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The article which is called "Artwork made by Japanese patients in care comes to London"  was published on Wednesday 27 March 2013 by Maev Kennedy. This article told about that works of art made of scraps of thread, off-cuts of paper, and cardboard boxes salvaged from a care home's kitchen and carefully smoothed flat have gone on display at the Wellcome Collection in London, in the first exhibition in the UK of Japanese "outsider art". The author underline that when curator Shamita Sharmacharja visited Japan to speak to the artists who made the works she found them slightly surprised that their work was considered art. To them it was just what they do, often in almost all their waking hours. As well as tapestries and paintings, there were an army of diminutive superheroes made from bin ties, pottery lion dogs with bristling manes, and life-size rag dolls representing people who have been kind to Sakiko Kono in her 55 years in an institution.Then author added that none of the works was made to be exhibited, and some of the artists gave their treasures up reluctantly. Takahiro Shimoda, who maked suits painted and embroidered with his favourite foods, sent his fried chicken, salmon roe and pigeon-shaped cookies pyjamas, but insisted on keeping the ones he likes best. Shota Katsube, the wire tie sculptor, loaned a collection of hundreds of tiny warriors, but couldn't bear to part with an even more elaborate piece.It is important to underline that this was the last major exhibition at the Wellcome before the interior of the building, a victim of its own success, was torn apart in a £17.5m project to create new display and public spaces. It opened five years ago expecting around 100,000 visitors a year, but has been attracting five times as many. The exhibition had deliberately been given an untranslatable title, Souzou, which in Japanese could mean either creation or imagination, depending on how it is written.

 

 

It was interesting for me because I do not listen about such type of art! It will interesting to see it!