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出版社: Massachusetts Inst Technology (1989/06)
言語: 英語, 英語, 英語
ISBN-10: 0938437240
ISBN-13: 978-0938437246
発売日： 1989/06
http://www.amazon.co.jp/Against-Nature-Japanese-Art-Eighties/dp/0938437240
◇ Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties - List Visual Arts Center
ARTISTS:
Dumb Type Artists’ Collective
Katsura Funakoshi
Kaoru Hirabayashi
Shoko Maemoto
Tatsuo Miyajima
Yasumasa Morimura
Shinro Ohtake
Yusei Ogino
Noburu Tsubaki
Tomiaki Yamamoto
This exhibition constructs a view of the tensions informing Japanese art today. After World War II, Japanese economic and social values changes radically; so did aesthetic concerns. As conventional social structures collapsed, design became democratized. Today, one block of downtown Tokyo jams together the kitsch aesthetic, the microchip, and the Shinto shrine. The traditional nature worship of Japanese aesthetics and philosophy has given way to modern-day developers who pay $43,000 for a piece of Tokyo the size of a newspaper.
The current generation of young artists has confronted the Japanese craft tradition while adapting the strategies of contemporary Western art to the imperatives of their own inspirational sources. They are equally willing to reject the style of Western art and to subvert the traditions which constrained its elders. Although some of the installations formally approximate those made in the West, these works reflect a particularly Japanese sense of space and its meaning. A group of aesthetic urges that define paradoxical pairings inherent in Japanese culture are at the core of their argument: small vs. large; Japanese-Isolationist vs. Asian-global; clean and pure vs. ugly and vulgar; time stopped vs. time progressive; and bucolic vs. urban.
These polarities evoke issues of nature and culture, national identity and private individuality, which confront us in our present-day culture as well. The time is ripe to question a concept of nature that is both outmoded and unnecessarily superficial. The artists included in Against Nature attack outdated views, both foreign and domestic, of Japan and its artistic heritage as rooted in the soil of an agrarian land. As the exhibition title suggests, present-day Japanese reality is considerably more complex.
Against Nature was organized jointly by the MIT List Visual Arts Center, the Grey Art Gallery at New York University, and The Japan Foundation, Tokyo. The four curators were Kathy Halbreich, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and former director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center; Thomas Sokolowski, director of the Grey Art Gallery at NYU; Shinji Kohmoto, curator at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and Fumio Nanjo, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Nagoya.
Against Nature premiered in the United States at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from June 15 – August 6, 1989. Its national tour then takes it to:
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
September 9 – November 5, 1989
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Bank of Boston Art Gallery
December 8 – February 11, 1990
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
March 22 – May 13, 1990
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
June 8 – July 27, 1990
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
September 11 – October 18, 1990
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas
November 16, 1990 – February 12, 1991
The national tour of Against Nature is sponsored by a grant from the AT&T Foundation. Generous financial assistance was also provided by The Japan Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; The Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities; The Japan-United States Friendship Commission; The Asian Cultural Council; Bank of Boston; and Heineken, Japan.
Public Events:
Preview on Friday, December 8, 1989, 5 to 7pm
Gallery talk by exhibition curators Kathy Halbreich and Thomas Sokolowski, Saturday, December 9, 1989, 2pm.
Publication available. Accompanying the exhibition is a 90-page, bilingual, full color catalogue with essays by two Japanese scholars of popular culture and a lively and wide-ranging roundtable discussion among the four curators on binational art and cultural topics and preconceptions.
http://listart.mit.edu/node/794#.UvE5vkJ_vCF
◇ Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties - Asia Art Archive
Title:
Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties
Author/s:
Kathy HALBREICH, Thomas W. SOKOLOWSKI, Shinji KOHMOTO(河本信治), Fumio NANJO(南條史生), Shuhei HOSOKAWA(細川周平), Eikou IKUI(生井英考)
Description:
Catalogue of travelling exhibition of Japanese contemporary art in the United States, on view from June 1989 to February 1991, to facilitate a better understanding of art and culture between Japanese and American audience. Includes transcript of a roundtable discussion, essays and biographical information.
Access Level:
On-site
Location Code:
EX.USA.JAE
Language/s:
English, Japanese
Chapter Heading/s:
Foreword - Thomas W. SOKOLOWSKI, Kathy HALBREICHForeword - Fumio NANJO(南條史生), Shinji KOHMOTO(河本信治)
Against Nature: A Roundtable Discussion - Fumio NANJO(南條史生), Shinji KOHMOTO(河本信治), Thomas W. SOKOLOWSKI
On Tokyo-go: Pidgin Japanese - Shuhei HOSOKAWA(細川周平)
"Natures" of Tokyo - Eikou IKUI(生井英考)
Artist/s:
(Group) Dumb Type(ダムタイプ), Katsura FUNAKOSHI(舟越桂), Kaoru HIRABAYASHI(平林蟬), Shoko MAEMOTO(前本彰子), Tatsuo MIYAJIMA(宮島達男), Yasumasa MORIMURA(森村泰昌), Yusei OGINO(荻野優政), Shinro OHTAKE(大竹伸朗), Noboru TSUBAKI(椿昇), Tomiaki YAMAMOTO(山本富章)
Organiser/s:
Grey Art Gallery and Study Centre - New York University (New York - USA), MIT List Visual Arts Center (Massachusetts - USA), The Japan Foundation
Venue/s:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco - USA), Akron Art Museum (Ohio - USA), MIT List Visual Arts Center - Bank of Boston Art Gallery (Massachusetts - USA), The Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati - USA), Grey Art Gallery - New York University (New York - USA), Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston - USA)
Country of Publication:
United States
Published by:
Grey Art Gallery and Study Centre (New York - USA), MIT List Visual Arts Center (Massachusetts - USA), The Japan Foundation
Year of Publication:
1989
No. of Pages:
90
ISBN / ISSN:
0938347240
http://www.aaa.org.hk/Collection/Details/10075
◇ 「アゲインスト・ネイチャー 80年代の日本美術」展 - 現代美術用語辞典ver.2.0
「アゲインスト・ネイチャー 80年代の日本美術」展
“Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties”
「アゲインスト・ネイチャー」展は1989年6月15日のサンフランシスコ近代美術館を皮切りに、アメリカ７都市およびICA名古屋に巡回した展覧会である。キュレーターはキャシー・ハルブライヒ、トーマス・ソコロフスキ、河本信治、南條史生。展示作家は椿昇、大竹伸朗、ダムタイプ、舟越桂、宮島達男、森村泰昌、平林薫などで、当時、日本の現代美術の主流がもの派と見られていたアメリカにおいて、色彩豊かな具象作品やテクノロジーを主体にしたもの派の系譜ではない作家が選定された。ユイスマンスの『さかしま』の英訳でもある本展覧会名は、文字通り自然に相反する芸術を標榜するもので、「自然と一体化して生きている日本人」というステレオタイプに反発するところから企画がスタートした。翌年原美術館を皮切りにロサンゼルス・カウンティ・ミュージアムなどに巡回した「A Primal Spirit（10人の現代彫刻作家）」展の日本古来の自然に即した造形精神をテーマにした展示と対照的であった。前年のヴェネツィア・ビエンナーレの有望な若手作家を紹介する「アペルト」展に宮島達男と森村泰昌が選出され、国際舞台において評価を得たアーティストが含まれていたこともあり、この展覧会が目指した新しい日本の現代美術像は広く観衆の目に焼き付いた。折しも同年１月には昭和天皇が崩御、日本はバブル経済の絶頂期でありパラダイムシフトにふさわしい展覧会であったと言える。94年にアメリカを巡回した「戦後日本の前衛美術」展において、ダムタイプや森村泰昌をはじめとする80-90年代の現代美術が展示されたのは、「アゲインスト・ネイチャー」展の布石があったからであろう。
著者: 栗栖智美
参考文献
Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties, Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, 1989
『海を渡る日本現代美術』, 光山清子, 勁草書房, 2009
