Art Brut 2023 Touring Exhibition
Dear Stories: Tales and Talks
Exhibition Overview
This touring exhibition will stop at three locations in Tokyo to present the work of seven Art Brut artists whose highly unique and distinctive expressive styles have attracted attention both inside Japan and around the world in recent years.
From narratives that confirm our own existence to tales to share with others, human beings live their days in the company of a variety of stories. In this exhibition, you are asked to focus on savoring the stories that lie in each artist’s creative process and the worlds of their works.
Modeling the shape of someone important with a fictional story. Building one-of-a-kind automatons with empty beer cans. A gaze pointed at fragments of life, and the poetry born therein. Creating dioramas of imaginary neighborhoods and the traces of the passion left behind by repeated building and demolition. Attempting to get a bird’s-eye view of space-time by depicting outer space and history. Drawing colorful, beloved birds and decorating the world of one’s dreams. Memories of construction work during a bygone period of rapid economic growth and countless drawings made on graph paper. Herein exist the forms of narratives as filtered through each artist’s unique experiences, interwoven with their expansion into tales, stimulating our sensitivities and imaginations to make them more abundant.
Our hope is that through meditations on stories, this exhibition will serve as a space to come in contact with the creativity of a diverse range of people and serve as the impetus for people to talk.
| Title | Art Brut 2023 Touring Exhibition
Dear Stories: Tales and Talks |
|---|---|
| Period Opening Hours Venue |
Sunday, 24 September - Wednesday, 4 October 2023
10:00am‐5:00pm ［Venue 1］Sumida Riverside Hall Gallery 【now ended】 Saturday, 21 October - Sunday, 24 December 2023 11:00am‐7:00pm *Closed on Mondays ［Venue 2］Tokyo Shibuya Koen- Gallery 【now ended】 Wednesday, 24 January - Wednesday, 7 February 2024 10:00am‐5:00pm ［Venue 3］TAMASHIN RISURU Hall（Tachikawa City Civic Center）Exhibition Room 【now ended】 Sunday, 26 November 2023 2:00pm-3:00pm Special event will be held in Hamura City Lifelong Learning Center Primo Hall YUTOROGI. 【now ended】 It will be announced on the website. |
| Admission | Free |
| Artists | KAMAE Kazumi, TOMINAGA Takeshi, HATANAKA Tsugumi, hideki, MATSUMOTO Hironobu, MIRUKA, YAMAZAKI Kenichi |
| Audio Guide | MORISAKI WIN（Actor・Artist） Offered at all all venues of this exhibition. Available free of charge. |
| Organaized by | Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture |
| Cooperation・Support | Cooperated by: Tachikawa City, Hamura City Board of Education Supported by: Sumida City |
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Artists
KAMAE Kazumi, Me and Masato going to eat ramen, 2021,
Collection of Atelier Yamanami, Courtesy of Atelier Yamanami
TOMINAGA Takeshi, Tsutenkaku (If I Don’t Drink It, Who Will), Date unknown,
Private collection, Courtesy of Tomonotsu Museum
HATANAKA Tsugumi, Pink Lipstick (2 Sticks), Date unknown,
Collection of the artist, Photo by IGARASHI Kazuharu
hideki, Kita-Sendai Station, 2023,
Collection of the artist, Photo by IGARASHI Kazuharu
MATSUMOTO Hironobu, Black Hole, 2012,Collection of the artist
©Matsumoto Hironobu
MIRUKA, Blue Bird-of-Paradise, 2017,
Collection of YELLOW, Courtesy of YELLOW
YAMAZAKI Kenichi, Dump Truck with Crane, Date unknown,
Private collection, Courtesy of GLOW
Audio Guide
Offered at all all venues of this exhibition.
available free of charge.
Born in 1990 in Myanmar.
He moved to Japan in the fourth grade and joined the entertainment industry in the eighth grade.
He made his Hollywood debut in 2018 with Ready Player One directed by Steven Spielberg. In 2020, he won Newcomer of the Year in the 43rd Japan Academy Film Prize for his performance in the film Listen to the Universe. Since then, he has appeared in numerous films and television dramas and starred in musicals such as West Side Story (2020), Pippin (2022), and SPY×FAMILY (2023).
He made his major recording label debut as a global entertainer in 2020.
He launched his first national tour in April 2023 and has served as a tourism ambassador for his native country of Myanmar since 2018.
Related Event
Related Event of “Art Brut 2023 Touring Exhibition Dear Stories: Tales and Talks”
Talk Event *This event has ended.
- Period
- Saturday, 21 October 2023
- Venue
- Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Interactive Space
- Admission
- Free
Guests：
UEDA Kanayo（Poetic, Director of Kamagasaki Art University）
KISHI Masahiko（Sociologist, Professor of Kyoto University）
［Registration required; first come, first served］
Art Brut 2023 Touring Exhibition Dear Stories: Tales and Talks
Gallery Talk *Three times in a total *This event has ended.
- Period
- Saturday, 21 October 2023 / Saturday, 18 November / Saturday, 9 December
- Venue
- Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Gallery１and Gallery2
- Admission
- Free
A curator will speak on themes and pieces in the exhibition, pointing out highlights in an easy-to-understand.
We will invite some of the exhibiting artists and the people associated with the artists as guests to talk about the exhibition.
*Three times in a total *Conducted in Japanese
Related Event of “Art Brut 2023 Touring Exhibition Dear Stories: Tales and Talks”
Poetry Workshop *This event has ended.
- Period
- Sunday, 22 October 2023
- Venue
- Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Interactive Space
- Admission
- Free
Facilitator：UEDA Kanayo（Poetic, Director of Kamagasaki Art University）
For junior high school students and above.
［Registration required; first come, first served］
Related Event of “Art Brut 2023 Touring Exhibition Dear Stories: Tales and Talks”
Exhibition tour together with OriHime avatar robots *This event has ended.
- Period
- Friday, 10 November 2023 / Saturday, 18 November
- Venue
- Tokyo Shibuya Koen-dori Gallery, Gallery１, Gallery2
- Admission
- Free
Capacity: 6 participants for each tour (2 remote and 4 in-person)
［Registration required; If there are too many applications, a lottery will be held.］
