collected sculptures, fragments and often broken and discarded pieces. De Vries built through his practice a certain penchant for the romanticism of stories and History, with a baroque humour and flamboyant culture but always with distance and conceptual accuracy.

Since 2009, de Vries has had many solo and group exhibitions in Europe, as well as a striking collaboration with Grayson Perry. Pieces is the first solo show of the artist in Japan and this opportunity is certainly the occasion for de Vries to work on a different scale, without any constraints, and to propose a site specific ensemble that will also set his visual and conceptual vocabulary on a whole new level. The exhibition is the result of a long curatorial process, and cultivated exchanges between the artist and the gallery, and explores specifically one material: industrial glass.

The exhibition Pieces formally echoes Escapade, the Perrine Lievens opening exhibition, and answers the statements of Morgane Tschiember’s Folding Space and Soshi Matsunobe'sDirection of Materials. Pieces will also be the last chapter of Super Window Project in our current location, the last piece of 2007-2010 program, built from drifts, shifts, resonances, paralellisms, oppositions, contradictions, within the context of a project room located on the northern and secluded hills of Kyoto.

Super Window Project will also be a new entry in Artissima 17, presenting our first curated project in Europe, featuring Bouke de Vries, Perrine Lievens, Matsunobe Soshi, Mathieu Mercier, Sandrine Pelletier and Morgane Tschiember.

＊The text provided by Super Window Project.

Opened dates: September 11 - October 24, 2010