NAGANO International
Art FUKU MASU
Art FUKU MASU
Date: From 2nd
Feb. (Sat) to 10th Mar. (Sun)
Place: Nagano Ginza Shopping street
Art tour
by Seiji Shimoda and Yuko Ariyoshi on 2nd, 9th and 23rd Feb. at 1
PM, at
DAIEI Bld.
FUKU
means happiness and MASU means Japanese traditional wooden box using for
measure rice or beans, sometimes SAKE. In the festival of beginning of
Spring, SETSUBUN on 2nd Feb., Japanese people throw soya beans in order to
drive away the devils and also to call happiness, using FUKU MASU. This is
one of the most popular traditional ritual performance for Japanese people
even today. For this project, we call international and local artists to
make art works using MASU box in their way for Nagano central shopping
street. This area was before very center town with a lot of customers, but
now becoming
silent dead zone because of motorization and changing
customer's mind. We sent MASU BOX to the artists, then had received 60 mixed
media art works from 24 countries now. Each works has full of ideas and full
of artistic spirits. Almost foreign artists have experience of coming Nagano
before, because we invited them to NIPAF as performance artists. Through
this project we really appreciate their high quality artistic ability. We
are now very proud of showing their works to local people in
Nagano. Please visit to Nagano central street in this occasion and enjoy this
unique outdoor International Art Exhibition.
Seiji Shimoda (FUKU MASU Art
Director, NIPAF)
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More Info; nipaf@avis.ne.jp
http://isweb38.infoseek.co.jp/art/smmoon
Dear Art Fuku Masu Project artists;
You can see your work in this web
site.
http://isweb38.infoseek.co.jp/art/smmoon/afp/list2.htm
Hope
you can enjoy.
And there are some mistake, wait a moment.
Now we try to
make catalog.
Regards
Seiji
Seiji Shimoda/Nippon International
Performance Art Festival (NIPAF),
Platform of Asian Performance Art (PAPA);
2-8-15, Nakagosyo, Nagano,
Nagano, 380-0935, JAPAN Tel & Fax
+81-26-224-0748
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