{"id":3888,"date":"2024-03-05T18:46:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T17:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/?post_type=exhibition&p=3888"},"modified":"2024-04-22T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T16:00:58","slug":"ikko-tanaka","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/en\/ausstellung\/ikko-tanaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Ikko Tanaka"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\t\n\t\tEvent period : <\/span>27.10.2017 – 18.02.2018<\/span>\n\t<\/span>\n\n\tLocation: <\/span>Nuremberg<\/span>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Ikko Tanaka<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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View of the exhibition, Ikko Tanaka. Posters from Japan, Neues Museum Nuremberg, 2017.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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About the Exhibition<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Ikko Tanaka (1930-2002) is still considered one of Japan\u2019s most influential graphic designers. He founded his studio in Tokyo in 1963 and a year later he took part in documenta 3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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His diverse oeuvre ranges from book designs and typographic experiments via art direction for companies like Seibu, Mazda and Shiseido, to logos and exhibition designs, through to the concept for no-name design store Muji. Outside Japan, he is best know for his posters, designed for theater and dance productions, exhibitions and other cultural events, social and environmental issues, but also for font foundries and fashion designers. The selection draws a distilled picture of the manifold aspects in Ikko Tanaka\u2019s poster oeuvre.

His style can be described as forceful and clear, expressive and harmonious, boldly abstract and sublime, deceptively simple. A fresh take on Japanese aesthetics is clearly identifiable, as are western sources of inspiration, including the Bauhaus. East meets West, as one of his books about Issey Miyake was titled, also applied to the activities of Ikko Tanaka, who always saw himself as a mediator between Japanese culture and the West.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/content-reveal>\n\n\t\t

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