Exhibition

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  Alex Da Corte Fresh Hell

  2023.4.29(Sat.) - 2023.9.18(Mon.)

  Alex Da Corte (b. 1980, Camden, NJ; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, USA) is an artist who explores how images are made and perceived, and, by extension, the way memories are formed. What is it that we see through screens and monitors, and how do we understand it? Da Corte also delves into the relationship between desire, memory, and perception that has come to define the consumer culture of contemporary society, and confronts us with a question: what are the consequences of these images that saturate our lives? This exhibition, his first solo show in Japan, will focus on his video works, suffused with a mysterious kind of charm that exists between playful pop, virtual images adorned with familiar characters and icons, and the gloom and desolation of reality.

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  Collection Exhibition 1 It knows : When Forms Become Mind

  2023.4.8(Sat.) - 2023.11.5(Sun.)

  The relationship between form and mind is a universal question that has been explored through works of art since ancient times. Whether visible or invisible, the patterns of various forms can be found everywhere in our world, in nature, society, language, and dreams. Every day, we feel the mind as a system larger than the individual soul, which naturally arises from the relationships among shapes and the connections among patterns. This exhibition will explore the processes of the mind that are known to the relationships between various forms through a diverse range of works from the museum collection, including paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and installations from the 1960s as well as more recent works.

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  Aperto 18 GU Kenryou Intervals of the afterimage

  2023.4.8(Sat.) - 2023.9.18(Mon.)

  GU Kenryou was born in Kyoto in 1994 and grew up in Shanghai. Through his unique technique of “digital weaving” that joins multiple photographs together, he creates photographic works that resemble textiles, revealing the various spaces, times, and latent contexts within the images. In this exhibition, he presents a new series of large photographs taken with a high-resolution camera in the forests of Fujian in China and among other regions that have been untouched by industrialization. GU’s works, with their density of images that cannot be easily processed by the human eye or brain, capture the multitemporal, multilingual, and multilocational essence of nature. They are capable of altering the sensibilities of viewers who have been numbed by contemporary life’s deluge of visual information, which has only grown more overwhelming .

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  Shell of Phantom Light

  2023.4.8(Sat.) - 2023.9.18(Mon.)

  Having honed his lacquer craft skills at Kanazawa College of Art and Kanazawa Utatsuyama Kogei Kobo, Terumasa Ikeda uses vessel forms found in traditional crafts to create works that embody a futuristic view of the world. Inspired by the manga, animation, and video games he has been familiar with since childhood, his works, which make use of the structural colors of mother-of-pearl, have a three-dimensional hologram-like feel to them, and a sense of electric signals moving at high speed. The light and shadow in the title of this exhibition is a style that comes from the contrast between the bewitching radiance brought about by shells living in the natural world and black lacquer, which Ikeda sees as extensible to the imagery of bioengineering and design work.

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