November 16, 2004
Art and design fever
Just like any other major city Tokyo offers are wide selection of art and design exhibitions. I appointed this week to be my cultural week starting today with an exhibition at the Swedish Embassy. With the slogan “slaughter a sweater - make a bag!” the Do Redo team shows handmade clothes, hats, mittens, shoes, and bags made of recycled sweaters. The purpose of the exhibition is to show how easy and interesting knitting can be and to encourage ordinary people to create new designs out of old clothes. Swe. info Eng. info Jap. info
Unfortunately I missed out on Design Festa which was held last weekend. Design Festa is a freestyle International Art Event open to all creators, both professional and non-professional from all over the world to exhibit their creative talent (check out their cool website!).
But there are more interesting exhibitions ahead like; Maria Testino “Portraits”, Wolfgang Tillmans "Fleischwimmer", Yayoi Kusama "Eternity - Modernity" and lots of others. I can't wait to see them!
