small MUJI exhibition - Enjoying Everyday Items -

🗓️ Exhibition Period: April 26, 2024 - June 25, 2024
📍 Venue: MUJI Plaza Singapura, Open MUJI (#01-10 to 22)

MUJI seamlessly integrates into our daily lives, offering designs that revisit the essence of necessities, stripping away excess, and sometimes deconstructing and reconstructing to craft the fundamentals of living. One of the characteristics of MUJI products is their 'blank spaces', versatile features borne out of continuous creativity and ingenuity.

Within Japanese culture and everyday life, we can glimpse the charm and playfulness inherent in the concept of 'mitate'. By observing, selecting, and likening, we engage with the intentional blank spaces of MUJI products, inviting 'mitate'. The small MUJI exhibition features the work of Tatsuya Tanaka, a miniature photographer renowned for his 'mitate' artistry, who transforms MUJI items into representations of varied life scenes. By picking up an ordinary daily item and shifting your perspective, you can discover a tapestry of life imbued with creativity, whimsy, and humour. His works feature vibrant scene that delights audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

The exhibit presents 16 original miniature works, alongside new pieces tailored to the region and season of the display, and this time, creations modelled after Singapore's landmarks will greet you as you enter this miniature universe. The 'mitate' illuminates the diverse worlds of objects and life with an unrestrained spirit of play. We invite you to fully enjoy this exhibition and immerse yourself in the world of small MUJI.
 
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TALK EVENT & AUTOGRAPH SESSION
(SOLD OUT)

Date : Friday 26 April 2024 (Ticketed Event)
Time : 8.30pm - 9.30pm (Registration starts at 8.00pm)
**Autograph session will commence from 9.30pm to 10.00pm after talk event**

Venue: Café&Meal MUJI Plaza Singapura, #01-10 to 22
Café&Meal MUJI Plaza Singapura will close earlier at 7.30pm (Last order at 7.00pm on 26 April).

In the celebration for the launch of small MUJI exhibition at Open MUJI Plaza Singapura, the artist Tatsuya Tanaka will be presenting a talk, offering a valuable opportunity to understand his creativity and his thoughts on "Mitate". 

Although tickets for the talk event are currently sold out, the autograph session remains accessible to the public from 9:30pm to 10.00pm, operating on a first-come, first-served basis. Kindly bring along merchandise related to Tatsuya Tanaka (miniature life) or purchase items from the series available at MUJI Plaza Singapura starting from 26 April, 10am onwards. Please note that autographs are limited to one item per person.

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Sales of Tatsuya Tanaka's Books and Calendar

Limited quantity available, while stocks last.  
Sales of merchandise from 26 April, 10am onwards at MUJI Plaza Singapura only.

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About the Artist - Tatsuya Tanaka

Tatsuya Tanaka is a miniature photographer and mitate artist born in 1981 in Kumamoto, Japan. In 2011, he started “MINIATURE CALENDAR," an art project in which he reimagines, from the miniature perspective, everyday objects as something else. Since then, he has been presenting his creations every day on the Internet. He is currently holding exhibitions in Japan and abroad, including "MINIATURE LIFE: Tatsuya Tanaka's World of Miniatures," which has attracted a total of over 2.3 million visitors (as of March 2024). He took part in the 2020 Dubai International Expo as an exhibition creator for the Japan Pavilion. Over 3.8 million people follow his Instagram account (as of March 2024). He has authored "MINIATURE LIFE," "Small Wonders," "MINIATURE TRIP IN JAPAN," and the picture books "REASSEMBLE” and "Sushi Came to Buy Some Clothes."