"LOVE" in a Minute showcases a selection of artists and their work from the love-themed Roppongi Hills and Mori Art Museum 10th Anniversary Exhibition "All You Need Is LOVE," an exciting show of around 200 works currently earning rave reviews.
Our 3rd edition features American artist Nan Goldin, whose style of extracting private scenes from people's daily lives has had tremendous influence on a succession of photographers.
At the age of 15, Nan Goldin learned the basics of photography at the Satya Community School in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Goldin started taking photographs, determined to chronicle days that would never come again.
The works in the exhibition are from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency series (1978-1986), which consists of about 800 color photos Goldin started taking at the age of 18. Featuring the daily lives of friends, lovers, and the artist herself along with the subject matter such as homosexuality, transexuality, drugs, AIDS, and domestic violence, the photographs portray unabashedly lives of interdependent love and hurt. In addition to capturing the chaotic times and revealing a sense of isolation and inability to deal with life, these scenes of their painful day-to-day living evoke vivid stories of love and death.
* This artwork is on view at "Section 2: A Couple in Love."
■Relevant information
・Roppongi Hills and Mori Art Museum 10th Anniversary Exhibition
"All You Need Is LOVE: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku"
Friday, April 26 - Sunday, September 1, 2013
・"LOVE" in a Minute - Artist & Work
(1) Jeff Koons Sacred Heart
(2) Gohar Dashti Today's Life and War series
(3) Nan GoldinThe Ballad of Sexual Dependency series
(4) John Everett Millais Speak! Speak!
(5) Frida Kahlo My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (FamilyTree)
(6) Zhang Xiaogang Bloodline: The Big Family
(7) Kusama Yayoi Love Is Calling
(8) Shilpa Gupta I live under your sky too
(9) Hatsune Miku Hatsune Miku: Connecting Love
(10) Alfredo Jaar Embrace
(11) Robert Indiana Love & Gimhongsok Love
(12) Sophie Calle Take Care of Yourself
(13) Lovers painted by Chagall, Magritte and Picabia
(14) Tracey Emin I promise to love you
(15) David Hockney My Parents
(16) Damien Hirst Untitled
