Roppongi Crossing
13 Oct 2007 - 14 Jan 2008
© Kito Kengo
Untitled, 2005
dimension variable
Hula-hoops and Others
Installation View: very very human, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Photo: Hayashi Tatsuo
Photo Courtesy: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Untitled, 2005
dimension variable
Hula-hoops and Others
Installation View: very very human, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
Photo: Hayashi Tatsuo
Photo Courtesy: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, Japan
ROPPONGI CROSSING
Future Beats in Japanese ContemporaryArt
October 13, 2007 - January 14, 2008
36 ARTISTS YOU MUST SEE NOW
“Roppongi Crossing” is a series of exhibitions produced by the Mori Art Museum to introduce Japanese creative talent working in a wide range of genres. The first in the series was held in 2004 – and is to this day used as a reference point for contemporary Japanese visual culture. For “Roppongi Crossing 2007” four curators focused on the idea of 'intersection,' selecting 36 artists whose work has an energy and sphere of influence that spreads beyond the confines of conventional artistic categories.
Their art takes a variety of forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, manga, games, and even unlikely genres such as dollmaking and bathhouse mural painting. In addition to artists who are emerging on the scene right now, the list also includes others who drove the scene in its formative period in the 1960s and 1970s, and whose feverish output continues unabated today. Surprising juxtapositions provide an opportunity to discover unexpected similarities and also to trace some of the unseen webs of influence and homage that connect the artists of the last three decades.
Delicate handwork, carefully thought-out concepts and a tendency for interactive mechanisms are just some of the other characteristics that unite the works in the exhibition, many of which are new works produced especially for the show.
Surveying this interlocking web of art, linking genres and generations in the present, a faint but common beat can be detected – a beat like a pulse that reverberates throughout the Japanese contemporary art scene and provides a clue as to where it is headed in the future.
Curatorial Team
Amano Kazuo (Art Critic; Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design),
Araki Natsumi (Curator, Mori Art Museum), Sato Naoki (Art Director, ASYL),
Sawaragi Noi (Art Critic)
Participating Artists
Ages5&Up, Ameya Norimizu, chelfitsch, Deki Yayoi, Enlightenment, Enoki Chu,
Fukaya Etsuko, Hara Shinichi, Haruki Maiko, Hasegawa Tota / TOMATO, Higashionna Yuichi, Ikemizu Keiichi, Ito Gabin, Iwasaki Takahiro, Kito Kengo,
Kobayashi Kohei, Majima Tatsuo, Maruyama Kiyoto, Nakanishi Nobuhiro,
Nawa Kohei, Ogai Takeharu, Sakagishi Yoshiou, Sato Masahiko + Kiriyama Takashi, Sekiguchi Atsuhito, Tanaka Iichiro, Tanaka Nobuyuki, Tateishi Tiger,
Tsujikawa Koichiro, Uchihara Yasuhiko, Uchiyama Hideaki, Ukawa Naohiro,
Yamaguchi Takashi / d.v.d, Yokoyama Yuichi, Yoshimura Yoshio, Yoshino Tatsumi,
Yotsuya Simon
Future Beats in Japanese ContemporaryArt
October 13, 2007 - January 14, 2008
36 ARTISTS YOU MUST SEE NOW
“Roppongi Crossing” is a series of exhibitions produced by the Mori Art Museum to introduce Japanese creative talent working in a wide range of genres. The first in the series was held in 2004 – and is to this day used as a reference point for contemporary Japanese visual culture. For “Roppongi Crossing 2007” four curators focused on the idea of 'intersection,' selecting 36 artists whose work has an energy and sphere of influence that spreads beyond the confines of conventional artistic categories.
Their art takes a variety of forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, manga, games, and even unlikely genres such as dollmaking and bathhouse mural painting. In addition to artists who are emerging on the scene right now, the list also includes others who drove the scene in its formative period in the 1960s and 1970s, and whose feverish output continues unabated today. Surprising juxtapositions provide an opportunity to discover unexpected similarities and also to trace some of the unseen webs of influence and homage that connect the artists of the last three decades.
Delicate handwork, carefully thought-out concepts and a tendency for interactive mechanisms are just some of the other characteristics that unite the works in the exhibition, many of which are new works produced especially for the show.
Surveying this interlocking web of art, linking genres and generations in the present, a faint but common beat can be detected – a beat like a pulse that reverberates throughout the Japanese contemporary art scene and provides a clue as to where it is headed in the future.
Curatorial Team
Amano Kazuo (Art Critic; Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design),
Araki Natsumi (Curator, Mori Art Museum), Sato Naoki (Art Director, ASYL),
Sawaragi Noi (Art Critic)
Participating Artists
Ages5&Up, Ameya Norimizu, chelfitsch, Deki Yayoi, Enlightenment, Enoki Chu,
Fukaya Etsuko, Hara Shinichi, Haruki Maiko, Hasegawa Tota / TOMATO, Higashionna Yuichi, Ikemizu Keiichi, Ito Gabin, Iwasaki Takahiro, Kito Kengo,
Kobayashi Kohei, Majima Tatsuo, Maruyama Kiyoto, Nakanishi Nobuhiro,
Nawa Kohei, Ogai Takeharu, Sakagishi Yoshiou, Sato Masahiko + Kiriyama Takashi, Sekiguchi Atsuhito, Tanaka Iichiro, Tanaka Nobuyuki, Tateishi Tiger,
Tsujikawa Koichiro, Uchihara Yasuhiko, Uchiyama Hideaki, Ukawa Naohiro,
Yamaguchi Takashi / d.v.d, Yokoyama Yuichi, Yoshimura Yoshio, Yoshino Tatsumi,
Yotsuya Simon