Japan’s Avant-Garde: Neo-Dadaism and its Contemporaries

Tabloid

Finished

Artists

Akasegawa Genpe, Shusaku Arakawa, Nobuaki Kojima et al.

Masunobu Yoshimura took a leading role in the avant-garde art group “Neo-Dada” formed in Tokyo in 1960. Based out of the “White House,” Yoshimura’s own home, the Neo-Dadaists became one of the key anti-art groups of their era, planning street performances and other radical activities. Counted among the Neo-Dadaism of the U.S. and Nouveau Réalisme as one of the world’s major art movements, the Neo-Dadaism of Japan closely followed domestic social issues such as the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, becoming an art movement that represented its age. Through works by Neo-dadaists such as Yoshimura, Shusaku Arakawa, Ushio Shinohara, and Genpei Akasegawa, as well as contemporary artists including Tomi Miki and Nobuaki Kojima, this exhibition examines the art scene of this era.

Artists: Genpei Akasegawa, Shusaku Arakawa, Nobuaki Kojima, Ushio Shinohara, Tomio Miki, Masunobu Yoshimura

Schedule

Feb 28 (Fri) 2014-Mar 15 (Sat) 2014