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Teppei Kaneuji at MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO

2023/03/18

Teppei Kaneuji's work is on display in the MOT Collection until June 18 (Sun.).（For available works of Kaneuji, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here）

■MOT Collection:
Membrane of the Time / Breathing
Sat. 18 Mar - Sun. 18 Jun, 2023
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO
4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0022 Japan

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo houses approximately 5,600 artworks in its extensive collection, which spans the modern and contemporary periods with a focus on art of the postwar years. Each installment of the “MOT Collection” exhibition introduces artworks in the collection from various themes and angles in its effort to convey the diverse appeal of contemporary art.

This exhibition is structured around two themes.

On the 1st floor, works from the end of the 1980s onward will be presented under the title, “Membrane of the Time." Starting with recently acquired works by MIKAMI Seiko produced in the early 1990s, we introduce a diverse selection of works that employ a wide variety of media, including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. “Membrane,” mentioned in the title of this section, is one of the keywords that Mikami had repeatedly used around the time in which she produced these works. A membrane is literally a thin layer that is located between the inner and outer surfaces of something. While it protects what is contained within, it also serves to enshroud and conceal. The exhibition likens this “membrane” to various things such as the skin covering the surface of organisms, the ideas that shape individual consciousness and society, and the relationship with technology that expands the capabilities of the human body. As we reflect on the past thirty years or so in which these works were created, we hope viewers will take this opportunity to enjoy engaging with each artist’s endeavors while looking at the shifting sense of the corporeality and outlook on life that is observed there.

The 3rd-floor section titled “Breathing,” consists of a group of works that evoke the flow of wind, water, and air as it connects to people's breathing and circulates around the world. One of the things that has been strongly restricted along with movement and travel over the past three years as we found ourselves amid the pandemic, is the way in which we naturally share the air that we breathe. This awareness towards the very act of breathing that is an all too familiar part of our everyday lives, has perhaps enabled us to reconsider our physical connection to others and our surrounding environment. In this section, we invite viewers to open up their senses to experience Sam FRANCIS’ large-scale paintings with their flowing colors and forms derived from the dynamic and expansive use of his body, as well as works by Montien BOONMA, ENDO Toshikatsu, MATSUMOTO Yoko, and others.

金氏　徹平　 KANEUJI Teppei
《White Discharge (Built-up objects) #4》
2009
201×87×87cm