Exhibit A is a moss and indigo artwork at the Shibuya Tokyo Wonder Site café that has been gradually evolving for the last eight months. The artist Takashi Kuribayashi worked with his collective Coceworks and the indigo dyeing art duo Litmus to set it up, and its ongoing transformation is documented via video footage and photographs inside the café, as well as in the blogosphere. The project is part of the Tokyo Wonder Site environmental project series, and several events and workshops are scheduled to coincide.
But now for a compulsory montage glance over Kuribayashi’s more general awesomeness. Besides moss and ferns his other running motifs are seals and penguins, which he often uses in latex form for his instillations where audiences are invited to peer through walls or ceilings into fragments of alternative aquatic worlds. With his childlike sense of wonder and silliness he achieves a supreme quality of tranquillity in his work, which is always refreshingly free of cynicism.
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Comment by hama — October 19, 2009 @ 9:27 pm