This exhibition is designed for children and adults to feel and enjoy art more closely and freely, using their bodily senses. The space consists of a huge maze; a long, coiled blackboard strip called “Mr. Loop”, punctuated with bumps and tunnels. Play, experience, exhibit, draw… these activities are integrated in this unique landscape. Visitors are free to act and play in their own ways. Kids run around, climb over bumps, crawl into tunnels, draw and scribble on “Mr. Loop”. Adults find artworks and start making huge clay models. It is so much fun that everyone wants to play and stay longer. The blackboard strip will soon become white, full of drawings, scribbles and graffiti that visitors made. In this unique art wonderland they are all free to make the most of their creative energy.
2007
site: Hakone Open-Air Museum, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa, Japan
materials: blackboard maze, plastic lawn, etc.
construction: Izumi Senkosha Inc.
awards: ACE Incentive Award 2008, JCD Rookie Award 2008
photo: Mineo Sakata
箱根 Art Loop
~ あそび・たいけん・てんじ・おえかき ~
大人から子どもまで、アートをもっと身近に、楽しく感じてもらうための展覧会。とぐろを巻いた黒板でできた「ループくん」という名の巨大迷路に、山やトンネルがしかけられ、そこに遊びやお絵描き、展示、ワークショップがつめこまれた、楽しいランドスケープができました。来た人は思い思いに走り回ったり、絵を描いたり、彫刻を鑑賞します。黒板はみるみるうちに、真っ白に。「まだ、帰りたくない」と言う子どもたち、粘土に熱中するお兄さん。非日常的なスケールの空間で、みんな、無我夢中で創造力を発揮しました。
2007年
場所:箱根彫刻の森美術館、神奈川県足柄下郡
素材:黒板迷路、人工芝 etc.
製作:泉宣宏社
受賞歴:こども環境学会 デザイン奨励賞、JCD デザインアワード 2008 新人賞
写真撮影:坂田峰夫
Hakone Art Loop
~ play, experience, exhibit, draw ~
This exhibition is designed for children and adults to feel and enjoy art more closely and freely, using their bodily senses. The space consists of a huge maze; a long, coiled blackboard strip called “Mr. Loop”, punctuated with bumps and tunnels. Play, experience, exhibit, draw… these activities are integrated in this unique landscape. Visitors are free to act and play in their own ways. Kids run around, climb over bumps, crawl into tunnels, draw and scribble on “Mr. Loop”. Adults find artworks and start making huge clay models. It is so much fun that everyone wants to play and stay longer. The blackboard strip will soon become white, full of drawings, scribbles and graffiti that visitors made. In this unique art wonderland they are all free to make the most of their creative energy.
2007
site: Hakone Open-Air Museum, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa, Japan
materials: blackboard maze, plastic lawn, etc.
construction: Izumi Senkosha Inc.
awards: ACE Incentive Award 2008, JCD Rookie Award 2008
photo: Mineo Sakata