“Roppongi Crossing” is a series of exhibitions produced by the Mori Art Museum to introduce Japanese creative talent working in a wide range of genres. The first in the series was held in 2004 – and is to this day used as a reference point for contemporary Japanese visual culture. For “Roppongi Crossing 2007” four curators focused on the idea of 'intersection,' selecting 36 artists whose work has an energy and sphere of influence that spreads beyond the confines of conventional artistic categories.
Their art takes a variety of forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, manga, games, and even unlikely genres such as dollmaking and bathhouse mural painting. In addition to artists who are emerging on the scene right now, the list also includes others who drove the scene in its formative period in the 1960s and 1970s, and whose feverish output continues unabated today. Surprising juxtapositions provide an opportunity to discover unexpected similarities and also to trace some of the unseen webs of influence and homage that connect the artists of the last three decades.
Delicate handwork, carefully thought-out concepts and a tendency for interactive mechanisms are just some of the other characteristics that unite the works in the exhibition, many of which are new works produced especially for the show.
Surveying this interlocking web of art, linking genres and generations in the present, a faint but common beat can be detected – a beat like a pulse that reverberates throughout the Japanese contemporary art scene and provides a clue as to where it is headed in the future.
Curatorial Team
Amano Kazuo (Art Critic; Professor, Kyoto University of Art and Design),
Araki Natsumi (Curator, Mori Art Museum), Sato Naoki (Art Director, ASYL),
Sawaragi Noi (Art Critic)
Participating Artists
Ages5&Up, Ameya Norimizu, chelfitsch, Deki Yayoi, Enlightenment, Enoki Chu,
Fukaya Etsuko, Hara Shinichi, Haruki Maiko, Hasegawa Tota / TOMATO,
Higashionna Yuichi, Ikemizu Keiichi, Ito Gabin, Iwasaki Takahiro, Kito Kengo,
Kobayashi Kohei, Majima Tatsuo, Maruyama Kiyoto, Nakanishi Nobuhiro,
Nawa Kohei, Ogai Takeharu, Sakagishi Yoshiou, Sato Masahiko + Kiriyama Takashi,
Sekiguchi Atsuhito, Tanaka Iichiro, Tanaka Nobuyuki, Tateishi Tiger,
Tsujikawa Koichiro, Uchihara Yasuhiko, Uchiyama Hideaki, Ukawa Naohiro,
Yamaguchi Takashi / d.v.d, Yokoyama Yuichi, Yoshimura Yoshio, Yoshino Tatsumi,
Yotsuya Simon
Rent Audio Guides for Free!
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An audio guide of the "Roppongi Crossing 2007" can be rented for free.
The guide includes artists' voices as well as comments by the curators.
Renting spot: 53F Exhibition Entrance Counter
Fee: Free (exhibition ticket required)
MAM SCREEN each month presents a video work related to an exhibition currently on at the Mori Art Museum. The works are shown on several screens throughout Roppongi Hills, including the 500 inch outdoor screen at the Metro Hat and PDP monitors in West Walk. Screenings are on the half hour from 9.30 to 23.30 everyday. Works related to “Roppongi Crossing 2007: Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art,” are being screened from October, 2007 to January, 2008.
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