Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × Morimura Yasumasa “M’s Gift of the Sea: Auto-Mythology”

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Yasumasa Mori, Shigeru Aoki

Jam Sessions are joint performances by the Ishibashi Foundation Collection and contemporary artists. For our second session, we welcome Morimura Yasumasa. Since 1985, when he produced a self-portrait photograph in which he had dressed himself to resemble van Gogh’s self-portrait, Morimura has continued to create “self-portrait-ish works” in which he disguises himself as the person in a painting or photograph, choosing sources from diverse periods and cultures and recreates it, adding his own interpretations. Morimura has long had a secret love of the works by Aoki Shigeru and has created works inspired by Aoki’s Self-Portrait (1903) and A Gift of the Sea (1904) in the Ishibashi Foundation Collection. For this Jam Session, Morimura addresses A Gift of the Sea anew, head on. He gives shape to the history of the many changes in Japanese culture, politics, and thought since the Meiji period, when Aoki created that work, in his own Morimura-style A Gift of the Sea-M’s Gift of the Sea. He has elevated his ardent feelings for Aoki into a new series of works. This exhibition will consist of about ten works by Aoki from the collection and about sixty works by Morimura. Of them, more than fifty are new works Morimura created for this exhibition. This session will be a never-before occasion with Morimura and Aoki performing.

Schedule	Oct 2 (Sat) 2021-Jan 10 (Mon) 2022  Opening Hours Information Hours 10:00-18:00 Closes at 20:00 on Fridays. Closed Monday Open on a public holiday Monday but closed on the following day. Closed during the New Year holidays and in between exhibitions. Notice Open on January 10. Closed from December 28 to January 3.
Fee	Online tickets: Adults ¥1200; University Students and Under, Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free.
Website	https://www.artizon.museum/en/exhibition/detail/73
Venue	Artizon Museum https://www.artizon.museum/en/
Location	1-7-2 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031 Open with a Map App
Access	5 minute walk from the Yaesu Central exit of JR Tokyo Station, 5 minute walk from exit 6 at Kyobashi Station on the Ginza line, 5 minute walk from exit B1 at Nihombashi Station on the Ginza and Tozai lines or Toei Asakusa line.
Phone	050-5541-8600 (Hello Dial)
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