Beautiful materials

from Japan

-Japanese Jade, Corals, Akoya Pearls-

October 7th Friday - October 15th Saturday

Opening Reception : October 8th 4:00- 6:00pm

With the theme, “Beautiful Materials from Japan,” the accessory brand, Matsuyoi has been exhibiting their products over ten years in Paris and London, and getting attention not only in Japan but also in European countries. This time, at Haco -project space- in Brooklyn, is the very first time for Matsuyoi to showcase their beautiful concepts and products in New York City.

The Matsuyoi creates accessories with natural materials originated in Japan, and inspired by Japanese endemics; the national stone of Japan, Itoigawa Jade, extremely precious and the most symbolic stone of Japan from Niigata prefecture, the red and the pink coral from Kochi prefecture, and the Uwajima Akoya Pearl, cultivated in the beautiful cobalt sea by the coast of Ehime prefecture where is know as the Seto inland Sea of Shikoku.  

Featured Gems

Itoigawa Jade : from Niigata prefecture 

The national stone of Japan, the designated jewel of the country. The Itoigawa Jade is also well known for its sturdiness, and difficulties for processing, often referred to as the hard ball. Since ancient times, this stone has continually appeared in Japanese mythological literature, undoubtedly the most symbolic, well respected stone in Japanese culture.

Oxblood Red Coral : Kochi prefecture

Oxblood red coral is an extremely rare species, originated in Japan.  They tend to inhabit the shallow side of the coast, the depth roughly between 100 meters to 350 meters.   Their varied colors such as red, pink and white are the signature of the oxblood red coral, which make them exceptionally charming.

Akoya Pearls : from Uwajima city, Ehime prefecture

Uwajima city in Ehime is famous for the highest amount of pearl production in Japan.  It takes two years to grow pearls. The pearl production operates under incredibly strict regulation, carefully cultivated to maintain their fine quality without damaging the harmony of nature. The beautiful pearls are proof of the purity and richness of the natural environment and the dedication of their producers. 

Upcoming Event

Get your one-of-a-kind

Jewelry with Mystic Gems from Japan

October 9th Sunday 12:00-5:00 pm

Please Come join us for the Matsuyoi’s one day special order made session

Pick your own selections of precious 100 % natural Gems originated in Japan ; Jade, Corals and Akoya pearls from the fabulous Matsuyoi collections, and turn them into your own Jewelry!

The Matsuyoi stuff will accemble your choices right on the spot, you could go home with your own precious jewelry then.  First come, first served! Don’t miss out on this special occasion.

• No reservation required
  

Collage Workshop

With artist

Carola

Bermúdez

This workshop is designed to explore materials, various techniques, and experiment how our mind could speak visually. Let the exploration guide you to the limitless ideas, and their processes and concept.

Classes are open for :

• participants w/out experiences

• Advanced participants who like to explore creative improvisation

All participants works are invited to a group Exhibition at HACO during this August

4 Class Session : $200.00

+ Material fee $30.00

• Wednesday evening 6:30-7:45pm

  June 1, 8, 15, 22

• Sunday Afternoon 11:00-12:15pm

  June 5, 12, 19, 26

About carola Bermúdez

Carola Bermúdez, native of Valparaiso, Chile moved to New York City to pursue her passion, art in various forms, dance, drawing, and ceramics. Those were the elements that irresistibly kept her inspired and creative while she was growing up, and her career now as an artist surpassed two decades. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with double majors in Studio Art and Modern Dance at Hunter college, then a Master’s degree in Art Education at New York University while she continued to explore her art in the medium of ceramic sculpture and collage. In the meanwhile, she has been teaching art at numerous schools in New York City.

Continuing to Create Tradition

By Aizu Hongouyaki Association

December 9th - December 23rd 2021

ABOUT:

Aizu hongouyaki is a 400-year-old traditional craft originating from Aizumisato, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Aizumisato is blessed with natural resources, where the earth is uncommonly filled with both clay and stone. Thanks to this unique abundance of materials, unlike most kiln sites in Japan, potters in Aizumisato are able to produce both ceramic (clay) and porcelain (stone) creations.

At the peak production period, the town flourished with over 100 kiln owners. Today, there are 13 remaining kiln owners continuing to practice aizu hongouyaki. United by their craftsmanship and region, the kiln owners formed the “Aizu Hongouyaki Association” with the mission to continue to create tradition—bold when adopting and refining their techniques and styles in reaction to the changes in time and generations. 

HACO is honored to represent the 12 of the 13 kiln owners for the first time in New York City and to present Aizu hongouyaki with the goal to continue tradition by taking inspiration from the past, and leaving them as heritage for tomorrow. 

HACO is excited to host the exhibition, Continuing to Create Tradition from December 11thto December 23rd, 2021. We invite guests to see, touch, and feel the passion the Aizu Hongouyaki Association brings toward this hidden tradition that roots us to our past, and strives to move us forward into the future together.

August 7th - September 4th / 2021

Opening Reception Friday the August 13th 5:00-8:00pm

HACO is pleased to present the group show, “On the other side,” from August 7th to September 4th, 2021. In-person opening reception will take place on Friday, August 13th, from 5:00-8:00 pm.

When we listen to a good record, we all know that it is not complete until we hear both sides. The previous group show at HACO, “In the meanwhile,” played a beautiful harmony. Now it’s time to listen to  “On the other side,” the second part of the show.

Featured Artists ;

  Jimbo Blachly                

  Al Diaz    

Alejandro Epifanio 

Gaspar Guerra    

Marchello Im   

Jeananne Lynch

Miwa Koizumi

Shie Moreno

Kenichi Nakajima

Doug Reina

Devon Reina

Toni

Eliézer Berrios     

In this exhibition, 13 artists continuously express their relation to the concept of time which we often wonder about.  The featured artists’ works share their poetries, stories, and experiences through various mediums, such as drawings, paintings, prints, photography, and sculpture.

The body of works in this show also brings powerful statements based on a personal and honest dialogue. When a vulnerability is genuine, it undoubtedly transforms into a strength that speaks out loud. 

In the midst of a constant journey of our own, life keeps ongoing and it is never reversible.  Especially after such a distorted period of time that we all experienced during this pandemic, this show stands for reconnecting with the present and to support a welcoming future, as life must go on.  Tune into “the other side” of the record where you find melodies you would always like to remember.

Group Exhibition

In the meanwhile…

6/17 - 7/25 / 2021

Opening Reception 6/26 Saturday 3:00-6:00

HACO is pleased to present the group show, “in the meanwhile” from June 17th to July 25th in 2021. In-Person opening reception will take place on Saturday, June 26th from 3:00-6:00pm.

In this exhibition, the group of artists express their relation to the continuous present which, oftentimes, everyone wonders - “the time” - in the meanwhile of their own journey. Life is always onward, never reversible.  We are in the constant midst of our own journey with or without the external uncertainty.  

The featured 12 artists’ works share their own poetries, stories and experiences through multi medium; drawings, paintings, prints and sculpture to invite the viewers to rekindle the connection to the present moment which significantly had swept away from all of us. 

The artworks bring inevitable confrontation through their personal and dense dialogue, yet they genuinely invite the viewers to perhaps reflect upon themselves on the uncertain time which we all have gone through on our own meanwhile.

Featured Artists;

Calora Bermúdez       

COCO144       

Diogenes Ballwster       

Josué Guarionex

Jason Nickel   

Kaname Higa      

Mario Tauchi

Melissa Calderón

Palén Obesa

Pepe Coronado

René De los Santos     

Yoko Suetsugu

Performing Art by Yoshiko Chuma

&

The school of hard knocks

presents

KINETIC MIRRORS PORTRAITS AND BEYOND

Portraits by Elizabeth Kresch

February 7th, 8th, 9th

Opening Reception:February 7th 5:00-7:00 pm

About

Yoshiko Chuma

is a dancer, a choreographer, and the director of the New York Dance and Performance Awards (Bessie Award) winning performance art group, The school of Hard Knocks. She has been a fixture of New York’s downtown scene for over a quarter century. Chuma favors abstract art, and often time speculated as a postmodern choreographer, movement designer, or a visual artist whose primary medium is human beings ; dancers, musicians, pedestrians.

Schedules& tickets

3D live show

producer : Yoshiko Chuma Video grapher : Andrew Kim

Paintings by Elizabeth Kresch

$18.00 Advanced Ticket available at eventbrite

$20.00 at door (cash)

2/7 Friday 8:00pm (7:00 At the door)

Dancers : Miriam Parker, Zaybra

Musician : Vevin Brahja Waldman

2/8 Saturday 8:00 pm (7:00 at the door) & 8:45pm

Dancers : Chip Chapin, Marita Abril

Musician : Jason Kao Hwang

2/9 Sunday 5:30 pm (4:30 at the door) & 6:15pm

Dancers : Ursula Eagly, Ryuji Yamaguchi

Musician : Christoper McIntyre

DRENCH

A group Show

October 5th - November 9th

Opening Reception : October 12th Saturday 6:00-9:00

Amanda Nedham

Benny BonTempo

Josué Guarionex

Yoko Suetsugu

HACO is pleased to present Drench, a group exhibition by New York based artists Amanda Nedham (CAN), Benny BonTempo (USA), Josué Guarionex (PR), and Yoko Suetsugu (JPN). The exhibition brings together four artists from different parts of the world who are all working within the deep present, and who simultaneously exist within two landscapes; working within the constraints of the status quo, while simultaneously imagining alternative realities through the cultivation of belief systems that draw from personal history. Through their work, these artists acknowledge the rapidly changing political climate and have come up with individual strategies for holding time. All methods centre on reimagining the potential for transformative experiences within the context of the everyday and use objects as talismans to facilitate these micro transgressions. Drench suggests a complete and poetic immersion within a new way of looking, inviting the viewer to give themselves over to the manipulations of sensual technologies by the artists. Sculpture, painting, projection, and installation all meet in this exhibition, expressing the potential that exists within radical stillness. 

Though each artist draws from a different philosophical approach they all equally embrace the notion that we can affect the nature of our environment  and through art attempt to harmonize with our surroundings. 

Amanda Nedham

Nedham started to research the history of peacekeeping and embarked on a series of drawings and text from a roving imaginary-ghost peacekeeping partner that helps her explore the dark side. 

Based on that, she began her most recent project that examines people who existed on the edge of history, conflict, violence and culture, and that are divided into three archetypes: the peacekeeper, the conservationist and the experiencer (alien abductee). These people have all traveled to places away from home, shifting their perspectives and being forced to rethink their moral compass. Through three chairs for communing with the dead who have held these positions and 99 drawings she wants to create a space where we can learn from the dead. Each position intersects with issues around colonialism, conflict, conspiracy, gender and politics. 

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www.amandanedham.com
@anedham

Benny BonTempo

When the artist Benny Merris is creating large-scale wall-based paintings, he goes by his mother’s maiden name: BonTempo.  According to Merris, the forms and vectors in the painting are developed with sensitivity to the shapes, rhythms, and boundaries surrounding it. He utilizes elemental geometric shapes and lines to explore the potentialities and connections between certain features of the wall and its surroundings. This echoing and mirroring can give the viewer a feeling of seeing themselves looking.

@bennymerris

Josué Guarionex

Guarionex strives to fuse his work with the political realities that surround us, ratifying the work of art with the present and embracing the artisan labor that the material offers. Coming from a colonized country and having been raised by a family that was watched by the state because of its political convictions, he has had to discern and analyze his approach in the visual arts, leaving clear the repudiation toward the processes of abuse of power and violation of human rights.

@josue.guarionex

Yoko Suetsugu

Suetsugu finds profound beauty in nature just as she does in art. She believes that nature sends clear signs through elements like colors, shapes, sounds, light, shadow, scents and the force of wind. Signals from nature are limitless and borderless, and so is art. In both forms, we don’t share the same language, but there are forms of silent communication, coexistence, correspondence. She appreciates the freedom of choices and infinite capacity in art where no judgement can possibly apply.

Chihiro ITO

Line to me

8/3 -31 / 2019

Opening Reception August 3rd 5:00-8:00

Line to me…

I paint things that usually exist on a daily basis and create a variety of works that diversify everyday life. 

A year has almost passed since I moved to New York. 

Every now and then, I connected with “not so healthy looking vegetables,” the typical NYC grocery store ones. They gave me energy in a strange way, quietly, but surely. 

I grew a habit of leaving the house way earlier than I needed to in order to deal with the unreliable NYC subway. 

This habit led me to unexpected warm communications with native New Yorkers.  

Even though I’m not capable of having conversations about complicated topics, politics, and explaining my emotions in English yet, I made some friends who patiently listened and genuinely conversated with me, those whom I appreciate every day. 

I think that having them on my side also gave me energy to get by. 

Those days in NY have given me a reason to reflect upon my past, my art, my drawings. 

My works tend to be filled with lines almost overwhelmingly. 

Lines to me have the resemblance of children’s first attempt at drawing, lines which appear in the traditional Japanese paintings, or the scrabbles of random notes. 

There is probably structure in lines. 

Some artists might strive to draw in a two dimensional way. 

I thought of my case carefully. 

And I realized that it is more like A three dimensional notion, like an action similar to digging up objects from the other dimension in order to deliver it to the other side. Having parents who were sculptors possibly influenced me to approach drawing in this way, who knows. 

I’ve spent almost half of my life dedicated to art, facing canvases, paints, my lines, non stop. 

After all, I recognized my method of expression, drawing lines had never really changed. 

I believe it is a result of my experiences with my art, a consistent search for the unexplainable beauty, what art could offer. 

This is my first solo exhibit in NY, with my lines, new works.

Film

screening

8/24/19 6:00 - 8:00

Last Interview Film of Jonas Mekas

version 3

2019 / 20 minutes

The very last film Jonas Mekas ever appeared.

A last gift from Jonas to us.

INTERVIEW: JONAS MEKAS

DIRECTION & FILM: Chihiro ITO

DATA: 14 October 2018

PLACE: Jonas Mekas’s Studio

Save the Last Dance for Me version 2 (2019) about 4mins

DIRECTION & FILM, PAINTING: Chihiro ITO

These films are new edit version for this screening.

and more…

2019 ©Chihiro ITO  

FILM SCREENING

Life

-the untold story of Fukushima Evacuation Zone-

May 31

7:00-9:00

A Documentary Film about

A family

in Fukushima Japan

“Life” is a film about A FAMILY who refused to evacuate from the mandatary evacuation zone when earthquake & tsunami hit Kaihama region in FUKUSHIMA in search of their 2 missing children. Chiaki spent 6 years on this production and was screened at NY Film festival in March, HACO hosted a director’s talk to support. At this time, we are honored to have the film screening to take a part of delivering the untold & unwanted truth of the disaster at our space

Proceeds of ticket sales will be donated to the characters of the film

-to Live : untold story -

Life

DIRECTED BY CHIAKI KASAI

“It’s ok that things get weathered and forgotten.  And I don’t really wish upon Fukushima to be not forgotten. But what really happened and what really is going on ever since the earthquake has never been told.

That, I can not bear, and hope the truth to be delivered..”

Takayuki Ueno / main character of “Life”

Resident in Minami-Soma, Fukushima

current

Zen & Life

from Fukushima Japan

6/1-6/30

Opening Reception

6/1 7:00-9:00

HACO presents a collection of scroll paintings elaborating Sutra and Zen philosophy from the Soto School of Buddhism from the Antouin temple, active since 1595 in Fukushima.  These scroll paintings will be on view for the first time in America. In addition, the gallery will also showcase three forms of traditional crafts from Fukushima prefecture; pottery, silk and lacquer in order to support them preserve their centuries-long traditional craftsmanship by exposing their exquisite crafts here in NY. Having a special guests, Syunken Yokoyama (17th chief Monk from Antouin temple,) we would also hope to transform the tremendous disaster of the Great Japan Earthquake, the resulting tsunami and nuclear disaster of 2011 into an opportunity to rediscover the concept of healthy lifestyle through the lens of Soto school Buddhism’s concept of ‘Zen’

Why now?

There’s so many unspoken reality of Tsunami victims and residents in Fukushima, 8 years have not done any justice to the struggles they continuously experienced. we believe delivering more realistic insight, unwanted truth is inevitable process for the better future.

In addition, the gallery will also showcase three forms of traditional crafts;

pottery, silk and lacquer from Fukushima prefecture.

The Obori Somayaki pottery- a form of traditional ceramic originated and preserved by twenty kiln Lords through generations were located at Namie town, Futaba, also known as mandatory evacuation zone. Currently, the half numbers of kiln lords restarted and striving their tradition from at where they had to migrate due to the evacuation, and HACO features two kiln Lords, Kyogetu and Matsunaga kiln. The history of Kawamata silk has been more than four centuries, their quality of silk is renowned as "fairy-feather." Attributed Silk company from Kawamata, Saiei has recently been in production with high-end brands in France. The Lacquer from Aizuwakamatsu city has been one of the most proud traditional crafts in Japan. The Urushi ware (Lacquer) product, "MEGURU" is the handcrafted wooden bowl made with extreme dedication to it's touch & feel by artisans from company, Urushi Rock's. With absolute craftsmanship and the tremendous amount of time in their production, Urushi Rock's aim to not only preserve the tradition but to create products that will become of your own family treasure through generations.

The products of Obori Somayaki + Kawamata Silk + Lacquer will be for sale at HACO

Schedules

for

Workshops

6/1/19 Saturday

12:00-12:45

Guest Talk by the Chief Monk of Antouin,  Syunken Yokoyama

“What’s happening in Fukushima Now”

Along with short film screening/ Recitation of letters from both Tsunami & great earthquake victims

-Donation are welcome-

1:30-3:30  Workshop : part 1

Hosted by Syunken Yokoyama

Meditation and Traditional Tea ceremony followed by discussion regards to “zen & it’s phyrosophy”   

-$20/person-

4:00-6:30Workshop : part 2

Hosted by Syunken Yokoyama & Masaya Kuratate

Incense making and Meditation followed by a Zen talk

-$30/person (material included)-

6/2/19 Sunday

11:00-11:45

Guest Talk by the Chief Monk of Antouin,  Syunken Yokoyama

“What’s happening in Fukushima Now”

Along with a short film screening/ Recitation of letters from tsunami and earthquake victims.

-Donations are welcome-

1:00-3:00 Workshop : part 1

Hosted by Syunken Yokoyama

Meditation and Traditional Tea ceremony followed by discussion regards to “zen & it’s phyrosophy”   

-$20/person-

4:00-6:00 Workshop : part 2

Hosted by Syunken Yokoyama & Masaya Kuratate

Incense making and  Meditation followed by a  Zen talk

-$30/person (material included)-

EXTENDED TILL 4/7/2019

Mario Mandala

F R O M J A P A N

 Join Us on this exciting opening night

Mario will attempt to take you to his mandala world by painting live along with music performance by Justin Simon..!

Let’s explore the mandala world!

Justin Simon has released music as invisible conga people labels such as DFA, IDIB, O genesis, Permanent Vacation, and more. He also releases music by Japanese musicians including Phew, Chie Mukai, and Shintaro Sakamoto on his mesh-key imprint, and has composed scores for the choreographers Donna Uchizono, Mei-Yin Ng, and Gloria Maximo.

 A Literary Evening

with Evergreen

www.evergreenreview.com

March 8 2019

6:30-8:30

HACO is incredibly excited to host an evening filled with remarkable authors & their stories.  Guided by Dale Peck, editor-in-chief of the Evergreen, three phenomenal authors, Lisa Dierbeck, Joyce Johnson, and Minerva Martínez will be there sharing their works with us.  Please come join us for this amazing occasion, and enjoy this story-full evening with some glasses of wine..

No RSVP is required, but limited seats,

*Special  thanks to Mario Tauchi & John Oakes for making this event possible

About Evergreen

Founded in 1957, the Evergreen Review quickly came to be known as the "heart of the beats" and was famous for its commitment to the avant-garde. It was revived in 2017 as an online publication

The light shines in the dark. Shadow can only appear in the presence of light.

Such a destined relationship within the dichotomy, yet correspondent, codependent.

What if the world is keeping its balance with light and shadow?

Front & Back

Day & Night

Life & Death…

Both sides coexist simultaneously but never meet at the same place.

Each end always has a different view, sometimes defining exactly where you are standing...   

Acknowledging the existence of both sides helps us understand our limited capacity of being one-sided.

If you could let go of the fear towards the unknown, life might end up taking you somewhere unexpected. A place called the other side, where you have never imagined to be.   

I believe we all have light & shadow inside of us.

Why don’t we let that thin line between light & shadow within ourselves break?

You might be surprised by what you find on the far end of your own shadow. 

Witness the hope that light is willing to bring, and find out what the shadow wishes you to see.

sizzle Ohtaka

Invited Artists:

Sizzle ohtaka with Takayuki Fujimoto

Neon o’clock works: Sayaka Maruyama & tomihiro Kono

Coco 144

al diaz

pepe coronado

Palén Obesa

Kaname higa

yoko suetsugu

Coronado printstudio + HACO presents

Hand Print Making Workshop

September 30th

2:00-5:00pm

Within the course of 3 hours workshop, participants could create prints based on their choices from screenprint / monoprint / relief / form / and, or rubber blocks with black water and soy base inks… We got all materials for you, just bring your ideas..!

absolutely kids friendly

Coronado Printstudio www.coronadoprintstudio.com

Rooted in the philosophy of creating art in the community, the Coronado Printstudio is not only a fine art printmaking studio, but a space where artists can shed boundaries and barriers to engage in open dialogue around history, identity, and important issues of our time.

Pepe Coronado, the master printer at the studio, believes that “printmaking, by nature, is a collaborative medium. It’s a community-oriented art form.” Based on this principle, Pepe founded the studio in 2006, and in 2015 relocated to the vibrant neighborhood of East Harlem. The Studio believes in collaboration because it believes that voices and stories are most powerful when seen and heard collectively. 

the way i see it 

H A C O presents

collections from Coronado printstudio

This exhibition investigates beyond the disassociation and limitations of an individual with their gender, race, ethnicity or any other concept attributed to them because of their culture, religion or title, while embracing the idea of detachment to objectivity or a right answer with each piece. 

The audience has the opportunity to experience the artists’ voices and the scenery they are looking at as collaborators. Each artist presents their work in ways that might be crude and literal, ambiguous or abstract, poetic, tangible or intangible; and yet the color of their voices does not affect the endless number of impressions each person can experience by looking at these works. 

Simulating the idea of the collaborative process of printmaking and the showcase of various artists in a group show, The Way I See It encourages the viewer to acknowledge their individuality as it is, and embrace it with each decision, instead of striving to belong to anyone but themselves.  

The theme of this show revolves on the idea of people’s ability to coexist with each other independently, analyzing their thoughts in order to discover their purpose. They travel together and make different stops to follow their own paths while still riding collectively in the same one-way train. 

  Magnetismo    Espiritual

Spiritual Magnetism

Shie Moreno

Shie Moreno’s early years were spent in a Havana society in the throes of a Stalinist period amid the decaying splendor of a once grand city. At 8 he endured a crowded, nightmare passage forever known as the Mariel boatlift. He arrived in a hostile city to a foreign culture. The family quickly moved to Los Angeles and then, years later, returned to Miami.

The harsh bright light of the tropics, the intensity of color, the forced blindness of night in a crowded vessel, the elements, the sense of drifting and of place, all served to forge the sensibility of an artist.

Marrying the strength of titles and the formalism of calligraphy Shie Moreno brings dust to life with the breath of a divine creator in the form of pigment to canvas or other media on the surface to hand.

The artist has summoned forces and unleashed them as animating spirits, elementally free and giving freely. Shie Moreno is a living tendril connecting ancient spirituality, the fecund tropics and contemporary American art.

Any artist, particularly one as attuned as Shie, is also an instrument subject to the confluence of diverse energies; cultural, geographic, temporal and those not subjugated to the constraints of time.

The artist is not hindered by material constraints; any surface and material will do for creating expression. Paint, collage, tar, marker, wax, aerosol, keepsakes and even fire will be used to create a surface effect on canvas, wood, paper or glass. An earnest examination of color, letter forms and composition inform the work. This leads to Shie Moreno as an inventor of forms, ever expanding the techniques and range of his expression.

ARTIST TALK

oral meanderings, memories and anecdotes

6/3/2018 Sun. 4:00-6:00

The artist Al Diaz, the other half of the legendary graffiti Duo, SAMO © with Jean Michel Basquiat. The graffiti that took over Lower Manhattan from 1977 to 1979 as SAMO © was initially known for its wit, sarcastic humor, and poetry, eventually recognized world wide.  Al Diaz, an influential first generation NYC graffiti artist from NYC has never stopped creating art, sending the massages to the world and his career span is now 5 decades...! At this time, he is going to be here at HACO to talk about such incredible journey through/with his career as an artist, also as a person, and his friendship with Basquiat and their good SAMe Old days...

photo by Natalya Maystrenko

WAITING

4

A CLUE

-paper, paint, and tin panels-

5/12/2018 - 6/10/2018

opening reception 5/12/18 4:00-6:00

VEGESUSHI WORKSHOP by SOUGEN ICHIZUMI

ABOUT VEGESUSHI

SOUGEN ICHIZUMI

from Hoxai Kitchen

Hoxai Kitchen ; Creative Collective SoUgen(designer) & his crew

VEGESUSHI, created for the health-conscious, for those who can’t, don’t eat fish or simply enjoy vegetables. It is a new style of sushi conceptualized by Hoxai Kitchen, artist Sougen Ichizumi. VEGESUSHI is based on KYOTO’s vegetarian culture and traditional rectangular-shaped pressed sushi. Colorful & seasonal vegetables, delicately cooked, and decorated.  Those sushi blocks are served like cakes and awaits to be shared.

The first recipe book, “VEGESUSHI” is a bestseller in Japan, Sougen and his culinary crew such as Chef Kei, and vegetable sommelier Juno are celebrated, their workshop have been a huge success in Paris, Berlin, Bangkok, Tokyo.

This is the very first time the VEGESUSHI workshop is coming to NY.

Not only the experience for exhibition by Legendary Graffiti Artist, Al Diaz, “WAITING 4 A CLUE,” but the delightful sushi making with Sougen Ichizumi awaits you at HACO   

GET your inspiration stimulated, and ENJOY the taste of VEGESUSHI!

February 10 to March 10, 2018

COCO 144
wRITE

Sat, Feb 10, 2018 6:00 PM  
Sat, Mar 10, 2018 7:00 PM

COCO 144 / Roberto Gualtieri

Roberto Gualtieri is a native New Yorker and a pioneer of the subway aerosol movement.  In Late 1969 he began writing his name on the streets, then the subways.  In 1972 he innovated the use of the stencil, allowing him to paint his unique style citywide.

COCO transitioned from subway writing onto canvas and cofounded the collective United Graffiti Artists (UGA).  In 1973, he introduced subway aerosol writing in groundbreaking show at the Razor Gallery in Soho.  This pivotal event shifted the public's perception of graffiti and ushered in a new art form that would become a global cultural phenomenon.

Coco's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Artists Space in New York City, The Ninth Biennial in Havana, Cuba, The Cartier Foundation in Paris, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, Colorado.

COCO 144 currently lives and paints in New York City

January 20th & 27th 2018

PUPPET MAKING WORKSHOP

WITH Kurt Zager

• Saturday, January 20th & 27th 2018
• 2:00 PM  6:00 PM

Puppet Making  workshop

We will be making puppet with paper mache technique instructed by Fine artist, Kurt.  $10.00 / person, Materials are included.  On your first workshop, you get to make models with paper mache.  Following Saturday, 27th, we will meet again to paint and decorate the puppets to complete.  limited seats, please register via email "cruise@haconyc.com" include your name / numbers of peops / phone number.   

YOUR INSTRUCTOR : Kurt Zager

Native New Yorker, Fine arts painter working in oil on canvas with a focus on portraiture.  Also have various experiences with many decorative art projects including mural, painted stain glass, hand painted wall papers, paper mache, photography.

Dec 9 - Jan 7, 2018

AQUVII
TOKYO POP-UP

HACO presents a POP-UP store with "Aquvii," a concept store based in Tokyo that specializes in one-of-a-kind gifts and clothing.  

On this Holiday season, Aquvvi brings their selection of HOT STUFF from Tokyo and hopes that you will find THE GIFT for yourself and for those near and dear ...

WATCH OUT!

Aquvii Tokyo is a concept store and a fashion brand in Shibuya, Tokyo.  Their shop is filled with various items, rather cynical & odd, which they've proudly collected from not only Japan, but from all over the world - with a touch of "peculiar taste."

This is Aquvii's very first time to set up a POP UP STORE in New York.  

At HACO, we would like to introduce you to their original items (denim clothes, jewelry) along with a dope selection of the latest "cool" items, with some other selected artists' items & brands they've selected from Tokyo.

Oct 29 - Nov 30, 2017

NEON O’CLOCK WORKS
LIGHT IS CALLING

Installation of box collages and experimental short film screenings. All these box collages are driven by innate spirituality and inner necessity.
Time to be unveiled after a 10 year sleep in the back of my closet. 

Light is Calling is NEON O’CLOCK WORKS' first installation exhibition in New York showing their earlier box collages produced in 2006 in Japan, as well as screenings of some experimental short films produced in Tokyo and in London between 2006-2011.  These box collages were originally made to symbolize the energy of human desires in the form of box-shaped coffins,  -  more precisely, female desire for beauty inspired by the history of corsets. Dying for a perfect body of beauty, women suffered from the pain by the act of distorting their body. The complexity of beauty is that it contains not only positive energy, buy it also contains decadence and patience. While the space itself creates a somewhat sacred and solemn atmosphere in the warm lights, the darkness is visible in the light of this installation. 

The pure energy of their creativity filled in each box that has slept for nearly 10 years in the artist’s closet, is now time to awake, and to be unveiled.　

NEON O’CLOCK WORKS

is a creative unit of Sayaka Maruyama and Tomihiro Kono

Driven by innate spirituality, inner necessity, and often by impulsive reaction the world they live in, NEON O'CLOCK WORKS explores the mediums of photography, short films, drawings, installations and books.

For NEON O’CLOCK WORKS, working as a unit means to them as what Carl Jung said : 

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

They also collaborate with other unique artists and performers from all over the world.
Sayaka Maruyama individually works as a photographer / filmmaker and Tomihiro Kono is well-known for his handmade wigs and distinctive head props he creates for artists / musicians / performing artists.