Exhibition Explores Innovative Art in Japan
The exhibition 'Prism of the Real' at Tokyo's National Art Center challenges the idea of Japan as a fixed national entity.
Radical Art
Yasumasa Morimura's Portrait (Futago) (1989) radically appropriates Manet's Olympia (1863).
Transformative Decades
Framed between two decisive historical thresholds—the death of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster—Prism of the Real: Making Art in Japan 1989-2010 re-examines two transformative decades in Japanese art.
The exhibition challenges the idea of “Japan” as a fixed national entity, instead situating artistic practice within the fluid global exchanges of late capitalism.
- The show begins with the artists who participated in major group exhibitions in the US and Europe.
- Notably Against Nature: Japanese Art in the Eighties (1989-91) as well as the Venice Biennale.
Author's summary: Innovative art in Japan explored.
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