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2021.7.17

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History andCulture are carrying out this exhibition as part of the Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL.

Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

MOT Collection:Journals
Special exhibit: Mark Manders, Storage and Display
17 July 2021 – 17 October 2021

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo houses approximately 5,500 artworks in its extensive collection with a focus
on art of the postwar years. Each installment of the “MOT Collection” exhibition serves to introduce artworks in thecollection from various themes and angles.

2Chim↑Pom, May, 2020, Tokyo (Okubo Station)- Drawing a Blueprint –, 2020
Courtesy of the artist and ANOMALY
Photo: Kenji Morita

13Oscar OIWA, Times Square, New York, 2020
©OSCAR OIWA Collection of Art Front Gallery

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Chim↑Pom, May, 2020, Tokyo (Okubo Station)- Drawing a Blueprint –, 2020
©Chim↑Pom Courtesy of the artist, ANOMALYand MUJIN-TO Production

4 Oscar OIWA, Zeus, the God of Olympia, 2019
Collection of the Artist

Courtesy of the Japan Foundation / Maison de la culture
du Japon à Paris

Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Public Relations Mihoko Nakajima / Chiako KudoE-MAIL: mot-pr@mot-art.jp
TEL: +81-3-5245-1134
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On the first floor, under the title, “Journals,” artworks created daily against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic
and disastrous events that have transformed our lives, the Olympics held upon a global scale, and the ordinary dayto-day, are presented in the form of an anthology comprising a wide variety of artists. Highlights of the exhibition
include Chim↑Pom’s May, 2020, Tokyo (Okubo Station), as well as new print works “Quarantine Series” and Zeus: theGod of Olympia by Oscar OIWA (all on special exhibit). Such are featured on this occasion along with a selection ofaround 70 works by artists such as NINAGAWA Mika, TAKEUCHI Kota, MIYAKE Saori, and KAWARA On, all serving toilluminate the society and daily life in which we live.

6NINAGAWA Mika, Light of, 2015

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NINAGAWA Mika, Light of, 2015

5 KAWARA On, NOV.21,1985,

from "Today" series, 1966-2013, 1985
©One Million Years Foundation

8 MIYAKE Saori, Garden (Potsdam) , 2019
Photo: Kenji Morita

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Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Public Relations Mihoko Nakajima / Chiako Kudo
E-MAIL: mot-pr@mot-art.jp
TEL: +81-3-5245-1134
URL: https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en* All Programs are subject to change.

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SHIMABUKU, Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere,
1994

TERUYA Yuken, Notice - Forest: Madison Avenue, 2011
Photo: Shizune Shiigi

Presented on the third floor is the special exhibit “Storage and Display,” consisting of an installation of the works ofMark MANDERS. The artist’s solo exhibition “The Absence of Mark Manders” which was held until June at the museum,had been temporarily closed for over a month due to the effects of the pandemic. Therefore with the cooperation ofthe artist himself and owners of the work, the museum has organized “another exhibition” in which the works
presented in Manders’ solo exhibition are reconfigured and introduced in a new manner through the direction of theartist.

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Mark Manders, Dry Figure on Chair, 2011-15
Photo: Ichiro Otani

12Mark Manders, Dry Clay Head, 2015-16
Collection of the Artist
Courtesy of Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp
Photo: IMAI Tomoki

Artists
Oscar OIWA, KAWARA On, SHIMABUKU, TAKEUCHI Kota, Chim↑Pom, TERUYA Yuken, NINAGAWA Mika, HIRATA
Minoru, HOMMA Takashi, MIYAKE Saori, Finger Pointing Worker and Mark MANDERS

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Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Public Relations Mihoko Nakajima / Chiako Kudo
E-MAIL: mot-pr@mot-art.jp
TEL: +81-3-5245-1134
URL: https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en* All Programs are subject to change.

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Information
Exhibition Period
ClosedOpening Hours
Admission
Venue
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July 17 (Sat) – October 17 (Sun), 2021
Mondays (except July 26, August 2, 9, 30, September 20), August 10, September 21, 2021
10:00 – 18:00 (Tickets available until 30 minutes before closing.)
Adults－500yen / University & College Students－400yen / High School Students, Over 65－250yen /Free for under Junior High School Students & Temporary Exhibition tickets holders
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Collection Gallery 1F / 3F
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo operated by Tokyo Metropolitan
Foundation for History and Culture
CHINZEI Yoshimi, MIZUTA Yuko (MOT)

Concurrent Exhibitions“GENKYO YOKOO TADANORI”“MOT Annual 2021 A sea, a living room and a skull”

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Contact

Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Public Relations Mihoko Nakajima / Chiako Kudo
E-MAIL: mot-pr@mot-art.jp
TEL: +81-3-5245-1134
URL: https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en* All Programs are subject to change.

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