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Tadanori YOKOO: Photograph exhibition
Editor's Note
Written by Satoshi KOGANEZAWA   
Published: October 26 2009

With the concept of regarding the essence of Tadanori Yokoo’s art as “incompleteness”, this exhibition shows us Tadanori Yokoo’s creations focusing on his various and dynamic creative styles using which he has been making works inspired by a wide range of things. For example, you can see one of Yokoo’s past creations displayed next to a recent work based on this previous piece. There is another work that extracts elements from a Rousseau creation, and it is shown together with an image of the original work (the original work itself is not displayed). In addition, you can find some carefully planned ideas in the display forms of this exhibition. For instance, next to the “Y Junction” series, the image of their creating scenes is being aired, and paintings of waterfalls and some objets d’art (small artworks) are displayed casually in each exhibition room. The display space is composed of some relatively small rooms, which may give you a compact image of this exhibition. Nonetheless, I am sure you will spend some quality time there. By the way, the “Morikage Kusumi Exhibition - The 50th anniversary of the opening of Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art” (26/Sep/2009-25/Oct/2009) is being held in Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, located approximately ten minutes’ walk from the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Ishikawa. This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to encounter good pieces which were made by past artists who succeeded in enhancing the quality of their works by actively referring to paintings drawn by Chinese and Japanese creators. It would be really regrettable to let such an opportunity to pass on the grounds that this is not a “modern art” exhibition. I highly recommend that you visit this exhibition together with the “Tadanori Yokoo Incomplete” if you get the chance. These two exhibitions have one thing in common in that they show exhibits created by artists who have established their own creative styles by extracting and interpreting past creations in exceptional ways. (Translated by Nozomi Nakayama)

Last Updated on June 27 2010
 

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