Visceral Sensation — Voices So Far, So Near
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
April 27, 2013 – September 1, 2013
Our organs contain life memory and life rhythms from the far distant past, according to anatomist MIKI Shigeo (1925-1987). Miki’s observations of human behavior, senses, and emotions have profoundly influenced diverse fields.
Do Ho Suh – Perfect Home
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
November 23, 2012 – March 17, 2013
Through the artist’s re-creation of his private home, the place where his memories and experiences reside, “Do Ho Suh – Perfect Home” will demonstrate how, by traversing the differing territories of contemporary society, Do Ho Suh places people’s values in contrast and underscores their diversity.
Do Ho Suh was born in Korea in 1962. After graduating from Seoul National University, he relocated to the US in order to study painting and sculpture.
Son et Lumière, et sagesse profonde
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
September 15, 2012 – March 17, 2013
On the face of it, it seems that modern civil society has secured freedom and material abundance through economic development, science and technology. In our information-oriented society, speed, comfort, and convenience are regarded both as beneficial and wholesome values. At the same time, however, in order to facilitate the pursuit of these benefits, human life has become more and more regimented.
Art Crafting towards the Future
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Saturday, April 28 – Friday, August 31, 2012
“Art Crafting towards the Future” inquires into the contemporary validity of kôgei (Japanese artisan craft) and universalness of its appeal.”
Silent Echoes: Collection Exhibition II
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
September 17, 2011 – April 8, 2012
How did it come? For a minute the opening balanced from one side to the other. Like a walk or march. Like God strutting in the night. The outside of her was suddenly froze and only that first part of the music was hot inside her heart.
Jiga Daizessan – My Artwork Amazes Me
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
November 23, 2011 – March 20, 2012
In today’s society, with its passion for efficiency and ease of understanding, are we not inclined to seek guidelines—even in our creative activities, which by nature should be spontaneous and free? Are we not inclined to seek reasons and standards of evaluation for what to make and how to make it?
Monique Frydman
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
November 23, 2011 – March 20, 2012
The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa will present a major individual exhibition of the work of Monique FRYDMAN, an important French woman artist.
Silent Echoes: Collection Exhibition I
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
April 29 – 18 July, 2011
“Silent Echo: Collection Exhibition I” makes a special presentation of L’écho by TSE Su-Mei, an artist born in Luxembourg whose work resonates deeply with the world of music and human life conveyed by the above quote from Carson McCullers’s novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. This exhibition reveals possibilities of the museum collection that have seldom been discussed before.
Peter Fischli, David Weiss
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
September 18 – December 25, 2010
Traveling through an endless tunnel of changing light and color. A rat and bear go out on the town and through art and philosophy offer insights into the absurdities of the human condition. Everyday items teeter, precariously balanced. Energy passes by a whisker from one piece of junk to another, in a series of seemingly impromptu chain reactions. Airport scenes from across the globe float alongside a panoramic selection of this world’s doings, big and small, rendered in ninety or so pieces of clay.
Alternative Humanities: Jan Fabre x Funakoshi Katsura
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
April 29 – 31 August, 2010
A large-scale exhibition devoted to Jan FABRE and Katsura FUNAKOSHI —two of today’s most influential artists. The exhibition will individually explore the spiritual sources of each artist in religious icons appearing in masterworks of history and thereby consider the character of 21st-century man.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa has been established with the mission of generating new culture and revitalizing its community. Innovative city planning has become intensely important to our society, which faces a historical turning point in the 21st century. Through a spirit of cooperation, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa will seek to awaken Kanazawa’s creative energy and become a compelling regional cultural attraction.