Exhibition

David Coll Blanco: a global eye for joyful irony

Main Bar and Masukomi Sushi.

Dec. 7 - Jan. 10, 2013

When he died at age 39 in September, David Coll Blanco, the talented photographer from Barcelona, left behind many friends from a decade in Japan. David also left behind a body of work worth celebrating: a portfolio remarkable for its warm eye for the joy to be found, ironically, in the most unlikely places.

A selection of images from David's years in Japan (2001-2011), and his explorations of Europe, Asia and the Americas, will be on display in the FCCJ Main Bar. The Club's Masukomi sushi bar will feature images from Onjuku, the Chiba fishing port where he spent his final three years in Japan, living with his wife Mimi and infant daughter Maia (who is now five).

Organized and curated by his friends, with generous support from the Spanish Embassy, Desigual and Due Due, this exhibition is a celebration of warmth and light in the darkest month of the year. At the end of its run, the images will be available for interested collectors, with proceeds going to Maia.

The Exhibitions Committee

PRISM Tokyo 2013 Photo Exhibition by Jasna Boudard

Main Bar and Masukomi Sushi

Nov. 2 - Dec. 6, 2013

The exhibition "Prism" offers a method to view reality from a different perspective. The collection presents women from Europe and America, although they may appear to be from places beyond your imagination. Jasna does not alter reality with photoshop, but rather works with other artists and uses her creative mind to bring a surreal feel to her work. Viewing her photographs is as if looking through a prism, at a rainbow layered with colors, designs, and lights. The prism is thus a means to refract our ordinary vision into a magical one. The images of this exhibition present a dreamlike and poetic twist on portraits in the Main Bar, along with a series on Jasna's world travels in the Masukomi Sushi.

The Shine of Khmer Children (1994 - 2010) Photo exhibition by Saito BAKU

Main Bar and Masukomi Sushi

Oct. 5 - Nov. 01, 2013

Having become embroiled in the war in neighboring Vietnam, civil war broke out in the peaceful Kingdom of Cambodia following the Lon Nol coup d' état in 1970.  Even after the Vietnam War ended, the killing continued in Cambodia, as a result of appalling ethnic cleansing, a war with Vietnam, and internecine conflict between four rival factions.  Peace was finally achieved at the Paris Peace Conference in 1991 and a general election was organized through the efforts of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), establishing a democratic constitutional monarchy under King Sihanouk. The restoration of the monarchy and a policy of reestablishing Khmer culture were adopted in order to imbue the people with a feeling of national pride, and at the same time, the ‘Angkor’ site was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Today, the cities are filled with young people who know nothing of war and whose eyes shine with hope for the future.  These children of Siem Reap, the gateway to the Angkor ruins that has survived the confusion of war and now echoes to the sound of reconstruction, look forward to the rebirth of national pride founded on the former splendor of Khmer culture.  

Saito BAKU