【GO FOR KOGEI】 A special “GO FOR KOGEI” exhibition will be held at Asia NOW, which will be held in Paris, France from October 17th to 20th, 2024.
Certified NPO Chuto Kanazawa Press release: October 9, 2024 The “GO FOR KOGEI” special exhibition will be held at Asia NOW, which will be held in Paris, France from October 17th to 20th, 2024. Exhibition of the installation work “Mingei Spirit “Poverty”” created by Collective Action, an artist collective by artist Shinichiro Yoshida and curator Yuji Akimoto Image
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organizations. It is characterized by the fact that It has been attracting a lot of attention in recent years as a place to introduce Asia’s evolving art scene, and we have decided to participate for the first time as GO FOR KOGEI. Asia NOW 2024 will exhibit the
installation piece “Folk Art Spirit ‘Poverty'” created by artist Shinichiro Yoshida and curator Yuji Akimoto’s artist collective Collective Action, which will explore the beauty of ‘poverty’ through work clothes made from natural fabrics that symbolize this. We present. [Artist]Collective Action Collective Action is an artist collective formed by Shinichiro Yoshida, an artist, collector and researcher of natural fabrics, and Yuji Akimoto, a curator. Yoshida used to create paintings that pursued the color white, but after meeting Joseph Beuys, he reconsidered his production, studied ancient art and folklore, and from the perspective of “exploring white,” began creating paintings such as ramie cloth and He has been researching, collecting, and presenting cannabis fabrics for over 40 years. Akimoto is an art critic and curator who has been involved in art projects on Naoshima since 1991, and has held positions including director of Chichu Art Museum, director of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, director and professor of University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, and director of Nerima Art Museum. Since 2017, he has been serving as the general supervisor and curator of the Hokuriku Crafts Festival GO FOR KOGEI. [Cooperation] majotae A textile brand from Japan that uses modern technology to revive the moist, soft, and exquisite texture of hemp cloth, a material that the Japanese have been using since ancient times. By researching the hand-laid and hand-woven processes that were used to make hemp cloth before the 19th century, and replacing various manual processes with the latest technology and know-how, we are able to produce 100% hemp cloth, which was previously thought to be
impossible. Succeeded in mechanically weaving hemp fibers and obtained an international patent. [Produced] GO FOR KOGEI GO FOR KOGEI is an initiative sponsored by the certified NPO Chuto Kanazawa, which is set in Hokuriku, where craftsmanship has been passed down since ancient times, and is an initiative to disseminate new modern crafts. It has been held every year since 2020, and by introducing crafts in a cross-sectional manner along with various genres such as adjacent contemporary art, art brut, and design, we have been able to introduce the rich and expansive nature of the word “crafts”. It is transmitted from Hokuriku as a figure with. https://goforkogei.com/
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