TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA now! design à vivre 2012 CREATOR OF THE YEAR

Tokujin Yoshioka receive the award of now! design à vivre 2012 CREATOR OF THE YEAR by Maison & Objet, Paris. Each year, Maison & Objet gives this award to one creator who is acknowledged as the most influential and who has made an impact on world's creative scene.
Tokujin extends his sincere appreciation to all people and companies who have been giving the warm encouragement and kind support, which have been a source of his creative inspiration, and have realized the reception of this award.

In honor of this award, Tokujin Yoshioka's exhibition will be held at Maison & Objet.

-Crystalized pieces adopting the randomness or unexpectedness of nature surpasses human's imagination.-
Started since 2007, the "Crystalized Project," on the reflection of "Relationship between power of nature and human beings," tries to create and reveal a new portrait of nature. In the exhibition at Maison & Objet, new pieces, which has not ever been exhibited in the world, will be presented along with a crystalized chair "VENUS - Natural crystal chair," and crystal paintings grown by the vibration of music.

「 TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA now! design à vivre 2012 CREATOR OF THE YEAR 」
Venue：Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre
Location：ZAC Paris Nord 2, 93420 Villepinte, FRANCE
Duration：20th January (Fri.) ~ 24th January (Tue.), 2012
Detail：http://www.maison-objet.com/en/createurs-annee-2012/#tokujin-yoshioka
Website：www.tokujin.com

Musée d'Orsay, Paris - Renewal Project

* Featured in "LE FIGARO" issued on 13th of October, 2011

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, reopened its renovated spaces on October 20th of this autumn.
Tokujin Yoshioka has been participating in this renovation project, and glass benches of his artwork "Water block" is permanently exhibited in the entire space of the Impressionist gallery.

This glass bench, placed in the Impressionist gallery, where masterpieces of Manet, Degas, Monet,Cézanne, and Renoir are displayed, will create miraculous space, where harmonious interaction between history and the present are began.

For more detail:New Project

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum - Logo Design

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum has published their very first Symbol Mark and Logo designed by Tokujin Yoshioka on November 15th.

The cubic architecture of the current museum building, designed by Kunio Maekawa in 1975. Tokujin has designed the symbol mark based on the concept of cube, which connotes "the origin of creation." The color is born from the harmonious combination of the reddish-brown color of the museum exterior, and red, which is a hint of Japanese inspiration.

The Symbol mark is consisted of two kinds; the cubic solid version, and the liner design with the feel of transparency. This design is simple, yet has a strong, clear identity which everyone, from children to grown-ups, all over the wold will feel the familiarity. It is the image of the unification of the history and the future of the museum.  

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is now under its renovative construction, remaining its existing building frame, and will be opening next April.

For more detail: New Project

Musée d'Orsay-Paris

Tokujin is participating in the renovation project of Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, the museum best known for its extensive collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces, will be renewal opening this fall.
Invited by the Museum, Tokujin's work will be displayed in the Impressionist gallery, where masterpieces of Manet, Degas, Monet, Cézanne, and Renoir are displayed.

More information will be released in October.

"Cartier Time Art"

"Cartier Time Art", art directed by Tokujin Yoshioka, is currently held at Bellerive Museum, Ein Haus des Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.

「Cartier Time Art」
Venue：Bellerive Museum, Ein Haus des Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Address: Höschgasse 3 8008 Zurich, Switzerland　
Duration：August 26, Friday - November 6, Sunday, 2011 (Closed on Mondays)
Opening Hours：Tuesday〜Sunday：10:00AM ~ 5:00 PM、Thursday：10:00AM ~ 8:00 PM

For more images:New Project

「TimeArt」

Cartier creates time in an endless pursuit of beauty. The perfect harmony instilled by Cartier's craftsmen refines time itself to an art.

Time
Like light, wind, scent, and air, we can neither see time nor hold it, yet its beautiful rhythm beats throughout each day of our lives.

In today's material world, time has value.
The important thing is experience.
Experience nurtures time. It is the ground on which we grow.
Each memory takes seed in the heart, and the stream of time flows on.

A long history and avant-garde ideas for the future.
Cartier's unique beauty comes from the merging of these two extremes.

I hope their experience here will implant Cartier's new timebeat in each life.

Tokujin Yoshioka

"Cartier Time Art" - Art Direction by Tokujin Yoshioka

The exhibition entitled "Cartier Time Art" will be held at Bellerive Museum, Ein Haus des Museum für Gestaltung Zürich from August 26th, 2011.

This exhibition is to be art directed by Tokujin Yoshioka, who participated as a director in an exhibition of Cartier Collection in 2009 "Story of..." - Memory of Cartier creations at Tokyo National Museum, Hyoukeikan Gallery.

"Cartier Time Art" is an exceptional exhibition that will take visitors on a journey to the heart of Cartier watchmaking. The exhibition unites the largest number of Cartier timepieces ever displayed in public, from its origins through to the present day, and offers a rare opportunity to contemplate Cartier's creativity.

In this exhibition, Tokujin intends to highlight Cartier's unique beauty by merging two key essential elements of Cartier's watchmaking; its tradition of the history, and the avant-garde ideas for the future.

「Cartier Time Art」
Duration：2011.8.26.Fri. 〜11.6.Sun. (Closed on Mondays)
Opening Hours：Tuesday〜Sunday：10am-5pm、Thursday：10am-8pm
Venue：Bellerive Museum, Ein Haus des Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Address: Höschgasse 3 8008 Zurich, Switzerland　
Detail：Bellerive Museum, Ein Haus des Museum für Gestaltung Zürich

「O」for ISSEY MIYAKE WATCH PROJECT

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ISSEY MIYAKE watch project for Seiko Instruments, Tokujin has designed a new watch "O."

His new design for the second collaboration project has realized anon-definitive liquid form like water.
It creates the scenery which only the time itself embraces the wrist of the wearer. For more information, please go to New Project.

Detail:Seiko Instruments, ISSEY MIYAKE WATCH
Release Date：2011.July

Tokujin Yoshioka at Venice Art Biennale

Tokujin is presenting a model of his new architecture project "KOU-AN-Glass Teahouse" and an optical glass bench "Water block" at Glasstress 2011, held during the 54th La Biennale di Venezzia, scheduled from June 4th to November 27th. 

The project of "KOU-AN-Glass Teahouse" originates in the architecture plan of Transparent Japanese House, first presented in 2002 . The idea has been developed into a transparent teahouse, an architecture project incorporating a symbolic Japanese cultural image.
While the completed full-scale work is scheduled to be realized in 2013,  the model of the tea house in 1/10 scale is now presented this year at Glasstress 2011.

「Glasstress 2011」
Venue：Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti,　S. Marco, 2842, 30124 Venezia, Italy
Duration：2011.June 4th. Sat.〜November 27th. Sun. 
Time：10:00 am〜6:00 pm
Detail：Glasstress 2011

La Biennale di Venezia

Tokujin will be presenting his works at Venice Biennale, which will be held from June 4th to
November 27, 2011.

Tokujin's works will be exhibited in the "Glasstress 2011," a cultural exhibition, in which art pieces
created by internationally recognized contemporary artists, such as Zaha Hadid, Jan Fabre,
Huan Zhang, are exhbited.

「Glasstress 2011」
Duration：2011.June.4. Sat.-2011.Nov.27. Sun.
Location：Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, S. Marco, 2842, 30124 Venezia, Italy
Detail：Glasstress 2011

AD FRANCE 「Les 100 qui comptent 」

Celebrating their no.100 issue, the French design magazine "Architectural Digest France" has featured a list of the top 100 'les 100 qui comptent' (people who count) in the design world.

Besides Tokujin Yoshioka, those named in the list included: twenty-one designers including Marc Newson, Phlippe Starck, and Ron Arad, architects, press personnels, institution directors, designer brands, gallerists, auction houses, and many others.

AD FRANCE「Les 100 qui comptent」