Contemporary Art Gallery
- GALLERY
Kawaguchi Tatsuo 1990-1998
August 8 (Sat.),1998,to November 29 (Sun.),1998
©Tatsuo Kawaguchi 1998 Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito
photo: Sadamu Saito
Tatsuo Kawaguchi (born in 1940) is a major contemporary artist in Japan and a professor at the University of Tsukuba. He has participated in many group exhibitions, and has held solo exhibitions in Japan and abroad since the early 1960s.
The relevant theme throughout all of his work is the relationship betweenthe visible and the invisible. In other words, he creates his works using materials in the real world, and awakens the viewer's sense of time and space, aesthetics, life and death, and so forth, with his work functioning as a transparent passage.
Since the gallery specializes in contemporary art, the exhibition focuses on Kawaguchi's more recent artworks completed after 1990. It also includes works created by the artist specially for the exhibition, as well as several shown for the first time. All the works will be displayed in ten separate exhibition spaces, including the entrance hall and front plaza of ATM. While independent of each other, the spaces are simultaneously interconnected, allowing a single energy force to pervade the entire gallery.
Since Mito is only a short distance from Tsukuba, where Kawaguchi has taught for 15 years, he will be an honored guest at a number of events during the exhibition.
Outline
Venue
Contemporary Art Gallery, ATM Plaza, Entrance Hall
Dates
August 8 (Sat.),1998,to November 29 (Sun.),1998
Closing dates
Mondays (Tuesdays if Monday is a national holiday)
Opening hours
9:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. (no admittance after 6:00 p.m.)
Admission
Adult ¥800, Advanced purchase and Group discount(more than 20 people) ¥600, Admission Free: Child aged under 15/Senior Citizen over 65/Disabled pass holder and an attendant each/One year pass holders
Organized by
Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito
Grants from
Japan Arts Council Fund
Sponsored by
Shiseido, Co., Ltd., Toyota Motor Corporation
In cooperation with
Takeo, Co., Ltd., SOUM Corporation, It's Co., Ltd., The Norinchukin Bank Mito Branch
Curated by
Toshihiro Asai (Curator, Contemporary Art Center, ATM)
Contact
TEL 029-227-8120
Contemporary Art Center
【Organized by】
Mito Arts Foundation
RELATED EVENTS
1. Opening Lecture on "My Works since 1990"
Date: August 8 (Sat)
Time: 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Lecturer: Tatsuo Kawaguchi
2. Tatsuo Kawaguchi's Workshop for Children
"Let it flow on water, sink it in water"
Date: August 23 (Sun)
Time: 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
3. Gallery Talk for Children "Let's play in the gallery"
Date: August 26 (Wed)
Lecturer: Tatsuo Kawaguchi
4. Kawaguchi "Relation" College--Undoing the Sealed Time
Kawaguchi's works, based on the theme of relations, are interpreted from multiple viewpoints.
1) Contemporary Art I "Seeing the Sealed Time"
Date: August 29
Lecturer: Toshihiro Asai (curator, Contemporary Art Center, ATM)
2) Art History I "The Progress of Kawaguchi's Art"
Date: August 29
Lecturer: Hideo Yamamoto (art critic)
3) Workshop "Flow it on water, sink it in water"
Date: August 30
Lecturer: Tatsuo Kawaguchi
4) Philosophy "An Invisible Domain"
Date: September 5
Lecturer: Shogo Ota (playwrite)
5) Contemporary Art II "Tatsuo Kawaguchi and Art in the 1990s"
Date: September 12
Lecturer: Takashi Shinkawa (art journalist)
6) "Photographing the Sealed Time"
Date: September 15
Lecturer: Sadamu Saito (photographer)
7) Art History II "The Genealogy of Lotuses in Japanese Art"
Date: September 19
Lecturer: Eriko Yoshida (art historian)
8) Botany "On Seeds"
Date: September 19
Lecturer: Ayako Nishikawa (director, Mito Botanical Park)
9) Paleontology "The Time of Fossils"
Date: September 26
Lecturer: Yoshiki Koda (curator, Ibaraki Nature Museum)
5. Special Lecture / Open Lecture
Kawaguchi's "Relation" College Group 'i' / Between Man and Matter --
Exploring Kawaguchi's Origin"
Date: October 3 (Sat)
Time: 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Lecturers: Yuusuke Nakahara, Tatsuo Kawaguchi
6. Bus Tour "Two Exhibitions of Kawaguchi" (Citizens' Lecture #2)
Iwaki City Art Museum will exhibit Kawaguchi's newest works and other works
from the 1970s and the 1980s, including the work "Relation - Education."
Because the lecture is part of our community lecture series, we will organize a bus tour to visit this exhibition.
Date: November 28 (Sat)