“Art Fair Tokyo 2022”, which starts on Thursday, March 10, 2022, as “KOGEI Next”, an exercise to realize the next future of crafts, is crosstech management Co., Ltd. (Head office: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture / Representative Director: Makoto Kitamura), which supports the development of IoT creators and startup business, and The Gallery ( Gallery: Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture), which runs an art dealer in Kyoto. We will exhibit at
At KOGEI Next, we will release craftsmen bound by tradition and present works that are unique to this era that make use of their transcendental skills. The three works of ironsmith Shinya Hongo’s “Visible01”, glass artist Tsunodayuki’s Nettaishimaka, and The Digital Watch by The Swiss artist David Bielander, who lives in Berlin, utilize Augmented Reality technology to capture a digital space that is no longer detached into our lives. Beyond concepts such as analogue, digital, industrial, craft, and country, we will exhibit it as a work of transcendental technique + α that can only be done in this era as contemporary art.