Exhibition on two floors examining the career of
French modernist designer and architect Charlotte
Perriand and her relationship with Japan.

Read more about this exhibition here.

Some very striking (and some very large) sculptures
by this exciting young Japanese artist known for visions
of the future premised on “mutation” and “transformation”
of the body in sculpture, film and photography on display
at the Denchu Art Museum in Iabara in Okayama Prefecture.

Open: 09:00-17:00
Closed: Mondays

URL: Odani Motohiko’s website

Shigeo Fukuda (1932-2009) was a sculptor, graphic artist and poster designer who created optical illusions. His art pieces usually portray deception, such as Lunch With a Helmet On, a sculpture created entirely from forks, knives, and spoons, that casts a detailed shadow of a motorcycle. His home outside Tokyo featured a 1.2 m front door that would appear far away from someone approaching the house. This door was a visual trick, with the actual entrance to the house being an unornamented white door designed to blend in seamlessly with the walls of the house.

The New York Times described how Fukuda’s posters “distilled complex concepts into compelling images of logo-simplicity”. In 1987, Fukuda was inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame in New York City, which described him as “Japan’s consummate visual communicator”. The Art Directors Club noted the “bitingly satirical commentary on the senselessness of war” shown in “Victory 1945″ (above), which won him the grand prize at the 1975 Warsaw Poster Contest, a competition whose proceeds went to the Peace Fund Movement.