Experience art and shopping at Ginza “GINZA SIX” in the spring of 2024! Special event “GINZA SIX DOKI DOKI 2024” will be held

At the high-end shopping mall “GINZA SIX” in Ginza, Tokyo, a special spring event “GINZA SIX DOKI 2024” is being held grandly from 4/5 to 5/6.

Attractive art exhibitions and events are being held at various locations within the mall during this period.

GINZA SIX DOKI　DOKI 2024

The highlight of this event is the spectacular sculpture “BIG CAT BANG” by “Kenji Yanobe,” a contemporary artist representing Japan, which combines social themes and originality.

This workThis work, which is also a homage to Okamoto Taro's “Tower of the Sun,” is a new work in the “SHIP'S CAT” series, a cat that carries fortune while traveling. A huge “Tower of the Sun” type spacecraft appears in the large space located in the center of “GINZA SIX,” and two cats ride on it.

Kenji Yanobe describes this as the largest of his works and his greatest masterpiece at the moment.

“GINZA SIX” Yanobe Kenji's new atrium art “BIG CAT BANG” installation overview

Source: “GINZA SIX” official website

Kenji Yanobe is known for his mechanical carvings and giant sculptures that combine social messages with uniqueness.

The large atrium space in the center of “GINZA SIX” is viewed as a galaxy including the Earth, and countless space cats dance in the sky, and the spaceship that floats is a homage to the “Tower of the Sun.”

Kenji Yanobe, who inherited the creative genes of “Taro Okamoto,” weaves the dynamism of the universe from the Big Bang to the present as a new story of life.

“SHIP'S CAT” rides on the back of the giant spacecraft LUCA in the shape of the “Tower of the Sun.” Then, hundreds of “space cats” made of balloons pop out of the spaceship.

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Source: “GINZA SIX” official website

Source: “GINZA SIX” official website

Yanobe Kenji

Contemporary artist/Professor at Kyoto University of the Arts

Born in 1965 in Osaka. Since the early 1990s, he has been creating large-scale mechanical sculptures with functionality under the theme of “surviving in modern society.”

His works, which include social messages in humorous forms, are highly acclaimed both domestically and internationally. In 2017, production began on the “SHIP'S CAT” series, the guardian deity of travel, with a “sailor cat” as a motif.

“SHIP'S CAT (Muse)” (2021) will be permanently installed as a symbol of the Osaka Nakanoshima Museum of Art, which opened in 2022.

Title of work: “BIG CAT BANG”

Artist Name: Kenji Yanobe

Exhibition location: “GINZA SIX” 2F central atrium

Exhibition period: 2024/4/5 (Friday) to 2025 summer (planned)

Size: 86 deep x 63 wide x 66 meters high

Cooperation: Okamoto Taro Memorial Museum

Pre-sale of “space cat items” that can only be obtained here at the “GINZA SIX” special space

Source: “GINZA SIX” official website

In the special space at “Mihara Terrace” on the 2nd floor, “space cat items” that can only be obtained here, such as figures, acrylic stands, and T-shirts, are being pre-sold during the period from 4/5 to 14 (Sun).

Be sure to stop by when you visit “GINZA SIX.”

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The interactive art park of the Brooklyn artist unit “Wade and LetA” has landed for the first time in Japan!

Source: “GINZA SIX” official website

Other than that,An interactive art park by the Brooklyn-based artist unit “Wade and LetA” has landed in the rooftop garden of “GINZA SIX” for the first time in Japan!

Six colorful structures, each with an emptiness (Void) like a missing puzzle piece, are lined up, and visitors express art that becomes a completed piece by spending their time in their own way.

Enjoy a cozy space on the rooftop lawn area.

Title: “Falling Into Place”

Artist Name: “Wade and Leta”

Exhibition location: “GINZA SIX” garden (rooftop garden) *Open from 7:00 to 23:00

Exhibition period: 2024/4/2 (Tue) to 5/31 (Fri)

Lastly

This spring's promotionThrough “GINZA SIX DOKI 2024,” “GINZA SIX” will further enhance the unique appeal of combining art and lifestyle, and provide new discoveries and joy to visitors.

At “GINZA SIX,” where new shops are opening one after another, why not take this opportunity to experience the new appeal of Japan that combines shopping and art in the center of Ginza, Tokyo?

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