TOKYO BUDDHA

Known for his eye-catching work that takes a humorous and ironic slant on society, such as a grasshopper that suddenly appeared at the Yokohama Triennale, contemporary artist Noboru Tsubaki will make Buddha appear in an office building in Tokyo.

I believe that if there is a question, it is the intellectual activity of human beings to seek a solution, but I sometimes feel such a solution may not take the form of an answer but instead be found in phenomena that appear unintentionally as an extension of play. This may be the reason why I have continued to make objects such as insects and soft fetuses on a gigantic scale (which is key to their success) as commonplace icons. The fact that this idea came to fruition in “TOKYO BUDDHA” through an accidental collision with AR 3 Brothers led me to a sense of revisiting the incident of fighting a giant grasshopper at the Yokohama Triennale but with infinite possibilities. It’s okay to ignore the meaning of the site and create random phenomena. (Noboru Tsubaki)

Development：AR3Bros.

(As of July 2021)

1: “TOKYO BUDDHA” Development：AR3Bros.
2: “We’ll meet again 2020” 2019, HOW TOKYO BIENNALE exhibition
3: “We’ll meet again 2020” Artwork Image
4: “Insect World -Locust-” 2014, grounds of former Tokyo Denki University

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