Contemporary Art Gallery

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Contemporary Art Gallery
EXHIBITION
GALLERY

Yuichiro Tamura ATM

November 2, 2024 - January 26, 2025 10:00 – 18:00 (last admission: 17:30)

Yuichiro Tamura has created works that start from existing imagery and objects. Media for his works widely differ such as photography, film, installation, performance, and theater. Based on various sources of inspiration from indigenous historic themes to familiar popular subjects, his works are characterized by multilayered narratives of intersecting reality and fiction, providing new interpretations to original histories and memories, and their connection to the contemporary.
In this exhibition, he presents a new work entitled ATM, which was inspired by the abbreviation of Art Tower Mito. Visitors to the exhibition are introduced to the world of Tamura’s works by short stories created by generative AI, which is aided by a vast amount of text written by the artist. Tamura, who has constructed works with narrative elements in forms of stories with narrations, tales, and episodes, says that what comes at the beginning of his work is to write text. In his new work ATM, he entrusted this task to generative AI and tried to weave new stories by tracing fragments from his past works.

Yuichiro Tamura

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Born in Toyama in 1977 and currently based in Kyoto.
Graduated from Nihon University College of Art with a major in photography. He has completed the doctoral program in the department of film and new media, Tokyo University of the Arts. He belonged to Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments) at Berlin University of the Arts from 2013 to 2014. His recent exhibitions include Milky Mountain (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, 2019), Hell Scream (Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery＠KCUA, 2018), Week End (Kurumaya Museum of Art, 2017). Group exhibitions he participated in include Wunderkammer to Come: From the Uncompleted, a Beginning (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2024), WORLD CLASSROOM (Mori Art Museum, 2023), Before/After (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2023), DOUBLE VISION (Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, 2022), Gift,Gift, (Hachinohe Art Museum, 2021), voice-over (Shiga Museum of Art, 2021), Readings from Below (Times Art Center Berlin, Berlin, 2020), Participation Mystique (Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, 2020), Image Narratives: Literature in Japanese Contemporary Art (The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2019), Where Am I?: The Art and Design of Signage (Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, 2019), The Fabric of Felicity (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2018), Nissan Art Award 2017, Festival Future Nows (Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, 2017), 2 or 3 Tigers (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2017), BODY/PLAY/POLITICS (Yokohama Museum of Art, 2016), Form of Narrative (Sendai Mediatheque, 2015), Photography Will Be (Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, 2014), Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2014), MOT ANNUAL 2012, Making Situations, Editing Landscapes (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2012). He also participated in many international art festivals in and outside Japan such as Aichi Triennale 2022, Yokohama Triennale 2020, 2019 Asian Art Biennial (Taiwan), Busan Biennale 2018, SeMA Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2014, Art Setouchi 2013.
Yuichiro Tamura Website: https://damianoyurkiewich.com/

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Venue

Contemporary Art Gallery

Dates

November 2, 2024 - January 26, 2025

Open Hours

10:00 – 18:00 (last admission: 17:30)

Contact

Mito Arts Foundation TEL:029-227-8111（9:30-18:00, Closed on Mondays ）

Ticket Information

	Admission	Group of more than 20 people
Adult	￥900	￥700
High-school students and younger, senior over 70 Disabled pass holders and one accompanying attendant	Free
One-year Pass	¥2,000

※“First Friday” special discount for students and senior citizens (Student card holders and seniors 65 to 69 get a discount rate of ¥100 each first Friday)