A Dose of Reality Lab

A new fashion and design show re-evaluates Japanese “monozukuri”.

poster for

"Reality Lab" Exhibition

at 21_21 Design Sight
in the Roppongi, Akasaka area
This event has ended - (2010-11-16 - 2010-12-26)

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In Photo Reports by William Andrews 2010-11-20 print

When Issey Miyake developed his new fashion range 132 5 the team had to look again at shapes, fabrics and concepts. The range used 2-dimensional geometric shapes that folded down to be completely flat.

The exhibition “Reality Lab” takes the development of the collection as a starting point for exploring other new uses for materials and techniques, and for looking a-new at old ideas.

Hiroshi Iwasaki's 'CAS' series (2010) are huge images of produce from Tsukiji Market preserved by CAS (cells alive system) technology, which freezes living cells.

The main room of the exhibition is dedicated to Issey Miyake and his 132 5 team's fold-up-fold-down fashion designs.

The 132 5 team also worked on using folds in lighting fixtures.

Scientist Jun Mitani collaborated with Wow to produce a series of 'impossible' geometrical shapes and a video showing how they could be folded. 'Spherical Origami' (2010) was developed using an original computer application to create origami that only software can perform.

France-based Israeli designer Arik Levy's exhibit showed trees plastered to trees.

William Andrews

William Andrews. William Andrews came to Japan in 2004. He first lived in Osaka and worked as a translator for Kansai Art Beat. Arriving in Tokyo in 2008, when he is not exploring art galleries he can often be found in the city's theatres. He works as a translator, editor and copywriter, and also maintains a (very irregular) blog about Tokyo contemporary theatre: TokyoStages.com » See other writings

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