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2018 4.11│Wed│水│- 5.28│Mon│月│−5月6日（日）は20：00まで）
休館日│毎週火曜日 ※5月1日（火）は開館 開館時間│10：00−18：00（毎週金・土曜日、4月28日（土）︵東京・六本木︶Kokuritsu-Shin-Bijutsukan

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Closed│Tuesdays（Except May 1） Opening hours│10:00-18:00 (10:00-20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays, April 28-May 6; May 26 until 22:00)※Last Admission 30 minutes before closing Venue│The National Art Center, Tokyo, Special Exhibition Gallery 2E Admission free
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Imagine some 300 koinobori（carp streamers）designed by Reiko Sudo, one of Japanʼs
preeminent textile designers, vigorously swimming around the gallery. Taking her
inspiration from the traditional Japanese koinobori event, Sudo created this collaborative
project with French exhibition designer Adrien Gardère, and presented the work at theJohn F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. in 2008 and theGuimet Museum in Paris in 2014. For Sudoʼs new version of the work, produced for
the National Art Center, Tokyoʼs largest gallery（2000m2 wide, 8m high）, she will join forces

with Seiichi Saito, a noted member of Rhizomatiks. For everybody to better enjoy andparticipate in the installation, a hands-on experience corner will also be set up at thevenue. Donʼt miss this opportunity to enjoy the multicolored koinobori as they comealive “now!” in this incredible atmosphere.

Reiko Sudo＋Adrien Gardère, Koi Current, 2014, Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet Installation View

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Exhibition highlights
１│One of the largest installations so far
Approximately 300 koinobori designed by Sudo, and supervised by NUNO, are exhibited at once. The display
takes up the entirety of the largest exhibition room（2000m², ceiling height 8m）at the National Art Center, Tokyo（NACT）, when you walk in, it looks like all the koinobori are “swimming around” the gallery.

２│The ﬁrst collaboration in Japan
Sudo has collaborated with exhibition designer Adrien Gardère in Washington D.C. and Paris in the past. In thisexhibition, Saito joins these eﬀorts, realizing their ﬁrst collaboration in Japan.

3│Hands-on experience cornerAt the venue a hands-on experience corner will be set up, with free special tools allowing visitors to enjoy andcreate koinobori at any time. Moreover, another special area will be provided for everybody to actually feel andtouch the textiles used to make the koinobori, and to learn more about their respective titles and origins.

4│Talk events
The event will feature exhibition-related talks by Sudo and Saito, along with Gardèreʼs ﬁrst lecture in Japan.
During the exhibition, Sudo also plans to hold a koinobori workshop.

5│Special sound program for the Roppongi Art Night 2018
In a special program part of the Roppongi Art Night 2018 on May 26（Sat）, this installation will be given soundby softpad. Details will be posted on the museum website as soon as they are ﬁnalized.

Related Events
Special Talk 1│Adrien Gardère
Date│Apr. 11（Wed） Time│14:00-15:30（doors open at 13:30）
Venue│The National Art Center, Tokyo, Auditorium 3F Capacity│Limited to 260
Admission free, no registration required *English / Japanese consecutive interpretation

Special Talk 2│Reiko Sudo ＋ Seiichi Saito
Date│May. 13（Sun） Time│14:00-15:30 Venue│The National Art Center, Tokyo, Special Exhibition Gallery 2ECapacity│Limited to 100
Admission free, no registration requiredWorkshop│Koinobori Now!
Date│Apr. 29（Sun） Time│13:00-16:00 Instructor│Reiko Sudo
Participation free, registration required*Conducted in Japanese *Application process details will be announced on the website when approved.

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Artist Proﬁles
Reiko Sudo
Tex tile de signe r. Sudo was born in Ishioka Cit y in Ibaraki
Prefecture in 1953 and lives in Tokyo. From 1984, when she helped
establish the textile manufacturer NUNO Corporation, Sudo
applied novel techniques to create a range of textiles. In 2005
she received her honorary master's degree from the UCA arts
college in the United Kingdom. In 2006 she handled textile design
at the Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo, which granted her the Mainichi
Design Prize. Since 2008, Sudo has been involved in fabric project
development at Ryohin Keikaku Co.,Ltd., and since 2016 anadvisory board member of MUJI. In addition, she has provided Reiko Sudo, Trap Circle, 2015, Photo: Sue McNabdesign advice on textile development to businesses and the like. The rich expressiveness of her fabrics gainedwide appreciation, and her works have been exhibited in such places as the Museum of Modern Art, New York;the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Victoria and Albert Museum,London; and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Many exhibitions are held both in Japan and abroad.
Sudo is a Professor at Tokyo Zokei University, Visiting Professor at Central Saint Martins, and Director ofNUNO Corporation.

Adrien Gardère
Exhibition designer. Gardère was born in Paris in 1972, where
he still lives. He established Studio Adrien Gardère in 2000. His
focus ranges from product design such as lighting to exhibition
design of art galleries and museums in countries all over theworld. As an example of his work so far, Gardère was responsible
for the renovation of the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo in 2010,
the Lembé Annex opening in 2 012 , the design of the Alber t
Giacometti ʼs retrospective exhibition held in the Yuz Museum
Shanghai in 2016 and so on. As an ongoing project, he is working
on the design of the Narbonne Roman Antiquities Museum with
Foster and Partners, and a project for the Royal Academy of Artsof London in collaboration with David Chipperﬁeld.

Reiko Sudo + Adrien Gardère, Fantasy in Japan Blue,
2017, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,Washington D.C. Installation View

Seiichi Saito
Representative director of Rhizomatiks Co., Ltd.; president ofRhizomatiks architecture. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1975,
Saito now lives in Tokyo. He studied architectural design atColumbia University and started activities in New York. Later, hisselection as an artist in the 2003 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
provided the cue for him to move back to Japan. Saito founded
Rhizomatiks in 2006. Since then, with a way of thinking shaped byarchitecture, he has continued to produce interactive works in theart and commercial ﬁelds. He was a judge on the Branded Contentand Entertainment Division of the 2014 Cannes Lions Awards, Reiko Sudo + Seiichi Saito, Movie still from NUNO: Lost andFound（Tsuruoka Fabric Industry Cooperative）, 2016ser ved as the 2 015 Milan Expo Japan Hall Theater Content
Director, and was the Roppongi Art Night 2015 Media Art Director. In addition, Saito is in charge of HP andvideo production at NUNO Corporation, where Sudo is the director.

Sound：softpad

Koinobori Now! Installation by Reiko Sudo, Adrien Gardère and Seiichi Saito4SummaryExhibition title

Koinobori Now!

Installation by Reiko Sudo, Adrien Gardère and Seiichi Saito
Dates
ClosedOpening hours

April 11（Wed）– May 28（Mon）, 2018
Tuesdays（except for May 1）
10：00−18：00*10:00-20:00 on Fridays, Saturdays, and April 28 – May 6*Open until 22:00 in conjunction with the Roppongi Art Night 2018 on May 26（Sat.）

Venue
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Inquiries*Last admission 30 minutes before closing

The National Art Center, Tokyo（Kokuritsu-Shin-Bijutsukan）, Special Exhibition Gallery 2E
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Information about the related events will be announced as soon as details are decided.
For the latest information, please visit the NACT Website (http://www.nact.jp/english/).
Access●Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line, Nogizaka Station（C05）,
direct access from exit 6●

Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line, Roppongi Station（H04）,
approximately 5 minutes walk from exit 4a●Toei Oedo Subway Line, Roppongi Station（E23）,
approximately 4 minutes walk from exit 7*No parking

Kokuritsu-Shin-Bijutsukan
7-22-2 Roppongi Minato-ku Tokyo 106-8558

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