Akira Isogawa
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Curator Katie Somerville of the National Gallery of Victoria has worked with Japanese-born Australian designer Akira Isogawa to create an exhibition of recent work that shows how Isogawa's work is inspired and developed as well as the finished objects. Displayed on cut-out oversized dolls, a key element of the design is the influence of origami, but reinvented anew. The exhibition opened at the National Gallery of Victoria in December 2004, and travels to Singapore in 2005, then to Manila and Bangkok in 2006. "I have so many ideas that it is almost frightening. If I started to write down ideas there would be hundreds or even thousands — so it is a matter of finding something relevant to what I am doing. Ideas are always there in abundance..." Akira Isogawa as quoted in the exhibition catalogue. |
Exhibition design meeting with Akira Isogawa, Katie Somerville (curator) and exhibition designer 2004 Photograph by Fred Kroah |
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Akira Isogawa Printemps-Été exhibition installation 2004 |
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| Akira Isogawa, designer Christiane Lehmann, artist Series of paper dolls (detail) 2004 Paper, collage Printemps-Été collection 2005 Collection of the artist |
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| Exhibition dates and venues: Singapore: 23 June-6 July 2005, The Arts House Manila: 25 January-10 February 2006, Ayala Museum Bangkok: 23 March-30 May 2006, The Queen's Gallery Delhi: 24 March-6 April 2007, Lalit Kala Academy Mumbai: 18 April-6 May 2007, Prince of Wales Museum |
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