Yuichi Higashionna is an artist whose works of paintings, objects and installations are inspired by unexplainable odd and uncanny feelings emerged from something strikes him in his everyday life. Something unexplainab...

AYAKO MARUTA

2008.2.21　 Text: Masaaki Takahashi

DIESEL, the world fashion brand, also has lots of fans in Japan. The DIESEL DENIM GALLERY, developed by DIESEL, is a space with a shop and gallery located only in New York and Tokyo. Since it’s opening, they have c...

MERCE DEATH

2008.1.31　 Text: Hiroshi Kotake

The playing style piecing each guitar-riff in the loop is like a graphic drawn by each pixel. Because of the style, it is more enjoyable to see a set of his performance than to listen to only the sound. If you listen ...

RISA FUKUI

2007.12.29　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

“KI RI GA” is the right word to explain about works of Risa Fukui. She is one of the up-and-coming Kirie artist who creates a picture by cutting lines to make new space in a piece of paper. Kirie is one of the tradit...

FELIEKE VAN DER LEEST

2007.12.17　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

An emerging artist from Holland, who plays with animal, chasing, and knit at will. Felieke van der Leest, Pregnant Panda Bearmaid (2007) I felt like completely being lost. Wondering about what kind of world t...

MEG

2007.11.11　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

MEG is a singer, song writer, model and fashion designer who supported by girls around her age, like teen and 20's. BEAM, her major record debut album, will launch on 15th of December. From independent record label, s...

HISASHI TENMYOUYA

2007.11.6　 Text: Kyoko Tachibana

Hisashi Tenmyouya, who calls his style "Neo-Nihonga" (New Japanese-style painting). In 2006, his work for FIFA World Cup official art poster ensured his fame and his own style. The release of a new book "KAMON / TEN...

KENJI YANOBE

2007.9.23　 Text: Kyoko Tachibana

With his childhood memory of what he calls "the ruins of the future" in the aftermath of the Osaka Expo '70, the artist Kenji Yanobe has been creating art in a unique form with a social message. To coincide with anoth...

TOWA TEI

2007.8.31　 Text: Shinichi Ishikawa

Towa Tei, a musician and DJ, talks with us about "creativity". This will no doubt be interesting for his fans and people who listen to his music. We’ll also be introducing some of his original albums. "Pleasant...

DAIDO MORIYAMA

2007.7.26　 Text: Yukiko Tokugi

This is the second time this photo exhibition has come to Hokkaido. Previously, the Hikarinokariudo Daido Moriyama (1965-2003) exhibition was brought to the Kushiro Art Museum in 2003. Moriyama's exhibition entitled ...

TAKAHI KAWANISHI

2007.6.14　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Takahi Kawanishi opens a solo exhibit after an interval of 4 years entitled, "ONI NO KO". First stopping off at Tokyo's POINT and then Sapporo's SOSO. The destruction of aesthetic, the strength by natural consequences...

KEIICHI TANAAMI

2007.5.28　 Text: Yurie Hatano

Below is an interview with a superstar in the Japanese Graphic Arts scene, Mr.Keiichi Tanaami, who started his carrier in the 60's and is still active on the front lines. First, please tell us a little bit abou...