Masahiko Sato- Laboratory Exhibition

Rushing through Ginza I found some time to look at the current exhibition at the Ginza Graphic Gallery (GGG): Masahiko Sato’s Laboratory Exhibition. Some very nice esthetics, analytic views, experiments with typography, 3D and animation.

Masahiko Sato’s overall handmade&workshop feel was very pleasing: him and his students put a lot of devotion and dedication to slicing up a toy pig to then re-create it using sugar-cubes for “digital imagination”, or filming through a slit in a black paper, and then cutting&pasting the little stripe-image to form an image that incorporates motion.

Masahiko Sato built a very charming “Pythagoras switch”- an installation to demonstrate a chain reaction, that unfortunately couldn’t be played with. Overall, I enjoyed the esthetics of the displays but somehow…I couldn’t help feel like I was wandering round a physics fair as opposed to an exhibition…

Masahiko Sato flags outside the gallery

exhibition poster with very beautiful typography

detail of transformined Japanese typography

a visitor playing with a typography installation, that deconstructs kanji

the real and digital pig

camera prepared for filming through a slit

re-composed film image using Taku Satoh's Oishi Gyunyu milk pack

2D- 3D graphics

very cute little green bits...

explaining how he arranged the bits, so that they form a loop animation when being photographed

Pythagoras swich chain reaction installation

5 Comments

1. amazing~ saw this somewhere on video before.. i think it was on bt not long ago..

   Posted by: winsonkoh on March 30th, 2006 at 6:22 am

2. I love it so much. Brilliant stuff!!!!
   looking forward to others new ideas….

   Posted by: Frederick on March 31st, 2006 at 1:59 am

3. thanks for subject. it is very intersting post

   Posted by: nakliyat on February 28th, 2008 at 3:13 am

4. Genius stuff, really refreshing.

   Posted by: Gunter on May 8th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

5. very interesting

   Posted by: halı yıkama on January 11th, 2009 at 8:06 am

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