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Gallery News - Interview article of galerie nichido Taipei Director Sachiko Iwase by《BLOUINARTINFO》
December 18, 2015
Veteran Japanese Dealer Galerie Nichido Opens New Gallery in Taipei
text/ Darly Wee
While many well-established contemporary art galleries have been opening offices and outposts in the booming Asian art centers of Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, and Singapore in recent years, it is fairly rare to see foreign-owned galleries making headway into Taipei’s relatively small gallery scene.
One recent newcomer to Taiwan hopes to change that. Galerie Nichido, founded in Tokyo in 1928 and widely regarded as the most established dealer of modern art in Japan, has just opened a new space in Taipei, which joins its stable of other galleries in Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Paris.
The Taipei gallery opened in late October, just before this year’s Art Taipei, with an inaugural exhibition entitled “Taiwan and Japanese Masters of Modern Art,” which runs through January 16, 2016. Featuring Takeji Fujishima,Saburosuke Okada, Ryuzaburo Umehara, Sotaro Yasui, Zenzaburo Kojima, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the show highlights the close affinities between modern painters from both Taiwan and Japan, where many aspiring young Taiwanese artists received their formative art education.
Galerie Nichido Taipei is led by director Sachiko Iwase, who assumes her new appointment alongside her directorship of the Tokyo-based nca | nichido contemporary art, which was founded in 2001 as a subsidiary of the main gallery dealing in contemporary artists. BLOUIN ARTINFO recently caught up with Ms. Iwase to discuss the gallery’s latest expansion, as well as their upcoming plans to engage more fully with the shared art histories and heritage of modern painting in Asia.
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