"Qusamura Exhibition-The World of Wriggling Plants"

A secret room in the basement that Kohei Oda imagined when he was a child.
The secret room was full of plants that had never been seen before.
It stands suspiciously, but every plant is alive.
Following the memories of childhood when we saw wriggling plants, we will hold exhibitions of plants collected from Japan and abroad.

Venue	Parco Museum 7F of Ikebukuro PARCO Main Building
Period	2017/06/10 (Sat) - 2017/06/26 (Mon) 10:00～21:00 ※Closed at 18:00 on the last day / Admission until 30 minutes before closing.
Admission fee	General 500 yen Students 300 yen Free for elementary school students and younger ★<PARCO Card Class S> Members are free to enter <PARCO Card> Members receive half the entrance fee.
Contact	03-5391-8686　 (Parco Museum)
Official website	Flora – Qusamura ：http://qusamura.com/
Sponsorship	PARCO
Art direction	Miho Onodera
Venue composition	Archéologie
Construction	MARI-ART CO.,LTD.
Planning and production	H.P.FRANCE S.A. BATOMA

●Examples of exhibited plants/sales plants

Senbamanba (Senba Manba) Genkotsu fan

In addition to selling some of the exhibited plants, the adjacent museum shop will sell about 100 cactus succulent plant collected by Kohei Oda, the owner of the "Sora".　※The exhibition plants will be handed over after the exhibition period.

・Senbamanba (Senba Manba)
48,600 yen (tax included)
A cactus with a fine wavy ridge is geometrical and interesting in modeling. This impressive ridge protects the body from the harsh high temperature environment of the local area and has a structure that cools the body like a radiator. The shapes created by regularly arranged spines and complex ridges are no longer created by humans and feel mysterious. For me, it is like a new species of poisonous insects that have been newly discovered in the inner part of the jungle.

・Genkotsu fan
75,600 yen (tax included)
A grafted cactus with a strange silhouette. Both sides are members of the same fan cactus, but the appearance is completely different as you can see. Hoki is a cactus that caused a mutation called a fist fan, and lives on a large wooden treasure sword. Without worrying about unbalanced modeling, a grotesque reptile-like cactus wriggling strangely.

Lactare spelling (Rakute) Kagekiyo

・Lactare spelling (Rakute)
43,200 yen (tax included)

・Kagekiyo
43,200 yen (tax included)
Cactus grown and stretched like a lot. The appearance of overflowing beyond the frame is quite strange. This violent figure makes you feel the energy of living strongly. Naturally, it was abandoned by the cactus producers who owned it.

Flora clear file, flora postcard

From the left back　
・Yangtzeroteka: 24,000 yen,
・Kuro Oumaru: 13,000 yen,
・Carme Nae spelling: 15,000 yen,
・Botan Gyoku: 18,000 yen

From the left
・Kibomaru: 10,000 yen
・Fukurokuju (Fukurokuju): 12,000 yen,
・Laussy 16,000 yen
・Ogosho: 15,000 yen

[Midcellaneous goods]
・Plex clear file: 540 yen

・Photo Collection: 2,700 yen

・Flora Postcard A: 1,080 yen
・Sora Postcard B: 1,080 yen
・Flora Postcard C: 1,080 yen
・Flora Postcard D: 1,080 yen
・Flora Postcard E: 1,080 yen

・Sora tote bag: 1,620 yen

Flora – Qusamura

A botanical shop that proposes unique beauty based on the concept of a "plant with a good face".
We propose unique plants collected by the owner himself by traveling in Japan and abroad together with vessels that bring out the characteristics of the individual.
The place where the shop owner finds plants is called a flora, so it is unique to a place that looks just like a flock of grass for ordinary people.
The origin of the store name is the idea that beauty may be sleeping. "Q" in "Qusamura" is taken from "Question". When I met the plants with unique flora, I felt strange at the beginning, and expressed the desire to enter the world view of the flora from "?" http://qusamura.com/

●Gallery Tour Schedule

During the exhibition, a gallery tour will be held by Kohei Oda, the owner of "Sou" on the following schedule.

Saturday, June 10 14:00~
Sunday, June 11 16:00~
Saturday, June 24 14:00~
Sunday, June 25 16:00~

※About 60 minutes each time
※Admission fee is required for participation.

Kohei Oda (Oda Kohei Oda)

Kohei Oda

Born in Hiroshima in 1976. When I was in my twenties when I was traveling around the world, I was impressed by the appearance of a flower artist creating a space for a select shop in Paris where I visited. After returning to Japan, he began to work on spatial design using fresh flowers and houseplants. A few years later, when he began to feel the limits of the expression of uniform flowers and plants, he encountered a world-class art collector and saw the damaged plants after delivery, shocked by his words, "Fighting plants are beautiful." Since then, the criteria for selecting plants have been changed from proper beauty to whether they have a "good face." He decided to capture plants from a unique perspective and handle one-of-a-kind plants that found beauty. In 2012, he opened a botanical shop "Shu-Qusamura" that proposes unique beauty. He has many collaborations with professionals from different fields such as potters, artists, and novelists, and has presented and exhibited installation works in Japan and overseas. The latest work is Ginza Maison Hermes Window Display (2016).

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