MUSEUM NEWS DECEMBER ’15

MUSEUMText: Aya Shomura

The staffs of “MUSEUM,” which is the cultural complex to promote the current creative scene in Hokkaido, pick out and recommend the latest news in monthly selected from “MUSEUM STORE” at 1st floor is a select shop of lifestyle design focused on fashion, “SOUVENIR HOKKAIDO” deals in products can be purchased, for example artworks, CDs and books by Hokkaido artists, and “Clark Gallery+SHIFT” at 2nd floor promotes and manages artists as the only one commercial gallery of contemporary art in Hokkaido. You could get exclusive information like some events at only MUSEUM, don’t miss it! In addition, online store of MUSEUM STORE has launched, please check it out!

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CHISATO SHINYA EXHIBITION “LOOKS LIKE X’MAS.”
Chisato Shinya is holding her solo exhibition “Looks like X’mas.” at Clark Gallery+SHIFT in Sapporo, to be the first time in four years. She, a Sapporo-based illustrator/artist, has produced works as a motif created from nature which is her theme mainly, and she has been active at home and abroad, such as the illustrations of picture books overseas and hotel interior. For this exhibition, she draws and exhibits something that “looks like X’mas,” such as exotic Christmas or foreign countries without Christmas which she imagines. You would see about 30 paintings drawn on the square canvas and a combination like picture matching card game. Till December 27th, 2015.

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DRESS AND TIGHTS “POP-UP SHOP”
From a fashion brand “Dress and Tights,” which has attracted visitors of Art Fair Sapporo 2015 by the dresses and tights with colorful and pop designs, several tights in stock as pop-up shop at MUSEUM STORE. It’s the brand to produce them with designers and artists, and currently they are selling 30 designs for only tights. Let’s go out to the city full of party mood with wearing its colorful, unique and cute artworks named “tights!!”

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AMESIA “HARUKA NARA WORKSHOP”
A designer Haruka Nara of “AMESIA,” which is a Sapporo-based jewelry brand with the theme as “adult junk-pop,” will hold the workshop at MUSEUM. For your own original two accessories, it’s to select some favorite woods among 7 kinds of trompe l’oeil figures, to color them by marbling and to put favorite parts as accessories such as earrings, pierces, necklace and so on. Date: December 13th, Time: 13:00-15:00, Fee: 2,200 yen (material cost included/tax excluded)

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KEIKO ORIKASA “WINTER ISSUE 2016”
Passing all four seasons, the time of beautiful and clear “Winter Issue” has come. The candle series have been born to form experiences at Royce Ice Hills Hotel and take each memory home. This issue was so popular the last season, and this time she is arranging the shape of candles. It should be very devil for fans and collectors too. Launched on December 13th. Set of “Winter Issue”: Ice/Water/Snow

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GLA_GLA “CHRISTMAS DECORATION” AT CROSS HOTEL SAPPORO
The glasses by “gla_gla” are decorating the Christmas of Cross Hotel Sapporo. It’s a glass brand by a Toya town-based glass craftsman Daisuke Takatomi who has been holding some exhibitions in Asia this winter. Although the annual Christmas was a decoration by only art-flowers, this year gla_gla serves shine and you could see a different scenery of its front on the second floor. Why don’t you visit there to look for Christmas with full of deep sparkles.

Text: Aya Shomura

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