Since the 1990s, when the development of contemporary art began to be considered from multiple perspectives in different parts of the world, we have been seeing that contemporary art today goes far beyond the framework of arts and crafts and fine art in the school classroom. It is a composite field with connections to all subjects, including language and literature, mathematics, science, and social studies. In each of these disciplines, researchers are exploring the “unknowns” of the world, delving into history, and making new discoveries and inventions from the past to the future in order to enrich our perception of the world. The stance adopted by contemporary artists that seeks to go beyond our preconceptions in a creative way is also connected to this exploration of these unknowns. In this sense, the contemporary art museum is something akin to a “classroom of the world” where we can encounter and learn about these unknown worlds.
WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Mori Art Museum, is an attempt for us to encounter a world we have never seen or known from a wide variety of perspectives, using the subjects we learn at school as a gateway to contemporary art. Even though this exhibition is divided into such sections as “Language and Literature,” “Social Studies,” “Philosophy,” “Mathematics,” “Science,” “Music,” “Phys. Ed.,” and “Transdisciplinary,” each work, in fact, crosses over multiple subjects and domains. While over half of approximately 150 exhibited works will be drawn from the Mori Art Museum Collection for the first time ever, there will also be newly-commissioned artworks for this exhibition - altogether creating a “classroom of the world,” place of learning with works by 54 artists/artist groups.
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Mori Art Museum 20th Anniversary Exhibition
WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects
| Organizer | Mori Art Museum |
|---|---|
| 20th Anniversary Sponsors | OBAYASHI CORPORATION SHIMIZU CORPORATION KAJIMA CORPORATION    |
| Corporate Sponsors | Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co., Ltd. TAKENAKA CORPORATION Nihon Bunkyou Shuppan Co., Ltd. Benesse Holdings, Inc. |
| Grant from | Nomura Foundation |
| Curated by | Kataoka Mami (Director, Mori Art Museum) Kumakura Haruko (Assistant Curator, Mori Art Museum) Kondo Kenichi (Senior Curator, Mori Art Museum) Tsubaki Reiko (Curator, Mori Art Museum) Tokuyama Hirokazu (Associate Curator, Mori Art Museum) Yahagi Manabu (Assistant Curator, Mori Art Museum) Martin Germann (Adjunct Curator, Mori Art Museum) |
