Roppongi Crossing 2007: Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art
13 October, 2007 - 14 January, 2008
Organizers: Mori Art Museum
Corporate Sponsors: SAMSUNG JAPAN CORPORATION, agnès b.
Supported by: Nicolas Feuillatte, GREY GOOSE
36 ARTISTS YOU MUST SEE NOW
"Roppongi Crossing" is a series of exhibitions produced by the Mori Art Museum to introduce Japanese creative talent working in a wide range of genres. The first in the series was held in 2004 - and is to this day used as a reference point for contemporary Japanese visual culture.
For "Roppongi Crossing 2007" four curators focused on the idea of 'intersection,' selecting 36 artists whose work has an energy and sphere of influence that spreads beyond the confines of conventional artistic categories.
Their art takes a variety of forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, manga, games, and even unlikely genres such as dollmaking and bathhouse mural painting. In addition to artists who are emerging on the scene right now, the list also includes others who drove the scene in its formative period in the 1960s and 1970s, and whose feverish output continues unabated today.
Surprising juxtapositions provide an opportunity to discover unexpected similarities and also to trace some of the unseen webs of influence and homage that connect the artists of the last three decades.
Delicate handwork, carefully thought-out concepts and a tendency for interactive mechanisms are just some of the other characteristics that unite the works in the exhibition, many of which are new works produced especially for the show.
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