When I stepped into the Taro Nasu gallery, I commented that it felt quite spacious — at least, more so than I had expected.
“Maybe for Tokyo,” said Masako Hosoi, the gallery’s director. “But Taro is always trying to make his gallery as small as possible, that’s his theory,” she said, referring to the owner, Taro Nasu, who is also a director. “We can’t be a big gallery just like those in London, Paris, Berlin. We can’t compete with them.”
The Taro Nasu gallery is on the upper level of a four-story building in the heart of Roppongi, an entertainment and business district in Tokyo known for its museums and galleries.
“Taro’s direction is trying to make his project or space as small as possible, so we can do something unique, a little bit away from the commercial mind, or theoretically something authentic,” she said.
Nasu added, “And close relationships with artists are important.”
Some of the artists the gallery represents include the French conceptual artist Pierre Huyghe, the Japanese British visual artist Simon Fujiwara and the British artist Ryan Gander.
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