02 February 2012

10 Years of nendo

nendo picked 50 projects to mark a decade of work in a solo exhibition held in Tokyo.

In December last year, nendo celebrated a decade of work with an exhibition in Tokyo titled "50projects_25objects + 25spaces".

The exhibits were picked from a list of 230 projects. What made it particularly meaningful, says nendo, was that most of the selected pieces were being shown in Japan for the first time.

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The exhibition, which occupied 2 gallery spaces at the Roppongi AXIS Building, outlined the concepts and processes for each design.

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Transparent, hollow carbonate sheets were stacked to make a wall in front of each item displayed. The resulting pixelated effect meant that visitors had to go around the back of each 'wall' to view the work.

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The degree of pixelation varied with the angle through which viewers looked through the polycarbonate, providing a constantly changing vision of the work as they moved around the gallery space. Some 'walls' also overlapped, creating an exhibition environment in which the view changed like a kaleidoscope.

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The studio says this exhibition gave them a great opportunity to review the projects they had done over 10 years and was also aimed at opening the way for further developments in the future.

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For those who missed "50projects_25objects + 25spaces", nendo is currently holding 2 exhibitions in Paris (at Carpenters Workshop Gallery and Pierre-Alain Challier), even while it is busy preparing for yet another for the Milan fair!

Watch for our upcoming interview with nendo's Oki Sato.

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