ポル マロ Pol Malo
1999年から、絵画、インスタレーションを制作する、東京の森美術館での「六本木クロッシング」水戸芸術館、東京谷中のScai the Bathhouseと他で作品を展示。その様子は美術手帖やスタジオボイスと他で紹介された。自主音楽レーベル、ギャラリースペースを合わせ持つレコード店「茶柱レコード」を渋谷にて営む。90年代に来日以来、日本滯在は13年を越える。特定の国に属さないトランスナショナルなアーティスト。
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ポル マロ Pol Malo
1999年から、絵画、インスタレーションを制作する、東京の森美術館での「六本木クロッシング」水戸芸術館、東京谷中のScai the Bathhouseと他で作品を展示。その様子は美術手帖やスタジオボイスと他で紹介された。自主音楽レーベル、ギャラリースペースを合わせ持つレコード店「茶柱レコード」を渋谷にて営む。90年代に来日以来、日本滯在は13年を越える。特定の国に属さないトランスナショナルなアーティスト。
instagram @pol_malo_gramme
During formative years in the 1970s and 1980s lived in several countries in Europe, South America and North America. University studies in Comparative Literature and Philosophy. Lives and works in Japan.
Selected Exhibitions
2021
EUREKA gallery, Fukuoka, 「セレクション展2021 ―そこからみえるものー」group exhibition, 2021.9.
EUREKA gallery, Fukuoka, "コレクション展" , group exhibition. 2021.8.
2020
Artas Gallery, Fukuoka, "Nothing", installation, solo exhibition.
Hankyu博多アートステーション「Kyushu New Art」グループ展示
Hankyu Hakata Art Station, "Kyushu New Art", group show.
"Why, (k)not? Kyushu Fragments vol.1", art space tetra, Fukuoka, group exhibition.
Pol Malo "Paintings of the Inner Cave", Poohla, Fukuoka, Japan, solo exhibition.
2009
Kimura Taiyou x Pol Malo, alphaM Project Musashino Art University, Tokyo. Curation Fumihiko Sumitomo.
2007
Pol Malo "Our Sweet Soul Reinventing The World After A Big Shock", Boat People Association (BPA) Floating Platform, Oikebacho Pier, Tokyo, Japan. Curation Hikotaro Kanehira
2005
Variations on a Silence: Project for a Recycling Plant, Re-Tem Plant Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; curated by Setenv, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Pol Malo "Sketchy Pop-Ups", SCAI The Bathhouse (Shiraishi Contemporary Art), Tokyo, Japan. Curation Mutsumi Urano.
Roppongi Crossing-Visons in Contemporary Japanese Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; curation Azumaya Takashi and Mami Kataoka
Out the Window-Spaces of Distraction, The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo. Curation Fumihiko Sumitomo, Suh Jinsuk, Li Zhenhua
Out the Window-Spaces of Distraction, Project Space Zip, Seoul. Curation Suh Jinsuk, Fumihiko Sumitomo, Li Zhenhua
2003
Komorebi, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan. Curation Toshihiro Asai
Korosuna Andepandan 1, Yasu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Curation Kiki Kudo, Noi Sawaragi, Masanori Oda, Yuko Yamamoto
Korosuna Andepandan 2, Labline.TV, Tokyo, Japan; curated by Kiki Kudo, Noi Sawaragi, Masanori Oda, Yuko Yamamoto
2002
Pol Malo "Three Cap-like Objects as the Result of a Situational Mental-Material Cooperative Process", And A Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan . Tokyo Designers Block 2002
Pol Malo "Transient Brain Ecologies: Cracks of Reality", Depot, Tokyo, Japan
Gift: Winter Show, SCAI The Bathhouse (Shiraishi Contemporary Art Inc),Tokyo, Japan
Moving Collection #1 at AIT Hour Museum, Gymnasium of Sakuragawa Elementary School, Tokyo, Japan. Curation Roger McDonald
Moving Collection #2, The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Newplymouth, New Zealand. Curation Roger McDonald
Comorebi Coremobi, art-Link Ueno-Yanaka Special Day, Suwa Shrine, Tokyo. Curation Mutsumi Urano
2000
Phase of Post Music, concert, ICC InterCommunications Center, Tokyo, Japan. Curation Minoru Hatanaka
1997
FM Arts Project, Xebec Hall, Kobe, Japan
Teaching / Artist Residency
2018
Kanazawa Yuwaku Sousaku no Mori Center for Crafts And Culture, Residency, Kanazawa, Japan
2003-2004
Lectures and teaching assistant in seminar by Christophe Charles, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Sound Art/ Music Projects
1999-2006
Cha-Bashira Records, record label, Tokyo
2000-2001
Cha-Bashira Art-Spot and Off-ice, record shop with small exhibition space, Shibuya, Tokyo
Selected Bibliography / Press
2007
Narioi Hajime, Pol Malo- exhibition review, in: BT/Bijutsu Techo, Bijutsu shuppan sha, Tokyo, Japan (April, 2007). p.192
Sumitomo Fumihiko, Pol Malo- exhibitio review, in: DNP Museum Information Japan, DNP Archives.com, Japan (May 2007)
Hara Hisako, Pol Malo's "Ma"[Space], in: Tokion, Japan, no. 59 (April 2007), pp. 154-159. PDF (6MB)
2005
Fukuhara Sakiko, Free Eyes for Art: Pol Malo, in: Dazed & Confused Japan, Tokyo, nr. 40 (September 2005) p.121
Maya Nago, Pol Malo: Is Tokyo Cosmopolitan?, in: High Fashion, Tokyo, Japan, number 304 (August 2005) p.192-193
2004
Kiki Kudo, in: Remix, Autobahn Inc., Tokyo, Japan No. 159 (September 2004) p.116
Minoru Hatanaka, Pol Malo: Sketchy Pop-Ups, in: Fader, Headz, Tokyo, Japan vol.10 (August, 2004), p. 89
Hidenori Kondo, Pol Malo:Sketchy Pop-Ups, in: Art It, Tokyo, Japan Vol.2 No.3 (Summer/Fall2004).P.17
Shinko Suzuki, Anytime Sketchy, in: Studio Voice, Infas, Tokyo Japan Vol.344 (August, 2004). P. 13
Shin Kurosawa and Noi Sawaragi, Pol Malo, in: BT/ Bijutsu Techo, Bijutsu shuppan sha, Tokyo, Japan (February, 2004)
2003
Yuri Shirasaka, Pop Culture, in: Ryuko-Tsushin, Infas, Tokyo Japan Vol.478 (April, 2003)
Hideki Kawahara, Sweet Definance, in: BT/ Bijutsu Techo, Vol.54 No.821, Bijutsu shuppan sha, Tokyo, Japan (June, 2002). Pp.89-93
2000
Minoru Hatanaka, ICC Report, in: InterCommunication, NTT Publishing Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan, No.33(Summer, 2000). P.181
Noda Tsutomu, Pol Malo, in: Ele-King, Vol.31, Tokyo, Japan (June/July 2000). Pp.55-56
1999
Naohiro Ukawa, Cha-Bashira is Standing Today Too, Studio Voice, Infas, Tokyo Japan Vol.287 (November 1999). P. 101
Catalogues
2009
Pol Malo x Kimura Taiyou, Alpha M Project 2008, Musashino Art University; text by Fumihiko Sumitomo
2004
Out The Window, Project Space Zip, Seoul, Korea, March 2004; text by Fumihiko Sumitomo
Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Japan, February 2004, Text by Takashi Azumaya and Kataoka Mami
The Concept of Cognitive Environments, installation text poster, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, February 2004; text by Pol Malo
Out the Window-Spaces of Distraction, Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, Japan, 9 January 2004; text by Fumihiko Sumitomo, pp. 30-31
2003
Komorebi, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan, 9 August 2003; text by Toshihiro Asai. P.8, pp.50-53
Obstacles (In Your Eyes), installation pamphlet, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan, 9 August 2003; text by Pol Malo
2002
Cracks of Reality, installation pamphlet, Depot, Tokyo, Japan; text by Sawaragi Noi
Selected CD Releases
2001
Jasmine, Pol Malo, Cha-Bashira Records, Tokyo, Japan
2000
"The Cooking Errchestra live at ICC", Pol Malo, Yamabe Keiji, Nakahara Masaya, Hariya Shusaku, Cha-Bashira Records, Tokyo, Japan (recording of concert at Phase of Post Music, ICC InterCommunications Center, Tokyo, Japan, curator Minoru Hatanaka).
1999
TeaCoffee - Soundtrack for an unrealized Installation, Cha-Bashira Records, Tokyo, Japan
1999
Right Into The Sun, Orange Head (Pol Malo), Cha-Bashira Records, Tokyo, Japan
Koenji Awa-Odori, Pol Malo, Cha-Bashira Records, Tokyo, Japan (field-recordings)