Takamatsu Art Museum Collection+ “Body and Moving”
We visited the collection exhibition currently on view at Takamatsu Art Museum.
“Takamatsu Art Museum Collection+ (Plus)” presents works from the museum’s collection alongside pieces by guest artists. The themes of this edition are “body” and “moving.”
Room 1
Room 1 focuses on “the body and movement in the act of creation.”
In collaboration with the “Kazuo Shiraga Dissemination Project,” which introduces the Shiraga collection held by Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture at museums across Japan, the exhibition explores works spanning the early to late career of Kazuo Shiraga, who won international acclaim for his highly original action-painting style of painting with his feet.
The exhibition also introduces the practice and inquiry of the young artists of the Gutai Art Association—of which Kazuo Shiraga was a member—guided by leader Jiro Yoshihara’s dictum “Create what has never been done before.” These are presented through the Takamatsu Art Museum’s Gutai collection, including Atsuko Tanaka’s Electric Dress.
Atsuko Tanaka’s iconic work Electric Dress is in the collection of Takamatsu Art Museum.
Note that Electric Dress is normally not illuminated; it was switched on once every 26 minutes.
Room 2
Room 2 focuses on “the act of creation in tandem with travel and movement,” presenting paintings and video works.
Alongside the museum’s collection—including Takashi Ishida’s REFLECTION, in which light streaming through the window of a gallery in a British port town seems to converse with the artist’s own body, and DELAY by Logs Gallery (the artist duo formed in 1993 by Yasuhiko Hamachi and Yoshihisa Nakase), which spirally reconstructs footage and sound recorded during an actual drive—the exhibition also featured guest artists Aki Kondo and Koji Nakazono.
Aki Kondo’s paintings brim with “the act of living and its joy,” and her works reflecting on the lives she once knew on Shodoshima are deeply moving.
The works of Koji Nakazono, who died young in the sea off Takamatsu, born of rapidly welling images and the reactions of his body, speak to viewers with a striking freshness.
