“Tamagawa art line project”

2007
Tamagawa Art Line Project
Art Line Week 2007

3 November – 11 November, 2007

Venue: Seven stations at the Tokyu Tamagawa Line, Nitta Jinja shrine and Denenchofu Seseragi Park, Tokyo

Participating artists: Katsumi Asaba, Shigeru Uchida, Takuro Osaka, Atelier Bow –Wow + Tetsuya Yamazaki, Kare-san-sui Sorrounding, Yuumi Domoto, Tomoko Konoike, Herbie Yamaguchi, Midori Makishima, Ryoichi Majima, Motoka Watanabe, TSAO Design, Toru Kamiya, Forian Claar, Ryosuke Motohashi, Shigenobu Yoshida

Art director: Toshio Shimizu

Tamagawa Art Line Project is an art project done by citizen, government, and enterprises to create a creative city. We exhibited various artworks and held art events around the Tokyu Tamagawa Line and Ota Ward. The Tokyu Tamagawa Line is a local line with only seven stations, connecting Tamagawa and Kamata in Tokyo’s Ota Ward. It takes only ten minutes for the three-carriage trains to travel from one end of the line to the other. The project consists of three phases, “Art line”, “Art station” and “Art town”. It will be a three-year project and it began with a symposium in late March 2007.

In Art Line Week 2007, sixteen artists and groups joined the project and 22 artworks were created at the seven stations and Nitta Jinjya shrine. Artists –some of them associated with Ota Ward- transformed the seven stations and shrine into art venues.

In addition, most of the artworks are made by many factories and enterprises in Ota Ward. Ota Ward is one of the famous factory areas in Japan.

After the Art Line Week 2007, fifteen artworks will remain at the stations and shrine, please come and see them when you have a chance.

For more detail, please check the following website.
http://www.tamagawa-art-line.jp/

Art Line
Ryoichi Majima “Rainbow Train”
The train decorated with seven colorful vertical stripes run for a month.
Art Station
*already removed works

Tamagawa station
Takuro Osaka “Rainbow Steps”
Atelier Bow-Wow + Tetuya Yamazaki “Infotunnel”
Shigeru Uchida “Sankyo” *

Numabe station
Yuumi Domoto “Range of time”

Unoki station
Tomoko Konoike “Sixth forest”

Shimomaruko station
Herbie Yamaguchi “Smiles of the Tamagawa live”
Motoka Watanabe “Potan”
Ryoichi Majima “Stationmaster Hanao-san”*

Musashinitta station
Asaba Katsumi “Hamaya” , “Nitta daimyoujinn”
TSAO Design “NAGORIISU-made in Ota-“

Yaguchinowatashi station
Toru Kamiya “D85-90D”

*Kamata station
Florian Claar “Thing1+Thing2″
Shigenobu Yoshida “INFINITY LIGHT”
Ryosuke Motohashi “ibk2007″*

Art Town
Nitta Jinjya shrine
Asaba Katsumi “Stone table tennis table”, “Love shrine”