TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC ART MUSEUM
EXHIBITION
CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY VOL. 20: LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK
TAKASHI HOMMA: REVOLUTION 9
AFTER THE LANDSCAPE THEORY
The Tokyo Photographic Art Museum presents a trio of exhibitions across its three floors of gallery space during Art Week Tokyo. The third floor presents the museum’s annual Contemporary Japanese Photography exhibition, surveying Japanese artists who work in photography and moving image. Addressing the theme “Leap Before You Look,” this year’s 20th edition brings together five artists: Yuta Fuchikami, Haruto Hoshi, mumuko, Yumiko Utsu, and Shimpei Yamagami.
The second-floor galleries feature acclaimed photographer Takashi Homma’s first solo show at a Japanese institution in 10 years. “Revolution 9” focuses on Homma’s The Narcissistic City series, in which the artist turns rooms in cities around the world into pinhole cameras for capturing urban landscapes.
The basement galleries host “After the Landscape Theory,” a thematic exhibition reconsidering landscape theory, which explores the landscape in relation to culture, society, and politics through visual arts and which has exerted a powerful influence on photographers and filmmakers since around 1970.
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TOKYO PHOTOGRAPHIC ART MUSEUM
- E2
- Ebisu
Yebisu Garden Place
1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku
Tel. 81-(0)3-3280-0099
Founded in 1995, the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is the city’s premier institution for photography and moving images. The museum’s programming spans three galleries and is grounded in its world-class holdings of more than 37,000 works. Its yearly calendar of approximately 20 exhibitions includes collection-based exhibitions and thematic shows that reflect the curators’ deep expertise in Japanese and international photographic and moving-image art. Since 2009 the museum has hosted the annual Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, an international survey of contemporary image practices. The museum’s screening program showcases moving-image works that explore the relationship between art and humanity.
