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Design meets art at 'Roppongi Crossing'
By Donald Eubank
Japan Times Arts Editor

As if to reinforce the meeting of design and art here, the next day there was a commercial on TV for the newspaper Sankei Express that seemed to directly mimic parts of the excellent installation by Iichiro Tanaka, who works for the Dentsu advertising agency. Does all this diminish the works in "Roppongi Crossing 2007"? No. What it revealed, actually, was that what the Mori has put together in a museum space are the inspirations for Japan's popular culture ...

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fa20071018r1.html

http://wazakure26.blog44.fc2.com/blog-entry-232.html

36組ものアーティストが揃うと、色々あって楽しいですねー

オーディエンス票は中西信洋さんに入れてきました。
現像した透明フィルムを何層も重ねた作品です。小さな作品郡の被写体に驚きました。

私のブログです
http://blog.livedoor.jp/hisakiyonakajima/?blog_id=2468461

My highlights:
UKAWA Naohiro, UCHIYAMA Hideaki, ENOKI Chū, TANAKA Iichirō, d.v.d., YOSHIMURA Yoshio

http://www.chipple.net/mt/2007/11/04_005023.php

http://veryroll.com/2007/11/09/2007-2/

期待通り。いや、期待以上！
私、いつも美術館に行っても、
一つすごく気に入った作品があればもうけもんだな、
くらいのつもりで、期待せずに行くことにしてるんです。
実際、数十点見ても一個二個しかないことも良くあるので。
でも今回はそれぞれの作品がそれぞれ楽しくて、
美術館にきてこんなに楽しいのは久しぶりだなって。
もう一度行きたいです。
今度は夜七時をねらって。
台風装置に入ってやるで！

アートって難しいと思ってる方にもオススメです。
軽い気持ちで楽しんで下さい♪

長い感想はこちらから↓↓
http://daijin.fourw.net/e9524.html

未来を紡ぎだすパワーを作品から、未来を作り出す情熱をcurationから、それぞれ感じた。

何も考えないで、プラプラするだけでも楽しいし、久しぶりにお薦めの展示に出会えた。

会期中にもう一回行きたい

感想です、興味あったらどぞ↓↓

http://p04107si.blogspot.com/2007/11/2007in.html

It was yet another weak show encapsulated by the one talented guy who drew the chicken-wire mural. He in his surprising eloquence summed up the entire exhibition as being about the surface and not the Ideas in the works.
How innovative is putting smiley faces on fingerprints? Or more to the point what does it mean? The marble sculptures where the poor craftsmanship shows up and the ideas are related (PREDICTABLY) to sex.... Basically it was a piss-poor attempt to gain curatorial fame but they left out the art. The show was a bust, I keep leaving the Mori "Museum" in worse shape than when I go in. I need to stop wasting my time and money.

子連れで感動！立石タイガー！
http://tokyokidsart.tokyobookmark.jp/e31902.html

A follow up to the 2004 version, the 36 artists featured in Roppongi Crossing were selected by a team of four curators to introduce new emergent talent from Japan while juxtaposing such work alongside influential Japanese artists from the formative decades of the 1960s and 1970s. With both group's work spanning the spectrum of painting,
sculpture, design, video, photography, manga as well as a side of traditional craftwork [with the deliberate exception of architecture and fashion], this exhibit is meant to take the pulse of the Japanese contemporary art scene.

That this team of curators brought them together for this exhibit raises a question- What unites these artists? Is there a kind of Japanese-ness that acts as a gravity? Roppongi Crossing is another high-profile exhibit grouping Japanese artists in recent months which leads me to believe it is curators who have been more focused on asserting a unifying sense of Japanese-ness in the contemporary scene
rather than the artists themselves. Meanwhile, younger artists have found themselves confronted with a choice to perceive this Japanese-ness as a unifying theme or as a departure point for themselves.......

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009849.php

I came in with no expectations, yet out with "seen it, been there, done it" impression. Little to zero new ideas. If not arts, perhaps design or crafts --whatever their definitions are--? Thru either glasses, I still see the same troubling big picture: "Labourous but fruitless," "Much ado about nothing," and "I want my money back!"