MOCFA Exhibition Design

This is the first challenge for the exhibition design by the offer from Jennifer McCabe, the director of Museum of Craft and Folk Art (MOCFA). The title of the show is "The Shape Of Things". It exhibits the artworks using "paper" mainly from Asia in the traditional and contemporary contexts. Jennifer and I had a couple of sessions to develop the concept and put it into the physical space layout that placed the traditional artworks in the center of the gallery and the contemporary ones around them. Two different contexts are to be merged by the infinite loop of the spatial layout that we could characterized the show with the art pieces.

At the entrance of the gallery, I designed "Vivid Bitmap of Hand Folded Origami" that visualized the concept of the connection between the tradition and contemporary. I also put some effort to make the unique labels for the artist names. Through the whole exhibition, I focused on the "shadow" of the art pieces to characterize "the shape" and the depth created by the paper materials.

Museum of Craft and Folk Art (MOCFA)のディレクターJennifer McCabeに依頼されてExhibitionデザインに初挑戦。Exhibitionのタイトルは「The Shape Of Things」つまり、モノのカタチ。主にアジアからの「紙」を用いたアート作品を、伝統的、現代的な文脈に合わせて展示する。僕と Jenniferは数回のセッションによりExhibitionのコンセプトを発展させ、中心部分を伝統的な作品たち、コンテンポラリーな作品たちがそれを囲む。二つの文脈のつながりを無限のループの空間のレイアウトに落とし込み、その上で全体の Exhibitionの肉付けを行った。

美術館の入り口の壁には、伝統と現代性を結びつけるコンセプトを象徴した「折り紙によるVividなビットマップ」を制作。また、アーティスト名のラベルには、紙をイメージさせるちょっとした一工夫を行った。Exhibition全体を通して「モノのカタチ」を表現するためにアート作品の「影」を重視し、紙という素材が創りだす奥行きを感じてもらえるように配慮した。