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Tokyo Art: reposted from “Art With a Needle”, blog post on September 29, 2010
The Mori Art Museum, located on top of a 54-story office/retail/residential/hotel tower in Tokyo, is one of the very few places in Japan to see contemporary art. It has been open only since 2003 and does not have a permanent collection, but functions as a Kunsthalle to present revolving exhibits. The show I saw last month was super!
Yoshioka Tokujin, according to the artist statement, likes “recreating indeterminate phenomena, such as light, snow, storms and wind, which do not have a distinct shape or color.” To recreate snow, for instance, he built a room out of clear plastic and filled it halfway with feathers, then uses two electric fans to blow them about. The fan comes on for 35 seconds, then goes off for a couple of minutes while the feathers gently settle into drifts.
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