Contemporary Art Gallery

Warera no Jidai (Our Times)

December 17 (Sat.),2005,to February 5 (Sun.),2006

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Installation view at Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito　Photo:Tsuyoshi Saito

Ever since ATM opened in 1990, the Contemporary Art Center has introduced the works of many living artists from both Japan and abroad to Mito residents and other visitors. In those 15 years, contemporary art has engaged in a loose correspondence and exchange with other art genres and subcultures, and the rise of visual works (film, computer graphics, Internet, etc.) has accelerated the deepening of expressive forms. Despite the trend toward diversification, ATM instead has made it a point this time to select artists who have painstakingly explored and developed their own artistic styles, and even those who religiously follow orthodox techniques, as well as those artists who focus on the possibilities of ceramic expression and representation.

Altogether 25 artists have been chosen to participate in the "Warera no Jidai - Our Times" exhibition. The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, and installations, while also aiming to highlight certain other fields of expression that may have been overlooked in previous exhibitions of contemporary art at ATM. "Warera no Jidai - Our Times" thus represents an attempt to broadly reflect the various and multiple aspects of art today.


[ARTISTS]
Yousuke Amemiya, Enpei Ito, Motohiko Ito, Toshiyuki Iwahori
Masaki Ono, Midori Kume, Masami Kobayashi, Takashi Komine
Chihi Komuro, Toshiju Saito, Rieko Sakurai, Tsugio Shibata
Rin-ichi Suzuki, Hideo Tatsumi, Kazuko Toda, Teiju Naito
Yuki Nakaigawa, Yasumi Nakano, Ikuo Nishinarita, Yoko Nishinarita
Shizuko Nemoto, Katsubumi Masuda, Takaharu Murayama
Keiichi Yamada, Yukio Yokosuka