2017.03.29・
From the 1970s to the 80s, the Seibu Distribution Group (later the Saison Group) with the Seibu Department Store being the center has expanded further with its new sensational form of businesses such as the Seiyu Store, development of Muji, PARCO, Family Mart, and the launch of LIBRO where publication was done. Seiji Tsutsumi who led the Saison Group conducted an image strategy by appointing eminent creators. For this exhibition, from Paul Klee to Jasper Johns, and Toeko Tatsuno, the footsteps of the Saison culture that formed one era will be introduced with the collection of Sezon Museum of Modern Art being the axis.
2016.09.21・
Demanding a strong awareness towards art that is only closed inside human speculation, Tomoko Konoike’s solo exhibition “Primordial Violence” kept making an inquire to go back to the origin of art, which is the act of creation. We would like to hold “Skin, Needle, Thread, and” being the Vol.3 of that.
Starting with the “Drop curtain of cowhide”, a work reaching up to 24 meters currently generation a reaction, this exhibition will put a focus on the act of “Sew” which what can be seen in many of Konoike’s works. Like how the Homo sapiens invented a tool called “Needle” 50,000 years ago and went on a journey all over the world, sewing has always been a part of us as a handcraft to this day since the creation of heavy winter clothing. On the other hand, it has been looked down upon as something inferior to art, and was put aside as a daily handwork. Still, the sorrow and happiness concealed inside our body will be fully sewed and mended, hiding the power to be unleashed to the outer world in the form of a new voice.
Konoike provokes us by throwing a recursive nonsense to us by stating that, “The act of humans creating and living, is an act going against nature, is primordial violence”. With the texture of the land of Niigata here, the question for art will be thought out with the audience, and sewed.
＜EVENTS＞
Tomoko Konoike Artist Talk
Date：12/17 (Sat) 14:00− At the exhibition room Registration not required・Administration ticket needed
Art Complex & Talk “Winter Howling”
By welcoming Fuyuki Yamagawa, it is a moment to make a new somatic sensation appear inside the entire museum by awakening the inner animal voice within us.
Talkers：Fuyuki Yamakawa (KHOOMEI singer/Artist), Tomoko Konoike
Date：12/23（Fri・Holiday）14:00-16:00 At exhibition room Administration ticket needed
For seat requests, please RSVP at (12/1〜Reception、First 50 arrivals Tel: 025-290-6655）
Talk “Needle and String Tells – Sewing the Fairy Tale of Today”
A talk perambulating sewing, story, and the the mysteries of reality by Tomoko Konoike and Mayako Murai (Professor of Foreign Language/Comparative Literature/Fairy Tale Professor at the University of Kanagawa)
Date：1/21 (Sat) 14:00- At exhibition room Administration ticket needed
For seat requests, please RSVP at (12/1〜Reception、First 50 arrivals Tel: 025-290-6655）
Workshop「First Art Errand」
A workshop where the attendants plays the role of an artist, and bring home the “Errand” requested by the navigator (Curator).
Date：1/8（Sun）14:00-16:00 At exhibition room Registration not required・Administration ticket needed
Gallery Talk by Curator
Guest: Rieko Sakamoto（Exhibition Organaisor, Curator at Sezon Museum of Modern Art)
Date：1/29（Sun）14:00- At exhibition room Registration not required・Administration ticket needed
2016.07.09・
Last autumn, ”Primordial Violence”, a solo exhibition after a 6 year absence by Tomoko Konoike was held at the Kanagawa Kenmin Hall. Since the 03/11/2011 earthquake, temporarily pausing her activity, Konoike continued to observe humans exposed to the oath of nature by visiting various lands, meeting people, and touching the energy of the people in that climate, like if making into shape of what the “Hand Saw”, unfolded various works using new materials and techniques such as cow-calf, clay, and needleworks.
Demanding a change in the mind for art, which is closed only to human speculation and phenomenon, the trial of inquiring again going back to the origin of art where humans create things called upon many attentions, especially with the skins sawed together with medium being natural disasters, organs, and animal/plants ranging to 24 meters “Skin Dropped Curtain” shook the mind and body and left a vivid memory of the audiences’.
For this exhibition, the challenge towards completely new installation starting with afresh detached “Skin Dropped Curtain” continuously going under a raw transformation, with newly added works can be seen. Like what Konoike who felt the vibration of the Earth said, “Can no longer stay the same”, this exhibition will go under transformation absorbing the feeling of that land, and will make an appearance in front of the audience with growth.
Related Events
・Art Complex & Talk August 6, Saturday 14:00 -16:00
Welcoming Fuyuki Yamakawa as a guest, please experience the exaggerated new appreciation space by the sound generated from the body.
・Curator’s gallery talk July 20, Wednesday / August 13 Saturday
14:00-1500
