BANK is pleased to announce that Michael Lin's new painting installation Standard Colors 2024 is featured in The Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama in Japan. The festival's works are displayed across 12 cities and towns in Okayama, Japan, with Michael Lin's work being exhibited at the Manabi no Mori﹒Niimi Library, the sub-venue for the festival. As a site-specific installation, the work presents the artist's typical wallpaper that mimics fabric patterns, introducing plants, flowers and insectes to this forest of learning and providing a resting place for those who visit.
The Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama: Clear-skies Country is an international art festival held in the northern half of Okayama Prefecture, Japan, in the autumn of 2024. The art director is Yuko Hasegawa, the director of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. The festival encompasses a wide variety of sites including forests, waterfalls, hot springs, highlands, caverns, historical post roads, Japanese-style gardens, and old Western-style buildings. It offers site-specific works of art and projects by various creators and professionals such as artists, architects, flower arrangers, designers, performers, and researchers.
