TAB Event - Ozawa Tsuyoshi: Answer with Yes and No!

Ozawa Tsuyoshi: Answer with Yes and No!

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At Mori Art Museum
Media: Photography, Installation, Painting

Ozawa Tsuyoshi has revolutionized the Japanese art scene and established an international reputation with satirical works that reinvent notions of creativity and community. Ozawa' s work is nostalgic for and critical of 1970s and '80s Japan, the period of rapid economic growth during which he and his contemporaries grew up. By reexamining the origins of contemporary culture he is establishing a new context for Japanese art within the international art scene.
"Answer with Yes and No!" is the first chance to review work from his seventeen year career, along with new work made for the show. Its title is reminiscent of Oe Kenzaburo' s Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself, a treatise on ambiguity in Japanese society. Inside everyone' s heart is something that is neither black nor white. This exhibition is an admission that contradictions in values can coexist – within the world, a community, or even an individual. At its heart is the question of how one should relate to a diverse and complex world. Perhaps you too will learn to answer with both a yes and a no.