A Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) presents the exhibition 鈥淎 Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection鈥�. Presently comprising over 3,500 items, the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection is reputed as one of the most important collections of Japanese contemporary art in terms of both quality and quantity. A showcase of outstanding works by artists with a highly critical mindset, this exhibition explores the state of contemporary Japan from the specific viewpoint of a 1946-born art collector.
The exhibition is modeled around the personal viewpoint of TAKAHASHI Ryutaro as one face representing postwar Japan. Born in 1946, and growing up as a spearhead of the baby boomer generation, he joined the Zenkyoto student movement, and was directly exposed to the dense mixture of culture and politics that was filling the air in Tokyo in the 1960s. From there, he went on to put effort into encouraging local medical care such as day care as a psychiatrist. From the mid-90s, when his business was stably on track, he started collecting Japanese contemporary art, and has to this day acquired a total of more than 3,500 artworks. TAKAHASHI can thus be seen as someone who has been observing the trends and currents in Japanese contemporary art from the inside, while at the same time embodying essential aspects from the position of the audience as opposed to that of the artists. In addition to works that seem to reflect the state of Japan in the 1990s and 2000s, which in a way represent the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection at large, this exhibition also focuses on a new direction that the collection took after the Great East Japan Earthquake, reflecting the changing times and values.
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The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) presents the exhibition 鈥淎 Personal View of Japanese Contemporary Art: Takahashi Ryutaro Collection鈥�. Presently comprising over 3,500 items, the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection is reputed as one of the most important collections of Japanese contemporary art in terms of both quality and quantity. A showcase of outstanding works by artists with a highly critical mindset, this exhibition explores the state of contemporary Japan from the specific viewpoint of a 1946-born art collector.
The exhibition is modeled around the personal viewpoint of TAKAHASHI Ryutaro as one face representing postwar Japan. Born in 1946, and growing up as a spearhead of the baby boomer generation, he joined the Zenkyoto student movement, and was directly exposed to the dense mixture of culture and politics that was filling the air in Tokyo in the 1960s. From there, he went on to put effort into encouraging local medical care such as day care as a psychiatrist. From the mid-90s, when his business was stably on track, he started collecting Japanese contemporary art, and has to this day acquired a total of more than 3,500 artworks. TAKAHASHI can thus be seen as someone who has been observing the trends and currents in Japanese contemporary art from the inside, while at the same time embodying essential aspects from the position of the audience as opposed to that of the artists. In addition to works that seem to reflect the state of Japan in the 1990s and 2000s, which in a way represent the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection at large, this exhibition also focuses on a new direction that the collection took after the Great East Japan Earthquake, reflecting the changing times and values.
Artists on show
- 鈭圷鈭�
- Akasegawa Genpei
- Aki Kondo
- Akira Uno
- Akira Yamaguchi
- Asako Fujikura
- Asami Shoji
- Ataru Sato
- BABU
- BIEN
- Chiba Kazumasa
- Chiharu Shiota
- Chim Pom
- Daido Moriyama
- Diego
- Enrico Isamu Oyama
- Erina Matsui
- Everyday Holiday Squad
- Fumika Tsuchitori
- Goro Murayama
- Hachiya Kazuhiko
- Hajime Sorayama
- Harumi Yamaguchi
- Hideaki Kawashima
- Hiroko Okada
- Hisashi Tenmyouya
- Izumi Kato
- Kanji Yumisashi
- Kasetsu
- Katsura Funakoshi
- Katsuzo Satomi
- Kawauchi Rikako
- Kazuki Umezawa
- Kei Imazu
- Kei Takemura
- Kenji Yanobe
- Kenjiro Okazaki
- Kenta Ishige
- Kineta Kunimatsu
- Kinpei Nakamura
- Kishio Suga
- Kohei Nawa
- Kohei Yamada
- KOMAKUS
- Kotao Tomozawa
- Kumi Machida
- Kyoko Murase
- Lieko Shiga
- Makiko Kudo
- Makoto Aida
- Mamoru Kubo
- Manabu Ikeda
- Masato Kobayashi
- Masaya Chiba
- Michie Aoki
- Mika Kato
- Mika Ninagawa
- Minoru Nakahara
- Mitobe Nanae
- Mitsutoshi Hanaga
- Miwa Yanagi
- Miyanaga Aiko
- Motohiko Odani
- Mr.
- Murakami Saki
- Namonaki Sanemasa
- Nana Tamamoto
- Naoki Koide
- Natsuko Sakamoto
- Natsunosuke Mise
- Nemoto Takashi
- Nile Koetting
- Nobuaki Takekawa
- Nobuyoshi Araki
- O Jun
- Ob
- Osamu Mori
- Osamu Tsukasa
- Oscar Oiwa
- Reina Taniho
- Sachiko Kazama
- Sawako Goda
- Shinro Ohtake
- Shoko Maemoto
- Shunsuke Imai
- Suzuki Hiraku
- Tabaimo
- Tadanori Yokoo
- Takashi Ishida
- Takashi Murakami
- Takuro Kuwata
- Taro Chiezo
- Teppei Kaneuji
- Tiger Tateishi
- Tohru Matsushita
- Tomohito Wakui
- Tomoko Konoike
- Toshiyuki Konishi
- Tsuyoshi Ozawa
- Ushio Shinohara
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- Yasumasa Morimura
- Yasuyuki Nishio
- Yayoi Deki
- Yayoi Kusama
- Yohei Nishimura
- Yoichi Umetsu
- Yoshitomo Nara
- Yosuke Kobashi
- Yuichi Higashionna
- Yukino Yamanaka
- Yukinori Yanagi
- Yuko Mohri
- Yutaka Aoki
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