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Fourth Annual
Japanese Young Artists’ Book Fair
On view
February 21 – March 7, 2010

Printed Matter, Inc. is pleased to announce its participation in the fourth annual Japanese Young Artists’ Book Fair, which takes place at various sites throughout New York City from February 21 – March 7, 2010. Printed Matter is located in New York City at 195 Tenth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd Street).

Sponsored by Tokyo-based gallery Pepper’s Projects, the Japanese Young Artists' Book Fair features a wide range of handmade books by over 100 artists. This year’s selection includes intricately hand-sculpted paper multiples and book objects, with a particular emphasis on the mapping of space through drawing and and the collection and cataloging of specimens. The artists featured at Printed Matter are Saori Yamamoto, Kyoko Matsunaga, Tomomi Kanno, Mayuka Shimizu, Yuri Aida, Kiyo Tanaka and Eric Rolland Bellagamba, and Chinatsu Torii.

The other venues of the fair are Kinokuniya bookstores and St. Marks Bookshop. A concurrent exhibition of emerging Japanese artists, OTHER PAINTING, will take palce at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. This is the fourth year that Printed Matter has participated in the Japanese Young Artists’ Book Fair.

Since 1998, PEPPER'S PROJECT has organized a large number of themed exhibitions to present the work of young Japanese artists working in a variety of genres and media. In 2006, the gallery began organizing exhibitions in various cities outside of Tokyo as part of its outreach programming and the Japanese Young Artists' Book Fair is an extension of this mission.