The latest edition of Design Festa (Vol. 31) — “Asia’s biggest freestyle art expo” — happens this coming weekend (May 15-16) at Tokyo Big Sight.
The first day of painting was the coldest but instead of going inside the wooden house we retreated further into our jackets to stay and watch Kami and Sasu make preparations. On that wintery day, these two mural painters were covering a concrete wall outside an old house in the backstreets of Shibuya. Tins of paint, brushes, rollers and bags are spread out to form a work station on the side of the road by the wall.
All of the contributions to this year’s “My Famicase Exhibition” have now been posted online.
Public art took to the streets in Shibuya today (May 4) for Art Re-Public Tokyo, an event that turned the stretch of road between Marui City and Tower Records into an art free-for-all.
Online gallery of
Japanese Contemporary Art
www.azito-art.com
Photographers Zoren Gold and Minori have launched a newly updated version of their site.
T-shirt brand and retail chain Graniph launches Graniph Labs, a new site that introduces us to the many artists and designers the company has collaborated with in the past.
The latest show to hit Diesel Denim Gallery Aoyama is also the first solo exhibition by German artist Boris Hoppek in Japan.
The “My Famicase Exhibition” returns again this year for a third outing, with a show that uses classic Nintendo Famicom — the Japanese equivalent of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) — cartridges as canvas.
The event is unfortunately over, but Bianca Beuttel reports on last month’s “Breaker Project,” in which you tour some of Osaka’s poorest and run-down areas by way of art.