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CREATION Project 2009

TENUGUI TOKYOHand Towels Designed by 200 Creative Artists

  • DATES : Tue. November 24 - Fri. December 25, 2009
  • HOURS : 11:00a.m.-7:00p.m.
  • Closed Sundays and holidays. Admission free.

“CREATION Project” is a newly launched series of exhibitions superseding charity exhibitions held a total of 18 times through 2008. Those earlier exhibitions sought to enable many people to feel the enjoyment and pleasure that can be derived from art and design. Every year works created on a noncommercial basis by artists with links to the two galleries were displayed and offered for sale, and the proceeds were donated to UNICEF. The newly revamped “CREATION Project” retains those fundamental parameters of operation but, through even more appealing exhibitions, seeks to suggest how our lives can be greatly enriched through the power of design.

The theme of this first CREATION Project is the “tenugui,” Japan’s unique cloth hand towel. Remarkably simple in form, tenuguis have long been a deeply ingrained part of everyday Japanese life, serving in such varied capacities as wiping cloths, head coverings, decorations and wrappers. For this charity event, 200 creative artists kindly designed a tenugui, each different and one of a kind. Whether of strikingly bold design or a conservative arrangement of a traditional pattern, every tenugui created is a contemporary product of the designer’s free imagination.

We hope this first CREATION Project will induce people across a sweeping generational spectrum to enjoy using an article of Japanese culture worthy of being treasured long into the future.

  • Aquirax Uno

  • Isamu Gakiya

  • Satoru Kubo

  • Eriko Kawakami

  • Koichi Sato

  • Sakico Kawashima

  • Kenjiro Sano

  • Genta Honnoh

  • Naoko Fukuoka

  • Hiroaki Magome

Exhibition Profile
200 “tenugui” hand towels designed by 200 creative artists from Japan and around the world

Material: cotton 100%
Size: approx. 35 x 90 cm
Production method: hand-printing*
* A separate pattern is prepared for each color, and colored pastes are rubbed into the cloth using a spatula.

Purchases
During the exhibition, visitors can purchase the tenuguis on display at a price of JPY 1,800 per item and take them home. Items can be reserved, starting with a single unit. When an item is sold out during the exhibition, additional orders will be accepted for a minimum of 15 units. Once the exhibition ends, no additional orders will be accepted.
* Note: All sales and orders terminated when the exhibition closed. We thank everyone for their participation.

Catalogue
A catalogue featuring all items on display will be available at JPY 1,000 per copy.

Allocation of Proceeds
Proceeds from this event will be donated to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) through the Japan Committee for UNICEF.

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Organizers
Creation Gallery G8, Guardian Garden

Tenugui Production
Tenuguikobo Posterdo

Participating Artists (alphabetical order)
Creation Gallery G8 (100 artists)

Mariko Abe, Kan Akita, Takashi Akiyama, Mizumaru Anzai, Masuteru Aoba, Katsunori Aoki, Katsumi Asaba, Alan Chan, Rika Eguchi, Stasys Eidrigevicius, Susumu Endo, Ryuji Fujieda, Naoko Fukuoka, Osamu Fukushima, Rodney Greenblat, Tadahiro Gunji, Satoshi Hasegawa, Kazunari Hattori, Noriaki Hayashi, Katsuhiko Hibino, Kodue Hibino, Eiki Hidaka, Naomi Hirabayashi, Naoki Hiramatsu, Yoshiaki Irobe, Koji Iyama, Masahiro Kakinokihara, Takahisa Kamijyo, Kaoru Kasai, Mitsuo Katsui, Atsuki Kikuchi, Katsuhiro Kinoshita, Yosuke Kobayashi, Masayoshi Kodaira, Ryohei Kojima, Chiharu Kondo, Koichi Kosugi, Satoru Kubo, Aoshi Kudo, Takafumi Kusagaya, Katsura Marubashi, Shin Matsunaga, Kei Matsushita, Ken Miki, Toru Minegishi, Manabu Mizuno, Chie Morimoto, Tadahito Nadamoto, Hiroaki Nagai, Kazufumi Nagai, Kazumasa Nagai, Tomohiko Nagakura, Keisuke Nagatomo, Takahiro Nagino, Noboru Naito, Kenzo Nakagawa, Hideki Nakajima, Shinya Nakajima, Takahisa Nakajima, Masayoshi Nakajo, Hisako Nakayama, Akira Odagiri, Tetsuya Ohta, Yoshinori Okada, Ken Okamuro, Hitomi Sago, Ryota Sakae, Kenjiro Sano, Yuki Sasameya, Kashiwa Sato, Koichi Sato, Taku Satoh, Yasuhiro Sawada, Jan Sawka, Akiko Sekimoto, Nisuke Shimotani, Norito Shinmura, Takayuki Soeda, Hiro Sugiyama, Mamoru Suzuki, Kaoru Takai, Noriyuki Tanaka, Ryusuke Tanaka, Hiroki Taniguchi, Mineko Ueda, Ryosuke Uehara, Aquirax Uno, Shin-Ichiro Wakao, WABISABI, Makoto Wada, Yoshie Watanabe, Philippe Weisbecker, Nobuhiko Yabuki, Kijuro Yahagi, Eiji Yamada, Harumi Yamaguchi, Takato Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Yomogida, Tara Yumura, Teruhiko Yumura

 

Guardian Garden (100 artists)

Hana Akiyama, Yosuke Amemiya, Yuko Aoki, ASADA, Satoko Cho, DONA, Teruo Fuchigami, Shinobu Fukuda, Moe Furuya, Masaharu Futoyu, Isamu Gakiya, Syunji Harada, Yuji Hashimoto, Kimitaro Hattori, Kae Higuchi, Genta Honnoh, Toyo Horikawa, Tatsuzo Hyakuda, Ryuta Iida, Keiko Ikuta, Masaru Ishikawa, Keiko Itakura, Akitaka Ito, Hajime Ito, Sakiko Kataoka, Kiichiro Kato, Ayaka Kawachi, Eriko Kawakami, Sakico Kawashima, Hideki Kessoku, Harumi Kimura, Jin Kitamura, Kana Kitamura, Rieko Kitamura, Kenji Kitazawa, Masahiko Koga, Masaki Komoto, Jun Kosaka, Tamami Kubota, Kiyoshi Kuroda, Dion Laurent, Naoko Machida, Hiroaki Magome, Takeshi Matsugami, mayu, Sanae Mimori, Ryosuke Miyashita, Mai Miyazaki, Mitsugu Mizobata, Mitomo Mizutani, Sayo Nagaba, Takahiro Nagahama, Rikako Nagashima, nakaban, Kumi Nakanoko, Hisashi Narita, Izumi Nishikawa, Masanobu Nishino, Takeshi Nishioka, Naoko Nishitani, Yasue Ohki, Sayaka Ohmura, Shinko Okuhara, Yuji Okushi, Keiichiro Oshima, Hitomi Ozaki, qp, Aya Saito, Hiroshi Saito, Yuki Saito, Tokuro Sakamoto, Daisuke Samejima, Maki Segami, Yu Shichiji, Junya Shigematsu, Yukito Shinagawa, Ai Shinbara, Masaki Shiota, Yuuske Simizz, Shino Suefusa, Mikako Suemune, Makoto Sugimoto, Minoru Sugiyama, Radical Suzuki, Shintaro Tagashira, Keiko Takaiso, Norio Takamatsu, Atsushi Takeda, Taichi Tamaki, Takeru Toyokura, Futaba Tsukuda, Fuco Ueda, Keiko Woyama, Hiroki Yamamoto, Erika Yamashiro, Kosuke Yamashita, Akiko Yanagisawa, Daijirou Yano, Akira Yasuda, YUKARINA