Tom Sachs “Tea Ceremony”
I visited “Tea Ceremony,” Tom Sachs’s first large-scale solo museum exhibition in Japan. The venue is Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.
The title “Tea Ceremony” refers to the way of tea. This is an exhibition in which Tom Sachs, born in New York, interprets the tea ceremony from a foreigner’s perspective, using everyday ready-made items as his medium.
Since beginning his serious study of tea in 2012, Tom Sachs has produced works that reconstruct the world of the tea ceremony through his own singular viewpoint and interpretation.
The main exhibition space is composed around the image of a Japanese garden.
It is divided into an outer roji (garden path) on the roji-mon (garden gate) side and an inner roji on the tea-house side.
Even as you feel his love for the tea ceremony, his playfulness and humor pull the viewer in.
The light, unburdened, effortless viewing experience felt very pleasant.
The concurrent exhibition at Tomio Koyama Gallery is covered here.
