Toshihiko Shibuya, an artist based on Sapporo, Hokkaido, creates artwork wishing for a resonance to a place. He is one of the few artists who shows new art expressions through a theme on this region with heavy snowfal...

STUDIO PREPA

2011.7.5　 Text: Ayako Ishii

Looks familiar and nostalgic, but still original. That is what studio prepa's product is all about. Using a glassblowing technique originated in Sweden and Italy, studio prepa cherishes their thoughts for forms and th...

GO YAYANAGI

2011.5.2　 Text: Ayako Ishii

Go Yayanagi was born in Obihiro, Hokkaido in 1933. Since the 1960s he has staged a wide range of individual exhibitions and gained international fame. In the 1970s, he started expanding his activities from 2D to 3D an...

NOBI-ANIKI

2011.3.31　 Text: Julie Morikawa

"Doraemon has everything explaining our life." Ryo Kaneko an Artist who takes his communication difficulties and turns them into assets through his art work by performing as Nobi‐ANIKI. You can see the active devel...

KIYOSHI TAKAHASHI

2010.9.1　 Text: Mariko Takei

With the theme of “Visualization of the momentum”, Kiyoshi Takahashi is a Sapporo-based artist, exploring his installation works and performance art that combines aspects of manga, calligraphy and music. His bold and ...

NOZOMI WATANABE

2010.6.27　 Text: Mariko Takei

An artist who approaches to space with imagination from materials. Jet black in the Japanese letter uses 2 characters: one means black and the other means lacquer (Urushi). Using lacquer as the material, Nozomi...

IKUKO IMAMURA

2010.5.30　 Text: Mariko Takei

Ikuko Imamura is an artist who uses light, shadows, and darkness to showcase a tiny bit of unforgettable everyday happenings that rest at the edge of her memory. Born and raised in Sapporo, the artist has been exhibit...

KAORI KOJIMA

2009.3.31　 Text: Mariko Takei

The cover design for April was created by Kaori Kojima aka KOJIKO, formally a member of harmonica bldg. and now a solo graphic designer based in Hokkaido. She has been working on posters, ad visuals and logo designs, ...

KINETA KUNIMATSU

2009.1.17　 Text: Mariko Takei

Kineta Kunimatsu works in the atelier in Shiraoi located about 90 kilometers south of Sapporo and on the middle coastline between Tomakomai and Noboribetsu. His works vary in taste from soft and gentle to strong and r...

SCAM CIRCLE

2008.11.30　 Text: Kazumi Oiwa

Many images flashback through my head as I listened to their music for the first time. A Sapporo based band, Scam Circle, was formed in 2006, with lead music composer, Koji Mizuno, a drummer, Masaki Hori, and a bassis...

NAOHITO UCHIYAMA

2008.11.22　 Text: Mariko Takei

After an absence of 6 years since his first album “Directions” released from Tha Blue Harb Recording, Naohito Uchiyama, a Sapporo-based music producer/DJ, has been making a tremendous progress as it has been appeared ...

HIRAKU SUZUKI

2008.10.31　 Text: Mariko Takei

Hiraku Suzuki has been working on a series of drawings including wall paintings, leaf-vein drawings, asphalt drawings, live paintings with earth, and etc. His drawings visualize something that emerges to the surface, ...