JUN TANAKA(田中潤) Artworks for Sale

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In 1974, my father started a small factory in Higashi-Osaka City, a town famous for manufacturing, where he dealt with electronic devices. I was always surrounded by industrial product parts and played with them as toys. After graduating from the College of Arts in Kyoto in 1994, I started to help my father's business. At that time, I rediscovered the beauty of industrial product parts and wondered if I could create something with them, which led to the start of MASSANOVAART. Since then, we have been transforming various materials into Robot motif works of art. Robot motif works of art processed from pen blank. We discovered "pen blank," a material used for the body of fountain pens and ballpoint pens, as one of our production materials and were fascinated by its potential, leading to the creation of new concept works. We do everything by hand, from cutting pen blanks, polishing work, drilling holes, and assembling the parts. All MASSANOVAART pieces are indeed one-off pieces.

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In 1974, my father started a small factory in Higashi-Osaka City, a town famous for manufacturing, where he dealt with electronic devices. I was always surrounded by industrial product parts and played with them as toys.
After graduating from the College of Arts in Kyoto in 1994, I started to help...

In 1974, my father started a small factory in Higashi-Osaka City, a town famous for manufacturing, where he dealt with electronic devices. I was always surrounded by industrial product parts and played with them as toys.
After graduating from the College of Arts in Kyoto in 1994, I started to help my father's business. At that time, I rediscovered the beauty of industrial product parts and wondered if I could create something with them, which led to the start of MASSANOVAART.
Since then, we have been transforming various materials into Robot motif works of art.
Robot motif works of art processed from pen blank.
We discovered "pen blank," a material used for the body of fountain pens and ballpoint pens, as one of our production materials and were fascinated by its potential, leading to the creation of new concept works.
We do everything by hand, from cutting pen blanks, polishing work, drilling holes, and assembling the parts.
All MASSANOVAART pieces are indeed one-off pieces.

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1994 Started making robot motifs 2007 KDDI Designing Studio exhibition and sales 2010 Osaka Honwaka TV ・Asahi Broadcasting Corporation/NEWS Yu Plus 2012 Trusco Nakayama Corporation/Orange Book, Featured in Ichio catalog 2013 Osaka Industrial Promotion Organization/"Keybon" Monozukuri Ambassador 201...

1994 Started making robot motifs 2007 KDDI Designing Studio exhibition and sales 2010 Osaka Honwaka TV ・Asahi Broadcasting Corporation/NEWS Yu Plus 2012 Trusco Nakayama Corporation/Orange Book, Featured in Ichio catalog 2013 Osaka Industrial Promotion Organization/"Keybon" Monozukuri Ambassador 2014 Studio Alta 4th generation Alta Vision collaboration mascot / produced by Altan ・NHK-BS Premium Marugoto Wanna Know AtoZ introduction ・France / Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche Le Japon Rive Gauche exhibition Sales 2015 Kinki Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry / DISCOVER KANSAI Kansai Cool Japan Product Selection / Kansai University of Foreign Studies PBL Product Development Collaboration / Seibu Takatsuki Store x Kita Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry 2016 Osaka Prefecture / Osaka Made Brand Certification / Wonder500 Certification / Paris Maison Wa / Demonstration 2017 Tokyo Game Show / T-FAN SITE original goods production (Mahjong Robot) 2018 Yomiuri Shimbun / The Japan news 2019 Art Gallery Kitano solo exhibition 2020 NY NOW Accent on Japan exhibition 2021 Umeda Sky Building (Hanging Garden Observation Deck, 40th floor) Solo Exhibition

JUN TANAKA

田中潤

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