This catalogue is published for the exhibition 'Trans-Cool TOKYO: Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection' held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo from February to March 2010. The exhibition consists of 44 works selected from the 4,000 piece-collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT Collection). From Yayoi Kusama's pioneering works of Japanese Pop Art to Yasumasa Morimura's role-playing in multiple identity-expressing portraits from the 1980s, the exhibition provides an opportunity to review works by these groundbreaking artists yielding a context for examining how Japanese artists have established their own creative identities within the context of pop culture since the second half of the 1990s.
Including artist biographies.
Including artist biographies.
Alternative title
Tokyo Culture Creation Project
Access level
Onsite
Location code
EX.JAP.TCT
Language
English
Keyword
sculpture, pop, installation, mixed media, conceptualism, photography, video art, painting, group exhibition, Japan
Publication/Creation date
2010
No of pages
72
ISBN / ISSN
Nil
No of copies
2
Content type
catalogue
Chapter headings
What's Japanese Cool?
Collections at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Trans-Cool TOKYO: Contemporary Japanese Art from MOT Collection
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