in 1993 in front of the "Nabisu Gallery" in Ginza, Toyko, Japanese artist Tsuyoshi Ozawa opened a small portable gallery space. It was named the Nasubi Gallery (Nasubi means eggplant) and was made in response to galleries like the Nabisu who were charging artists to present their works (rental galleries). Ozawa's Nasubi gallery appropriated an out-moded milk-box structure which was used in Japan for receiving milk at a private residence. The blue box was given a white interior (to look like the conventional white gallery) and has exhibited many artists not only on the street in Tokyo but in bookshops, biennials and other exhibitions internationally. (the Nasubi gallery was included in the Cities on the Move project curated by Hou Hanru and Hans Ulrich Obrist)
Images at: http://homepage2.nifty.com/otafinearts/works/works-ozawa/ozawaworks-nasubi.htm
Posted by delpesco at November 21, 2004 12:56 PM