SHIMIZU Mari "Wachtraum"

In addition to actively holding solo exhibitions in Japan and overseas, he has appeared on the CD jacket of the band "MUCC", the movie "Alice in Dreamland", and the performance of the unit Sukekiyo by Dir en Gray's Kyoto "Suspended Girl and the Poetry of the Waste Dump". Mari Shimizu, a doll artist who is active across genres, such as providing doll works.

A long-awaited collection of doll works that includes works after her well-received "miracle"!

Many dolls that appeared in the movie "Alice in Dreamland" are also included!

Photography / Nagare Tanaka, Yukio Yoshinari

Artwork (cover/door) / Kiyo Murakami

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A world of beauty where you can feel even the melancholy distorted time, a world where stereotypes are destroyed――Kyo (DIR EN GRAY)

Her dreamy expression made my heart tighten. --Mai Hashimoto (voice actor)

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★Publication Commemorative Mari Shimizu Solo Exhibition!

Saturday, January 23, 2016 to Tuesday, February 2, 2016, closed on Wednesdays

Place: Span Art Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo

The movie "Alice in Dreamland" in which Mari Shimizu provided dolls

From Saturday, December 19, 2015

A road show at Shinjuku K's Cinema!

[Official site]

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★ Mari Shimizu http://shimizumari.jimdo.com/

doll artist. She mainly works on ball-jointed dolls, as well as puppet objects and animations.

Provided photos for the CD jacket of the band MUCC, exhibited dolls at Matsumaru Honpo, a bookstore produced by Shogo Matsuoka, provided dolls for the stage play "Shoujo Tsubaki" by Kaiten Hyakugan, and Fuji TV's drama "Akai". There are the provision of dolls such as "Woman of Thread" and "The Brothers Karamazov".

From 2011 to 2014, she exhibited dolls at the Abbey Art Museum in Brescia, Italy.

In 2015, she provided a doll for the movie "Alice in Dreamland" directed by Kentaro Hachisuka.

She provided a doll for Dir en Gray's Kyoto unit Sukekiyo's 2015 performance "Suspended Girl and Sweep Dump Poetry".

She hosts the doll class "Atelier Kajuen" at Itabashi and Oizumi Gakuen.

〈Main works and publications〉

Her main collection of works includes "Miracle" (published by Atelier Third).

Yaso “DOLL”, Yaso “Monster & Freaks” (Studio Parabolica), “DollyJapan vol.1” (Hobby Japan), “Talking Heads Series” (Atelier Third), “ART Collectors” (Seikatsu no Tomo) have been published in magazines. Publishing Co., Ltd., and published books such as "Genso Aesthetic" (Pai International).

A5 size, 64 pages, 2,750yen (consumption tax not included)