DARTS - The Saber Tiger

Originally, the concept of restore is to bring back something to an original condition. The goal of "RESTORE" project is to add a new & fresh idea into this time of classical-minded and doubt. That is "RESTORE". It's fun for me to sculpt statues of prototype. But Most of them are the character that has been already created by somebody else. I can arrange them, but won't be able to be an origin. That is the problem. "Original" That's what i wanna be. I'm so sick and tired of lots of similar type of TOYS of this world. I want to create something more conceptual & functional & cool as well... in other words, something that i can find out various values from different angles. Every piece of my work deal with "Present", because I'm living in the present moment. The nearer to the present, the closer to the truth. Name JUNNOSUKE ABE 1984 born in Toyama Prefecture, Japan 2002 graduated from Toyama 1st municipal high school 2002 entered OSAKA SEIKEI UNIVERSITY (majoring Expression of Contemporary art's range in Art&craftwork Department) 2004 made his debut as a prototype figure sculptor by "GREMLINS" in KOTOBUKIYA 2005 sculpted prototype figure of "ALIEN" in KOTOBUKIYA 2007 graduated from OSAKA SEIKEI UNIVERSITY Present moved and had a studio The Tokyo Wonder Festival (ワンダーフェスティバル), or Wonfes (ワンフェス, Wanfesu), is a semiannual (February and August) event held in the Makuhari Messe, in Chiba, Japan. It is sponsored by the Kaiyodo manufacturing company. The main focus is to display and sell "garage kits", which are sculptures that usually represent anime and game characters, but also popular mecha/sci-fi characters and creatures such as Kuratas. These models are extremely detail oriented, and many of these sculptures appear in very small quantities due to the amateur nature of their reproduction.