With August just a few weeks away, the new Roppongi Complex group of galleries is running its last shows before the O-bon break and the October debut of their raison d'etre (location-wise) -- the Mori Art Museum, which will be Japan's largest contemporary art space.
The good news is that it appears the Complex galleries have now settled into their new digs quite well. There is even a sort of street scene developing around the twin five-story buildings that house the dozen or so Complex galleries, offices and ateliers. Not a terribly big scene, but when I visited last week for an Ota Fine Arts vernissage, people were popping in and out of the different spaces and milling around outside. That's something Tokyo has lacked since the demise of the Sagacho Building in November last year.
Currently, the Taro Nasu is showing gallery-regular Peter Pommerer; Rontgenwerke has a group show titled "Landschaft"; and storefront space Ota is looking good with a tidy exhibition of recent and new works by three artists in their late 30s and early 40s -- Korean Choi Jeong Hwa; Surasi Kusolwong of Thailand; and Tsuyoshi Ozawa of Japan.