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Summertime in Japan: Tokyo Art Marathon part 2

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Tomoko Yoneda, Kimusa 02, 2009. C-type print. Courtesy the artist and ShugoArts.

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography is currently dedicating a perspicacious mid-career retrospective survey (through 23 September 2013) to London-based / Japanese-born Tomoko Yoneda. “We shall meet where there is no darkness” encloses over a decade of pictures within seven individual series as well as one video installation, all painstaking researching and documenting particular places and artifacts that bring back distant memories and preserve deep historical insight of Japan’s relations with its surrounding nations in the past century. Yoneda jointly organized the solo show “Rooms” at ShugoArts – the gallery in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa art complex which represents her – to gather more sets of congruent photographic works such as the “Topographical Analogies” series. (through 7 September 2013)
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Art & Music – Search for New Synesthesia at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo


Otomo Yoshihide Limited Ensembles, With “Without Records”, 2012. Installation view from Art & Music – Search for New Synesthesia, MOT, Japan. Courtey the artist and MOT. Photo by Norihiro Ueno

Art + Music – Search for New Synesthesia
Tokyo Art Meeting III
27 October 2012 – 3 February 2013
at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Artists: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, John Cage, Manon de Boer, Florian Hecker, Ryoji Ikeda, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Udomsak Krisanamis, Carsten Nicolai, Keita Onishi, Seigen Ono + Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, Otomo Yoshihide limited ensembles（Otomo Yoshihide, Yasutomo Aoyama, Sachiko M, Kanta Horio, Yuko Mohri), Christine Ödlund, Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani, The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA, Toru Takemitsu, Michi Tanaka / Jiro Takamatsu, Bartholomäus Traubeck, Stephen Vitiello, Lyota Yagi. Curated by Yuko Hasegawa. General Adviser: Ryuichi Sakamoto

Music and the visual arts have shared a close relationship with each other over the course of their evolution. At the beginning of the twentieth century Wassily Kandinsky strove to create a form of comprehensive art that would arouse a variety of sensations, while Paul Klee attempted to create images through the accurate depiction of musical notation. Later, during the 1960s, John Cage and others produced experimental works that explored the rich sensual domain and widened the range of expression made possible through the crossover of the audio and the visual. [read the full article here]
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