Color Hunting in Brazil
―Dai Fujiwara + ISSEY MIYAKE Creative Room & Campana Brothers
Photo : Keizo Kioku
Synopsis
In commemoration of 100 years of Japanese immigration to Brazil as well as “Ano do Intercambio Japao-Brasil,” two exhibitions titled “Neo Tropicalia: Imagination of Brazil" and "Color Hunting in Brazil” will be held concurrently at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. In the latter exhibition, visitors will enjoy artistic works by Japanese creators inspired by natural colors found in Brazil, and the world of colors created by Brazilian artists.
Schedule
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - Monday, January 12, 2009
Venue
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Organizers
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, and Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Cooperation
Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo
Cooperation in Planning
Nikkei Inc.
Exhibitors
Dai Fujiwara + ISSEY MIYAKE Creative Room: Residing in Japan
Campana brothers: Residing in Brazil
Outline
COLOR HUNTING － A design approach to bring together the colors of both nature and the city to create textiles and patterns. In this project, Dai Fujiwara + ISSEY MIYAKE Creative Room adopted a creative method by which they find original colors in the wildlife of the Amazon, and extract colors by rotating photos of cities in order to create textile patterns. This exhibition is a display of the works as seen through the eyes of its Japanese creators including an art space installation with textiles, photos and footage of the production process in the Amazon and Rio de Janeiro, and clothing designed utilizing this method.
Working together with people who live in the favela (slums), the Campana brothers, residents of Sao Paulo, collect colored materials such as vinyl tubes and wires from their urban surroundings to make furniture. This furniture is also displayed in the exhibition. In the workshop and through the guidance of the Campana brothers, participants will produce panels which reflect the Campana brothers’ interpretation of the world interwoven with the Color Hunting works of Mr. Dai Fujiwara + ISSEY MIYAKE Creative Room.
Joint Program: Jungle Phone
This is a joint program put on by Dai Fujiwara + ISSEY MIYAKE Creative Room’s art installation, the concept of a “Communication Device to the Jungle," and Mr. Keiji Koga’s “Ikebana Speaker,” an acoustic generator in which the plant itself produces the sound.
Workshop
Workshop / Talk Show by Dai Fujiwara
Dai Fujiwara will give a talk and workshop in which participants will experience the concept of Color Hunting. In the workshop, participants will be asked to imagine and draw on paper the pattern of colors produced when photos, taken during field work in Brazil, are rotated. A selection of photos will then be rotated using a machine so as to compare the patterns created with those drawn by the participants.
Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008
GuruGuru-Machine
Photo : Keizo Kioku
Profiles of Artists
Campana brothers
Humberto Campana: Born in 1953 in Rio Claro, Sao Paulo
Fernando Campana: Born in 1961 in Brotas, Sao Paulo
The brothers, Humberto and Fernando Campana have their studio in Sao Paulo. The high quality of their art design often attracts attention from art circles, and their works have been exhibited in various art museums throughout the world including an exhibition with Ingo Maurer at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1998). The Brothers have been invited to numerous international workshops hosted by Vitra Design Museum, Centre Pompidou (2002), etc. Their first private exhibition in Japan was held at the Brazilian Embassy in Tokyo (2005).
Dai Fujiwara
Having graduated from Tama Art University, Dyeing and Weaving Design Course, Mr. Fujiwara joined the Miyake Design Studio.
After having worked on the design staff for ISSEY MIYAKE collections, he started the “A-POC” project with Issey Miyake in 1998. For “A-POC” he was awarded the Good Design Award in 2000, and for “Design of A-POC” the Mainichi Design Award in 2003. Mr. Fujiwara was appointed as ISSEY MIYAKE Creative Director in October 2006. In collaboration with DYSON, a British vacuum cleaner company, he introduced an unprecedented garment-making process for the 2008 Spring-Summer Collection.
Contact
Tokyo Culture Creation Project Office,
Phone: 03-5638-8800/Fax: 03-5638-8811
