NEZU MUSEUM : National Treasure Nachi Waterfall and Representations of Nature
This museum designed by Kengo Kuma was reopened one month ago. The building was great. I felt, Kuma succeeded in realizing New Japan Style that makes old traditional form by using modern material. The exhibition was also interesting. Especially 豆青釉印花龍鳳文盤 and 瑠璃地白花木蓮文盤 were really impressive.
GALLERY MA : Kengo Kuma Studies in Organic
Near the NEZU MUSWUM, GALLERY MA held an exhibition featuring Kengo Kuma. He said "I want to escape from the abstract and aspire to the organic." and "we discover a characteristic material and are drawn irresistibly into a journey-like sequence, a process by which that material, after a hard-fought, tortuous struggle, generates a certain whole" . There were many kinds of projects and variety of models in the exhibition. However I couldn't find any common design elements in his design. I felt he was trying to find the specific character of each project and give it most suitable form. I thought this attitude was "organic".
21_21 DESIGN SIGHT : THE OUTLINE
In this exhibition, Naoto Fukasawa who is a very famous industrial designer tried a unique way to introduce his works. He gave each of his products a big picture taken Tamotsu Fujii. Fujii's pictures were very amazing. His pictures showed me new aspect of Fukasawa's product that I never imagined even if the product was really small and had a simple shape.
But I felt there was room for improvement about the organization of the site.
Because we could see a picture and product at the same time. So, how the picture was imaginative, I didn't have room to enjoy it with my imagination.
