Warehouse TERRADA’s PIGMENT TOKYO Presents PIGMENT COLOR PHILOSOPHY Talk Session featuring Nizo Yamamoto, Animated Film Art Director

Nizo Yamamoto, the film art director of numerous animated films including Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, will present a talk with Kei Iwaizumi, Director of PIGMENT TOKYO. Focusing on the clouds and the sky which Yamamoto regards them as important objects in his animation works, he will talk about the emotions evoked by colors of nature, as well as explain the beauty of analog technology in animation works, demonstrating his expertise of techniques. It will be a rare and valuable opportunity to see a glimpse of animation art history of Japan. Please see the following for details for the talk session.

– Title: Colors of clouds and colors of the sky – Scenes of colors brought by analog –
– Speakers: Nizo Yamamoto (Animated film art director) and Kei Iwaizumi (Director of PIGMENT TOKYO)
– Date and Time: August 10th, 2019 (Sat) 4:00 PM- 6:00 PM (Open at 3:30 PM)
– Venue: PIGMENT TOKYO (2-5-5 Higashi Shinagawa Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo TERRADA Harbor One Building 1F)
– Admission: 3,500 yen
– Capacity: 40 persons
– Ticket application process: Advance reservation required / first-come, first-served basis /Ticket booking site (https://pigment.tokyo/workshop/detail?id=169&set_language=en)

PIGMENT TOKYO is an art materials research lab connecting artistic expression both with tradition and the future, and develops the ingredients for that expression – colorants and adhesive vehicles for mixing paints, calligraphy brushes and paintbrushes – in a unique creativity center fusing an art academy and a museum with an art materials store. With pigments in 4500 hues, 200 varieties of aged ink sticks, 50 different vehicles for paint blending, it offers materials of rare and surpassing quality created with techniques from all times and places. Also, PIGMENT is taking unique approaches to research, educate and popularize “art materials,” their “usage,” and furthermore “expression” produced by this harmony.
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