Since its inception in 1986, the Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo‘s bustling Ginza district has been showcasing graphic design of leading talent from home and abroad, becoming a place of pilgrimage for both professionals and aficionados. Part of Dai Nippon Printing, the venue has staged an endless range of exhibitions highlighting not only the work of leading graphic designers and art directors, but also giving an insight in its technical and artistic development and innovation. The gallery 400th exhibition, entitled YOSHIROTTEN Radial Graphics Bio, opens today, and puts the work of Tokyo-based art director and graphic designer YOSHIROTTEN (1983) front and centre. Sought-after by various creative scenes, YOSHIROTTEN is a creative jack-of-all-trades with a diverse clientele that includes musicians, art events and luxury brands. Mind you, he’s also the frontman of YAR, a creative studio based in the Japanese capital, which engages in visual art direction for advertising, events, logotypes, and both interiors and exteriors.
On display on the gallery’s ground floor are works from the creative’s RGB Punk art series which focus on the original experience associated with graphics. An impressive, 60-monitor display work Signal RGB welcomes visitors in a darkened space, and is in fact a larger version of the one initially on display. Additionally, the work RGB Machine is showcased, previously exhibited at last year’s EASTEAST_TOKYO 2023 art event. The gallery’s basement, in stark contrast, is well-lit, featuring an installation called R.G.B. (Radial Graphics Bio) which includes 16 monitors, a luminous floor, three objects and a rock set on a pedestal. The monitor features a video that combines over 500 images selected from graphics YOSHIROTTEN has created over the past 15 years. The combination of 16 types of videos played appears only once, and the scenery that appears there is both coincidental and one-time (on through Mar 23). The show is accompanied by the release of a book with a comprehensive collection of photographs of YOSHIROTTEN‘s extensive work. © superfuture.com
Ginza Graphic Gallery
DNP Ginza Building, 7-7-2 Ginza, Ground Floor (Ginza)
Tokyo 104-0061
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