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Masato Nakamura ”Luminous Despair”
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Published: October 07 2015

Street light and bird spikes/1999/Osaka (c) Masato Nakamura

Is 3331 Arts Chiyoda art ? Striving to ever-expand notions of art.
Masato Nakamura's first solo show in 10 years.

Masato Nakamura hit the ground running in the early '90s after studying abroad in Korea, beginning with the “Nakamura and Murakami Exhibition”
and going on to develop guerilla art projects the stuff of legend, including street-seizing exhibitions “The Ginburart” and “Shinjuku Shonen Art”.
Nakamura would go further, paving the way for a new take on the relation between art and society through numerous art projects,
such as an installation appropriating McDonald's golden arches or “Akihabara TV”, which hijacked nearly 1000 television motors in Akihabara Electric Town.

However, after exhibiting at the Venice Biennale in 2001, Nakamura shifted his practice towards alternative art with the mandate to “create a place for ourselves,
by ourselves”, developing sustainable initiatives within communities that could never be expressed in the commercial art scene.
Following the establishment of project space KANDADA, these activities cumulated as 3331 Arts Chiyoda, announced in 2010 as a novel art center accessible to its community. It can be said that this, too, is a completely new artwork, extending the expressive domain of art under the concept of “art x industry x community”.

This upcoming exhibition will feature nearly 700 photos shot by Nakamura before and after his debut, between the Korea and Japan of 1989-94. In addition,
two new series of installation artwork will be revealed. In reference to the title, Nakamura has described “Luminous Despair” as, “to be in touch with all that exists,
and the power to have each deviate from its binding causality.” Just what is he intending to convey to our chaotic society?

From guerrilla artistry to “TRANS ARTS TOKYO”, what kind of potential could arise from these consistent, expressive actions?
Answers await in Nakamura's long-awaited exhibition, held at 3331 Arts Chiyoda.

http://m.3331.jp/en/

Information Provided by: 3331 Arts Chiyoda


Period: October 10,2015 (Sat) 〜 November 23,2015 (Mon)
Hours: 11:00-20:00
Closed: Open Daily
Venue: 3331 Arts Chiyoda

Last Updated on October 10 2015
 

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