Thu, 02 May 2013 11:00:04 +0900 hourly 1 /release/201305011552 Thu, 02 May 2013 11:00:04 +0900 Roppongi Art Night Committee - A total of 830,000 visitors, exceeding last year's number, admired the spectacle! - The fifth (*1) annual event "Roppongi Art Night 2013" took place in Tokyo all night from ... Roppongi Art Night Executive Committee
All-night Art Banquet "Roppongi Art Night 2013" in Tokyo Transforms Whole Roppongi District into Ocean of Art, Mesmerizing Large Audience Yet Again!
-  A total of 830,000 visitors, exceeding last year's number, admired the spectacle! -

The fifth (*1) annual event "Roppongi Art Night 2013" took place in Tokyo all night from 10:00, March 23 to 18:00, March 24. A record number of participants gathered for this year's Roppongi Art Night, totaling 96 artists/groups of artists (*2). Moreover, the total number of visitors to all programs at the event reached 830,000 (*3), and the night became a special one for many people, who were able to experience a variety of art firsthand in the streets of Roppongi.

The "kick-off ceremony" announcing the start of the Core Time (*4) on the day of Roppongi Art Night was marked by a sunset countdown event, and the participating artists headed by Katsuhiko Hibino, who had been appointed to the newly introduced position of the artistic director of Roppongi Art Night, came onstage and played a part. The "Lighthouse" monument by Hibino himself also made an appearance at Roppongi Hills Arena. Utilizing as fuel charcoal made from salt-polluted Japanese cedar trees in Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture, which had sustained extensive damage from the ensuing tsunami of the Great East Japan Earthquake, a bright flame burned in a lighthouse all night long. The streets of Roppongi were also filled with other art installations such as 10 "Art Fune (Boat)" produced by up-and-coming artists, each with great individuality, and the "Art Port Roppongi," which makes art appear at nine locations around Roppongi by making use of a local shrine and open spaces.

*1: The third event in 2011 was canceled in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake.
*2: Excluding those who took part only in exhibitions and other events held at participating museums and galleries.
*3: The total number of visitors to all programs at the previous year's event was 700,000.
*4: Core Time is the period of time during which many of the main installations and events were held.
]]> /release/201212219074 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:00:19 +0900 Roppongi Art Night Committee - Tokyo's Representative Art Event, Attracting As Many As 700,000 Visitors - As part of the Tokyo Culture Creation Project, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History ... Roppongi Art Night Executive Committee
"Roppongi Art Night 2013" to Open in March Next Year under Theme "TRIP - Witness Today's Transformation into Tomorrow."
- Tokyo's Representative Art Event, Attracting As Many As 700,000 Visitors -

As part of the Tokyo Culture Creation Project, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture will hold the largest all-night art event in Tokyo, "Roppongi Art Night 2013", on March 23-24, 2013.

An artistic-director system will be introduced for Roppongi Art Night 2013, and Katsuhiko Hibino, an artist, has been appointed to the post. "TRIP - Witness today's transformation into tomorrow." has been chosen as this year's event theme.

Based on this year's event theme "TRIP - Witness today's transformation into tomorrow.", Hibino and other artists will turn their ideas of "excursions of time and space", "elation of seeing the morning after the night before", and "thought for disaster-stricken regions beyond time and space" into some forms as well as into some actions, and a variety of programs will be constructed for visitors to make a trip, along with the artists, around the Roppongi district.

Various places in Roppongi considered as a "harbor/port/terminal", participants will witness and experience sailing into a one-night-only extraordinary trip. On the day, making the works of art by Hibino "the activist" -- molded out of his feelings for the Tohoku region -- a starting point, an "art boat" created by Hibino in collaboration with up-and-coming artists will be navigated through places all over Roppongi. Moreover, a program arisen from the relationship with the local community following observations of Roppongi as a "local" community as well as the works of installation art which make the most of Roppongi streets will be deployed in the streets.

"Roppongi Art Night" has been around for five years (the fourth event) and so far received participation of more than 200 teams of artists. The event has a high profile in various circles as Tokyo's representative art event, and it attracted as many as 700,000 visitors (the total number of visitors to all programs) in 2012.

For the full text of this PRESS RELEASE, visit: www.roppongiartnight.com/en/
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