Farmers Manual (Presentation+Live) by Salon/Sputnik invited Mathias Gmachl to be the main guest from Farmers Manual, performed on August 9. In "Roppongi Hills Information Center/Think Zone", the feast of image and sou...

FERRARI & MASERATI

2002.7.27　 Text: Satoshi Ota

The exhibition, which has been held since the 24th of April, is named "ARTEDINAMICA - Ferrari & Maserati" and the aim of this exhibition is to reconsider these two attractive Italian carmakers with an artistic po...

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2002.6.28　 Text: Tomohiro Okada

The existing things and things that we are looking for in the belief that they exist. Although it is unfortunate that we can't find these things when we want to, there is possibility in some degree that we don't get t...

FASHION DOLL “MOMOKO”

2002.5.27　 Text: Satoshi Ota

It was last summer when dressable doll Momoko was born. Namie Manabe, who is a founding mother of "PostPet" from So-Net, has made a dressable doll. The fact that Namie is a doll enthusiast is an origin of this project...

JAM: TOKYO/LONDON

2002.3.27　 Text: Satoshi Ota

It was the beginning of February when "JAM: Tokyo/London" exhibition has started. I had been really in hustle and bustle days and could not find a chance to visit this. However, I finally could make it in last week....

TOKYO DESIGNERS BLOCK 2001

2001.11.24　 Text: Naoko Ikeno

The city of Tokyo has been in great excitement from 10th to 14th of October. Tokyo Designers Block (TDB), a festival of various kinds of design, had started and main areas in Tokyo, such as Aoyama and Harajuku were us...

Q&A PROJECT

2001.11.24　 Text: Akira Natsume

Q&A Project was carried out as a part of Tokyo Designers Block at cafes, galleries, bars, selected shops and others such as 'Trico Open' and 'And A' in Tokyo at the middle of October, 2001. This is a mess...

KEIJI ITO VS. NAMAIKI

2001.9.17　 Text: Andrew Thomas

In a brick-walled vault under the Toyoko-line tracks from Nakameguro, restaurant bar 'depot' has recently become one of the more interesting gallery spaces in Tokyo. In the second volume of the 'versus' exhibition ser...

MEX 2001

2001.8.16　 Text: Andrew Thomas

This month saw the launch of the MeX 2001 project, including a live 3-hour webcast from a studio in the Tokyo suburbs, and a group exhibition of interactive and computer graphic artists at Axis Gallery. MeX was establ...

TOONZ CAMP

2001.6.11　 Text: Chibashi

Imai Toonz is a comic artist, who is popular with youth and famous for his works, such as MTV's "Top of Japan" program's opening animation, Suntory "C.C.Lemon" CF work, and the character design of SEGA's arcade game "...

MAYWA DENKI

2001.4.25　 Text: Aki Ikemura

Maywa Denki landed at Galerie Du Jour Agnes b. from Japan. They've produced and released their original and unique 'products' (artworks), and have been working actively doing performances with those products, holding ...

TOMATO “REAL AND IMAGINARY FLOWERS”

2001.4.10　 Text: Andy Thomas

somethings that you stand in front of, somethings that you interact with, and somethings that you're within. without surprises, life would be dull first impressions are usually not accurate eventually you...