EXHIBITION
Exhibition2014
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HASHIMOTO Masaya “Awai naru mono”
2014.5.24(Sat.) - 2014.8.31(Sun.)
In his work, HASHIMOTO Masaya has critically and exhaustively examined the distinctive “concern for materials and techniques” that permeates all Japanese art. This exhibition will present two important series of works by Hashimoto.
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Leandro ERLICH −The Ordinary?
2014.5.3(Sat.) - 2014.8.31(Sun.)
Swimming Pool, a familiar work at this museum, and Leandro Erlich’s first solo exhibition in Japan. Leandro Erlich (born in Buenos Aires in 1973; resides in Montevideo, Uruguay) is, to the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, a very special artist. His The Swimming Pool, a work familiar to many as “Leandro’s Pool,” has played a particularly large role at this museum, which was designed by SANAA / Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa. Amid the many creative modes that seemed almost to well up from the early 1990s on, his style, which creates changes in our perception of reality through objects and actions everyone can share, can be identified as one of the sustained characteristics of contemporary art. The Swimming Pool spurs on the viewer’s awareness of the problematic by taking something ordinary, a pool, and turning it into the extraordinary in combination with new and unknown elements. By intervening boldly in our everyday lives, brilliantly reflecting our states in response to the existence of those things, and adding both approachability and casualness, he encourages the habit of making a full body response when people face his works and receive the full, uninhibited force of his creativity. His are, without a doubt, works of art that have contributed greatly to people’s growing love for contemporary art. This exhibition, his first solo exhibition in Japan, will exhibit seventeen of his latest works, in addition to The Swimming Pool. We are delighted to be able to hold it in 2014, the tenth anniversary of the opening of this museum. We hope you will take this opportunity to enjoy the creative world of Leandro Erlich, whose work always proposes a place of rapport, open and free. (Hiromi Kurosawa, Curator 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa)
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Taste of Curiosity ― Museum of Curiosity food creation + The University Museum, The University of Tokyo
2014.4.26(Sat.) - 2015.3.31(Tue.)
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa will mark its 10th anniversary on October 9 this year. On this occasion, we are holding "Taste of Curiosity – Museum of Curiosity"—a program to create a "banquet" site for celebrating our 10 years with everyone. The program is being led by food creation / SUWA Ayako—a project to propose new values for the enjoyment of food—and The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, which will create a "The Chambers of Curiosities." The program will be an unprecedented art museum event, taking "taste" as a theme in harkening back to the original impulse behind the museum concept—curiosity. Already, more than 50 "Foodstuffs of Curiosity" have been gathered, and over 400 people will take part in "Experiences of Taste." The program will develop in stages toward an exciting climax as a "banquet."
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NAKAMURA Yoshifumi "Come on-a my Hut!"
2014.4.26(Sat.) - 2014.8.31(Sun.)
Nakamura Yoshifumi has consistently made houses that are in tune with the lifestyles of his clients and snug like a set of everyday clothes. This exhibition uses the idea of the hut, a form that has captivated Nakamura since he was a child and which serves as the model for his residential buildings, as a medium for re-addressing the question, "What is a dwelling?" In the Long-term Project Space we will introduce seven huts that have captivated Nakamura over many years along with projects ranging from huts to small residential buildings designed by Nakamura himself. In addition, in the courtyard we will display a full-scale version of a "single-person" hut designed by Nakamura. This hut incorporates many of the features Nakamura has been experimenting with in his own hut in a quest for energy self-sufficiency in a dwelling reduced in size to the bare minimum. It is at once a comfortable living space with the warmth that all individually made things have and a vision of a future society and way of living in response to the energy and environmental problems that confront us, particularly in the wake of 3/11.
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Collection Exhibition I TRANSPARENCY | REFLECTION
2014.4.12(Sat.) - 2014.9.21(Sun.)
"Collection Exhibition I TRANSPARENCY | REFLECTION" looks at the properties of "transparency and reflection" in the context of their use in artworks, such as sculptural works that employ materials transparent to light or light reflecting, a self-portrait in the form of the artist's reflection, or photographic images acquired through a lens. Transparent materials and highly polished surfaces have fascinated people since ancient times. As concepts, "transparency and reflection" repeatedly come up in art, as well, such as when artworks are likened to windows or mirrors. The physical effects produced by highly transparent materials and mirror techniques can greatly surprise us or be a source of fun and enjoyment, and what we see when peering through these artworks or gazing into their reflections can change our visual channel and induce new thinking. Later, after viewing this exhibition, when you walk through our museum once again, what kind of images do you see reflected in the museum’s circular glass wall or large transparent doors? What scenery opens to you from beyond them? (NAKATA Koichi, Curator, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa)
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