Winter Garden – The Exploration of Micropop Imagination In Contemporary Japanese Art
Visual Arts
Description
Description
This exhibition attempts to explore the significant tendencies of contemporary Japanese art shared by the generation of young artists who were born between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and emerged as professionals between the late 1990s and the early 2000s. The exhibition is an attempt to clarify such commonalities through the expressions of 14 contemporary artists, with the theoretical idea of “micropop.” Micropop, a word invented by Midori Matsui, critic and curator, indicates the methods of: 1) accumulating various fragments of information gained from individual experiences, without depending on dominant cultural discourses, in order to form unique aesthetics or ways of behavior , and 2) re-using preexisting, banal, everyday objects, outmoded fashions, or anonymous places, in a playful way that deviates from their utilitarian functions and social assumptions, in order to create situations or new games in which participants can find new opportunities for mutual communication or meaningful actions.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2015" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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