Acknowledgments謝辞

Credits and acknowledgmentsクレジット・謝辞

We would like to express our deepest gratitude to all parties involved in this project. In particular, our heartfelt appreciation goes to the two Watanabe Eijis, without whose efforts this exhibition would not have been possible.

Art Obulist Executive Committee (acknowledgments in the catalogue)
Organizer
Art Obulist Executive Committee, City of Obu
Planning / Production
Satsuki Yamamoto + Art Obulist Executive Committee
Committee chair
Eiji Watanabe (artist)
Art Obulist Executive Committee
Eiji Watanabe, Takeshi Hosoya, Takahisa Fukaya, Yuki Adachi, Daiki Maeda, Sayaka Kotaka, Yuka Ban, Emi Hirano
Exhibition staff
Naoko Fuyuno, Tomoe Ieda, Yoshio Kadokawa, Hitomi Kamiya, Kiyomi Kamuki, Noriko Kato, Emiko Kondo, Haruka Oi, Aki Ozawa, Yuko Sato, Ken Takei, Toshihiro Tanaka, Keiko Yamaguchi, Yoshiko Yamamoto (alphabetical order)
Special thanks
Akiyoshi Kitaoka, Seiji Bon
Sponsorship
Aisan Industry Co. Ltd., Aichi Koumuten Co. Ltd., Obu Zohen Doboku, OBU UNITY Co. Ltd., Ori to Some no Murase Co. Ltd., Kowa Architect Design Office, Kondo Kentetsu Koumuten, Shinei Denki Co. Ltd., Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. (名古屋製造所), SEIWAKASEI Co. Ltd., TOKAI KOGYO Co. Ltd., Miyoshi Kinzoku Kogyo, The Aichi Bank Ltd. Obu Branch, Nakashima Special Steel / Metalnics Co., Ltd., Daiwa-kiko Co. Ltd., CHITA MEDIAS NETWORK INC.
Catalogue
Editors Satsuki Yamamoto, Emi Hirano / Design Naoko Mizota / Photography Kenji Aoki, Satsuki Yamamoto, Emi Hirano / Translation Andreas Stuhlmann, Adam Simmonds / English proofreading Adam Simmonds / Printing GRAPHIC Corporation / Published by Art Obulist Executive Committee (March 31, 2026)
Photographs
Documentary photographs by Kenji Aoki. Some were provided by the Executive Committee and the exhibitors (credited on each photograph) / Illusion image: Akiyoshi Kitaoka / Flyer: Eiji Watanabe (artist) / courtesy office SONO
Creators of the illusions
Akiyoshi Kitaoka (rotating snakes, “big car” illusion), Kokichi Sugihara (transforming objects), Lana Sinapayen and Hyoyeon Lee (ToLSim), Marcel Duchamp (Rotorelief)
Translation
The English texts of the catalogue (Andreas Stuhlmann, Adam Simmonds) are used for the event data, the lists of works, the biographies, the question box, the related events, the acknowledgments and the quotations from the contributed texts. Everything else on the English pages, including the About page, the timeline, the chapters and excerpts of the talk, the news, the captions and the interface, is a draft translation made for this site and awaiting review. Names are given in Western order (Eiji Watanabe); the catalogue’s colophon uses Japanese order
Line drawings
Approximations of the motifs of the flyer (design: Naoko Mizota)
Site
Masaki Watabe (production site, September 2026), with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic) and ChatGPT (OpenAI)

Photos and quotations写真と引用について

  • The documentary photographs are by Kenji Aoki and may not be reproduced. The same applies to the photographs provided by the Executive Committee and the exhibitors.
  • Akiyoshi Kitaoka’s illusion images themselves (rotating snakes, “big car” illusion) are not shown on this site; the “big car” illusion appears as the base of the test print in the photograph of “Sea of Eden, Fish Liberated from Optical Illusion.” See the creator’s website.
  • The names of the questioners in the question box have been withheld.
  • The talk video is only embedded from, and linked to, the official Art Obulist channel. Quotations of the speakers follow the transcript in the catalogue; their English wording on this site is a draft.
  • Quotations from the contributed texts are limited to one sentence each, with the catalogue page given. The full texts are in the catalogue.

Links関連リンク

About this siteこのサイトについて

The production website (site) records the exhibition after its close and gathers the continuing activities of the two Eiji Watanabes. It is based on sample3, “Parallel”, which is retained as a record. The whole Home page is a single timeline, with the artist on the left, the scientist on the right and the years on the central axis. The design follows the catalogue and the flyer: three colors, blue for the artist, vermilion for the scientist and green for what they share; the artist’s side is set vertically in Japanese. The content has not yet been checked by the executive committee or the two Eijis, and some photo credits and external links are still being confirmed.