EXHIBITION
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Collection Exhibition: Scales
2020.10.17(Sat.) - 2021.5.9(Sun.)
When viewing an object or space, we often sense it to be smaller or larger than we thought. This occurs not simply because of the “size” of the object or space but because our perception arises, relatively, from our viewing position as well as our physical memory of a relationship with the object or space. This exhibition will look at “scale”—a variable based on our relationship with an object—as opposed to “size,” a measurable attribute. Works by the Museum’s collected artists will be displayed in seven galleries having different proportions. In every case, the world expressed by the work—that of landscape, void, resonant sound, personal memory, or the time of plants and inorganic objects—is difficult to measure and will appear different depending on our scale of measurement. This exhibition will give viewers occasion to ponder the varying scales we continually form with our senses. List of works
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Somewhere Between the Odd and the Ordinary
2021.4.29(Thu.) - 2021.9.26(Sun.)
Today, more than a year after the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic, which began in early 2020, there is still no sign that the virus is abating. While daily life has changed throughout the world, in Japan, a country long prone to earthquakes, typhoons, and other natural disasters, many people are accustomed to living with the anxiety and tension that some kind of threat may arise in everyday life. In this exhibition, we reexamine aspects of everyday life that we have no choice but to be aware of. First of all, what makes an everyday thing everyday? Some of these things include the little habits and daily chores that we carry out in our lives, and the appointments that we make with our family and others in the area. There are also things like the passage of time and landscapes, which remain largely the same. But even when we repeatedly perform some kind of activity as a matter of course, everyday life differs depending on the person or family. Some of the works in this exhibition focus on tiny creative acts in our lives that we tend to ignore or overlook. Others capture the inner workings of the heart when we are faced with sudden loss or disaster. And still others express the ever-changing form of everyday life. What emerges somewhere between the odd and the ordinary is the present.
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Collection Exhibition 1: Inner Cosmology
2021.5.29(Sat.) - 2021.11.3(Wed.)
In the course of day-to-day existence, there are many things that we are powerless to do anything about. In the pursuit of their own, ordinary happiness, since the earliest times humans have offered up prayers to specific gods, to the various deities residing in nature, or to the infinite universe within their own heart. Now as then, there are many kinds of prayer intimately connected to our everyday lives. Art showing worlds invisible to the eye once served to connect people to prayer in its myriad forms, and though times may have changed, as long as such prayer remains part of our everyday lives, this role is sure to persist in different forms in contemporary art. “Inner Cosmology” will explore contemporary art from the perspective of prayer, primarily via works from the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa collection.
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Aperto 13
TAKAHASHI Haruki Landscaping
10:00-18:00(until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays)
What do people think as they walk around a garden? Whether lingering in solitude, or enjoying the surroundings while chatting with a friend or loved one, a garden is generally a place for a change of mood. TAKAHASHI Haruki (b. 1971) creates garden-like settings in museum spaces. A devotion to making installations with a landscape or nature theme brought TAKAHASHI to the idea of the “enrin” as a way of creating a personal, individual connection between viewer and work, rather than shouting loudly at wider society. Enrin (yuanling) is a general term for Chinese gardens, whose structure offers encounters with a series of different landscapes as the viewer strolls around. Each landscape has its own philosophical element, making the garden a condensed version of different scenes from human existence. As a person walks around, their own life is mirrored in their heart, connecting them with the cosmos. The garden created in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, will have water, mountain, light, and darkness. The numerous wild grasses are flora we live alongside. The translucent white porcelain is so fragile it may break on contact, but if handled carefully, will last forever in its current form. Landscapes both robust and fragile are sure to remind the viewer forcefully of the ephemeral nature of life, and the many memories that vanish, only to reappear. Enrin gardens use nature as their material, yet are by no means natural. They are “works” that reflect complex ideas, and are designed with the viewer in mind. TAKAHASHI will consciously move away from a Western art history context to create in the gallery space a garden that reflects the individual spirituality of all those who see it—part of his attempt to explore a more eastern approach to the idea of the installation.
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Aperto 14
HARADA Yuki: Waiting for
2021.5.29(Sat.) - 2021.10.10(Sun.)
HARADA Yuki (b. 1989) deals in people and art forms, such as painter Christian Riese Lassen and ghost photography, that despite occupying a solid position in the visual culture of a certain era, have been consigned to the margins of art history. This exhibition, the first new series by the artist for two years, will consist of a video installation including Waiting for, his first 3DCG venture. Shown will be scenes “already seen, and abandoned” and scenes “as yet unseen.” The installation will also document the physically demanding act of engaging with a vast amount of information. Harada has here used the word “waiting” to express the reason for such acts. The act of “waiting,” positioned between activity and passivity, is an attempt to insert a different time current into our increasingly fast-moving modern society.
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Kodomochounaikai: playing, learning, connecting through design
2021.4.3(Sat.) - 2022.3.21(Mon.)
Kodomochounaikai Jimukyoku, established in 2014 by architect Shikichi Kaori, is an organization that assembles and runs workshop programs to cultivate the intelligence and sensitivity that enable children to identify issues and solve problems creatively, through design. Kodomochounaikai Jimukyoku provides supervision and support for the activities of children's design teams called called “Kodomochounaikai.” The design activities of these “Kodomochounaikai” ultimately coalesce in the form of a “festival” that connects them to the local community. The children who design the festival get to engage with many other children and, families, and local residents enjoying the festival, and interact with the many friendly adults providing support and watching overseeing their activities. Kodomochounaikai program festivals become places for children to experience a successful realization of ideas, and be part of society. As well as providing an overview of Kodomochounaikai activities since 2014, in a Kanazawa edition of the program, visitors to this exhibition will have the chance to experience the process of design education with children and local residents, and explore the possibilities of design, in the lead-up to a Kodomochounaikai “festival” in Kanazawa.
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Doug Aitken: i am in you
2021.4.29(Thu.) - 2021.11.23(Tue.)
The seductive realm of a Doug AITKEN video in its first showing since acquisition From the collection this year we will present for the first time at the Museum, Doug Aitken’s i am in you. Scenes from American suburban life, rhythmic clapping, a piano melody, then silence. A young girl whispers “You can’t stop” over and over, drawing us inexorably into Aitken’s filmic realm. i am in you is a video installation comprising five screens, and will be a valuable opportunity to experience the worldview of this intriguing artist on an impressive scale in one of the Museum’s spacious galleries.
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