“Hundred Stories about Love”

About the Exhibition

The year 2009 has arrived amid the turmoil of tragic war and a search for new values at the start of a new century. The world around us is changing at an ever-increasing speed. Meanwhile, injured in body and mind, hungry, thirsty, and wandering, we fulfill the tasks of living, as people have done since ancient times.
In our experience as human beings, there is perhaps nothing more mysterious than love. “The opposite of love is not hate but indifference and apathy,” philosopher Tetsuzo Tanigawa has said. During our brief lives, we have always found in love something to believe in. Then, there has perhaps never been a time like ours so badly in need of love.
This year, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa will mark its fifth year. In order to create a forum for dialogue concerning love in its open system of galleries whose round glass walls promote transparency, horizontality, and multi-directionality, the Museum is transcending existing boundaries to invite the participation of researchers and activists in the realms of culture, society, and natural science, and that of creators in wide-ranging genres such as art, music, literature, and the performing arts.
The varied forms of expression appearing in the exhibition, “Hundred Stories about Love,” are waiting for someone at anytime to experience them, tell of them, and transform them. A story is no less than an “open dialogue” occurring at the scene of an encounter. The dialogue generated ceaselessly at the Museum will no doubt produce stories in rich profusion.(Translated from Japanese: Brian Amstutz)

Exhibition Period:

Zone 1: Wednesday April 29, 2009 – Sunday August 30, 2009
Zone 2: Wednesday April 29, 2009 – Monday July 20, 2009

Participating Artists (alphabetical order, as of May 18 )

Zone1
AWAZU Kiyoshi / B-BANDJ / chelfitsch / CHEN Chieh-jen / FUNAKOSHI Katsura / ITO Tari / KANG Sang-jung / KAWASAKI Kazuo / KIMURA Taiyo / KISHIMOTO Sayako / Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER / Mikan Dentetsu / MORIMURA Yasumasa / MURATA Jin / OKUDA Senkyu / SAKATA Yasuko / SHIMABUKU / SHIOTA Chiharu / Sarah SZE / TAKUMA Noriko / TSUCHIHASHI Toshico / Patrick TUTTOFUOCO / USHIJIMA Hitoshi / YAMAMOTO Motoi / YAMASHITA Yosuke

Zone2
AWAZU Miho / HAMADA Goji / Mona HATOUM / ICHIYANAGI Toshi / KANAZAWA Complaints Choir / Anish KAPOOR / KAWAKAMI Mieko / Ana MENDIETA / Stephan REUSSE / SUZUKI Akio / SUZUKI Hiraku / TANIKAWA Shuntaro / TERUYA Yuken / TOGO Ken / YAMAORI Tetsuo / YAMAZAKI Tsuruko / YOKOMIZO Shizuka / YUASA Makoto