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[Image: Lives in Japan, 2018 video, sample image ©️UJINO Courtesy of YAMAMOTO GENDAI]

Muneteru Ujino “Lives in Japan”

Yamamoto Gendai
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Artists

Muneteru Ujino
This exhibition of new works by Muneteru Ujino features three elements: the video installations “Lives in Japan” and “Dempamachi (Radiowave Quarter)” based on Ujino’s “Plywood Shinchi” presented at the 2017 Yokohama Triennale, a giant wall drawing series inspired by wire diagrams, and “Plywood City Stories 2,” a video installation relating Ujino’s points of departure for creating his works.

In this show Ujino critically reconsiders the coexistence of Japanese and foreign cultures in postwar Japan. These works reflect the sense of dissonance he felt as a child seeing braun tube TVs on tatami mats and the encroachment of an industrial transparency observed in household items like Tupperware. These elements contrasted with the dark, shadowy environments favored by lacquer and ceramics described in In Praise of Shadows, an authoritative text on Japanese aesthetics.

Schedule

Mar 3 (Sat) 2018-Apr 7 (Sat) 2018 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
11:00-18:00
Fridays closing at 20:00
Closed
Monday, Sunday, Holidays
Notice
Exhibition Hours: 11:00–18:00 on Tues, Wed, Thurs, Sat. 11:00–20:00 on Fri.

Opening Reception Mar 3 (Sat) 2018 18:00 - 20:00

FeeFree
VenueYamamoto Gendai
http://yamamotogendai.org/
Location3F Terrada Art Complex, 1-33-10 Higashi Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002
Access8 minute walk from Tennozu Isle Station on the Tokyo Monorail or Rinkai line. From JR Shinagawa station, take the Toei bus (towards Yashio Park Town), and get off at Tennouzubashi. The venue is 3 minute walk from there.
Phone03-6433-2988
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