荒川ナッシュ医 ペインティングス・アー・ポップスターズ

Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars

2024 年10月30日［水］―12月16日［月］ 国立新美術館｜企画展示室2E｜

東京
六本木

October 30 – December 16, 2024 The National Art Center, Tokyo｜Special Exhibition Gallery 2E
観覧料 無料 休館日 毎週火曜日 Admission Free Closed Tuesdays
主催 国立新美術館 協力 タカ・イシイギャラリー

Organized by The National Art Center, Tokyo With the cooperation of Taka Ishii Gallery

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Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars
荒川ナッシュ医｜ペインティングス
・アー・ポップスターズ

October 30–December 16, 2024

The National Art Center, Tokyo｜Special Exhibition Gallery 2EAdmission

Free Closed TuesdaysOrganized by The National Art Center, Tokyo
With the cooperation of Taka Ishii Gallery
Opening hours 10:00 –18:00｜10:00 –20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays
Last admission 30 minutes before closing

This will be the first solo museum exhibition in Asia by Ei Arakawa-Nash,a Japanese American artist who has been showing his performance works
at numerous art biennials and international museums since the 2000s.
The exhibition, titled “Paintings Are Popstars” is a solo show by ArakawaNash, but the works of more than twenty painters who collaborate withhim will also “appear” in the exhibition space. Each of the paintings will beworshiped as a popstar with its own aberrant presence, and Arakawa-Nashwill develop collaborative performance pieces inspired by the attitude ofeach popstar =painting.

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Further collaborative
projects will be announced
closer to the opening ofthe exhibition.
●A detailed schedule will beupdated as needed during
the exhibition period.
For more information,please visit the NACT website.

Starting with Mega Please Draw Freely — a participatory work that was
first organized at Tate Modern in London in 2021, which allows anyone toinscribe freely on the floor of the museum— the exhibition continues witha painting space with topics that include: being an artist-parent; a queer
action video that uses paint as a “beauty ” treatment; metro-spectrum
performance; rooms with paintings that alternately sing to the audience;narrating the voices of paintings through historical research of Japanesewars and immigration; flying kite paintings in Fukushima and Berlin; anda club-like space where abstract paintings talk to the public withphilosophical riddles about taste.
We invite you to experience Arakawa-Nash’s performance art, in whichchildren, paintings, histories, music, bodies, conversations, and humor
work together in a dissonant and yet enveloping way. In addition to several
newly constructed installations in the 2,000 m² (21,500 ft² ) floor space ofthe museum with 8 m high ceilings, live performances by Arakawa-Nashwill be held regularly. In addition, Arakawa-Nash, who “ wants to greet theaudience,” will lead “short but intimate” tours. This is the first solo exhibition by a performance artist at the National Art Center, Tokyo, since its
opening in 2007.
The exhibition also includes works by historical painters such as
Miyoko Ito, Yuki Katsura, On Kawara, Yasuo Kuniyoshi,Toshi Maruki ( Toshiko Akamatsu), Henri Matisse, Luis Nishizawa,
Fujiko Shiraga, Atsuko Tanaka, and Jiro Yoshihara, as well as works bycontemporary painters such as Kerstin Brätsch, Leidy Churchman,
Nicole Eisenman, Jutta Koether, Shimon Minamikawa, Oscar Murillo,
Silke Otto-Knapp, Laura Owens, Gela Patashuri, Seth Price,Trevor Shimizu, Amy Sillman, and Yui Yaegashi. Filmmaker Reiji Saito anddesigner Daishiro Mori will also participate in the exhibition.
Curated by0

Naoki Yoneda［Curator, The National Art Center, Tokyo］

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Artist’s Comment●This is the first large-scale solo exhibition of a performance artist at
the National Art Center, Tokyo. Somewhere in the back of my mind
was the presence of the Tadasu Takamine exhibition in 2011,
the recent Dumb Type and Chim↑Pom exhibitions, and the Rei Naito
and Shimabuku exhibitions I saw this summer.
I hope the “swell” of Japanese performance that artist Yoshio
Shirakawa refers to will continue in Generation Z!
At the same time, there is the toughness of having to decide every
detail six months in advance for the installation company bidding
process at national museums. What if stressful contradictions arise?
Performance art starts to grow during its becoming in front ofaudience members.
This exhibition will definitely come only once in my life.
Please let me deliver it to you with a playful attitude.
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Ei Arakawa-Nash ( b.1977 in Fukushima, Japan )●Japanese American queer performance artist now based in Los
Angeles, after two decades in New York. By continuously working
with others, Arakawa-Nash reconfigures the subjective “I.” The
group performances within which Arakawa-Nash works emphasize
and derive from the ever-present precarity of artworks and artist
subjectivity. He is a professor in the Grad Art program at ArtCenterCollege of Design in Pasadena, Los Angeles.
Recent solo exhibitions include shows at Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg(Fribourg, 2023), Tate Modern (London, 2021), and Artists Space (NewYork, 2021), among others. Group exhibitions have taken place atCentre for Heritage, Arts and Textile［CHAT］(Hong Kong, 2024), Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg, 2021), Honolulu Biennial(2019), Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), Berlin Biennale (2016),
Gwangju Biennale (2014), and Whitney Biennial (New York, 2014), among
others. Arakawa-Nash’s works are held in a number of major collections, including the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Museum ofModern Art (New York), Museum Ludwig (Cologne), Museu de ArteContemporânea de Serralves (Porto), and Muzeum Sztuki
Nowoczesnej (Warsaw), among others.

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ユタ・クータの（2008 年）
を持つ《Demonic Options》
荒川ナッシュ医–Ei Arakawa-Nash holding
Jutta Koether’s Demonic Options (2008)–
Photo: Ricardo Nagaoka
Courtesy of the artist

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荒川医
（猫なで声のパフォーマンス！）《ネメシス・ペインティング》
2022 年
デビッド・ズワーナー、ニューヨーク
–Ei Arakawa,
NEMESIS PAINTING (PURR ... formance!)
2022
David Zwirner, New York–
Photo: Santiago Felipe
Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner, New York03
●荒川医《メガどうぞご自由にお描きください》
2021年
テート・モダン、ロンドン–
Ei Arakawa
Mega Please Draw Freely
2021
Tate Modern, London–
Photo: Rikard Österlund
Courtesy of the artist and Tate Modern, London

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荒川医
《メガどうぞご自由にお描きください》
2021年
テート・モダン、ロンドン–
Ei Arakawa
Mega Please Draw Freely
2021
Tate Modern, London–
Photo: Rikard Österlund
Courtesy of the artist and Tate Modern, London

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荒川医
《 WEWORK BABIES (11 Cortlandt Alley)》2019 年
アーティスツ・スペース、ニューヨーク
–Ei Arakawa
WEWORK BABIES (11 Cortlandt Alley )2019Artists Space, New York–
Photo: Paula Court
Courtesy of the artist and Artists Space, New York06
●荒川医《Fortune（ギュスターヴ・クールベ「こんにちはクールベさん」1854 年）》
2019 年
ファーブル美術館、モンペリエ–
Ei Arakawa
Fortune (Gustave Courbet, La rencontre,1854)
2019
Fabre Museum, Montpellier–
Photo: Marc Domage
Courtesy of the artist andFabre Museum, Montpellier

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荒川医
《Cologne of the Maghreb (Bodyphilia Song)》2016 年
ルートヴィヒ美術館、ケルン–
Ei Arakawa
Cologne of the Maghreb (Bodyphilia Song)2016
Museum Ludwig, Cologne–
Photo: Mike SchlömerCourtesy of the artist andMuseum Ludwig, Cologne

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荒川医
《Concrete Escort》
2013 年
グッゲンハイム美術館、ニューヨーク
–Ei Arakawa
Concrete Escort
2013
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York–
Photo: Paula Court
Courtesy of the artist andSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York09●

荒川医×南川史門《三角木馬の夕べ》
2013 年
国立新美術館、東京–
Ei Arakawa×Shimon Minamikawa
An Evening with Triangular Horses
2013
The National Art Center, Tokyo–
Photo: Kenji Takahashi
Courtesy of the artist and
The National Art Center, Tokyo

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荒川医
《Kissing The Canvas》
2012 年
テート・モダン、ロンドン–
Ei Arakawa
Kissing The Canvas
2012
Tate Modern, London–
Photo: Tate Modern
Courtesy of the artist and Tate Modern, London

11●荒川医《See Weeds》
2011年
レ・ザバトワール、トゥールーズ
–Ei Arakawa
See Weeds
2011
Les Abattoirs, Toulouse–
Photo: Marc Boyer
Courtesy of the artist and Les Abattoirs, Toulouse

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