Tokyokamen "Tokyokamen's Travels"
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At Art-U room
Media: Product, Crafts, Art Party, Art Talk
Tokyo Kamen, or Tokyo Mask, is the name of a unit of fashion designers, Akihiko Ando and Eri Uchiyama. Although the two designers' activities have been primarily in the area of costume design, they launched this new project last year in order to try a different approach from designing clothes. As the the key word for this project, they chose an old Japanese verb, 'Kabuku', or 'to lean', a word which is said to be the origin of the name of traditional Japanese theater, Kabuki. By projecting the figures of Kabuki actors - who took people living through the turbulence of early-modern times by surprise with their bizarre costume and eccentric behavior - into the contemporary world, they try to visualize power generated from chaos.
The pop and colorful design of Tokyo Kamen, which reminds us of masks worn by professional wrestlers, has been developed into products like cushions, handbags, T-shirts and dolls. Among them, the doll series consists the core of the whole project as they symbolically personify the broad range of perceptions and values of people living in a seemingly uniformized city like Tokyo. While these dolls may look lovely for some people but eerie for others, nourished by the swirling energy of the city, they may be our new neighbors, secretly proliferating in contemporary Tokyo .
The dolls of Tokyo Kamen first appeared in the open gallery of the Hanae Mori building in Omotesando last year. After being exhibited in Paris, in this third exhibition, these dolls are unfolded in the form of an installation inspired by the story of Gulliver's Travels.
Opening Reception "Tokyokamen Ball": March 9th, 18:00-21:00
Tokyokamen Classroom -A Workshop to Create Your Very Own Tokyokamen Doll-: March 11th & 25th, 13:00-16:00
Instructor: Eri Uchiyama
Fee: ¥6000 (Includes doll kit, tea and cookies)
Participation for each session limited to 10 people.
Please e-mail: artuinfo@abox23.so-net.ne.jp or call the gallery to make a reservation.
Schedule
From 2007-03-09 To 2007-04-01
Artist(s)
Website
http://www.art-u-room.com/ (venue's website)
Fee
Free
Venue Hours
From 12:00 To 19:00
sundays closing at 17:00
Closed on Mondays, Holidays
Access
3 minutes walk from exit B2 at Omotesando Station on the Ginza, Hanzomon and Chiyoda lines
Address
Galeria 3F, 5-51-3 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0000
Phone: 03-5467-3938 Fax: 03-5467-3938
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Tokyokamen "Tokyokamen's Travels"</a>
Venue: Art-U room
Schedule: From 2007-03-09 To 2007-04-01
Address: Galeria 3F, 5-51-3 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0000
Phone: 03-5467-3938 Fax: 03-5467-3938
