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Sprouting out of the backstreets of Harajuku like some bargain basement Pompidou Centre is the Design Festa Gallery. If not Tokyo's most avant-garde art space, the gallery - an offshoot of Design Festa (Japan's biggest art and design event, held twice yearly at Tokyo Big Site and attracting over 40,000 visitors) - is certainly its most fun.
Five years ago three local artists got together and began to re-invent the ancient apartments that now lie beneath the funky paintings, graffiti and mad scaffolding and traffic cones, swarming over the building's front like some alien metal creeper. Inside, the art is no less eclectic, ranging from whole rooms devoted to a mixture of sculpture to video installations. Even the toilet is plastered from floor to ceiling with artworks. Usuki Kunie, founder and director of the gallery, recalls one artist who repainted his display space every day for the duration of his showing. The gallery welcomes all comers and there's no censorship policy - whatever you want to create, they will display. by Simon Richmond |
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