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Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Koyanagi
Thomas Ruff: Cassini and Zycles
Dates: 16 Oct 09 - 19 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: Koyanagi Bldg. 8F, 1-7-5 Ginza Chuo-ku Tokyo 104-0061
Tel: +81 (0)3 3561 1896 Website
Museum of Contemporary Art
Luxury in Fashion Reconsidered
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative
Address: 4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku Tokyo 135
Tel: +81 (0)3 5245 4111 Website
Swedish Fashion: Exploring a New Identity
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 17 Jan 10
Categories: Decorative
Address: 4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku Tokyo 135
Tel: +81 (0)3 5245 4111 Website
Rebecca Horn
Dates: 31 Oct 09 - 24 Jan 10
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 4-1-1 Miyoshi, Koto-ku Tokyo 135
Tel: +81 (0)3 5245 4111 Website
It is perhaps surprising that it is only now, at the age of 65, that Rebecca Horn has been honoured by a solo exhibition in Japan. Significant both as a post-war German artist and as a woman artist, Horn was prominent among the creative generation that emerged in the 1960s, producing a body of work that has remained consistent across a wide range of artistic practices, from drawing and photography through performance and film to kinetic sculpture and installation. She has traced her artistic vision to the year she spent convalescing after almost poisoning herself to death at the age of 20 while working with fibreglass without a mask: confined to bed, she passed the time designing extensions to her limbs and body.
A work that brought her early acclaim was Unicorn, 1970, in which a young woman is filmed walking through a wheat field wearing only a tall prosthetic horn on her head; the piece seemed very contemporary, but also tapped into the timeless and mythic. Later extensions often included feathers, and eventually they left the human body behind, to become strangely elegant and affecting automata, often described as “machines with souls”. This exhibition provides an overview of Horn’s 40-year career, from early film works to the “bodylandscapes” of recent years. B.M.
National Art Center Tokyo
Treasures of the Habsburg Monarchy: 140th Jubilee of the Friendship Treaty between Austria-Hungary and Japan
Dates: 25 Sep 09 - 14 Dec 09
Categories: 1800-1900 (Impressionism, etc)
Address: 7-22-2 Roppongi, Minato-ku Tokyo 106-8558
Tel: +81 (0)3 6812 9900 Website
National Museum of Modern Art (MOMAT)
Kawaguchi Tatsuo
Dates: 14 Oct 09 - 13 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 3-1 Kitanomaru Koen, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 102-8322
Tel: +81 (0)3 3214 2561 Website
Kwon Jin-kyu
Dates: 10 Oct 09 - 6 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Address: 3-1 Kitanomaru Koen, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 102-8322
Tel: +81 (0)3 3214 2561 Website
Modern Japanese Art from the Museum Collection
Dates: 3 Oct 09 - 13 Dec 09
Categories: Modern (1900-1945)
Address: 3-1 Kitanomaru Koen, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 102-8322
Tel: +81 (0)3 3214 2561 Website
National Museum of Western Art
Rome: Landscapes of the Fields of the Future
Dates: 19 Sep 09 - 13 Dec 09
Categories: Curious
Address: 7-7 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku Tokyo 110-0007
Tel: +81 (0)3 3828 5131 Website
Suntory Museum of Art
Kiyokata's Nostalgia
Dates: 18 Nov 09 - 11 Jan 10
Categories: Far East
Decorative
Address: Tokyo Suntory Building, 1-2-3 Moto-Akasaka, Minato-ku, 11th Floor Tokyo 107-8430
Tel: +81 (0)3 3470 1073 Website
Taka Ishii Gallery
Akihisa Hirata: Flame Frame
Dates: 1 Aug 09 - 26 Dec 09
Categories: Contemporary (1970-present)
Far East
Address: 1-3-2 5F, Kiyosumi Koto-Ku Tokyo 135-0024
Tel: +81 3 56 46 60 50 Website
Tokyo National Museum
Artists to the Imperial Household
Dates: 8 Sep 09 - 6 Dec 09
Categories: Far East
Address: 13-9 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku Tokyo 110-8712
Tel: +81 (0)3 3822 1111 Website
Treasures of the Imperial Collections: Splendour of Japanese Art (Part 2)
Dates: 12 Nov 09 - 29 Nov 09
Categories: Far East
Address: 13-9 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku Tokyo 110-8712
Tel: +81 (0)3 3822 1111 Website
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