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Tokyo Harajuku Zoo -Animal, Humongous and phantom beast of world-

Japanese sub-culture and mythological animal characters are famous throughout the world in the form of creatures found in popular iconic media. Design Festa Gallery is calling for artists to exhibit characters of your creation for Tokyo Harajuku Zoo. Feed your imagination at the Design Festa zoo!

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Bob Peak: Father of The Modern Hollywood Poster

Gallery Nucleus brings a world premiere exhibition, the work of late illustrator Robert (Bob) Peak, a most prolific American illustrator whose extensive catalog of work delved into advertising, fashion, sports, fine art, and film – forever revolutionizing the look of the modern movie poster.

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Mira Schendel “Monotypes and Other Works”


Mira Schendel ‘Graphic Object’ C.1960

Stephen Friedman Gallery presents an exhibition of Monotypes and Other Works from the Estate of the Brazilian artist Mira Schendel (b. 1919, Zurich d. 1988, São Paulo). This two-part exhibition encompasses an in-depth survey of the artist’s works and includes seminal drawings from the 1960s and paintings, objects and collages from the 1950s to the 1980s. This group of oil transfer drawings on thin Japanese paper, known collectively as ‘monotypes,’ have never been shown before.

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Know Hope “the times won’t save you (this rain smells of memory)”

Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art presents “the times wont save you (this rain smells of memories)” a solo exhibition of new work by Know Hope.

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East meets East

Based on the theme of ‘Modern vs Culture’, East meets East features 16-page comic created by various artists based on an unusual workflow of pre-fixing the panel layouts, forcing a confrontation on every page. The comic is orininally created for Lingua Comica 3, a Euro-Asian dialogue through comics project organised by Asia-Europe Foundation in collaboration with the Kyoto International Manga Museum.

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