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Thanks to the Pandemic, the way we approach the world – and the opportunities it offers us – without having to leave home was forever changed. Art and culture are closer than ever. Experts have joined this trend and created activities and workshops that until a few years ago would have been unattainable. For example, it is currently possible to approach contemporary Japanese art from home.
Thanks to the Japan Foundation in Mexico, you will be able to learn about post-war art online from expert Japanese art historian and 2017 Robert Motherwell Book Award winner Dr. Reiko Tomii and other cultural and educational institutions from around the world. prestige such as MUAC, MARCO, COLMEX, CENART and MACQ.
Since last Thursday, March 3rd and until March 25th, you can enjoy, on the social networks of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Querétaro (MACQ), five online conversations from different cultural spaces in Mexico City, New León, and Querétaro. There, Dr. Tomii, an independent academic and curator specializing in Post-War Japanese art, shares her passion for the artistic manifestations of the Japanese avant-garde, responsible for placing contemporary Japanese art on the world art map.
Reiko Tomii currently lives in New York. Her knowledge is celebrated and recognized due to her methodological exploration of world art history and multiple modernisms. That is why the Japan Foundation in Mexico joined forces with contemporary art museums and art centers of investigation and encouraged this exchange of knowledge between amateurs of the art, interested public, and academics.
In Mexico, there is interest in knowing about contemporary Japanese art. n example of this was the Yayoi Kusama exhibition in 2015 and the long lines of attendees that it summoned. This activity intends to share with the Mexican public a broader panorama of the artistic expressions of post-war Japan; beyond the consolidated artists.
Dr. Tomii found her life project: studying Japanese art of the 1960s, after finishing her Ph.D. at the University of Texas and, after her multiple collaborations with the Center for International Contemporary Art, Queens Museum, Tate Modern, Getty Research Institute, among others.
While with Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan, his first monograph published by MIT Press in 2016, she received the 2017 Robert Motherwell Book Award; and in 2019, it transformed into an exhibition Radicalism in the Wilderness: Japanese Artists in the Global 1960s in collaboration with Yukie Kamiya, gallery director of the Japan Society in New York.
Tomii will share his knowledge with the public online through five conservatories. The first was held on Thursday, March 3rd, at 7:00 p.m. on Facebook with Al aire from the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC). And finishes on Friday, March 25th, 11:00, on the social networks of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Querétaro (MACQ). In addition, you can consult here the complete calendar of Dr. Reiko.
This activity is encouraged by the Japan Foundation (Kokusai Kouryu Kikin). An extraordinary entity, founded in 1972, to promote Japanese culture to the world and carry out cultural exchange activities at an international level. The Japan Foundation office in Mexico began operations in 1987 to hold cultural exchange activities and carry out the programs organized at the headquarters in Tokyo. In addition to introducing and publicizing Japanese culture in Mexico and promoting friendship and mutual understanding in the international arena.
Learn more at Japan Foundation in Mexico.
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