EXHIBITION
Exhibition
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MOON Kyungwon and JEON Joonho: News from Nowhere
2022.5.3(Tue.) - 2022.9.4(Sun.)
This is the first large-scale solo exhibition in Japan by the leading contemporary Korean artist duo, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho. Since their formation, Moon and Jeon have explored the social functions and roles of art while advocating for practical platforms for dialogue and collaboration among professionals from various fields. The exhibition will focus on a new video installation depicting the struggle of future humans for survival and freedom in a poetic manner; News from Nowhere: Freedom Village, which was exhibited at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea in 2021; as well as El Fin del Mundo, a masterpiece that captures the different time frames before and after the apocalypse and their connections in an intricate and elaborate manner. Also showcased will be works created during their residency in the Kanaiwa area of Kanazawa City that they have been creating since 2018, presenting their thoughts and activities from multiple perspectives through video, drawings, and maquettes. This promises to be an opportunity to fully experience the world of their works, which extracts the issues facing contemporary society and poses powerful messages for us who live in the present to ponder while shuttling back and forth between the future and the past.
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Kacchu Anatomy: The aesthetics of design and engineering
2022.5.3(Tue.) - 2022.7.10(Sun.)
From the Sengoku through Edo periods, Japanese armor “Kacchu” developed and evolved as a symbol of a samurai’s pride and strength in battle in a unique way. This development occurred in terms of both the aesthetic that deployed these craft skills and innovative designs seen in lacquering, metalwork, and braiding, as well as the functionality and engineering of these items as protective gear. These fascinating aspects will be exhibited in a space designed by contemporary artists. Through a video installation by Rhizomatiks, which digitally analyzes the details and structure of these items, and the spatial design by Nile Koetting, which connects armor to the reality of the modern human body in a flexible way, armor “Kacchu” begins to speak to us in the present tense.
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Collection Exhibition 1 Vessels
2022.5.21(Sat.) - 2022.10.16(Sun.)
This exhibition will focus on the theme of utsuwa (vessels), drawing mainly on works from the museum’s collection. Some vessels function as containers, while others are created based on the premise that they are no longer utilitarian. Utsuwa may also refer to the internal organs of a living creature, stimulating the imagination in a way that evokes living memories from nature, and resonates with these organs. By examining utsuwa from various angles, this exhibition seeks to provide an opportunity to ponder their meaning and value.
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Special Exhibition : Matthew Barney
2022.5.21(Sat.) - 2022.9.11(Sun.)
This exhibition will focus on the theme of the film Drawing Restraint 9 (2005) by Matthew Barney, who has developed the theme of Japanese culture as represented by the practices of whaling and the tea ceremony using a variety of media including film, sculpture, installation, and photography. Taking the whaling mother ship “Nisshin Maru,” which appears in the film Drawing Restraint 9, as both a place and a character, the exhibition will feature Drawing Restraint 9: Cabinet of Nisshin Maru, a figurative work condensed into Barney’s “Character Glass Case” series, along with six photographic works.
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Jeff Koons×BERNARDAUD
2022.4.9(Sat.) - 2022.9.11(Sun.)
Jeff Koons (b. 1955, York, PA; lives and works in New York) continues to captivate the world with his unique iconography that combines the themes of American popular culture and celebrity. This exhibition, presented in collaboration with the porcelain brand Bernardaud from Limoges, France, will feature Koons’ signature balloon dogs along with other innovative and extremely intricate design work.
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APERTO 16
AKI INOMATA Acting Shells
2022.4.9(Sat.) - 2022.9.11(Sun.)
The practice of AKI INOMATA (b. 1983) sheds light on the relationships between humans and other species, presenting artworks that are often created in collaboration with a variety of living creatures. INOMATA’s solo exhibition Acting Shells is centered around the artist’s ongoing project Memory of Currency. Conceived in 2015, the project attempts to create “fossils of currencies” by fusing portraits of figures that symbolize contemporary currencies around the world with pearl oyster shells. Humans, since ancient times, have used shells as one of the most important means of currency exchange. In today’s society where crypto-currencies and e-money are seemingly about to sweep over the physical ones, this project offers us an opportunity to reconsider with fresh eyes the economic and social systems we are surrounded by, through retracing the history of currencies and thus traversing the past and present. Shells naturally serve the purpose of a “shelter” (or yado, from which the Japanese word for hermit crabs, yadokari, originates) that provides protection for shellfish. The exhibition presents a multifaceted significance of “shells” for different species such as hermit crabs and asari clams (molluscan shells), facilitating meditations around the evolutionary histories of both human societies and of life on earth at large, in relation to the proactive acts observed with spices. INOMATA’s artworks suggest diverse meanings of “shells,” cultivating our imaginations of various time and space.
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