Editor's Note by Takeshi HIRATA

Books and art go together. Nevertheless, probably I have never seen such an elaborative exhibition which is held at an antiquarian bookstore operated actually. In this exhibition, all the installations which were made up of books and plants and every project conducted using bookmarks were created by utilizing books which are sold in the secondhand bookshop actually. Particularly, one installation, in which strings connect bookmarkers and books which are displayed on the bookshelves in the store and are bundled together on the floor, seems to be a garden which is filled with the colorful bookmarks. If you see these brightly-colored bookmarkers which have been hidden inside of the books, you would feel the temptation to look into each of the books by following the bookmarks one by one. Yes, through this exhibition, we do book-gathering (not mushroom-gathering!). The close relationship between the antiquarian bookstore and modern art which is shown in this exhibition is like that between books and bookmarkers. For your information, this exhibition is held only on Saturday and Sunday. The venue is located in an obscure place in a residential area. Therefore, I recommend you to make sure the place on a map before visiting the exhibition. And if you get lost on the way to the venue, I suggest you to put “bookmarks” on streets on your way.
(Translated by Nozomi Nakayama)