Street Museum

The Tokyo Midtown Award aims to identify and support
tomorrow’s generation of artists and designers. Six winning artist units from the 2012 art competition will congregate for Roppongi Art Night to hijack the street and present a selection of work in a variety of media including installation, sculpture and painting. A further feature will be a one-nightonly audience participation program. Be there as today’s newest young contemporary art talents launch themselves on the global scene.

1. 

   1.OHTA HARUKA: CAN YOU GET INSIDE?
   Reversed pillars and existing pillars in an agitation
   of inside and out.
   Are we standing inside, or out?
   Will that landscape, once so aloof, now sing for us?
   Support: Yamakura Kazuki, Ohta Akira, Kishino
   Takumi
   Public event: Can you get out?
   Sa 18:00–5:00 (TBD)

2. 

   2.OHMURA YUKINO: BEAUTIFUL JAPAN
   “Painting” rendered in round stickers of the sort
   found in any stationery shop.
   The idea of rendering all sorts of scenes solely
   in stickers is showcased in multiple variations.
   Sponsored: NITOMS Inc.
   Support: ANTIL Inc.
   Participatory program:
   “Experience art with stickers”
   Sa 18:00–5:00 (booking required)

3. 

   3.KADO BUNPEI SPACE HOUSE
   Installation Expression of a human dwelling that
   extended to the limits of height, has ultimately
   started to float.
   Special screening: SPACE HOUSE MOVIE
   Sa 10:00–5:00, Su 10:00–18:00

4. 

   4.SHIMODAIRA CHINATSU: β-SOB
   Sculpture formed from tree branches.
   The ground-to-sky orientation of trees has been
   dismantled and reassembled to signify the power
   of inside to out.
   Public art production
   Sa 18:00–5:00 (TBD)

5. 

   5.HAYASHIDA KEN: THE HEART
   Painting. Plant modeled on the heart to express
   the urban pulse of human activity. The idea is
   to give viewers a sense of primitive vitality and
   the power of survival, and germination into a
   new season.
   Live painting
   Sa 18:00–5:00 (TBD)

6. 

   6. MIYAMOTO HIROMU: CLIMBING ON
   THE ROOF / LIFE-SIZED SCENERY
   The boundless energy around us: where does it
   come from? This three-dimensional work takes
   as its motifs high-voltage cables and the pylons
   connecting them. As we look up at the pylon we
   are connected, in some way or another, with the
   cosmos beyond our line of sight.
   Special performance
   Sa 18:00–5:00 (TBD)