The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) presents the exhibition “A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection”.
Nara’s artwork will be on display there.
With this, the Museum Shop of the MOT NADiff contemporary has some of our N’s YARD original items.
Exhibition Information
A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art
Takahashi Ryutaro Collection
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) presents the exhibition “A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection”. Presently comprising over 3,500 items, the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection is reputed as one of the most important collections of Japanese contemporary art in terms of both quality and quantity. A showcase of outstanding works by artists with a highly critical mindset, this exhibition explores the state of contemporary Japan from the specific viewpoint of a 1946-born art collector.
PRESS RELEASE 2024.07.05
The exhibition is modeled around the personal viewpoint of TAKAHASHI Ryutaro as one face representing postwar Japan. Born in 1946, and growing up as a spearhead of the baby boomer generation, he joined the Zenkyoto student movement, and was directly exposed to the dense mixture of culture and politics that was filling the air in Tokyo in the 1960s. From there, he went on to put effort into encouraging local medical care such as day care as a psychiatrist. From the mid-90s, when his business was stably on track, he started collecting Japanese contemporary art, and has to this day acquired a total of more than 3,500 artworks. TAKAHASHI can thus be seen as someone who has been observing the trends and currents in Japanese contemporary art from the inside, while at the same time embodying essential aspects from the position of the audience as opposed to that of the artists. In addition to works that seem to reflect the state of Japan in the 1990s and 2000s, which in a way represent the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection at large, this exhibition also focuses on a new direction that the collection took after the Great East Japan Earthquake, reflecting the changing times and values.
The time of the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection’s formation coincides with the opening of the MOT in 1995. Both collections were largely built in the city of Tokyo during the so-called “lost 30 years” after the burst of the economic bubble in Japan, and the relationship between them can be understood as mutually complementary. The artworks that were created to combat the state of stagnation in Japanese society, TAKAHASHI refers to as the “cries and living evidence of young artists.” This exhibition is an occasion that introduces one personal perspective onto the art historical currents that the MOT has been presenting, and at the same time, it is a precious opportunity that offers a comprehensive overview of essential and incisively critical works of Japanese contemporary art.
Information
- Exhibition Period: Saturday, 3 August – Sunday, 10 November 2024
- Closed: Mondays (except Aug. 12, Sep. 16 and 23, Oct. 14, Nov. 4), Aug. 13, Sep. 17 and 24, Oct. 15, Nov. 5
- Opening Hours: 10 AM – 6 PM (Tickets available until 30 minutes before closing.) *Open until 9 PM on Fridays in August
- Admission: Adults – 2,100 Yen / University & College Students, Over 65 – 1,350 Yen / High-school & Junior High-school Students – 840 Yen / Elementary School Students & younger – free
- Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Exhibition Gallery 1F / B2F
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO: https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en/
Museum Shop
NADiff contemporary
Museum Shop NADiff contemporary offers a broad selection of unique artist-designed goods as well as exhibition catalogues, originally-designed MOT items, and books on contemporary art. Visitors will enjoy browsing the shop for “sold only here” art gifts that let them take home the spirit of contemporary art.
- Opening Hours｜10:00 – 18:00
- Closed｜On days the museum is closed
- TEL｜03-5875-9959（Direct）
NADiff contemporary: http://www.nadiff.com/?page_id=180
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