GEISAI#4 Photo Report

  • Haruna exhibited with some truly gorgeous artwork and winning two scout awards, the Smart Magazine editors’ award and the Mainichi Shinbun Kurikuri award.
  • Now a regular performance? Ore Panda showed up and you cannot forget him after seeing once.
  • Here is Akemi Matsushima, awarded the Toshiro Kawase Prize. Mr. Kawase commented, “I wouldn’t mind decorating my house with her works..”
  • A first-time guest group, Katsumi Naruko Kai, composed of 85 dancers who performed a lively “Soran Bushi”.。
  • As Katsumi Naruko Kai’s performance began their dancing, voices, and music brought the audience to a frenzy.
  • This photo is from “Tokyo Modern Musume” stage performance. The reaction we received in the audience questionnaires was even greater than expected.
  • After Tokyo Modern Musume, KATHY performed a dance.
  • Last minute addition “Near Future Arts Lab” took part and performed Thermal Paper Ink Wash Painting. They had previously taken part in an art battle on “Takeshi’s Anyone Can be Picasso”.
  • “I don’t a stage!! This booth is my stage!!” Hajime Ogushi read poems.
  • Meanwhile, the jury review began. Floral artist Toshiro Kawase looks carefully through an exhibitor’s portfolio.
  • Art critic Noi Sawaragi, who has also been a judge for the KIRIN Award and several other competitions, again took part as a juror.
  • Miki Furukawa was the only female juror at GEISAI#4 and took her time examining the work.