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时尚、珠宝&手表、生活方式、美容、食品…
精通各种类型的个性丰富的编辑们,在GINZA SIX上闲逛
记述走路发现的乐趣。

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GINZA SIX EDITORS Vol.24（Lifestyle）

如果用一句话来表示银座这个街道的话,也许就是“旧的东西和最新的东西聚集在一起,不断进化的地方”吧。也就是说,在迅速接受国内外最先进的东西的同时,另一方面,经营日本传统手工艺品的老字号共存着的意思。GINZA SIX提出了新的生活方式,其中占6楼大部分空间的银座茑屋书店以“Art Is Life”为主题,其中占6楼大部分空间的银座茑屋书店以“Art Is Life”为主题,提出了前所未有的热情的书店。

平时备齐了约6万册以上的艺术、设计和时尚相关的书籍,走在鳞次栉比的艺术书籍鳞次栉比的“艺术街”,就能切身感受到这家书店的认真程度吧。迷宫般的店内分别分为日本文化、照片、文艺、西洋美术、日本美术、时尚、设计、建筑、杂志,即使不是特别喜欢艺术的人,也一定能遇到触动自己心弦的一本书。

伦敦的Te Modern,还有纽约的MoMA(这么说来,从事MoMA建筑的谷口吉生先生也设计了GINZA SIX的外部装饰设计吧)等高水平美术馆里同时设置的书店更进一步两步的书的阵容当然,充满了在网上购物中无法品味的真实妙趣。

令人高兴的是,自己的著作《艺术的入口》也被好好地放置着。这本书是一本描写欧美艺术家和摄影家相关的为人,书中收录的约150名画家和摄影家相关的书几乎全部齐全。马蒂斯、毕加索、雅科梅蒂、克雷、曼雷、威廉·克莱因……除此之外,在川村纪念美术馆和原美术馆举办的展览会上一举成名的犀牛(以现代艺术为代表的艺术家、殴打书写的文字、线条、记号组合而成的绘画而闻名)的作品集、目录,甚至连绝版书都备齐销售的书店,即使在世界范围内也只有阿谀奉承吧。

那么,就在银座茑屋书店的旁边。…・或者说,你知道“诶,在这样的地方”这个地方有空间吗。入口处只有“THE CLUB”这样保守的信号。说实话,这里和银座茑屋书店一样是CCC(CCC)运营的艺术画廊。对于第一次来的人来说有点难以进入,但我下定决心打开门一看,对面展示了灵敏度高的艺术作品的空间,我觉得有点吃惊。

据说THE CLUB每年以4-5次的速度举办企划展,这次访问的时候巴西艺术家们举办了团体展“DIALOGUE”。现在,以巴黎为据点的田螺和雨使用荧光灯制作的迷你作品《LIGHTNESS》为首,展示了着眼于语言所具有的可能性而将其升华为艺术的知性作品,值得一看。

THE CLUB展示了在日本几乎看不到的作品,并不是面向现代艺术爱好者,而是希望对时尚和文化感兴趣的灵敏度高的人们才能看到,所以能够轻松接触真正艺术的GINZA SIX的好地方。

营造出比THE CLUB更难进入的氛围的是(笑),只有伫立在5楼深处的黑色漆喰之谜一般外观的特别客人才能访问的成员休息室LOUNGE SIX。负责空间和家具设计的是活跃在现代艺术界第一线的杉本博司先生和建筑师榊田伦之先生主持的“新素材研究所”,在让人联想到作为日本现代主义建筑代表性的大仓饭店现在没有的大厅的安定空间里,有《海景》等只有杉本作品展示的空间也让人感动。

最后介绍的是与LOUNGE SIX同一层的“风格产品”的MARK'STYLE TOKYO运营的MARK'STYLE GALLERY。这里是直营店附设的画廊空间,拥有日本在世界上引以为豪的品质、讲究的商品的MARK'STYLE TOKYO,今后也期待着能够拘泥于普通艺术画廊所没有的东西的创意企划。

GINZA SIX为了让大家更贴近艺术,设计了各种各样的设计。据说2017年4月开业之初,草间弥生在中央通风部分的草间弥生先生的艺术品也即将结束。随着春天的到来,新的艺术作品也将在这里设置,所以现在开始期待吧。

Text：Taka Kawachi Photos：Kaori Imakiire Edit：Yuka Okada

To sum up the district of Ginza in a single phrase, I’d say it’s a place with both old and new that’s constantly evolving. In other words, there’s the sense that Ginza quickly takes in the latest from around the country and the world while serving as a home for older established purveyors of Japan’s traditional handicrafts. GINZA SIX exemplifies the character of Ginza itself because it incorporates elements of the latest in art and design to present possibilities for new lifestyles. This is especially true for Ginza Tsutaya Books, occupying a large part of the sixth floor. It takes the “Art is Life” mantra more seriously than probably any bookstore I know.

Ginza Tsutaya Books features more than 60,000 art, design, and fashion titles at any given time. When you walk the aisles of Art Street, as the section is known, with its overwhelming number of art books, you sense for yourself just how serious the bookstore is about art. The interior is like a maze constructed of walls of books on Japanese culture, photography, literature, Western art, Japanese art, fashion, design, architecture, and magazines. Even if you’re not someone who loves art, you’re bound to run into at least one book here that will strike a chord.

The lineup of books is actually a step or two beyond that of bookstores attached to high-end art museums like the Tate Modern in London or the Museum of Modern Art in New York (incidentally, Yoshio Taniguchi, the architect who redesigned the MoMA building in New York, also designed the exterior of GINZA SIX). It goes without saying that the bookstore here is steeped in a charm of authenticity nowhere to be found at online booksellers.

I was happy to see my two-volume series “Art no Iriguchi” on the shelves as well. The two books delve into the characteristics of European and American artists and photographers. The bookstore carries titles on nearly all of the 150 or so people featured in the books, including Matisse, Picasso, Giacometti, Klee, Man Ray, William Kline, and many others. There’s no bookstore such as Ginza Tsutaya Books anywhere else in the world offering books, catalogs, and even out-of-print titles on the artist Cy Twombly, one of the major figures of modern art known for his works of seemingly scrawled letters, lines, and symbols, whose exhibitions at the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art and Hara Museum have brought him significant attention.

Did you know an art gallery is located, in the most unassuming of locations, right next to Ginza Tsutaya Books? You’ll find only a modest sign at the entrance that reads, THE CLUB. Like Ginza Tsutaya Books, it’s managed by the Culture Convenience Club (CCC). It can be a bit intimidating for first-timers, but go ahead and open the door: You’ll be surprised by a spacious gallery, featuring art of the rarest sensibility.

THE CLUB holds exhibitions at a pace of four or five times a year. On my visit this time, the event was “DIALOGUE,” a group exhibition of Brazilian artists. Beginning with “LIGHTNESS,” a minimalist work featuring fluorescent lights by Paris-based artists Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, the gallery is currently showing a number of intelligent works focused on the possibilities of language and the sublimation of language into art. It’s well worth seeing.

THE CLUB shows work one normally doesn’t see in Japan, work not necessarily geared exclusively to modern art fans. Rather, it seeks visitors of keen sensibilities with an interest in fashion and culture. You might say it’s one of the hidden gems of GINZA SIX, a place for casual encounters with authentic art.

I say this laughing, but there’s a place that’s even more intimidating to enter than THE CLUB. That’s LOUNGE SIX, a members-only lounge on the fifth floor, accessible only to special visitors, with an enigmatic exterior of deep black plaster. At the same time, it’s a striking space with a subdued atmosphere reminiscent of the now defunct lobby of the Okura Hotel, which was one of the leading works of modernist Japanese architecture. Designed by New Material Research Laboratory, led by Hiroshi Sugimoto, a key figure at the forefront of the contemporary art world, and by architect Tomoyuki Sakakida, the space is dedicated exclusively to exhibiting Sugimoto’s works, including “Seascapes.”

The final place connected to art I’d like to tell you about is MARK’STYLE GALLERY, on the same floor as LOUNGE SIX and managed by MARK’STYLE TOKYO, which handles “products with style.” This gallery space is established in parallel with the directly managed store. As befits MARK’STYLE TOKYO and its lineup of products, which showcase Japan’s world-renowned quality, the gallery’s much-anticipated exhibitions focus on works not typically encountered at ordinary art galleries.

GINZA SIX strives in various ways to bring you closer to the world of art. From the time it opened in April 2017, Yayoi Kusama’s object d’art has hung from its central atrium, an exhibition now approaching its end. But with the spring comes new art; new works will appear in this space, something we can begin to look forward to today.

Text：Taka Kawachi　Photos：Kaori Imakiire　Edit：Yuka Okada