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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 19551970 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 mediapainting, sculpture, photography, drawings, and graphic design, as well as video and documentary filmthe 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 19551970 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 MoMAs collection, while others are on loan from important public collections in Japan, the United States, and Europe. Artists in the exhibition include artist collectives such as Jikken Kobo (Experimental Workshop), Hi Red Center (Jiro Takamatsu, Genpei Akasegawa , Natsuyuki Nakanishi ), and Group Ongaku (Group Music); critical artistic figures such as Taro Okamoto , Hiroshi Nakamura , Ay-O, Yoko Ono , Mieko Shiomi , and Tetsumi Kudo ; photographers Daido Moriyama , Eikoh Hosoe , and Shomatsu Tomei ; illustrators and graphic designers Tadanori Yokoo , Kohei Sugiura , and Kiyoshi Awazu ; and architects Arata Isozaki and Kisho Kurokawa , among others.
In conjunction with Tokyo 19551970, MoMA presents a 40-film retrospective of the Art Theater Guild, the independent film company that radically transformed Japanese cinema by producing and distributing avant-garde and experimental works from the 1960s until the early 1980s. The retrospective features such filmmakers as Hiroshi Teshigahara , Kaneto Shindo , Shohei Imamura , Nagisa Oshima , Toshio Matsumoto , and Koji Wakamatsu , and will run concurrently with the exhibition.
Artists: Jikken Kobo , Hi Red Center , Jiro Takamatsu , Genpei Akasegawa , Natsuyuki Nakanishi , Group Ongaku , Taro Okamoto , Hiroshi Nakamura , Ay-O, Yoko Ono , Mieko Shiomi , Tetsumi Kudo , Daido Moriyama , Eikoh Hosoe , Shomatsu Tomei , Tadanori Yokoo , Kohei Sugiura , Kiyoshi Awazu , Arata Isozaki , Kisho Kurokawa , Hiroshi Teshigahara , Kaneto Shindo , Shohei Imamura , Nagisa Oshima , Toshio Matsumoto , Koji Wakamatsu , a.o.
