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Malay Mail Online に、掲載。(Sep 8, 2015)

Maison & Objet look at what’s ‘precious’ and gardens in levitation (VIDEO)

Maison & Objet look at what’s ‘precious’ and gardens in levitation (VIDEO) PARIS, Sept 8 — The Maison & Objet tradeshow ending today is one of France’s biggest events for decoration and design professionals. The fair not only presents the latest in trends and designs but also some unique installations and exhibits.PreciousThis year’s Maison & Objet theme is “Precious.” Trend-watcher Elizabeth Leriche hoped that this year’s installation theme would inspire visitors to question themselves on the notion of what is precious today. The exhibit’s starting point is raw material and the treasures it can be transformed into.The second part of the exhibit focuses more on the poetic and immaterial aspects of preciousness as well as elements like air and water that in today’s world are becoming more and more precious. A pop-up bookstore, designed by stylist Vincent Grégoire of the NellyRodi agency is also found in the inspiration space.Floating Flower GardenCombining art and technology, the Japanese teamLab come back this year to present a very different kind of garden. For their installation, the artists displayed 2,300 flowers in mid-air. The flowers elevate when a spectator approaches and form a dome over his or her head.The exhibit is a Kôan Zen metaphor — Buddhist enigmas between fable and poetry. The one chosen by teamLab explains that in the 13th century, a Zen priest pointed at a flower with his finger and said “people today see it as though it were a dream. The sky and I come from the same root. Everything that surrounds me including myself is made from the same substance.”Nature and LightIn the “Ateliers d’Art de France” trends forum, Elizabeth Lerciche has created the “Supernatural” exhibit that portrays the relationship between man and nature. This exhibit shows a “nature (that) is dreamed of, magnified and transformed into a four-part dialogue.”Visitors are presented with another world composed by light designers Akari-Lisa Ishii and Motoko Ishii. The designers created an itinerary called “Light & Happiness” composed of seven pieces. The installation will illustrate through its exploration of lighting of the future the power of light on happiness.Fans of Dorothée Meilichzon’s work will have to check out the Elle Decoration café, designed and created by her. Her installation includes a giant 3D table on which colorful cutouts are laid, neon outlines and several alcoves.Other cafés like café Marie Claire Maison and café Milk feature new creations by other big-name designers like Paola Navone and Andrea Marcane.

Sky に、掲載。(Sep 8, 2015)

A Londra, una fiera per soli giovani artisti

Giunta alla seconda edizione, il prossimo giovedì 10 settembre verrà inaugurata START, la fiera d’arte organizzata da Parallel Contemporary Art e Saatchi Gallery negli spazi londinesi di quest’ultima. Tra le tante rassegne dedicate al collezionismo – ovvero all’incontro tra artisti, gallerie e mecenati – l’iniziativa di questa settimana ha una particolarità che l’ha resa presto popolare in tutto il mondo: in fiera è possibile trovare soltanto opere di autori emergenti, che hanno così la loro occasione di esporre in un ambito molto simile a quello museale, almeno per la qualità del progetto complessivo.Oltre alla fiera vera e propria con la sua nutrita selezione di gallerie ospitate, START ospiterà infatti anche quattro progetti artistici fatti e finiti. Il collettivo giapponese Chim↑Pom, tanto per cominciare, vedrà inaugurata la prima esposizione monografica a Londra, dopo aver già esposto in ambiti prestigiosi quali il MoMA PS1 di New York. All’arte socialmente impegnata del gruppo si affiancherà l’installazione di un altro collettivo giapponese, teamLab, che presenta a Londra una suggestiva fusione tra arte e nuove tecnologie.L’attenzione per la scena artistica asiatica si conferma con il terzo progetto, Prudential Singapore Eye, che promette di costituire un’imprescindibile panoramica per diventare presto conoscitori della migliore arte realizzata – appunto – a Singapore.Infine, il quarto progetto curatoriale – intitolato This is Tomorrow – riunirà ben dieci mostre monografiche dedicate ad altrettanti giovani artisti, accomunati dalla capacità di riflettere sui temi d’attualità e sul futuro di una società più che internazionale: altamente globalizzata, com’è quella contemporanea e presumibilmente sarà anche in futuro.[Immagine in apertura: teamLab, Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together – Dark, 2015, installazione digitale interattiva. Courtesy of teamLab and START Art Fair]

MAGAZINE DELLE DONNE に、掲載。(Sep 7, 2015)

"Floating Flower Garden": il labirinto di fiori sospesi alla ricerca delle origini

In mostra a Maison&Objet 2015, “Floating Flower Garden” è il giardino di 2300 fiori sospesi a testa in giù ideato dai giapponesi di TeamLab. Una passeggiata per perdere i sensi e ritrovare l’origine del tutto.Duemila e trecento fiori sospesi a testa in giù, ondeggianti, vivi, colorati, profumati. Un labirinto di petali, pistilli e foglie che vive, respira, ondeggia, cambia di ora in ora, regalando all’attonito spettatore una passeggiata onirica dove perdere e intravedere l’origine del tutto. Succede a Maison&Objet 2015, la fiera parigina dedicata all’arredamento che – tra le miriadi di altre cose – ospita anche Floating Flower Garden, l’installazione di TeamLab, un collettivo d’arte giapponese guidato da Toshiyuki Inoko che ha già incantato il pubblico al Miraikan national museum di Tokyo tanto da convincere gli organizzatori a prolungare la mostra di due mesi. L’installazione di TeamLab è una metafora in tre dimensioni di un Kōan zen della cultura buddista, l’incontro tra un maestro e il suo discepolo dove viene rivelata la natura ultima della realtà. Toshiyuki Inoko racconta che nel XIII secolo, un monaco zen lasciò il suo ritiro meditativo sulla montagna alla ricerca del risveglio. Un giorno indicò con il dito un fiore in un giardino: “Noi e tutto ciò che ci circonda siamo fatti della stessa sostanza, abbiamo la stessa origine” spiegò. Eccolo, il messaggio dell’installazione che nel Terzo Millennio inscena e dà corpo al cammino più antico degli uomini, quello alla ricerca delle origini. Origini che ci riportano alla Natura, quella Natura che troppo spesso diamo per scontata, bistrattiamo quando non maltrattiamo senza pietà, fingendo di sapere che inquinarla significa inquinare un pezzo di noi. Un cammino che facciamo tutti insieme, come gocce nel mare. Una metafora che gli algoritmi di Team Lab hanno ricreato nell’installazione: più gente passeggia nel Floating Flower Garden, più i fiori si animano, respirano, ondeggiano.

PARIS DESIGN AGENDA に、掲載。(Sep 7, 2015)

MAISON&OBJET FLOATING FLOWER GARDEN

MAISON&OBJET FLOATING FLOWER GARDENFlorists and garden centers,a special flower and plant-based offerAs with each session, MAISON&OBJET is showcasing a selection of creative exhibitors who play on the synergy between plant life and decoration: pots, vases, candles, artificial flowers, floral decoration, outdoor furniture, etc. A multitude of products and trends to be discovered through the aisles of the show.MAISON&OBJET IS REINVENTING ITSELF WITH 3 MAIN WORLDSIn September 2015, MAISON&OBJET is reinventing itself by reorganizing its offer. With a desire to better meet your expectations, the show is offering a clarified presentation revolving around three major poles for a smoother visit: MAISON and its overarching range of decoration organized into different worlds;OBJET, the show’s concept store, ideal for retailers; and lastly LUXURY, DESIGN & INTERIORDECORATION and its exceptional itinerary. And on top of that, simplified visits, smoother exchanges between exhibitors and visitors and new synergies.Floating Flower Garden by teamLab (Hall 7)TeamLab, the Japanese digital technology collective, invites us on a sensorialpromenade in an immersive installation with the overtones of a suspended Eden.The teamLab – FLOATING FLOWER GARDEN SPACE / Have you ever opened the doors to a garden with thousands of levitating and perfumed flowers? This exceptional and highly poetic sensory experience will be presented to you by teamLab at the entrance of hall 7.After last season’s dreamy banquet of birds and flowering cherry branches, the Japanese techno-artists return to Villepinte with an amazing botanical fairyland. 2,300 suspended flowers, with their roots anchored overhead, float in a vivid white bubble. Petals, leaves and pistils blossom in the silence of the carnal and mysterious garden. The place evolves since the flowers grow each day thanks to the technological prowess of teamLab. As if endowed with a conscience, they rise when the spectator approaches, creating a dome over his head, and then descend once again. If visitors stand in a group together, the botanical chorus is amplified but the flowers remain evasive.This 3-D metaphor takes inspiration from a zen kôan, those part-fable, part-poetic Buddhist enigmas. TeamLab’s founder Toshiyuki Inoko tells us that in the 13th century, a zen priest left his meditative retreat in the mountains to teach the path of awakening. One day, he pointed to a flower in a garden: “People today see it as if they were in a dream”, he said. “The Heaven and I come from the same roots. Everything around me and myself as well are made of the same substance”.This is the installation’s philosophy: the delicate link it weaves between visitors and the ecosystem offers a way to restore our sense of unity with Nature. By modeling the wonders, the experience of a flower garden awakens us through the magic of algorithm and introduces the visitor to teamLab’s ecological message.

Artribune に、掲載。(Sep 7, 2015)

Fra la fiera Maison & Objet e la Paris Design Week, Parigi mette in scena la via francese al design. Con tanti marchi italiani, da Seletti a Internoitaliano

Tra stand, esposizioni e panel di esperti, la principale fiera dell’arredamento e della decorazione francese, Maison&Objet, riapre i battenti per affermare con sempre maggiore vigore la via francese al progetto. Con un appeal, però, decisamente in crescita tra tutti gli operatori internazionali: sono in molti a guardare a Parigi come al secondo appuntamento del calendario del design da presenziare dopo il Salone di Milano, sia per business che per esposizione mediatica. E tanti anche gli italiani, da Seletti a Internoitaliano, che non mancano all’appello.Invariati i pilastri che hanno ormai affermato Maison&Objet come un vero e proprio format: un Créateur de l’Année – adesso è Dorothée Meilichzon – illustra con una scenografia la sua visione della decorazione di interni; i giovani designer con Les Talents à la Carte espongono le loro creazioni, mentre la mostra Floating Flower Garden (a cura del collettivo teamLab) apre le porte ad un giardino sospeso, poetico e multisensoriale. Intorno, moltissimi marchi di arredo non esitano a presentare prodotti in anteprima: qui l’occhio di riguardo va al padiglione Now! Design à Vivre, quello epurato dalle storture del gusto del mobile classico.Non solo fiera, però: la sinergia tra gli operatori del design continua anche in città con la Paris Design Week. Fino al 12 settembre, infatti, il Fuori Salone alla parigina anima il tessuto urbano mettendo in rete la creatività di 300 tra showroom, gallerie e marchi di arredamento. Organizzata per distretti – Saint Germain, Opéra, Marais, Le Docks (alias la Cité de la Mode et du Design), Barbés-Stalingrad – non esclude i fuori programma (come le incursioni tra le dolcezze di pasticcerie e food designer) e viaggia a metà strada tra l’agenda dei migliori indirizzi della capitale e la vetrina delle novità del momento.– Giulia ZappaMaison&ObjetFino all’8 settembre 20154Paris Nord Villepintehttp://www.maison-objet.com/–Paris Design WeekFino al 12 settembre 2015http://www.maison-objet.com/en/paris-design-week

FINANCIAL TIMES に、掲載。(Sep 5, 2015)

Prepare for an invasion of butterflies

It is usually said that art is international – or rather, in that dread cliché, “global”.But even if an artwork can now be transported across borders, filmed, photographed, reproduced in dozens of ways, pinged on Instagram, it may be that our ways of seeing it are still woefully local.(本文抜粋)

FINANCIAL TIMES に、掲載。(Sep 4, 2015)

Openings: Prepare for an invasion of butterflies

TeamLab uses digital media to create artwork to rattle our perceptions and generally blow our minds

MAISON & OBJET PARIS に、掲載。(Sep, 2015)

Floating Flower Garden

TeamLab, the Japanese digital technology collective, invites us on a sensorial promenade in an immersive installation with the overtones of a suspended Eden.The teamLab – FLOATING FLOWER GARDEN SPACE / Have you ever opened the doors to a garden with thousands of levitating and perfumed flowers? This exceptional and highly poetic sensory experience will be presented to you by teamLab at the entrance of hall 7.After last season’s dreamy banquet of birds and flowering cherry branches, the Japanese techno-artists return to Villepinte with an amazing botanical fairyland. 2,300 suspended flowers, with their roots anchored overhead, float in a vivid white bubble. Petals, leaves and pistils blossom in the silence of the carnal and mysterious garden. The place evolves since the flowers grow each day thanks to the technological prowess of teamLab. As if endowed with a conscience, they rise when the spectator approaches, creating a dome over his head, and then descend once again. If visitors stand in a group together, the botanical chorus is amplified but the flowers remain evasive.This 3-D metaphor takes inspiration from a zen kôan, those part-fable, part-poetic Buddhist enigmas. TeamLab’s founder Toshiyuki Inoko tells us that in the 13th century, a zen priest left his meditative retreat in the mountains to teach the path of awakening. One day, he pointed to a flower in a garden: “People today see it as if they were in a dream”, he said. “The Heaven and I come from the same roots. Everything around me and myself as well are made of the same substance”.This is the installation’s philosophy: the delicate link it weaves between visitors and the ecosystem offers a way to restore our sense of unity with Nature. By modeling the wonders, the experience of a flower garden awakens us through the magic of algorithm and introduces the visitor to teamLab’s ecological message.To discover atscènes d’interieur. Hall 7

floral daily に、掲載。(Sep 3, 2015)

2,300 flying orchids in Floating Flower Garden

A floating flower garden with an infinite number of floating living flowers that fill up the entire garden space. Over 2,300 floating flowers bloom in the space. These flowers are alive and growing with each passing day. Today is orchid day and that’s why we show you this lovely video from teamlab.When a viewer gets close to this flower-filled space, the flowers close to the viewer rise upwards all at once, creating a hemispherical space with the viewer at its center. In other words, although the whole space is filled with flowers, a hemispherical space is constantly being created with the viewer at its center and the viewer is free to move around wherever they want. If many viewers get close to one another, the dome spaces link up to form one single space. In this interactive floating flower garden viewers are immersed in flowers, and become completely one with the garden itself.

FAD に、掲載。(Sep 3, 2015)

teamLAB ‘hyper-group’ of some 500 artists, scientists and technologists head to London

This solo show at START Art Fair will be the first time the Japanese digital artist collective has exhibited in the UK. Consisting of three digital, interactive pieces, Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders brings our attention to the relationship between us and nature. In the largest piece of the exhibition, Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together – A Whole Year per Hour, Dark (2015), flowers will keep on springing up, growing, blossoming and withering away in the real-time rendered artworks – but the viewer holds the key to affecting the cycle. Nature is constantly evolving, as is our digital knowledge: the exhibition challenges the ways of perceiving both our surroundings and the digital developments taking place.