Tokyo Midtown

Masaki Yamaguchi, “Further beyond the Remote Mountains” Tokyo Midtown Programs / Street Art Performances “MATSURI”

Photo by Yoshiko Uehara

[Date]: 9/30 (Sat) 18:30 - 10/1 (Sun) 5:00

[Place]: Tokyo Midtown Plaza B1F Metro Avenue

[Participation fee]: Free

[Note]: Maximum Participants: 1-3
* Number is limited because we can prepare only about three artworks. If one participant puts on more than one item, the maximum participants per session will be one. After a certain length of time spent on photo taking, etc., participants are ushered out to take turns.

Sculptor Masaki Yamaguchi will host a workshop where he will create a “wearable sculpture” and have participants actually wear the finished piece. By dressing in the sculpture, he hopes audiences will have a special experience that is an extension of matsuri (festival) = everyday life. Connecting to the landscape we see in the distance and expanding our horizons.

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Masaki Yamaguchi

Born in Chiba Prefecture in 1977. Artist and sculptor. Masaki Yamaguchi completed postgraduate studies in sculpture at Tama Art University in 2003. Using wood as his main material, he creates sculpture that expresses the way human bodies and their surrounding environment merge together. Yamaguchi overlaps multiple images in one work, such as places he doesn’t want to leave, the things he doesn’t want to forget, the flow of time in the past and present, and the gap that exists between images and reality.

His previous exhibitions include “Tama Art University Graduate School Hachioji Campus Exhibition” (Tokyo) in 2003, “Street Museum” (Tokyo Midtown) in 2017, and “Even now and also the future” (Gakushuin Women’s College, Tokyo) in 2017. Yamaguchi received runner-up prize at the Tokyo Midtown Award 2016 Art Competition.