Daniel Arsham×Pokémon「Relics of Kanto through time」

■Daniel Arsham Daniel Arsham Arsham

Born in Ohio, USA in 1980, graduated from the prestigious Art Academy, Cooper Union. Currently, he is an artist based in New York. His works range from three-dimensional works, paintings, installations, and performances based on the concept of "Fictional Archeolog Archeology as fictional fictional." MOMAPS1 (New York), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Miami), The Athens Bienniale (Athens), The New Museum (New York), Mills College Art Museum (Oakland), Carréd'Art musée d'artcontemporain de Nevames (Nimes, France) and How Art Museums around the world.
URL: https://www.danielarsham.com/

■NANZUKA

In 2005, he was established in Shibuya, Tokyo under the name of NANZUKAUNDERGROUND as an experimental gallery aiming to connect pop culture and contemporary art. Since then, he has been active as an academic gallery dealing with creativity in peripheral fields such as design, illustration, street, manga, fashion, music, etc. Keiichi Tanaami, Hajime Sorayama, Harumi Yamaguchi, and Toshio Saeki have been re-evaluated for many years outside the Japanese art scene, and strives to introduce them on the stage of international contemporary art. In 2019, the "Tokyo Pop Underground" exhibition, which was held in collaboration with Jeffery Deitch, an American gallerist, became a major international topic as an exhibition that unravels the abyss of Japanese art under a new framework. At the same time, he also focuses on nurturing and supporting young and medium-sized artists from Japan and abroad, and holds exhibitions of leading overseas artists in Japan and overseas, embodying the current state of the global art scene.
URL: https://nug.jp/

■Pokemon

Pokemon's roots are the gameboy software "Pokemon Red Green" released in 1996. The new play, characterized by the collection, nurturing and exchange of Pokemon, gained overwhelming support among elementary school students, followed by a variety of content such as trading card games, TV anime, movies, apps, and more, and their popularity expanded globally. The total sales of game software exceeded 300 million, and the app "Pokémon GO", which was distributed in 2016, reached 1 billion downloads worldwide (as of August 2019), has been loved by a wide range of generations.
URL: https://www.pokemon.co.jp