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Perfect Camouflage
I want to be ART

Chapter 1

Camouflage into Everyday Life
Andy Warhol
Man Ray
Hiraki Sawa (guest)
Chapter 2

Camouflage into Nature
Lois Weinberger
Gary Hill
Rika Noguchi (guest)
Chapter 3

Camouflage into Memory
Christian Boltansky
Joseph Beuys
Hiroshi Sugito (guest)
Chapter 4
Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys in Memoriam, 1986
Silk screen

Exhibition Term：

Camouflage into Space
Donald JuddFebruary 4 (Sun.) - May 6 (Mon., national holiday), 2024

Max Bill

Closed on Mondays (except February 12, April 29, May 6)

Lin Tian Miao

Opening Hours： 11:00 ‒ 19:00
Admission Fee: Adults 1,200 yen / Pair discount 2,000 yen / Students (high school to 25years), Seniors (70 years and over), Visitors with disabilities, their caregiver (up to 1) with ID

Nam June Paik
Keith Haring

1,000 yen / Children (elementary to junior high) 500 yen
Organization / Venue：

WATARI-UM, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art
3-7-6, Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001 Tel:03-3402-3001 Fax:03-3405-7714
Email: official@watarium.co.jp http://www.watarium.co.jp
Cooperation: OTA FINE ARTS / Taka Ishii Gallery / Tomio Koyama Gallery / Ishikawa NISHIDA KITARO Museum of Philosophy

I want to be ART
Art may be about perfect camouflage.

In the exhibition Perfect Camouflage, 11 artists from the WATARI-UM collection including Andy
Warhol, and guest artists Hiraki Sawa, Rika Noguchi, and Hiroshi Sugito, will exhibit approximately 80 works. The exhibition is divided into four chapters: Camouflage into Everyday Life,Camouflage into Nature, Camouflage into Memory, and Camouflage into Space.

"The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine."
Andy Warhol
From the interview in ARTnews in November 1963. Since 1960, Warhol used to create lots of silkscreen works. Using
the same plate, he created unique images by changing colors, intentionally shifting the prints, and making the ink run off.

"What is beyond plants is at one with them"
Lois Weinberger
This is the title of his work exhibited at Documenta X in 1997.
Weinberger removed herbicide and planted ruderal plants on the old track of Kassel
central station to transform it into a garden. He likened the plants taking rootsin German soil to immigrants.

Camouflage is the act of hiding one's presence and blending into one'ssurroundings. The situation around us gives birth to us, and then anothersituation is created. History is repetition of this. Camouflage is asurvival instinct. When we are drowned by so many things, objects
and minds, on the streets, in nature, all day long, all over the world,
we camouflage ourselves into our everyday lives to hide.

What you camouflage yourself in is up to you. Man Ray, Earth, 1931 Rayograph
Chapter 1

Camouflage into Everyday LifeAndy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1986
Silk screen, corage

Man Ray

Hiraki Sawa, "flown," exhibition view, 2022
© Hiraki Sawa. Courtesy Parafin, London. Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo.Photo: Peter Mallet.

Hiraki Sawa

1977- Japan1890-1976 U.S.
Played an active role in various realms such as painting, object, photography,and film as the leading figure of Dada, Surrealism, and Avant-garde art movement in the 1910s. He also invented photographic expressions such as solarization and shooting without cameras using rayograph by placing objects on
printing paper, and established photography as a new artistic expression.

Andy Warhol

recent years, he has expanded his production to include installations that

1928-1987 U.S.
Began creating Pop Art works while working as a commercial illustrator in the1950s. He gained overwhelming popularity for his works depicting icons of
popular culture such as Marilyn Monroe and soup cans. Since the 1970s he has

combine film and music.

become a social figure due to his popularity and scandals.

Creates dreamy film works by introducing images that supposed to exist in
everyday space, such as a large number of airplanes flying inside a room. In

Chapter 2

Camouflage into Nature

Gary Hill
CORE SERIES “Leaves”,
1991

Noguchi Rika

Single channel,

Rainbows are Alive, 2023

2 monitors© Noguchi Rika /Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery
Charcoal and pastel on paper

Noguchi Rika

1971- Japan

A unique perspective that moves between the microscopic and the macroscopic.
Her choice of subjects touches on the mysteries of human nature. Known both inJapan and abroad for her transparent colors and poetic photographic works, she
is not limited to the world of photography, but participates in a number of international exhibitions of contemporary art.

Gary Hill

1951- U.S.

He came into the limelight at Documenta 9 in 1992 and has been

overwhelmingly supported as an important video artist after Nam June
Paik. His work is sharply rendered with dreamlike, ephemeral and ambiguous images.
Lois Weinberger

Lois Weinberger

1947-2020 Austria
Began working with natural and man-made spaces in the 1970s. In 1988, hebegan a garden project in which he planted ruderal plants grown in his

Histological Section, 2000
Print on mesh tarpaulin
Cooperation:

garden in Vienna. He has been influential in the discussion of nature and art

Reborn-Art Festival Executive Committee

since the 1990s.

Chapter 3

Camouflage into Memory

Joseph Beuys, Felt suit, 1970

Christian Boltansky,Monument (Odessa), 1988-89

Felt, edition 100, signed

Mixed media

Christian Boltansky

1944-2021 France
Began presenting works using photography and light bulbs or light since
the late 1970s. Since 1984, he began the Monument series, which isreminiscent of altars. The figures in the photographs are Jewish children
persecuted by the Nazis.

Joseph Beuys

1921-1986 Germany
He arrived at the concept of "social sculpture," which extended the conceptsof sculpture and art to education and social change, and engaged in politicalactivities aimed at building a normal relationship between society and art.
He was one of the founders of the Green Party.

Hiroshi Sugito

1970- Japan
He likes to paint simple motifs such as small houses, the sky, and boats,
and his works are characterized by delicately and rhythmically arranged
colors and shapes. In recent years, he has been going beyond the framework of painting to create new exhibition spaces where architecture and hisHiroshi Sugito, cobbler potatoes, 2023 © Tomio Koyama Gallery
FRP resin, plaster, masking tape, LED light, clothespin and others

works interact with each other.

Chapter 4

Camouflage into Space

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1977

Stainless steel and blue plexiglass

Nam June Paik, French Clock, 1993
French antique clock, metal bar, 1 video camera, 1 three-legged stool,
wood panel, 3 monitors

Max Bill, Endless Ribbon for Three Position, 1974-1975
gilt brass

Lin Tian Miao, Bound Unbound (part), 1997
Thread, mirror, knife, potNam June Paik

1932-2006 Korea / U.S.

Joined Fluxus in the early 1960s. He moved to New York in 1964 and createdmedia art using video images and electronic music. The collaboration oftechnology and Eastern Thought is seen in his works.

Lin Tian Miao

1962- China
Moved to New York in 1988, and since then has based her activity in Beijing
and New York. She has held solo exhibitions such as “Open Studio. Baofang
Hutong 12#” (Beijing 1995). She has been appealing various issues contemporary China carries which is difficult to convey through words.
Keith Haring, Untitled (part), 1983

Becoming an object

Spray paint on wallpaper

Nishida Kitaro

Nishida Kitaro: I think science has to get to the essence of objects. ...IDonald Judd

1928-1994 U.S.

think the more it can leave the human being and become an object itself,

He called his works neither paintings nor sculptures, but "specific objects".

the better. ...To leave means to leave one's own subjectivity. It's not about

also participated as an art critic.

He exhibited his works in a number of exhibitions around the world andleaving science. ...
D. T. Suzuki: In the Western way, to leave means to separate. It is notentering into an object. To enter is the Eastern way.
Nishida Kitaro: I don't think there is such a way of thinking in the West; tobecome an object.
February 28, 1941

1908-1994

Switzerland

education, and politics. He was Acknowledged as one of the "last Bauhaus
masters" and his logic moulding was based on the idea of mathematicconcepts.

From the audio recording of the conversation between

Nishida Kitaro, D. T. Suzuki and Yamamoto Ryokichi
Collection: Ishikawa NISHIDA KITARO Museum of Philosophy
The audio recording of the conversation between Nishida Kitaro , D. T. Suzuki and Yamamoto
Ryokichi (collection: Ishikawa NISHIDA KITARO Museum of Philosophy) will be played in theexhibition space.

Max Bill

He was active in the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, writing,Keith Haring

1958-1990 U.S.
Appeared from East Village in the beginning of the 1980s, and immediately
became a pioneer of graffiti art known internationally. He brought art
outside of galleries and museums through production on subways and inthe streets.