I loved the Paper show at Meguro Museum of Art. There is a whole wall of Naoki Terada's 1/100 architectural scale paper people mounted in tiny clear cubes (no photos allowed!). Each one is complete scenario stripped down to its most basic elements. The one called "Shibuya" was just a dog, sitting at attention. Some were grouped, like the couple that dates then breaks up after increasingly desperate apologies, and then there's the poor figure who gets sicker and sicker in works titled “Drank a lot,” “Are you okay?” “Seriously, are you okay?” and “Call an ambulance.” Others stood alone, like “Catching an escaped monkey,” and “A quick nap,” with an office worker dozing under a desk. To get so much humor and pathos into these tiny, featureless die-cut paper dolls was amazing. The other one I really loved was the butterflies alight on old books by Ryosuke Uehara and Yoshie Watanabe. There's mass-market stationery based on this work. How tawdry! Who would buy such a thing from the museum gift shop? Oh, uh, me.
Lots of neat things from Yasuhiro Suzuki. I've run into his whimsical flipbook drawings and realistic paper sculptures twice in the past week. I also liked his video installation of waves projected onto open books, Books on the Edge.
Those paper bowls by Torafu Architects have never done much for me, but people love them. There are are 400 of them hanging from the ceiling.
The show is on til September 8. The museum is about a 10-minute walk from Meguro Station or 15–20 from Nakameguro. I'd recommend bringing a bathing suit and hitting the municipal pool next door.
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