GINZA SIX, located on Ginza Rokchome, has a triangle pattern in the same colors over the GSIX logo.
Further inside, a matrix of blue and white, red and white triangular flags tilts down from a high dome in the atrium as GINZA SIX promotes its first anniversary.
Let's jump ahead a year, to April 20, 2017, when GINZA SIX, Ginza's largest mixed-use commercial facility, had its grand opening. Fashion, food, humanities, and art, this place will satisfy your every need. Business and art have truly reached *** birth at GINZA SIX.
If GINZA SIX is compared to a human being, he is born with a golden spoon.
Yoshio Taniguchi, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Renzo Sakakita, Kenya Hara, Shiso Nanjo, and Gwenael Nicolas are a superb lineup that seems a little too glamorous for any place. In their hands, GINZA SIX was destined to be extraordinary from the start.
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GINZA SIX is designed by Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi, and the Horyuji Treasure Hall of the Tokyo National Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tokyo Metropolitan Kasai Rinkai Aquarium, and the Heisei Chishin Hall of the Kyoto National Museum are all part of his magnificent resume of work.
Yoshio Taniguchi introduced the traditional Japanese concepts of "eaves" and "warm curtains" to the architecture of GINZA SIX. Each high floor of the building's office area is designed with a stainless steel "roof" to emphasize horizontal consistency. Correspondingly, on the lower floors of the retail space, the six brand fronts located side-by-side on the central avenue are designed as 'warm curtains'.
The relationship between the "roof" and the "warm curtain" is also one of change and constancy. The "eaves" will remain forever, while the "warm curtains" installed under the "eaves" will evolve according to the design needs of different brands. This concept is also more in line with the needs of commercial buildings.
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In designing the GINZA SIX logo, Kenya Hara continued the quiet, minimalist style of Yoshio Taniguchi's architectural design.
He simplified the name "GINZA SIX" to "GSIX", and used simple elements in the font design, even in the details, without a trace of complexity or cumbersomeness. "It is because of the simplicity that it can be applied to all scenarios, such as traditional culture, high technology, contemporary art, etc., and not just luxury and fashion." This is Kenya Hara's understanding of minimalism. In terms of color, only the initial "G" is in gold, and for Kenya Hara, who has worked in Ginza for 33 years, there is no better color to represent Ginza than gold.
In fact, Ginza has never lacked for art. Since the 1960s, there have been many galleries selling modern art, and today Ginza is known as a gallery district, where commerce and art **** exist.
The director of the Mori Art Museum, Shiso Nanjo, as the supervisor of GINZA SIX, has given GINZA SIX the same purpose as the Mori Art Museum - "Art & Life, bringing modern art closer to you". Art shouldn't be a thing for the rich to enjoy alone, and it's more fun to enjoy art in a relaxed environment of shopping.
He invited Yayoi Kusama to design a new polka-dot main artwork for the atrium - "Pumpkin"; Team lab set up a digital waterfall video work running through several floors - "Universe of Water"; "Particles on the Living Wall"; and "Universe of Water". Particles on the Living Wall," a digital waterfall installation that runs through several floors at Team lab; and "Living Canyon," Patrick Blanc's soil-less greenery that adorns the stairwell. These new modern artworks alone are both visually appealing and full of creativity, giving you plenty of reasons to take a stroll through GINZA SIX.
With GINZA SIX celebrating its first anniversary, it's only natural to celebrate. In fact, back in early April, a series of special events were in full swing, leading to the scene we started with.
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Taking over from its predecessor, Yayoi Kusama's Pumpkin, this time it's a brand-new piece of artwork by Paris-based French artist Daniel Buren for the one-year anniversary of GINZA SIX - Like a Flock of Starlings: work in situ. Each of these small flags consists of a vertical stripe 8.7 centimeters wide,*** with 1,500 red and blue flags forming a rectangle 9 meters wide and 19 meters long. The exhibition runs from April 2nd to October 31st.
Daniel Buren is a spatial artist, and the 8.7-centimeter wide vertical stripe is one of his most iconic elements, used in his paintings, sculptures, murals, and buildings.
In 1986, he created Les Deux Plateaux (The Two Platforms) for the Palais Royal in Paris, where the 260 black-and-white striped marble columns of varying heights in the courtyard are still a major tourist attraction. In the same year, he participated in the Venice Biennale as the representative of France and was awarded the "Golden Lion".
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Terms like "死生観" and "神獣の世界" always seem to appear together with Miu Komatsu's copperplate works, and it is really hard to connect with such a young female artist just by looking at her works. It is said that she was lost in the mountains when she was a child, and was guided by a mountain dog, but the dog did not leave any footprints, so her works depict some kind of guardian deity concept.
Miyu Komatsu's process is fascinating in itself. Before each painting, she puts on a pure white aikido suit. She closes her eyes, meditates, and then devotes herself to painting, a process that is full of spirituality and a strong sense of ritual. By the time the work is finished, the white aikido suit is stained with various colors of paint, and on April 21st, Miu Komatsu performed live in the rooftop garden of GINZA SIX to celebrate the first anniversary of GINZA SIX with a blessing.
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Noh theater is an artistic expression of traditional Japanese theater, featuring dance, chanting, and sung music, and the wearing of masks by the actors during their performances is one of its main features.
Just last year, Kanze Nogakudo relocated their hinoki stage, which has been passed down from generation to generation in Shibuya, to GINZA SIX, where a new Nogakudo was constructed. Kansei Kiyokazu, the current 26th patriarch of the Nogakudo, is a master of Noh theater performance, and is a holder of important intangible cultural properties not only in Japan but also overseas. On May 5, Nogakudo will have a special public performance of "Ranting Kakiyama Fushigi / Noh Earth Spider," which is quite a rare opportunity.
In Ginza, where shopping centers abound, GINZA SIX has an air of distinction.
Not only because of the more luxurious décor and design, the full range of luxury flagship stores, and the quality of fine dining, but also because of the affluent lifestyle options offered by GINZA SIX, which provides close access to art: a variety of art installations supervised by the Mori Art Museum; artworks on display at Artglorieux Gallery of Tokyo on the 5th floor; and an abundance of books on art at Niaoya Bookstore on the 6th floor. art books on the 6th floor of the Niaoya bookstore.
GINZA SIX, Ginza's new landmark for trendy art, is indeed a 6 ?
GINZA SIX, the new Ginza art landmark, is really 6 ?
By | SHASHAJUNMSN
Photos | SHASHAJUNMSN, GINZA SIX
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