It is the catalogue from the solo exhibition by Morimura Yasumasa from April 6 - June 9, 1996 at the Yokohama Museum of Art.
This exhibition presents new works by Yasumasa Morimura, an artist who occupies an important place in the Museum's contemporary art collections. Although Morimura has produced a huge body of work in his fifteen-year career, his is not a retrospective but a presentation of current works imbued with contemporaneity.
Morimura's art began with his dialogue with a set of masterpieces of art history. He did not copy these famous painting to study techniques and styles but actually inserted himself into them. Morimura's primary goal was not simply replicate the original painting but to develop his own interpretation of a given masterpiece based on the understandings gained through the process of production or role-playing. His act may also be summarized as an investigation of the physical and spiritual distance between himself and the past.
Artist biography and bibliography are included.
This exhibition presents new works by Yasumasa Morimura, an artist who occupies an important place in the Museum's contemporary art collections. Although Morimura has produced a huge body of work in his fifteen-year career, his is not a retrospective but a presentation of current works imbued with contemporaneity.
Morimura's art began with his dialogue with a set of masterpieces of art history. He did not copy these famous painting to study techniques and styles but actually inserted himself into them. Morimura's primary goal was not simply replicate the original painting but to develop his own interpretation of a given masterpiece based on the understandings gained through the process of production or role-playing. His act may also be summarized as an investigation of the physical and spiritual distance between himself and the past.
Artist biography and bibliography are included.
Access level
Onsite
publisher
Location code
MON.MOY
Language
English,
Japanese
Keyword
Publication/Creation date
1996
No of copies
1
Content type
artist monograph,
catalogue
Chapter headings
Preface - Tetsuro KAGESATO, 陰里鐵郎
Can Yasumasa Morimura Save Humanity? - Taro AMANO, 天野太郎
Apparatus M: The Night of the Soul Descending - For Yasumasa Morimura - Yasuo KOBAYASHI, 小林康夫
A Man Pretending to be a Woman: On Yasumasa Morimura's Actresses - Kaori CHINO, 千野香織
Morimura: 3 Readings - Norman BRYSON
Morimura Yasumasa: The Sickness unto Beauty - Self-portrait as Actress
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