A new exhibition in Tokyo has not only pulled together many of the individual people and things we hold dear at Wallpaper*, but it’s done this specifically to highlight a concept that is core to the principle of our existence: interdisciplinary crossovers.
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’Space for Your Future’, currently on in Tokyo’s Museum of Modern Art, celebrates a selection of products from a range of different disciplines: architecture (SANAA, Junya Ishigami, R&Sie), graphic and product design (Air-Bar Project, Campana brothers, NENDO), fashion (Bless, Cosmic Wonder, Hussein Chalayan) and of course art (Olafur Eliasson, Elisabetta di Maggio, Barbara Visser).
What unites each of them is that they’ve all in some way explored pushing the limits of their own medium, combining different creative disciplines to realise a more ideal unity. For example, Chalayan’s celebrated A/W 07 collection (which appeared as a limited edition April lenticular cover for W* 098) combines fashion and technology to extraordinary effect; while Japanese architects SANAA’s model Flower House is part house, part garden, part vase, part work of art.
In recognition of the concept and in celebration of their 80th anniversary, Italian accessories brand Furla has contributed with four Italian artists who are previous participants in Giovanna Furlanetto’s ‘Furla per l’Arte Award’.
Furlanetto, the President of Furla, started the award in 1999 to support young creative talent, ‘It is my desire to support Italian artistic and cultural values that are unique and unexpressed. We must continue to stimulate young Italian talent in a world that is increasingly competitive,’ she explained. The four artists in question are Grazia Toderi, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Elisabetta di Maggio and Luca Trevisani.
INFORMATION
- Event dates
- 27 October 2007 to 20 January 2008
- Website
- http://www.sfyf.jp
- Address
- Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
4-1-1 Myoshi
Koto-ki
Tokyo Japan 135-0022
