Art That Makes You Cry Out — Dai Ah!!rt Exhibition
The Dai Ah!!rt Exhibition, now a regular art program produced by Fuji Television, was held at Seibu Shibuya. The full title is “Art That Makes You Cry Out — Dai Ah!!rt Exhibition.” Launched several years ago, the project was previously staged under the title “Ah-ho!”
The exhibition is produced by broadcast writer Mitsuru Kuramoto. It is a delightful art project that brings together works full of surprise, emotion, and humor — the kind that make you unconsciously blurt out “Ah!!” The show applies the “Ah-ho” filter, a playful spin on the Osaka-dialect praise word “ahoya na~” (“what a fool ~”), to add a witty retort to the works of emerging creators. This not only makes each artist’s originality even more striking but also brings the essence of their work to the surface.
“Spinning, Spinning, Spinning, Spinning Ah!!rt.”
The somewhat cryptic tagline “Spinning, Spinning, Spinning, Spinning Ah!!rt” is by the artist Taro Komiya, whose theme is “afterimages.” He presented, side by side, works whose shapes appear to change through rotation and works that appear stationary even though they are rotating. The two pieces on display are as follows.
still life
The first is the rotation of fruit sitting on a table.
Watch the video and it becomes obvious — all the pieces of fruit are spinning at high speed. You’ll surely feel that watching afterimages is fun!
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The second is a game of go on a go board. In fact, out of all the many stones on the board, “only one” is spinning at high speed.
Look very carefully and try to spot it.
How did you do?
For the record, the author watched it in person and could not tell at all with the naked eye… Astonishing!
