{"id":21989,"date":"2024-06-28T12:02:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T10:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/?post_type=article&p=21989"},"modified":"2024-06-28T12:02:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T10:02:26","slug":"focus-ikko-tanakafaces-posters","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/staging.die-neue-sammlung.de\/en\/artikel\/focus-ikko-tanakafaces-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus. \nIkko Tanaka:\nFaces. Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Focus. \nIkko Tanaka:\nFaces. Posters<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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View of the opening walls of the exhibition, Ikko Tanaka: Faces. Posters, 2018.<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
Graphic: Mirko Borsche (left) \/ Tetsuya Ohta (right).\nPhoto: Die Neue Sammlung (A. Laurenzo) <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\n<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Mirko Borsche and Tetsuya Ohta.\nAn East-West dialog<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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Mirko Borsche.
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Everyone is familiar with Smileys \u2013 they are the most frequently used and most popular of the emoticons, also known as emojis. To symbolize an Emoticon normal characters on a keyboard are combined with one another: Points, commas, strokes\u2026
In e-mail communications or in text messages and other digital short messages, together they form faces and serve to express emotions, moods and feelings \u2013 or at least intimate these. This can range from a smile with a wink, loud laughter, or sticking out your tongue gloatingly \u2013 and can even include crying, anger, fear, disgust, coolness etc.
For the presentation “Ikko Tanaka: Faces. Posters<\/a>“, Munich-based graphic designer Mirko Borsche created the German-English exhibition title attached to the pillar in the rotunda at the entrance to the exhibition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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The large letter \u201cC\u201d in the words “Faces” and “Gesichter” is in both instances replaced by a smiling face in the form of a minimalist emoticon that consists of only a bracket and a colon. Namely in order to represent the letter \u201cC\u201d, in this instance an inverted one, meaning an
( : instead of an : )
Incidentally, in Japan or Korea emoticons are not depicted horizontally, but presented vertically.
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