Shigetoshi Furutani
TOKYO DIZZILY LAND
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When the sign was invented in Japan, it was just a character on a cloth hung from a timber like a flag. Since then, the density of the population has increased, necessitating the signs becoming more noticeable to passengers; this required vivid colours or an electrical fluorescence to attract the people. Tokyo is now a full of electrical signs. Therefore, from the street, signs appear as a mosaic, yet, we can't tell the differences between each sign. It means they have lost the purpose of making signs, but at the same time, I realised that this phenomenon has made an individual image of the city. I was drawn by the point that a new entity has been born unexpectedly when many disparate components were unintentionally combined.
Title: Tokyo Dizzily Land -kiki-
Year: 2017
Size: W 564 x H 841 mm
Medium: C-type print on Metalic paper
Title: Tokyo Dizzily Land -genyou-
Year: 2017
Size: W 564 x H 841 mm
Medium: C-type print on Metalic paper
Title: Tokyo Dizzily Land -mosaic-
Year: 2015
Size: W 750 x H 422 mm
Medium: C-type print on Metalic paper
Title: Tokyo Dizzily Land -landscape 1-
Year: 2012
Size: W 500 x H 400 mm
Medium: C-type print on Metalic paper
Title: Tokyo Dizzily Land -landscape 2-
Year: 2012
Size: W 400 x H 500 mm
Medium: C-type print on Metalic paper
Title: Tokyo Dizzily Land -landscape 3-
Year: 2012
Size: W 400 x H 500 mm
Medium: C-type print on Metalic paper
Title: Tokyo Dizzily Land -landscape 4-
Year: 2012
Size: W 910 x H 610 mm
Medium: C-type print on Metalic paper
Title: Tokyo Dizzily Land -planet-
Year: 2010
Size: W 870 x H 625 x D 120 mm
Medium: Light box