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Yasumasa Morimura "My Self-Portraits as a Theater of Labyrinths"
Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art
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Yasumasa Morimura
By creating self-portraits of himself as protagonists from art masterpieces, notable historical figures, and film actresses Yasumasa Morimura has visualized the multiplicity of individual identities that include gender and race, while expressing the intersection of personal and world history. In recent years, he has held solo exhibitions at the Japan Society (2018), the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (2017), the National Museum of Art, Osaka (2016), the Andy Warhol Museum (2013), and the Artizon Museum (October 2021–), in addition to serving as the artistic director for the Yokohama Triennale 2014 among other positions. He continues to be active as an artist both in Japan and overseas.
The exhibition comprises four sections: M’s Photo Corridor, Theater of Voices, Square for Dreams and Memories, and Hidden Costume Closet. In addition to over 800 of Morimura’s treasured instant photographs taken since 1984, which have rarely been shown in public, the exhibition will feature a specially prepared acoustic space in which the audio from Morimura’s CD Faces, on which he reads his own novel written in 1994, will be recreated as a closet drama. This will be Morimura’s first large-scale solo exhibition in Kyoto since 1998, and the first attempt to reveal the entirety of his private world, which has continued for over thirty-five years.
The exhibition comprises four sections: M’s Photo Corridor, Theater of Voices, Square for Dreams and Memories, and Hidden Costume Closet. In addition to over 800 of Morimura’s treasured instant photographs taken since 1984, which have rarely been shown in public, the exhibition will feature a specially prepared acoustic space in which the audio from Morimura’s CD Faces, on which he reads his own novel written in 1994, will be recreated as a closet drama. This will be Morimura’s first large-scale solo exhibition in Kyoto since 1998, and the first attempt to reveal the entirety of his private world, which has continued for over thirty-five years.
Schedule | Mar 12 (Sat) 2022-Jun 5 (Sun) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥2000; University Students ¥1600; High School Students ¥1200; Junior High and Elementary School Students ¥800; Infants and Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free. | ||||
| Website | https://kyotocity-kyocera.museum/en/exhibition/20220312-0605 | ||||
| Venue | Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art https://kyotocity-kyocera.museum/en/ | ||||
| Location | 124 Okazaki Enshoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 606-8344 | ||||
| Access | 8 minute walk from exit 1 at Higashiyama Station on the Tozai subway line, 16 minute walk from exit 12 at Sanjo Station on the Keihan line; From JR Kyoto Station, take the #5 or #86 Kyoto City bus and get off at Okazaki Koen/Bijutsukan,Heian Jingu-mae. | ||||
| Phone | 075-771-4334 | ||||
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