WORLDS IN BALANCE: ART IN JAPAN FROM THE POSTWAR TO THE PRESENT Curated by Kenjiro Hosaka
A new curated sales platform with a historical scope, AWT Focus invites a guest curator to reassess existing narratives of modern and contemporary art through works drawn from Art Week Tokyo’s participating galleries.
The inaugural edition of AWT Focus is curated by Kenjiro Hosaka, Director of the Shiga Museum of Art, Otsu. “Worlds in Balance: Art in Japan from the Postwar to the Present” explores the productive tensions that have driven the emergence of new expression in Japan over the past century, such as those between art and craft, abstraction and figuration, material and immaterial, and nature and technology. Installed across three floors of the Okura Museum of Art, the exhibition assembles more than 100 works by 64 Japanese and Japan-based artists representing a broad range of generations and practices.
ABOUT THE VENUE
Located on the grounds of The Okura Tokyo, the Okura Museum of Art is Japan’s first private art museum. The museum was established in 1917 by Kihachiro Okura as a permanent home for his collection of premodern Japanese and East Asian art, which includes three National Treasures and 12 Important Cultural Properties. Designed by early-modern architect Chuta Ito, the current building was constructed in 1927 and has since been expanded and renovated.
Venue Okura Museum of Art
Period November 2–5, 10am–6pm
Admission
Ticketed
平衡世界 日本のアート、戦後から今日まで アーティスティックディレクター：保坂健二朗
滋賀県立美術館ディレクター（館長）の保坂健二朗をアーティスティックディレクターとして迎え、64名のアーティストによる100点を超える作品を通して、日本の近現代美術を読み解くキーワードを批評的かつ親しみやすい視点から再考する展覧会「平衡世界 日本のアート、戦後から今日まで」を開催します。
1917年に実業家の大倉喜八郎によって設立された、現存する日本最古の私立美術館である大倉集古館の地上1・2階および地下1階の3フロアを会場に、物質と非物質、アートとデザイン、自然と人工といった、一見相反する概念の間に「バランス（平衡）」を求める建設的な緊張関係が、戦後から現代に至る日本において新しい表現の誕生を促してきたことを明らかにします。
Venue 大倉集古館 港区虎ノ門2-10-3
Period 11月2日（木）–11月5日（日）10:00–18:00（最終入場17:30）
Admission
チケット制（詳細は公式サイトへ）