TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2019 Preview

 

Preview Ticket Pre-order Details:

Commemorative TABF x Steven Alan Keychains – Available for Preview guests only, first-come first-serve.

TABF Preview Event Time: Friday, July 12 2019, 3:00 – 9:00 PM.

Admission Ticket Fee: 1,000 JPY (tax incl.)

 

Please go to the page found at the following link to make your reservations: https://peatix.com/event/731111/
(*Clicking on the above link will transfer you to an external webpage.)

 

It’s almost time to kick off the TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2019 – and to commence with the festivities, we will be hosting the TABF Preview event on Friday, July 12th!

 

2019 signals the 10th year of the Tokyo Art Book Fair, and for this year’s event we will be relocating to the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo – newly reopened from renovations last spring. The TABF serves as a point of convergence for approximately 300 different local and international exhibitors of unique art books and ZINES – publishers, galleries, artists, and more – who use the fair as a platform to portray the allure of their publications.

 

The Preview doors open on Friday at 3:00 PM, and will be home to number of events that guests are sure to enjoy. Among them are this year’s Guest Country exhibition and talk series – with this year’s program focusing on the United States – together with live music performances by Ohzora Kimishima, Yuta Orisaka, Eiki Ishibashi, and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto (more details here).

 

And for guests to Friday’s Preview, we will be distributing limited-edition TABF x Steven Alan commemorative keychains – created in collaboration with the artist Iris de Moüy, illustrator Noritake, and the photographer Takashi Homma. Quantities are limited and it’s first-come, first-serve, so come and claim yours while you can! We hope that everyone is as excited as we are.

 

 

*Guests who pre-ordered Preview event tickets will be guaranteed a TABF x Steven Alan keychain.

*Each guest will receive one out of three different keychain varieties. Please note that guests cannot select what variety of keychain they receive.

*Tickets quantities are limited to two tickets per person/reservation.


Artist Profiles


Iris De Moüy / Artist

Iris de Moüy is an artist who lives and works in Paris. She is known for publishing children’s books with École des Loisirs and has undertaken assignments for brands including Le Bon Marché, Hermès, Bonpoint and Air France. Her drawings have been exhibited in Paris and Kyoto, where she was a resident at the Insititut Francais Japan’s Villa Kujoyama artist-in-residency program in 2015.

www.irisdemouy.com

 

 

Noritake / Illustrator

Noritake is an illustrator based in Japan, and creates illustrations for advertisements, publications, magazines, fashion pieces, murals, and other projects both in Japan and abroad. Noritake is similarly active in other fields of art such as in design and art direction, while also designing notebooks and other goods making use of his illustrations.

www.noritake.org

 

 

Takashi Homma / Photographer

Born in 1962 in Tokyo. Homma is the author of an impressive body of photography publications, among them including “Tanoshii Shashin: Yoi ko no tame no Shashin Kyoshitsu” (Fun Photography: A Photography Class for Good Children). Recent work collections include TRAILS and THE NARCISSISTIC CITY, both published by MACK. Homma has two new volumes slated for publication in 2019, “Symphony sono mori no kodomo mushrooms in the forest” and “Corbusier’s Window” (both tentative titles). Homma currently serves as visiting professor at Tokyo Zokei University’s Graduate School program.

 

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Notes regarding Keychain Distribution:

*Novelty keychains will only be available on Friday, July 12th. We will be distributing them on a first-come, first-serve basis at the venue reception desk.

*Pre-sale tickets are valid only for Friday, July 12th. Same-day tickets are also available for purchase at the venue.

*Admission to the TABF during the main fair period (from Saturday, July 13thuntil Monday, July 15th) will be free of charge.

*Those who preordered Preview event tickets but do not actually attend the event will not be able to claim a novelty keychain.

*We are unable to ship novelty items, regardless of the circumstance.

 

 

 

Novelty keychains provided with support from Steven Alan.