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Tokyo Midtown
Yasuhiro Suzuki, “Aerial Being” Tokyo Midtown Programs
- [Date]
- 5/26(Sat) 11:00 - 23:00, 5/27(Sun) 11:00 - 18:00
- [Place]
- Tokyo Midtown Grass Square
- [Participation fee]
- Free * Will be canceled in case of rain
[Photo session]
Lie on the grass and hold a pose like “Aerial Being” for a picture with modern artist Yasuhiro Suzuki at Tokyo Midtown Grass Square!
Date and time: (1)5/26(Sat) 15:00 - (2)5/27(Sun) 15:00 -
Location: Tokyo Midtown Grass Square
* Will be canceled in case of rain
* Limited to 200 participants (max) at each event
* Admission may be unavailable when limitation is reached.
ARTISTS
Yasuhiro Suzuki
Born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1979. Graduated from Department
of Design, Tokyo Zokei University in 2001. He makes works that
take a fresh, unique “selection” of phenomena seen every day. He
also actively engages in commissioned work for public spaces and
actively collaborates with university research institutes and
corporations.
At the Setouchi International Art Festival in 2010, he exhibited
an 11-meter-long “Ship of the Zipper.” In 2014 he presented the
Yasuhiro Suzuki exhibition “Neighborhood Earth” at Art Tower
Mito and opened a “laboratory” for the Yasuhiro Suzuki
exhibition “Selection” at the 21st Century Museum of
Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. He also exhibited as the Japanese
representative at the First London Design Biennale in 2016 and
presented the one-man exhibition “Yasuhiro Suzuki: Spontaneous
Garden” at the Hakone Open-Air Museum in 2017 and 2018. He is
Associate Professor of the Department of Scenography, Display
and Fashion Design, Musashino Art University and Guest
Researcher at the Nakamura Laboratory of the Research Center for
Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo. Winner of
the 2014 Mainichi Design Prize. Among his published works are
the collections “Mabataki to Habataki” (Twinkling and
Fluttering) and “Kinjo no Chikyu” (Neighborhood Earth)
(Seigensha Art Publishing), and the illustrated books “Boku no
Nyanta” (My Nyanta) and “Ringo to Kendama.” (Apple and Kendama)
(Bronze Shinsha)