Image-makers

“The world of today is multiple and mixed.

That characterizes its richness. There are artists who represent the plurality of today’s world while abolishing the boundaries between the fields of creation, crossing diverse practices and accomplishing the marriage of visual arts and design.

The exhibition “Image-Makers” gathers together such creators of different generations and nationalities, who are all free from classification or labeling and consider it obsolete. Coming from the scenes of cinema, design, advertising, fashion, theatre and music, they invent a realm of images and fantasy. Offering visitors a veritable experience, they will give an answer to the question “What is design?”: a vision of the world, a laboratory of reality, an expression of life rich in diversity, a bridge between creativity and everyday life.

Another image-maker, David Lynch crosses from the universe of cinema to that of painting or from music to design, as an extension of the territory of creation. His lithographs, on display in the exhibition, serve as a way to throw light on the movement of the hand and its direct relationship to such materials as stone, ink, and paper. Acts and tools are also central to the practice of Noritaka Tatehana, who engages himself in renewing traditional techniques and shapes to create shoe-sculptures which straddle both fields of design and visual arts equally.

Playing on the image codes of fashion and advertising, Photographer Hal creates, for his own part, images full of colors and joy, which, while manipulating the body, shut couples away in a void and then metamorphose them into a unique piece of work.

This exhibition “Image-Makers” will tell the story of a vibrant world, where creations, rich in their diversity, reveal the beauty and wonder hidden in everyday life.” Hélène Kelmachter

from July 4 until October 5, 2014
Image-Makers
curated by Hélène Kelmachter
21_21 Design Sight
9-7-6 Akasaka Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan