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"Into the Space"

An Installation Art Space That Attempts to

Express Japanese Beauty recognized
with BoY Honoree and AMP Award

AKAMURA KAZUNOBU (794-1185), it is said that the creation of it: a vast landscape evoked by a single
DESIGN - WORKS proudly space begins with "setting a stone," that organic form object. The belief is that a
Npresents 'Into the Space', is to say by placing an object in an empty space created in this way is the ideal place
an installation art space focused on space. Also, Ikenobo Sen'o, a master of that humans unconsciously seek.
expressions of Japanese beauty. Japanese flower arranging in the early
Japanese dance performances were modern period, once said: "With a spray One being, like a cloud swirling like a
held at this location and, both before and of flowers, a bit of water, one evokes the great wave
after the performances, audiences were vastness of rivers and mountains." Japan is an island nation that experiences
invited on stage to actually experience the A single object is used to evoke a vast a great deal of humidity. Throughout
installation. landscape that does not actually exist in the year, various cloud formations flow
In "Sakuteiki - Visions of the Japanese that location. When an object is placed in through the sky. In Japan, clouds have
Garden" written in the Heian period a space, a place is naturally created around been an important element of scenery

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