Dates   | November 2 (Saturday) – 24 (Sunday), 2024
Venue  | MEM map
Hours  | 13:00 – 19:00 (During Art Week Tokyo from Nov. 7 to 10 opens 10:00–19:00)
Closed | Monday (Open if Monday is a public holiday, closed the following weekday)

Exhibited Artists | Antoine d’Agata, Takeshi Honda, Tomoaki Ishihara, Yoshio Kitayama, Kimiyo Mishima, Yasumasa Morimura, Iwata Nakayama, Shigeru Onihshi, Sutezo Otono, Koichi Sako, Tsugio Tajima, Yoho Tsuda

This exhibition takes its starting point from mono and koto, two concepts that are said to shape thought and creation in Japanese art. Often translated as “material,” “object,” or “thing,” mono refers to an object that occupies space or a form that is perceptible by the human senses. Carrying the sense of “incident” or “event,” koto, on the other hand, refers to an abstract object of thought, consciousness, phenomena, action, or character.

One of the artists featured in this group exhibition, Shigeru Onishi (1928–1994) studied topology and theoretical mathematics before turning to photography as a way of expressing his mathematical theories through art. He later shifted to working in avant-garde calligraphy and abstract ink painting, making work that the influential curator and critic Michel Tapié showed in Europe alongside pieces by Gutai artists in the late 1950s and 1960s. Recent years have seen a reevaluation of Onishi’s photographic output and his use of experimental techniques including multiple exposure, discoloration, and color tone manipulation using temperature. Alongside Onishi’s works, the paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and videos by the other participating artists tease out the implications of mono and koto in modern and contemporary Japanese artistic practices

This exhibition is part of Art Week Tokyo.
2 minutes walk from bus stop [C6]
Please refer here for the walking route from the bus stop.