Micropop makes move into spotlight
HA NOI (VNS)-
Curated by art critic Midori Matsui, a new exhibition explores the
"micropop" imagination in contemporary Japanese art.
Winter Garden features 35 works by 14 young Japanese artists
born between the late 1960s and early 1980s.
The artists use banal everyday objects and outmoded fashion in
a playful way to create new situations and stories through a style of
expression Matsui calls "Micropop".
Winter Garden contains two opposite meanings. On the one hand,
it literally means a desolate garden in the wintertime. But it can also be
understood as an idiomatic expression referring to a hothouse.
"The first meaning alludes to the difficulties of
contemporary life brought on as the result of globalisation, including
worldwide economic depression and the disappearance of local cultures,"
Matsui said. "On the other hand, the image of a hothouse suggests a
space that nurtures various organisms."
The exhibition consists of three categories. The first one
presents drawings, video and sound installations inspired by seemingly
insignificant details of daily life.
The second category demonstrates the creative use of
contemporary Japanese subcultures such as manga (comics), anime (cartoons),
science fiction, computer games and slapstick comedies.
The third category includes works that incorporate the basic
structures of self-generation among plants, animals and minerals.
In Vinyl of Lyota Yagi, the artist uses videos and records in
an idiosyncratic way. It took him three years to create the work, in which he
froze water in a silicon mold that reproduces the grooves of an audio record
on ice. As the disk is played, heat generated by friction causes the grooves
to melt and the melody to gradually disintegrate into a repetition of mere
sound.
The exhibition also includes three video works by Koki Tanaka,
the representative artist for the
"This is the first time Micropop, a new concept of
Japanese art, has been introduced in
The exhibition, which marks the Japan-Viet Nam Friendship
Year, will be at the Viet Nam Fine Arts Museum, 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street, Ha
Noi, until June 23 and at the Exhibition House at HCM City Workers Culture
Palace at 55B Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street in HCM City until June 21.- VNS
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Thứ Tư, 12 tháng 6, 2013
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