"Neoneo Part1 [boys] neoneo boys are soshokukei - herbivorous artists?" Exhibition
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At Takahashi Collection Hibiya
Media: Painting, Sculpture, Video installation
The Exhibition "Neoteny Japan" is now touring around Japan showing selected works by world-renowned Japanese artists from the collection of psychiatrist Ryutaro Takahashi. This exhibition will focus on a younger generation, the neo-neoteny generation, displaying works that reveal another facet of Takahashi's sumptuous collection.
Takahashi suggested both the theme of soushokukei (meaning herbivorous, it is used to designate males who are tendentiously less emotionally aggressive) and the division between male and female artists that allow for a useful viewpoint from which to understand the current Japanese art scene.
20 artist born from the late 60s to 80s were selected with a particular focus on painting. The abundance of portraits is apparent at first sight as well as a generally introvert attitude that strongly contrasts the valiance of the earlier generation championed by artists such as Takashi Murakami. It appears as if resistance has been renounced in order to float in personal microcosms.
[Image: Hiroki Tashiro "Entenka" (2007) water colors, acrylics, gold leaves]
Schedule
From 2009-08-01 To 2009-10-18
Closed August 14th (Fri) - 17th (Mon)
Artist(s)
Yosuke Amemiya, Tadasuke Iwanaga, Yoichi Umezu, Ryuta Ohtake, Takashi Ohno, Hideaki Kawajima, Jin Kurashige, Naoki Koide, Noriyuki Konishi, Yosuke Kohashi, Makoto Sato, Nobuaki Takekawa, Hiroki Tashiro, Koki Tanaka, Masato Taniguchi, Toshiaki Hikosaka, Korehiko Hino, Yujiro Miyazaki, Ryuki Yamamoto, Ryo Watanuki
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