FANCY CREATURES by Tomihiro Kono & Sayaka Maruyama
- The Art of Wig Making 2020-2022
Image credit: Photography : Sayaka Maruyama
Wig: Tomihiro Kono
Model: Aoi
Art Direction : konomad
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Photography | Graphic : Sayaka Maruyama
make-up: Nana Hiramatsu @nanahiram
Model: @camcaat @sikmilky @isabellalalonde @maahleek @n.c.sweet
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Photography :Sayaka Maruyama
Photography : Charlie Engman
Model:Sasha Melnychuk
Collage : Sayaka Maruyama
Photography @ bigotre
Photography @ bigotre
Photography @ bigotre
Photography : Sayaka Maruyama
Wig: Tomihiro Kono
Make-up: Nana Hiramatsu
Model: Chloe @ MUSE models
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ISBN 9780998620503
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Photography : Sayaka Maruyama
Wig: Tomihiro Kono
Make-up: Chiho Omae @lga
Model: Cameron Lee Phan
Photography : Sayaka Maruyama
Wig: Tomihiro Kono Model: Erika & Birds
Photography : Sayaka Maruyama
Wig: Tomihiro Kono
Make-up: Marika Aoki
Venue Vintage Shop : THE FACE APARTMENT
9 Bleecker St NY 10012
Opening hours : Monday - Sunday 10:00-18:00
Photography : Sayaka Maruyama
Wig: Tomihiro Kono
Make-up: Marika Aoki
Model: Cameron Lee Phan, Sirui Ma
Venue Vintage Shop : OTOE
Christal Jingumae Building 2F 2-31-9 Jingumae Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0001
+81 3-3405-0355
Opening hours : Monday- Sunday 12:00-20:00
Photography : Sayaka Maruyama
Wig: Tomihiro Kono
Model: Lulu Kim
@Vacancyproject
Tomi, what is your first memory of glamour? “I bleached my hair with Coca Cola.” Takako Noel captures the unbridled joy of Tomi Kono’s wigs let loose in Tokyo.
New York ☟
Printed Matter
Spoonbill & Sugartown
McNally Jackson Books Prince St. & N4 Brooklyn
International Distibutor is www.ideabooks.nl
ISBN 9780998620527
Idea Code 19239
‘Memorandom’ records the personal expressions of New York-based artist Sayaka Maruyama between 2011 and 2019, including photography, drawings, paintings, collages, objects, and images from her short films. The notions of beauty and other thoughts that randomly pass through her mind have been visualised and then translated into book form by the artist herself, because how each person perceives the world cannot always be explained logically. Maruyama records indefinable emotions and moments, thereby weaving multiple layered dialogues that result in a personal, poetic, and tangible portrait. Includes a conversation between the artist and Anna Battista.
244 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
Short film screening / photography / Painting / Collage by Sayaka Maruyama
@THE SECRET MUSEUM
5-21-2 Jungumae Shiguyaku Tokyo Japan
Wig wizard Tomi Kono has been letting the public loose on his hairy creations. “I think it’s more exciting for people to actually wear the wigs, and get involved. I see them getting very excited and obsessed with their instant hairstyle change.” The second of his touring interactive exhibitions was held in Tokyo and photographer Sayaka Maruyama captured the visitors wigging out.
The title of the wig exhibition in Tokyo was ‘Personas’. I believe hair styles have a big impact on our character. If you change your hairstyle, you suddenly feel like you’ve become a different person. So the starting point was my thought that a wig can be used as a mask on your head. To create multiple personas.
BP: Where did you get your training?
TK: I’m basically self-taught. I started by reading vintage books about hair techniques. YouTube and Instagram are also great tools.
BP: Current kit hero product?
TK: Elnett as always.
BP: Do you have a favourite hair gadget?
TK: Recently I’ve become obsessed with using a Razor to cut hair.
BP: What does the word glamour mean to you?
TK: Obsession of beauty.
BP: What is your first memory of glamour?
TK: I bleached my hair with Coca Cola.
BP: Living, dead, real or imaginary … who has the best hair-do?
TK: David Bowie.
More Articles about the interactive wig exhibition in Tokyo:
Dazed BeautySayaka Maruyama
memorandom 0
Artistic practice 2011-2019
New York-based artist Sayaka Maruyama (b.1983) is a multi-disciplinary artist who translates her notions of beauty into photography, drawings, books, and short films.
"Life as a whole is a collective box of emotional experiences. "
"memorandom" records the personal practices of Sayaka Maruyama between 2011-2019, includ- ing photography, drawings, paintings, collages, objects and extracted images from her short films. The ideas and thoughts randomly passing through her mind are visualized in various forms of expres- sion, then translated into the form of a book by the artist herself.
Maruyama feels it is more natural for her to in- stinctively translate her vision into images rather than into words.
Rather than being completed and finished, these images retain all the beauty of the non-finito, they are still in the process of becoming and escape the trap of being categorized in a specific form.
"I am simply interested in how we perceive beauty in our own perspective, react to it and make visible so that we can share with others."
How each person perceives the world can not always be explained logically. Maruyama gives importance to the act of recording indefinable emotions and moments.
By binding her random memorandoms, these collected images, drawings and fragments of text weave multiple layered dialogues that result in a personal, poetic and tangible portrait of the artist.
"I wonder if each reader will get a different feeling and interpretation of my works while leafing through this volume and in return how my work will be influenced by them."
This is an installation exhibition by Sayaka Maruyama celebrating her first book 'memorandom 0'.
April 12 - May 11 @ (PLACE) by method Tokyo
Opening reception April 12 19:00-21:00
The Art of Wig making vol.2 in Tokyo
April 15 - 27th 2019
Closing Party April 26 19:00-21:00
@ CIRCLE Tokyo
1-3-1 #14 Caminito Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0011
www.wearemethod.com
Toro Vintage Store, Tokyo
April 27-May 4, 2019
A long time ago, there used to be the two ‘KATSURA RIKYU’ (as the finest examples of Japanese architecture and garden design) at opposite poles in Japan. One is 桂離宮 (lit. ‘Katsura Imperial Villa’) in Kyoto since early-mid 17th century, and another is this カツラ利休 (lit. ‘Wig + (Sen no) Rikyu’) in Tokyo existed for only three days in 2019. Imperial villa and ruined factory. High and raw. Classical and punk. Search and destroy. Tradition and illusion. Sun and moon. Wabi and sabi. You and I. In and out. Wig and antiques. Wow and epic!
text refered to t a t a m i
t a t a m i is an independent online marketplace for applied mingei folk art, high-end antiques, or other uncategorized awesome stuff presented directly from Japan. Each item has been individually handpicked across the nation by each tatami’s unique dealer. May the Inspiration be with you.
1-25-9 Aobadai Meguro-ku, Tokyo
konomad editions is happy to announce our first Book & Products fair @daikanyama.tsutaya.art
Books, Posters and T-shirts are available for purchase! Thank you.
*代官山蔦屋2号館アート・写真フロアにて、memorandom 0 期間終了後も数冊のみ在庫のお取り扱いあります。
Creating a good wig is an art form unto itself – and if there’s one contemporary wig maker that’s modernising and reshaping the practice, it’s Tomihiro Kono.
Born and raised in Japan, Kono is the go-to guy for fashion houses like Junya Watanabe and Comme des Garçons, where he created sculptural headpieces from 2014 to 2016 for both mens and womenswear. “It was almost like breaking boundaries of my hair styling,” says Kono, “I had a deep think about how head design can participate in a fashion show in an effective and inspiring way. Shows are fundamentally for clothes, but making a total character from head to toe is very important”.
Despite his fashion world co-signs, Kono’s intricate wig making skills weren’t carved out in a fashion school. Instead, he chose to learn the technical art of Geisha hairstyling from a Japanese master in Uguisudani, Tokyo, an experience he recounts excitedly: “Watching the process of their skilful work is very inspiring. Not only did I learn his techniques, but also the importance and the possibility of learning by oneself. He was a self-taught master and that fact impressed me so much”.
Last month, Kono took a foray in to the art world by opening an immersive exhibition of his creations on Paris’s Rue du Château d’Eau in the 10th arrondissement. Entitled Wigs, the exhibition showcased a selection of his most-valued pieces from towering Rococo-esque wigs in deep pastels to neon elfin crops.
As well as trying to find a new location for his travelling exhibition, it seems that Kono knows exactly where he’d like to take his creations next.
65 Rue du Château d’Eau, 75010 Paris
Articles about this exhibition:
VOGUE ITALIA
DAZED & CONFUSED
OFFICE MAGAZINE
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LIGHT IS CALLING
By NEON O’CLOCK WORKS
Oct 29 - Nov 30 2017
HACO
31 Grand St Brooklyn NY 11249
Wed - Sun 14:00-19:00
Mon - Tue Closed
Free Entrance
NEON O'CLOCK WORKS is a creative unit of
SAYAKA MARUYAMA and TOMIHIRO KONO.
Driven by innate spirituality, inner necessity, and often by impulsive reaction the world they live in, NEON O'CLOCK WORKS explores the mediums of photography, short films, drawings, installations and books.
‘Light is Calling’ is their first installation exhibition in New York showing their earlier box collages produced in 2006 in Japan, as well as screenings of some experimental short films produced in Tokyo and in London between 2006-2012. These box collages were originally made to symbolize the energy of human desires in the form of box-shaped coffins, - more precisely, female desire for beauty inspired by the history of corsets. Dying for their perfect body of beauty, women suffer from the pain by the act of distorting their body.
Each boxes that are put up on the wall all connected with electric cables has a tiny light bulb and are light-up in the evening time that creates somewhat sacred and solemn atmosphere. The pure energy of their creativity filled in each box that has been slept for nearly 10 years in the artist’s closet, is now time to awake, and to be unveiled.
For NEON O’CLOCK WORKS, working as a unit means to them as what Carl Jung said :
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
If there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
They also collaborate with other unique artists, performers from all over the world.
Sayaka Maruyama individually work as a photographer / filmmaker and Tomihiro Kono is well-known for his handmade wigs and distinctive head props he creates for artists / musicians / performing artists.
HEAD PROP by Tomihiro Kono is a documentation of distinctive head prop work produced by Hair and Head Prop Artist, Tomihiro Kono from 2013-2016. HEAD PROP gives a clear indication of the insight and path Tomihiro has followed in his innovative journey for new head designs through his uncompromising approach to his work. Having developed a highly successful international career as a session hair stylist Tomihiro Kono ventures into new territory, not only attempting to produce visually striking head designs, but designs that focus on functionality in the beauty of form.
Articles about book 'HEAD PROP'☟
VOGUE USA
VOGUE ITALIA
VOGUE PARIS
INFRINGE
ANOTHER
DAZED & CONFUSED
10
DOCUMENT JOURNAL
METAL
MUSE
OFFICE
NR
OYSTER
Irenebrination[fashion | architecture | art ]
Hair and head prop artist Tomihiro Kono is launching his archival book and limited edition poster at the office newsstand on Friday, April 7th. Head Prop is a documentation of his design work from 2013-2016, and the book clearly shows Tomihiro's innovative, uncompromising work. Having developed a highly successful international career as a session hair stylist, here Tomi ventures into new territory. He's not only attempting to produce visually striking head designs, but work that focuses on functionality without sacrificing overall beauty.
OFFICE NEWSSTAND
CANAL STREET NEW YORK
Article about this book launch > OFFICE