A new exhibition has just opened at 21_21 Design Site (a foundation that was established by Issey Mikaye and friends in 2007), showcasing 100 objects by product designer Naoto Fukasawa, accompanied by images of his work from photographer Tamotsu Fujii. It’s always worth a visit there for the architecture alone (an unobtrusive sunken structure by Tadao Ando), and Fukasawa’s clean lines and refined forms fit perfectly with the streamlined, concrete building.
Entitled The Outline the exhibition considers outlines, in objects and photographs, as the boundaries that delineate things in space. While Fukasawa’s design philosophy seeks to examine the way objects exist in the surroundings and how their context fundamentally alters them, Fujii’s photographs typically blur the outline of things so it is unclear where one thing ends and another begins. The exhibition continues until January.
