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IIKAWA Takehiro Decorator Crab – Make Space, Use Space

Decorator Crab – Make Space, Use Space, 2022, Collaboration between the group show Range of the Senses: What It Means to "Experience" Today, The National Museum of ART and solo exhibition Decorator Crab – Make Space, Use Space, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art

This artwork asks visitors to transport bags between exhibition rooms at CAPSULE, Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Takamatsu Art Museum, Tottori Prefectural Museum and LAG(LIVE ART GALLERY), where the artist, Iikawa Takehiro, is currently holding exhibitions.
*You will be asked to sign a borrowing form, etc. at the time of participation.

Decorator Crab – Make Space, Use Space

Decorator Crab – Make Space, Use Space is a work that was created in 2022 to connect two simultaneous exhibitions of Iikawa Takehiro’s work at the National Museum of Art, Osaka and Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, by having exhibition visitors transport a “Very Heavy Bag” on a cart between the two venues. Later that year, it also linked exhibitions at the Hakone Open-Air Museum and ACAO SPA & RESORT. The work gave participating visitors the unusual opportunity to carry an artwork out of the exhibition room, while also turning others who witnessed the scene into an unintentional audience. In the process, the world of art extends beyond the exhibition room, as places outside are transformed into sites of art viewing. Visitors’ actions expand the exhibition space, as well as continually create a new audience.

Participating venues (Exhibitions where IIKAWA Takehiro's artworks are exhibited)
CAPSULE
TitleDECORATOR CRAB: New Display
PeriodSaturday, 1st June – Sunday, 7 July, 2024   
Opening Hours12:00 - 19:00 *Opens only Sat. and Sun.
Closed onMonday to Friday
Lending and Acceptance PeriodSaturday, 1st June – Sunday, 7 July, 2024  
Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery
TitleImagining the unseen everyday
PeriodSaturday, 15 June – Sunday, 1st September, 2024
Opening Hours11:00 AM- 7:00 PM ※Open until 9:00PM on 19, 26 July, 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 August for "Summer Night Museum".
Closed onMondays (except 15 July, 12 August), 16 July, 13 August
Lending and Acceptance PeriodSaturday, 15 June – Sunday, 1st September, 2024
Takamatsu Art Museum
TitlePermanent exhibition
PeriodTuesday, 18 June - Saturday 31 August, 2024 
Opening Hours9:30~17:00  *the museum closes at 19:00 on every Friday and Saturday during the period from 20 July to 16 September .
Closed onMondays (the following weekday if Monday is a holiday)
Lending and Acceptance PeriodTuesday, 18 June - Saturday 31 August, 2024 
Tottori Prefectural Museum
TitleWhat's ART?
PeriodSaturday, 29 June – Sunday 25 August, 2024
Opening Hours9:00AM- 5:00PM   
Extended opening until 19:00 on Saturdays during the exhibition (admission until 30 minutes before closing)
Closed onMonday, 29 July
Lending and Acceptance PeriodSaturday, 29 June – Sunday 25 August, 2024
LAG(LIVE ART GALLERY)
TitleIikawa Takehiro Exhibition “Decorator Crab – Expanded Work”
PeriodFriday, 9 August – Saturday, 31 August, 2024   
Opening Hours13:00-19:00
Closed onSundays, Mondays, Holidays
Lending and Acceptance PeriodFriday, 9 August – Saturday, 31 August, 2024
IIKAWA Takehiro

Photo by Kawata Satoshi

Since 2007, IIKAWA has produced works as part of his “Decorator Crab” series, in which he uses words, images, and playground equipment that viewers can touch and move, thereby creating new experiences in unexpected places. Major exhibitions include Decorator Crab: Measuring the Future, Pulling Time (Kirishima Open-Air Museum, Kagoshima, 2023), Decorator Crab: Occurring simultaneously or awareness being delayed (The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa, 2022).

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