Harigai also talked about his thought for “60 Football Visions”. “This project had artists both who like football and also who are not really interested in it, but all of them simply enjoyed the cube representation with football, as an artwork. Having this easy-to-understand subject, I also would like people who had never had contact points with us to see the works in this exhibition. For Public/image., this is the first attempt to collaborate with corporations in such large scale. I would like to continue trying to join together such unexpected points.”

A director of KDDI DESIGNING STUDIO, Natsuko Kimura said, “I could feel empathy with this interesting attempt, which was not held to the frame of NWBA and NIKE. I, also as KDDI DESIGNING STUDIO, would like to value the space of communication art.”

At the same time as the start of the exhibition, “60 Football Visions auction” at “au auction” has also been launched. You can get the exhibits in “au auction”, and all 60 works have been exhibited for 4 weeks, by 15 works each. The most popular work during the first week was one by “Schnabel Effects” who is flourishing in many genres as an illustrator and an artist.

Each football piece is very unique as it is designed by artists from various fields. Because different aspects are seen in the balls depending on angle, it catapults you into watching from all directions. People can participate in the auction to get the exhibits, and also see all works by 60 groups of famous creators at one place. It might be one of the aims of this project that you can feel the close distance between visitors and creators.

60 FOOTBALL VISIONS
Date: June 9th – July 14th, 2006
Place: KDDI DESIGNING STUDIO
Address: 4-32-16 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
https://public-image.org/60FootballVisions/