"Takashi Murakami:The 500 Arhats" will start from Saturday, October 31 2015.
The bookings of Public Programs Announced have just started. Please check the details and booking as follows.
The 500 Arhats (detail)
2012 | Acrylic on canvas mounted on board | 302 × 10,000 cm | Private collection
© 2012 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
■Talk Session "Japan / Stories / Realism" * Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available
Leading Japanese anime director Tomino Yoshiyuki, whose work includes films in the Gundam series such as Mobile Suit Gundam and Gundam Reconguista in G, as well as Space Runaway Ideon and others, will join Takashi Murakami for a discussion based mainly on various keywords.
Speaker: Tomino Yoshiyuki (Anime director)
Discussant: Takashi Murakami
Date & Time: 15:00-17:00, Sunday, November 1, 2015 (Doors open: 14:30)
Venue: Academyhills (49F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
Capacity: 150 (booking required)
Admission: General \1,000 / MAMC members free
Cooperation: Academyhills
Booking: here
MAMC Individual Menber: here
Tomino Yoshiyuki
■Movie Jellyfish Eyes Screening + Talk * Conducted in Japanese
A special screening of Takashi Murakami's 2013 directorial debut Jellyfish Eyes to coincide with the exhibition. Following the screening, actor Saito Takumi, the film's cast member, will join Takashi Murakami to talk about the movie, its production process, and more.
Speaker: Saito Takumi (Actor)
Discussant: Takashi Murakami
Date & Time: 19:00-22:00, Saturday, November 14, 2015
*Doors open: 18:30
*19:00- Screening of Jellyfish Eyes / 21:00- Talk
Venue: Auditorium, Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
Capacity: 100 (booking required)
Admission: Free (exhibition ticket required)
Booking: * Booked Out
Movie Jellyfish Eyes
©Takashi Murakami / Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
■Talk Session "Piquant! Discussion on Japanese Art" * Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation available
Takashi Murakami is part of a long lineage of "eccentric" artists in Japanese art history. For this event Murakami is joined by art historian Tsuji Nobuo, a driving force of today's Japanese art boom and one of the first to celebrate eccentric painters in Japanese art history such as Ito Jakuchu and Soga Shohaku, to discuss the realm of Murakami's works as well as the allure and future of Japanese art.
Speakers: Tsuji Nobuo (Art historian), Takashi Murakami
Moderator: Miki Akiko (Curator of the "Takashi Murakami: The 500 Arhats" exhibition)
Date & Time: 14:00-16:00, Sunday, November 15 (Doors open: 13:30)
Venue: Academyhills (49F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
Capacity: 150 (booking required)
Admission: General \1,000 / MAMC members free
Cooperation: Academyhills
Booking: here
MAMC Individual Menber: here
Tsuji Nobuo
Photo: Tsutsuguchi Naohiro
(The Geijutsu Shincho)
■Talk Session "Rethinking Japanese Monozukuri (Manufacturing)" * Conducted in Japanese
The heads of Kaiyodo, Kurotani Bijutsu, and Lucky Wide, companies that produce Murakami's sculptures, come together to discuss Japanese manufacturing and Murakami's works, touching also on their companies and personal histories.
Speakers: Nishida Yoshiharu (Deputy Marketing Manager, Kurotani Bijutsu), Miyawaki Shuichi (President Kaiyodo Co., Ltd.), Yoshizawa Hirohisa (President, Lucky Wide Co., Ltd.), Takashi Murakami, A staff member of Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd.
Date & Time: 14:00-17:00, Saturday, December 12, 2015 (Doors open: 13:30)
Venue: Auditorium, Mori Art Museum (53F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
Capacity: 100 (booking required)
Admission: Free (exhibition ticket required)
Booking: * Booked Out
Nishida Yoshiharu
Miyawaki Shuichi
Yoshizawa Hirohisa
■Talk "The Great Quake, The 500 Arhats, and Takashi Murakami" (provisional title) * Conducted in Japanese
Art critic Sawaragi Noi, who has observed Takashi Murakami's career for many years from his early works created during his postgraduate studies to The 500 Arhats, discusses the place of Murakami's works in the contemporary art world and their significance from his own unique perspective.
Speaker: Sawaragi Noi (Professor, Tama Art University)
Date & Time: 14:00-16:00, Sunday, January 10, 2016 (Doors open: 13:30)
Venue: Academyhills (49F, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower)
Capacity: 150 (booking required)
Admission: General \1,000 / MAMC members free
Cooperation: Academyhills
Booking: Booking details will be posted on the Mori Art Museum website on a later date.
Sawaragi Noi
■Talk "Japanese Dual Standard" * Conducted in Japanese
Akutagawa Prize-winning author and head monk of Fukujuji Temple Genyu Sokyu discusses Japanese culture and Murakami's artwork.
Calling lacquerware "japanning" was a stroke of genius. Lacquerware production involves repeating the opposing acts of "coating" and "polishing" (shaving), producing a subtle, "jewel-like" gleam. Doubtless I am not alone in sensing a taste of that in Murakami's recent Zen circles. Come to think of it, opposing vectors: boldness and delicacy, loquacity and silence, desolation and fertility, have been colliding with each other within Murakami all along, driving the engine of his practice. I'd like to show that this is precisely what Japanese traditional art has been since the Kojiki. ―The Spiritual Life Force of "Dichotomy," Genyu Sokyu
Speaker: Genyu Sokyu (Writer; Head monk, Fukujuji Temple; Professor Emeritus, Hanazono University)
Date & Time: 15:00-16:30, Saturday, February 20, 2016 (Doors open: 14:30)
Venue: Auditorium, Mori Art Museum
Capacity: 100 (booking required)
Admission: Free (exhibition ticket required)
Booking: Booking details will be posted on the Mori Art Museum website on a later date.
Genyu Sokyu
Photo: Otaka Kazuyasu
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