Thierry Choquard, a photographer living near Monaco, coming to Japan to join in the group exhibition in Osaka, exhibited in Design Festa his latest works “Armoires Cupboard”, in which he photographs the contents of cupboards traditionally inherited for generations in French family. Its concept is to expose the personality and the private life of each owner by opening those usually kept closed. He talked about the attraction of Design Desta as following, “It’s exciting to communicate with the other artists as well as visitors through photos.”

I caught a glimpse of Japanese pop-cultural things such as anime, manga, game, and costume play, and those booths were gathered almost by foreigners. I inexplicably found something a bit novel to see them crying out like “Great!” or “Beautiful!” while looking those works, which they simply think stylish or cool. They seemed to realize the importance of the unprejudiced appreciation of those as one artistic work.

This festival made all the visitors and artists say in the first place “Amusing!” It was filled with pure enjoyment of art generated from chaos or freedom, and enormous energy produced by lots of people. It will continue to grow in quality and in quantity as a place of expressing for young artists, as a bridge linking Asian art scene with that abroad, above all as a festival where all the people purely appreciate the art itself.

Next Design Festa is going to be held November 8th & 9th, 2008. Why don’t you join as a visitor or as an artist? Anyway, remember to have something to drink and a handkerchief with you.

Design Festa vol. 27
Date: May 17th & 18th, 2008
Open: 11:00 – 19:00
Place: Tokyo Big Sight
Address: 3-11-1 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Tel: +81 (0)3 3479 1443 (Design Festa Gallery & Office)
info@designfesta.com
http://www.designfesta.com