White Dunk
dal 8/9/2005 al 30/9/2005
Segnalato da
Kenji Ando
Yukio Fujioka
Jun Goshima
Hideaki Hirata
Atsushi Kamijyo
Masanao Amano
Masakazu Katsura
Eisaku Kito
Eiji Nakayama
Yasushi Nirasawa
Yuji Oniki
Ren Sakurai
Keiichi Sato
Naoki Sato
Hajime Sorayama
Haruo Suekichi
Yukihiro Suzuki
Takayuki Takeya
Junichi Taniguchi
Katsuya Terada
Yasuhito Udagawa
Shinichi Yamashita
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Kow Yokoyama
Hitoshi Yoneda
Shuji Yonezawa
8/9/2005
White Dunk
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
25 Japanese artists reinterpreting an all-white Nike Dunk basketball shoe. An exhibition of innovative new sculpture, drawing, and multi-media installation. The participating artists, a diverse group of Japan's finest animators, illustrators, toy makers, graphic designers, model creators, comic writers, figure artists, craftspersons and sculptors.
25 Japanese artists
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) is pleased
to announce the US premiere of White Dunk an exhibition presented in collaboration
with Nike.
Challenged by Nike to reinterpret and be inspired by an all-white Nike Dunk
basketball shoe, 25 Japanese artists are featured in this exhibition of innovative
new sculpture, drawing, and multi-media installation. The participating artists, a
diverse group of Japan's finest animators, illustrators, toy makers, graphic
designers, model creators, comic writers, figure artists, craftspersons and
sculptors, were selected for sensibilities that they share with Nike: a passion for
design and technology; a desire to imagine the future; and an incessant drive for
the cutting edge. The unique artworks of this exhibition incorporate an iconic
object from the world of sport, the Nike Dunk basketball shoe, into a DJ-like
sampling of Japanese animation, youth culture, fantasy, and visionary futuristic
form. The resulting exhibition provides an examination at the intersection of the
increasingly fluid relationship between cultural practitioner and creative capital.
Participating artists include Kenji Ando, Yukio Fujioka, Jun Goshima, Hideaki
Hirata, Atsushi Kamijyo And Masanao Amano, Masakazu Katsura, Eisaku Kito, Eiji
Nakayama, Yasushi Nirasawa, Yuji Oniki, Ren Sakurai, Keiichi Sato, Naoki Sato,
Hajime Sorayama, Haruo Suekichi, Yukihiro Suzuki, Takayuki Takeya, Junichi
Taniguchi, Katsuya Terada, Yasuhito Udagawa, Shinichi Yamashita,Yoshikazu Yasuhiko,
Kow Yokoyama,Hitoshi Yoneda, and Shuji Yonezawa
WHITE DUNK was inaugurated in 2003 at the Palais de Tokyo Contemporary Art Center,
Paris, and has since also traveled to Minami Aoyama, Tokyo.
http://www.whitedunk.com
PRESS CONTACT (LACE) - Matt Lipps 323-957-1777 x17
PRESS CONTACT (NIKE) - Nate Tobecksen 212-367-4429
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