Art Front Gallery
Closes in 13 days
"Bedroom" is the third in a series of exhibitions showing art works alongside contemporary furniture from B&B Italia, BALS TOKYO and Luminabella. Co-ordinated by designer Tomoko Ikegai of ikg, the show capitalizes on the current popularity of design to promote Art Front Gallery's concept of opening contemporary art to society.
Less ambitious than other Art Front projects, "ART/ROOM -- Bedroom" is simply intended to inspire dreams. Tomohiro Yamaguchi's energetic wood sculpture and Mayumi Morino's dramatic heatgraphs burned into wax-soaked paper may not be conducive to sleep, but the prints and paintings by Hirotoshi Sakaguchi, Yuka Nakamura, Riera y Arago, Jaume Amigo and Noriko Fuse have a more subliminal effect.
It's a fun idea, and with Art Front Graphics next door, which has more than 1,000 prints, drawings and sculptures by Japanese and international artists, there is something for everyone.
Also well worth looking at are the collection of Art Front publications, particularly the 2000 and 2003 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial catalogs that document artists' residencies, installations, exhibitions, performances and architectural projects, and address the multitude of environmental, social and economic problems facing rural communities. This site-specific art festival spread across the Echigo-Tsumari region in Niigata Prefecture will be staged again from July 23-Sept. 10.