Sayonara Osamu Kokufu – 1970 – 2014
Mario A told us the sad news that Osamu Kokufu was accidentally killed at his exhibition space. He was only 44 years old.
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Born in 1970. Graduated from Kyoto University, art research course in 1994.
Creating an original dream machines called KOKUFUMOBIL that have many interesting functions. One of his machines’ inside is converted into a fridge and the other one is converted into tropical jungle. He made a walker that has a helmet with a propeller. His machines are materialized of our child-hood dream. Also which includes an ecological point of view, such as measuring the exhaust gas by balloons and visualize it. Car with a sail run by wind power. Watering the garden in the air by wind power.
Kokufu House 
Osamu Kokufu 
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Artist Osamu KOKUFU, 44, passed away on April 29th. R.I.P. (Mainichi – in Japanese only)
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