[30th Anniversary] "Meet the Collection — Art, People and the Museum" @ Yokohama Museum of Art

Meet the Collection — Art, People and the Museum

I visited the Yokohama Museum of Art’s 30th-anniversary collection exhibition “Meet the Collection — Art, People and the Museum.”

At the open space by the entrance, a work created by Yusuke Asai together with children and others greets the visitor.

This anniversary exhibition is structured around four guest artists.
Below, I would like to recap the show centering on the works of those four artists.

Tabaimo

Tabaimo held a large-scale solo exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
This time as well, she delighted the audience with her signature video installations.

The video work “Aitaiseijosei” is a video installation that overlays “Villain” — a newspaper serial novel by Shuichi Yoshida for which Tabaimo provided her first newspaper-serial illustrations — with Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s “The Love Suicides at Sonezaki.”
In the room of Miho Kaneko, one of the characters in “Villain,” Ohatsu and Tokubei from “The Love Suicides at Sonezaki” are depicted. The screen onto which the video is projected merges with real chairs, creating Tabaimo’s mysterious world.

Other pieces related to Tabaimo’s video works were also on display, and I got the impression that many of the works depicted women.

Yusuke Asai

The artist who drew the most attention at this exhibition was surely Yusuke Asai.
Not only the collaboratively created piece at the entrance, but the astonishing large-scale work “The Tree of Life,” produced in just ten days, must have been the single work that captured viewers’ attention the most.

A truly wonderful work. This exhibition must have won many new fans for Yusuke Asai.
Asai is an energetically active artist. Small drawings are also one of his signatures. Right now, his works can still be acquired at accessible prices.
https://art-on.jp/2019/03/yusuke-asai-anomaly/

Kei Imazu

Kei Imazu’s oil paintings also possessed a powerful presence with their sheer size.
The theme of the section centered on Kei Imazu is “Surrealism.”

It seems this large-scale work was sold thanks to this very exhibition. It would be interesting to know what kind of collector acquired it.

Kishio Suga

The presentation of Kishio Suga, one of the leading Mono-ha artists, was also striking.

Other masterpieces were also lined up throughout the show.

A rich and rewarding anniversary exhibition indeed.
I have high hopes for the next ten years as well!