Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography
Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography
February 15, 2015
Kōji Enokura, P.W. No. 51, Symptom—Floor, Hand, 1974
© Michiyo Enokura / Photo: Paul Hester, Hester + Hardaway Photography
“For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979 ” presents some 250 works: photographs, photo books, paintings, sculpture, and film-based installations. The unprecedented survey demonstrates how 29 Japanese artists and photographers enlisted the camera to make experimental and conceptual shifts in their artistic practices during a time of radical societal change.
“This groundbreaking exhibition draws from the Museum’s permanent collection and initiates partnerships with institutions in Japan, including the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, that enable us to bring important experimental works outside of Japan, in this context, for the first time,” said Gary Tinterow, Museum director.
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Kōji Enokura, P.W. No. 51, Symptom—Floor, Hand, 1974
© Michiyo Enokura / Photo: Paul Hester, Hester + Hardaway Photography
Shigeo Gochō, from Self and Others, 1975–77
© Hiroichi Gochō
Uematsu Keiji, Right Angle Position, 1973
© Keiji Uematsu / Photo courtesy of Yumiko Chiba Associates