Thursday, November 29, 2012

An Exhibition Charts The Rise Of Tokyo’s Avant-Garde

An Exhibition Charts The Rise Of Tokyo’s Avant-Garde:
MoMA surveys the aftermath--and rebirth--of the city through the lens of art.
Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde, an exhibition that examines the birth of a new Japanese culture in the aftermath of World War II, opened at MoMA last week for the duration of the winter.
The show has an auspicious (and telling) relationship to the architecture housing it, designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, an architect who came of age in Tokyo during the same period. Taniguchi’s restrained white walls couldn’t be more different than the sometimes frightening surrealism and utopian fervor of his one-time peers.
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