"Testimonies from Twenty Pioneers of the Graphic Design Era" Exhibition
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At Ginza Graphic Gallery
Media: Graphics, Video installation
DNP established the DNP Graphic Design Archive (DGA) in 2000 to collect and preserve works of graphic design in an organized fashion. As one part of this, in 2003 the “Archives of People” Project was launched to create a video record of the artists themselves talking about their works and creations. Interviews by design critic Hiroshi Kashiwagi with twenty of the most influential graphic designers of the postwar graphic design world have been compiled alongside detailed chronologies of their works.
This exhibition focuses on the era of graphic design and the involvement of these twenty artists from Kashiwagi’s perspective, showing 40-minute edited versions of each of these videos. Some works mentioned in the videos will also be on display, offering a comprehensive overview of the development of Japanese graphic design since the 1940s.
Schedule
From 2008-02-06 To 2008-02-29
Artist(s)
Masuteru Aoba, Katsumi Asaba, Kiyoshi Awazu, Akira Uno, Shigeo Okamoto, Mitsuo Katsui, Katsu Kimura, Tsunehisa Kimura, Keiichi Tanaami, Kazumasa Nagai, Masayoshi Nakajo, Keisuke Nagatomo, Makoto Nakamura, Tadahito Nadatomo, Yoshio Hayakawa, Koga Hirano, Shigeo Fukuda, Shin Matsunaga, Tadanori Yokoo, Makoto Wada
Website
http://www.dnp.co.jp/gallery/ggg/index_e.html (venue's website)
Fee
Free
Venue Hours
From 11:00 To 19:00
saturdays closing at 18:00
Closed on Sundays, Holidays
Access
5 minutes walk from the Ginza station on the Ginza, Hibiya and Marunouchi lines.
Address
DNP Ginza Building 1st floor, 7-7-2 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061
Phone: 03-3571-5206 Fax: 03-3289-1389
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No works on display. only interviews. in Japanese. no subs. Circulez y'a rien a voir...
This event was crap.
A bunch of noisy tv screens placed too close together, so you can't focus on anything.
I have no idea how this exhibition came together, but it's a sad case of potentially good content being presented in the worst-fitting medium.
The poster sure is pretty though.
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Venue: Ginza Graphic Gallery
Schedule: From 2008-02-06 To 2008-02-29
Address: DNP Ginza Building 1st floor, 7-7-2 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061
Phone: 03-3571-5206 Fax: 03-3289-1389
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