◇ Talk Event: August 17 (Sunday) 5:00 – 6:30 pm
Hiroshi Fuji (Artist, Director of the Towada Art Center) x Sumiyuki Nakadai (Managing Director, Nakadai Company Co., Ltd.; Mono: Factory Representative)
Artist Hiroshi Fuji who created the Uncharted Land of the Toysaurus exhibition in Gallery A will talk about the remarketing business of industrial waste, and Sumiyuki Nakadai, founder of the Mono: Factory will talk about the potential of art and waste materials and new ways to look at materials.
* The talk will be given in Japanese only.
Place: Hara Museum ARC, 2855-1, Kanai, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma 377-0027
Entry fee: Free (museum admission required)
Moderator: Kazuko Aono (Deputy Director, Hara Museum ARC)
For bookings or information, please contact Hara Museum ARC.
Tel: 0279-24-6585/Email: arc@haramuseum.or.jp
* Museum admission fee is required for participation in workshops.
Hiroshi Fuji (Artist, Director of the Towada Art Museum)
After completing a B.A. and an M.A. at Kyoto City University of Arts, Fuji joined Japan International Cooperation Agency and worked as a lecturer at the former Papua New Guinea National Arts School. He went on to join an urban planning group, and after that established the Fuji Hiroshi Design and Production Studio. He carries out projects in numerous regions engaging in dialogue and community experiments, such as the Vinyl Plastics Connection (Kaekko) and others. He showed work at the Hara Annual V exhibition (1985) at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, created an on-site work at Hara Museum ARC in 1989, and showed work in the Art is Fun exhibition in 1990 at Hara Museum ARC. He is currently active in Fukuoka and Aomori prefectures. http://geco.jp
Sumiyuki Nakadai (Managing Director, Nakadai Co., Ltd.; Mono: Factory Representative)
After graduating from the Faculty of Science at the Tokyo University of Science, worked at a securities company, then joined Nakadai in 1999. His various activities to expand as a comprehensive recycling business includes ISO14001 certification, auctions of used items, and other ways to kick-start the reuse marketplace. His idea of the remarketing business is based on the “creation of new ways to use and design of new ways to dispose.” He founded the Mono: Factory based on the concept “ideas are born from materials.” In 2013, he received an award from the Good Design Award and the 3P Promotion Forum Special Award. He lectures and provides corporate training at local governments and universities, provides comprehensive consulting on waste materials, and organizes and conducts events that make use of waste. He is a business artist who creates new corporate values.
Mono: Factory http://monofactory.nakadai.co.jp
Nakadai is a company based in Gumma prefecture which does intermediate processing and recycling of industrial waste and industrial waste consulting business, as well as operation of the Mono: Factory and remarketing business optimizing the distribution of things. Every month it brings in 1,000 tons of waste into its Maebashi branch, which is where it processes waste materials, achieving a reuse rate of more than 98%. At the Mono: Factory, which operates on the concept of “Ideas come from materials,” it conducts factory tours, sales and workshops that provide people with the experience of recycling, equating waster materials as raw materials. In 2013, it received the Good Design Award. It has attracted attention as a company that creates uses and designs ways of discarding for “things” that have been judged to be of no worth by companies and individuals.
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The following will be held during this period:
Exhibitions: July 5 (Saturday) – October 5 (Sunday), 2014
* Hiroshi Fuji and the Uncharted Land of Toysaurus Venue: Gallery A
* Big Small Wide and Tall – Selections from the Hara Museum Collection Venue: Gallery B・C
* Pictures That Tell a Story Venue: Kankai Pavilion
Events:
* Kaekko Bazaar Venue: Hara Museum ARC
Every Saturday and Sunday in August; September 13, 14, 20 and 21; and October 4 and 5, from1:30 pm
[Event Information]
Event: Nakadai Ikaho Factory: Mono Factory x Hara Museum ARC
Date: August 13 (Wednesday) -17 (Sunday) Venue: Corridor
Bookings and information: Tel: 0279-24-6585 / Email: arc@haramuseum.or.jp
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Hara Museum ARC
Place: Hara Museum ARC, 2855-1, Kanai, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma 377-0027
Tel 0279-24-6585 Fax 0279-24-0449 E-mail arc@haramuseum.or.jp
Hours: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm (last entry at 4:00 pm)
Closed: Thursdays (except during the month of August) *Closed temporarily in the event of severe weather.
Admission: General (over 12) 1,100 yen, Students 700 yen (high school and university) or 500yen (elementary and junior high), Free for Hara Museum members; 10% discount for a group of 20 or more; Combination ticket for Hara Museum ARC and Ikaho Green Bokujo (except during Golden Week): General 1,800 yen; Students 1,500 yen (high school and university) or 1,400 yen (junior high), 800 yen (elementary) *Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Getting There: By train: Take the Joetsu Shinkansen to Takasaki, change to the Joestu Line, and disembark at Shibukawa. From Shibukawa, ARC is 10 minutes away by taxi or 15 minutes by bus (take the Ikaho Onsen bus to ″Green Bokujo Mae″). By car: 8 kilometers (about 15 minutes) from the Kan-etsu Expressway Shibukawa Ikaho Interchange (in the direction of Ikaho Onsen).