"Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art" Exhibition
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At Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
Media: Painting, Drawing, Video installation, Art Talk
This exhibition was planned by the Japan Foundation to introduce a new generation of contemporary Japanese artists to the world. Prior to the world tour, the show will be shown at the Hara Museum. Curated by art critic Midori Matsui, the show features some 30 drawings, paintings and video works by artists who came onto the scene during the later half of the 90s and the first half of the 2000s. The subject of this exhibition is the world of "Micropop," a word coined by Matsui, which refers to the unique world view of the new generation of young Japanese artists who rearrange diverse fragments of information and knowledge to give new meaning and uses to things that are outdated and commonplace.
Meet the Artists and Curator: July 15th (Wed) 18:30-20:00
Ryoko Aoki, Makiko Kudo, Midori Matsui (in Japanese only)
Meet the Artist: July 18th (Sat) 14:30-16:00
Lecture by Lyota Yagi (Japanese only)
Fee: ¥1000
Reservations are required. Please make your reservation by phone TEL: 03-3445-0669 or E-mail: info@haramuseum.or.jp with your name, contact phone number and number of participants. / Limited to 80 persons
[first-come, first-serve basis].
[Image: Lyota Yagi "VINYL" (2006) ©2006 Lyota Yagi Courtesy: Mujin-to Production, Tokyo]
Schedule
From 2009-05-23 To 2009-07-20
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海外での活動を経て、現在国内で精力的に制作活動を続ける彼に聞く17のキーワード
「ウィンター・ガーデン 日本現代美術におけるマイクロポップ的想像力の展開」展
ゲストキュレーター、松井みどり氏の講演会レポート
氷のレコードを実際に聴けるイベントが平日は1日2回、土日は3回行われるそうですが必見です。溶けるまでのわずかな時間だけ本当に音楽が聞こえてびっくりします。展示のDVDを見ているだけだとアフレコだと思ってしまうので。
http://ameblo.jp/jinjin0116/entry-10280720900.html
「くすっ」とか「なるほどね～」といった、小さな共感の連続。
http://metropolis.co.jp/tokyo/recent/art.asp
Neoteny vs. Micropop
Competing aspects of Japanese contemporary art go head-to-head at two group shows
Deliberately insignificant gestures
By Donald Eubank
Japan Times staff writer
"My exhibition takes up the same challenge (since the 1950s in contemporary art) of destroying or deconstructing accepted forms of beauty and rationality, or accepted means of communication," says Midori Matsui.
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