Roppongi Art Night 2013

TRIP →
Today is until you sleep,
Wake up and it’s tomorrow
Night is everything between
Witness it transform!
maginat ion, a child of the dark
Outreaches the hours and minutes
So too does art born of darkness
Sail beyond the straits of time
On this Roppongi Art Night
Art ists’ boats call at Roppongi ports
Laden with imagined treasures
Come sail around with us
For tonight we art ists share
Our precious cargo of vision

Born in 1958 in Gifu City. Completed a special graduate course at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Attracted notice in the 1980s for a cross-disciplinary style, reflective of the times. In addition to creating works of art, he continues to pursue his self-potential, using his body as a medium of expression. Exhibited at the Biennale of Sydney in 1986 and at the Venice Biennale in 1995.
In 2003, [Cultural Affairs Department of Asatte Shimbun Company] was established at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, leading to the launch of activities of the Asatte Asagao Project.
Held one-man exhibitions such as [HIBINO EXPO] at Art Tower Mito in 2005, ["HOME AND AWAY" SYSTEM] at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and [HIGO BY HIBINO] at Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto in 2007. Not confining himself in exhibition rooms at the museums, he also interacted with people from local communities. Having come up with the conception that “seed is like a vessel” by observing how seeds of the Asatte Asagao Project connect people to people and community to community, he builds “TANeFUNe”-boats in Kanazawa, Yokohama, Kagoshima, Tanegashima, and other places.
A three-year project from 2010 to build a boat in Maizuru is ongoing. Also planning a long-term show entitled “Setouchi Kaitei Tansasen Bijutsukan (A Sea Floor Exploration Ship Art Museum) Ototoimaru”, which features a passage of time on the sea floor, at the Setouchi International Art Festival.
By sending MATCH FLAGs that he had created with fellow supporters to the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, he made the stadiums become places for the interaction between sports and art. Focusing on the powers of receptivity in observers of art, he attempts to establish practical mechanisms for art to function in society by creating joint works with workshop participants from the general public in different regions.
Currently, serving as Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts and as a director of Japan Football Association. After establishing a reconstruction support activity “HEART MARK VIEWING” following the Great East Japan Earthquake, he provides people with opportunities to regain some pleasure in making something with their own hands and aims to connect hearts and shared feelings of people.