Tanseisha has become a participating partner of the Future Society Showcase Project, Future Life Expo "Future Life Experience" of the 2025 World Expo, Japan (hereinafter referred to as the Osaka-Kansai Expo), and will be sending out a message for the future at Future Life Village from April 29th (Tuesday, national holiday) to May 5th (Monday, national holiday).
Future Life Village architectural concept
The Future Life Experience at the Osaka-Kansai Expo will propose ways of living in the future through exhibits and presentations in areas close to our daily lives, focusing on "food of the future," "culture of the future," and "healthcare of the future."
Under the theme of "Culture of the Future," we will raise the "spirituality of traditional Japanese culture" as a "question" and "proposal" for the future, and create a tea ceremony and art exhibition space suited to the present.
The tea ceremony, which developed about 450 years ago, was a "new" format for expressing the essence of Japanese aesthetics at the time. At this tea ceremony event, art and craft works by contemporary craft artists will be mixed together in an experiential space that fully engages the five senses, visualizing Japanese aesthetics and spirituality. In addition, we will introduce our "B-OWND" initiative, which aims to support artists who are responsible for Japan's "crafts as art," and visitors from around the world who visit our booth will be able to experience a space that integrates various fields, such as crafts and art, tradition and innovation, and artificial and natural, based on Japanese aesthetics. Details of this exhibition will be announced at a later date.
Comment from Osamu Kobayashi President and Chief Executive Of cer of Tanseisha
Our company was founded in 1946 and started out by working on interior decorations for department stores. We have also had a strong connection with world expos, and have expanded our business field into space creation since creating pavilions for the 1970 World Expo (Osaka), but this is the first time we will be holding an exhibition in-house. For this exhibition, we are considering the theme of the future of traditional crafts, which have a high affinity with our business and are used in the various spaces we work on. Through this exhibition and our business, we hope to express our "proposals for a changing society" and "our challenging attitude to open up the future of spaces and the people who gather there." Please look forward to it.
About "B-OWND"
Launched in May 2019, B-OWND is an online marketplace that handles craft works as the highest form of art that expresses Japanese beauty. By carefully introducing artists and their works, the platform aims to connect artists with buyers. In addition, B-OWND allows you to purchase works that come with a blockchain-based digital certificate of authenticity. The fact that you have purchased a work is recorded semi-permanently, and each person's aesthetic sense is engraved in the history of art and crafts.
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B-OWND, an online marketplace that sells craft works as art: https://www.b-ownd.com/
Please note that this may be subject to change without prior notice.