"Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde" Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art
This event has ended.
From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Tokyo transformed itself from the capital of a war-torn nation into an international center for arts, culture, and commerce, becoming home to some of the most important art being made at the time. "Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde" provides a focused look at the extraordinary concentration and network of creative individuals and practices in this dynamic city during these turbulent years. Featuring works of various media—painting, sculpture, photography, drawings, and graphic design, as well as video and documentary film—the exhibition offers a story of artistic crossings, collaborations, and, at times, conflicts, with the city as an incubator. It introduces the myriad avant-garde experiments that emerged as artists drew on the energy of this rapidly growing and changing metropolis.
Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde brings together some of the most iconic works from the period as well as works recently discovered or reevaluated by new scholarship. A significant number are already part of MoMA’s collection, while others are on loan from important public collections in Japan and the United States.
[Image:Yokoo Tadanori "Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Sōzōsha) (Shinjuku dorobō nikki [Sōzōsha])" (1968) screenprint 99.7 x 71.1 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the designer. © 2012 Yokoo Tadanori]
Media
Schedule
from November 18, 2012 to February 25, 2013
Artist(s)
Jikken Kobo, Hi Red Center, Takamatsu Jiro, Akasegawa Genpei, Nakanishi Natsuyuki, Group Ongaku, Okamoto Taro, Nakamura Hiroshi, Ay-O, Yoko Ono, Shiomi Mieko, Tetsumi Kudo, Moriyama Daido, Hosoe Eikoh, Tomatsu Shomei, Yokoo Tadanori, Sugiura Kohei, Awazu Kiyoshi, Tange Kenzo, Isozaki Arata, Kurokawa Kisho