51% | Exhibition 'Surely Someone Will Pick It Up' held
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April 7, 2015

51% | Exhibition 'Surely Someone Will Pick It Up' held


51% | Five-Tenths One-Part

Like sculpture, yet not sculpture; like craft, yet not quite craft.


Special Exhibition "Someone Will Surely Pick It Up" Opens



"Art, it's difficult to explain, but perhaps it exists in small, weak, ephemeral things, things that might go unnoticed, and perhaps those are the things that draw closer to us."—Akito Akagi
51% TokyoAt 51% Tokyo, a lifestyle concept store in Jinbocho, Tokyo, the special exhibition "Someone Will Surely Pick It Up" will be held starting Saturday, August 3rd.



Text by Makoto Kajii (OPENERS)Photographs by Tatsuro Hirose, SHINCHOSHA




Featuring works by artists currently featured in "Geijutsu Shincho" magazine.

Like sculpture, yet not sculpture; like craft, yet not quite craft.—This special exhibition, "Someone Will Surely Pick It Up," is held in conjunction with an article in the August issue of "Geijutsu Shincho" (released July 25th), where Wajima lacquerware artist Akito Akagi interviewed six artists who create such "fragments."

Alongside works by Chihiro Akino (metalwork), Ayako Ueda (stone carving), Koji Kumagai (ceramics), Tomoko Hayashi (mud painting woodwork), Mie Yokouchi (lacquer), and Ryo Watanabe (metalwork), Akito Akagi's objet d'art will also be specially exhibited.

51% Tokyo | Special Exhibition 02

51% Tokyo | Special Exhibition 05

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All artists will be present on Saturday, August 3rd.

51% Tokyo, the organizer, expressed their enthusiasm: "These are not everyday vessels or tools. They are presences that somehow attract us and speak to us. We hope you will enjoy the time spent contemplating how to bring such things into your own life and how to incorporate them. We hope you will enjoy the time spent contemplating these things."

Event Day | Saturday, August 17th: Okazu Design "Lemonade Stand"
Artist Attendance Days | Chihiro Akino: August 3, 4, 17; Ayako Ueda: August 3; Tomoko Hayashi: August 3, 17, September 7; Mie Yokouchi: August 3, 4, 17; Koji Kumagai: August 3; Ryo Watanabe: August 3. *All artists will be present on Saturday, August 3rd.

Special Exhibition "Someone Will Surely Pick It Up"
Period | Saturday, August 3, 2013 – Saturday, September 7, 2013
*Closed Thursdays and August 10-16
Curated by | Gallery SU (www.gallery-su.jp)
Location | 51% Tokyo
1F Takeda Building, 1-37 Kanda Jinbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Tel. 03-5577-6293
Hours | 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM
http://5wari1bu.jp/