exhibition web
Hironari Kubota, Berlin based artist shows "Berlin Hitoritabi".
The car Travant, produced in ex Eastern Germany, rotates in the air in high speed with Enka song (Japanese old style pops, especially popular among the elder people).
The motor used to rotate Travant is from the car itself.
The car is taken its innards and rotating by its power.
It is bizarre, isn't it?
The artist was in typical Japanese Yakuza style. He wears usually Fundoshi, Japanese male loincloth, but gallery rejects because of his tattoo on the back.
Tattoo itself is simple black square, Yakuza fashion seems to be more violent. It is also funny.
Ramon Todo's stone work is also interesting.
He takes stone or piece of concrete or blocks, insert the glass in it.
The stone or piece of block are come from the historical spot, like Berlin's wall or Guernica, so it is deeply related with the history.
Todo's web
Keiko Sato's installation is awful.
She makes beautiful garden with the tree stumps, flowers and batteries, broken cups, plates and rice.
Sato's work
Most ironical work is by Taiyo Kimura.
He asks the viewer to write his / her dream, and put this paper into the box.
The viewers find the box is shredder and the paper they wrote their dream are torn into pieces. Too awful!
