When you come down to the underground, you’ll find the sculpture flier by Ryuta Iida and several photo artworks framed in paperbacks by photographer Ms. Miho Kakuta. Inside of the space, there was an artwork entitled “Book + Book + Book = Forest Vol.2, No.1” by a unit of Uchinuma x Iida x Sei’s “Forest” illuminated by the light. Used books are carefully packed in and displayed like on would expect at an old record shop.

The common features of the exhibited work are that the book and paper are not only treated as materials, but also having context that jumps over the editorial articles. The artwork by “Mori” is done by the way that Mr. Uchinuma picks up the symbolic work that contains a word of “forest” in the title such as “Norwegian Wood”, and Mr. Iida and Sei finished up in the work. In the collaboration work of Mr. Kakuta and Uchinuma, the title and the photograph are floating by their refraction and imagination is roused up. The book is a package of the characters, and it has the title and meta information of historical significance. There might be ways of labeling books such as “recommendation of someone” or “ones that has changed my life” and so on. There is a possibility of various options determined by one’s relationship with the book.

When you dig through such art inspired by old magazines, you might cross an unthinkable aspect in your mind. At the initial time of advertisement trends the relationship of cover art and society was revolved around “Satire”. Various discoveries like this begin to gradually have meaning. Of course it’s all right to go get items just because of their good looking packaging. If the connection with yourself was some day seen, it was what you surely had to have.

This book market of the night was always full with people and folks chating. From those fun-loving sessions, visitors might find reasons to buy their favorite one.

“CAP BOOK MARKET” is opening from January 8-12, 2008.

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