The event "Tanabe Chikuunsai IV x B-OWND - Bamboo Installation - Gather -" will be held at Creative Meets, the headquarters of Tanseisha Co., Ltd. Bamboo craftsman Tanabe Chikuunsai IV will be invited to hold a talk event on Thursday, September 13th, and an installation work will be exhibited from Friday, September 14th.
Since May 2019, we have been operating the platform "B-OWND" for Japanese arts and crafts, aiming to broaden the scope of activities of artists and craftspeople who are the "bearers of culture" in Japan and contribute to the promotion of Japanese culture and arts. Tanabe Chikuunsai IV also participated in this initiative, which made this event possible.
The installation will be open to the public for four days, from September 14th (Sat), 15th (Sun), 21st (Sat), and 22nd (Sun). On September 13th (Fri), the day before the general opening, there will be a talk event featuring Tanabe Chikuunsai IV, Akimoto Yuji, director of the University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts and Nerima Art Museum, and AI developer and art collector Takeda Hideki (Director CTO of FRONTEO Inc. and director of the Behavioral Information Science Institute).
This event is part of a series of events being held mainly in Tokyo in conjunction with the "Bamboo Craft Masterpieces: New York's Abbey Collection - Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art" (venue: Crafts Gallery, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo). During this period, our venue will be the only place where you can see the installation work by Tanabe Chikuunsai IV.
We look forward to seeing you all there.
Production scene (Tanseisha Creative Meets / August 15, 2019, photo: Hiroshi Ishigami)
About the 4th Tanabe Chikuunsai
Born in 1973 in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture as the second son of the third generation Tanabe Chikuunsai.
After graduating from the Department of Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, he studied under his father, the third generation Chikuunsai.
While inheriting the traditional techniques passed down from generation to generation, they display large-scale bamboo installations in art museums overseas.
In 2017, he took on the name of Tanabe Chikuunsai IV and held exhibitions in Japan, the US and France to celebrate his succession.
Bamboo Installation -GATE- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
2018 Bamboo Installation -Origin- Chaumont Castle (Loire, France)
2019 Bamboo Installation -Godai- OMM Museum (Eskisehir, Turkey)
Bamboo Installation -CONNECTION- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (USA)
Installation Overview
| Published date | September 14th (Sat), 15th (Sun), 21st (Sat), 22nd (Sun) 2019 *Reservation required You can view it at any time between 11:00 and 19:00 each day (last entrance 18:30). *There are no explanations. |
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| Venue | TANSEISHA Co., Ltd. Head Office Creative Meets Shinagawa Season Terrace 19F, 1-2-70 Konan, Minato-MINATO CITY TokyoMAP |
| Admission Fee | free |
| How to apply | Please let us know your desired visit date in advance using the form below. URL: https://forms.gle/bb12VuDhxj2TtDBn7 |
| Contact Us | B-OWND事務局 Email：info@b-ownd.com |
Overview of the talk event by Tanabe Chikuunsai IV
| Date and time | Friday, September 13, 2019, from 18:30 (Registration and admission open at 18:00) |
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| Venue | TANSEISHA Co., Ltd. Head Office Creative Meets Shinagawa Season Terrace 19F, 1-2-70 Konan, Minato-MINATO CITY TokyoMAP |
| Admission Fee | free |
| How to participate | Please apply using the form below. URL: https://forms.gle/bb12VuDhxj2TtDBn7 *Please note that if there are a large number of applications, you may not be able to participate. |
| Speakers | ・Mr. Takeunsai Tanabe ・Yuji Akimoto (Director, University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts / Director, Nerima Art Museum) Hideki Takeda (CTO of FRONTEO Director Co., Ltd., Director of the Behavioral Information Science Research Institute) |
| Contact Us | B-OWND事務局 Email：info@b-ownd.com |
Speaker Profile
Mr. Yuji Akimoto
(Director of the University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts/Director of the Nerima Art Museum)
Born in Tokyo in 1955. After graduating from the Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, he has been involved in art projects at Benesse Art Site Naoshima since 1991. Since 2004, he has served as director of the Chichu Art Museum and artistic director of Benesse Art Site Naoshima. From 2007 to March 2017, he was director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. He has organized exhibitions such as the Kanazawa Art Platform 2008, the Kanazawa World Craft Triennale, Craft Futurism, and the Inoue Yuichi Exhibition. From April 2013 to March 2017, he was a visiting professor at Akita University of Art. From April 2013 to March 2015, he was a visiting professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Since 2015, he has been director and professor at the University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts. He is also currently a member of the Culture and Education Committee of the Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Hideki Takeda
(FRONTEO Co., Ltd. Director CTO Director of Behavioral Information Science Institute)
He started his career as a web system director and engineer at the dawn of the Internet in the late 90s. Engaged in the construction of a wide range of systems from front-end to infrastructure. Since 2002, he has been engaged in the development of data mining technology using natural language processing (NLP) at several venture companies, and has been working on the commercialization of the results. Joined FRONTEO (then UBIC) in 2009. He led the research and development of artificial intelligence-related technologies centered on NLP and developed the artificial intelligence engine "KIBIT". Having achieved a track record in the legal field in the United States, we have expanded the scope of application to other fields such as business intelligence, and have achieved commercialization one after another. As an art collector, he collects contemporary art, mainly works by young artists. The standard for collecting is that the traditional aesthetic sense of Japan intersects with the modern world and the world. A strong sense of multimodal and synchronicity.
Related information
・ B-OWND website
・ B-OWND Magazine (media site)
・Tanseisha Company Information > Head Office Introduction
Previously published information
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*2019.08.21 Speakers and their profiles have been added.