Peace Wall Report 1

Palette Plaza is located facing Fuji Television Studio across the Coastal Way, in the mist of a busy district among many other facilities, such as Tokyo Leisure Land and its Ferris wheel and Toyota Mega Web. On holidays, this area becomes filled with people from the prefecture and vicinities, making it a popular leisure destination after Roppongi, Shinjuku, Ginza, and Ikebukuro. It was decided that The Peace Wall, holding the intention to send messages of love, peace, and happiness in an art form, be put up in this location, where it is likely to gain increasing attention as this area is a newly developed seaside metropolitan area.

For this event, 180 messages were collected from Japan, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and many European nations including France, Germany, Italy, and Austria. Messages from Japan were collected from the prefectural governors, mayors, and art-related individuals. Each message is unique and sincerely written with deep insight, extending to the necessity of antiwar movements and the abolition of weapons, capturing the peace that resides in our hearts, truly deserving to remain in the history of literal expressions.
Additionally, one hundred and seventy-two artworks created by recognized Japanese artists, varying from paintings, calligraphy, decorative paintings, embroidery, to poetry, haiku and other literal works, were collected. In order to achieve the unprecedented task of an open-air exhibition, special research was conducted in Milan, Italy. As a result, identical waterproof replications of artworks were made possible with the use of large size ﾒOn-Demand-Printingﾓ technology. This method was originally utilized by a museum in Milan, which innovatively displayed the insides museum state outside during remodeling through the use of the printings instead of the construction paneling. This was our first such experiment, as we specialize in exhibiting the original works. Furthermore, we adopted a similar procedure to that of Milan when making use of white characters on the red panel, which lends an effect just as striking as the historical monuments seen in Italy. Unlike normal exhibitions, enormous art works were exhibited immediately in front of the viewers, making it easy for everybody, from small children to the elderly, to appreciate them. The season was also appropriate in that the Christmas tree with its red illuminations matched the red paneling, giving the whole facility a unified red and white color contrast.