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From the excellent Pingmag

First, what do we get to see made of chocolate? Thirty designers, artists and photographers plunge into our peculiar relationship with this sticky stimulant, using an array of differing media.

Yoji Ishii`s piece "germination" sprouts a little green stalk from an earthy chocolate bean. From the Chocolate exhibition.

Then, when we take a look at Yoji Ishii's"germination" where the chocolate nut sprouts a green shoot… We think this could symbolise the new 21_21 gallery space - being a fresh starting point and a way to involve everybody into design by means of chocolate. How did you come up with the concept, together with Issey Miyake and Taku Satoh?"

"When we first decided to do an exhibition on this theme, I don’t think anyone had any specific idea. When it was decided that I should do the direction, I thought it might be fun to do an experiment on how well the artists could extract the meaning of infinity in chocolate shared by all people. It seemed like an attractive idea to re-acknowledge the fact of this kind of communion."

I just want to eat the whole lot (maybe not the chocolate heart...go look..not how you would first imagine) but it does explore our use and abuse of this most popular sweet stuff.

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