Exhibitions - Arddangosfeydd
Winter Garden
The Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art
This exhibition shows works - drawings, paintings and video works - by 14 Japanese artists selected by Midori Matsui, one of Japan's most prominent art critics. She has defined them as representatives of the ‘Micropop' tendency - a significant trend amongst younger Japanese artists. These artists present their distinctive view of the world through the combination of fragments, and by imbuing the obsolete or the commonplace with new functions or meanings. These works can appear modest, even anonymous, with the use of inexpensive or expendable materials. Their art transforms and refreshes the every day object, the insignificant details of our surroundings, the outmoded architecture.
Mae’r arddangosfa hon yn dangos gwaith - arluniadau, paentiadau a gwaith fideo - gan 14 o artistiaid Siapaneaidd a ddewiswyd gan Midori Matsui, un o adolygwyr celf mwyaf blaenllaw Siapan. Mae hi wedi eu diffinio fel cynrychiolwyr o’r duedd ‘Micropop’ - sy’n duedd arwyddocaol ymysg artistiaid Siapaneaidd iau. Mae’r artistiaid hyn yn cyflwyno eu golwg neilltuol o’r byd trwy gyfuno tameidiau, a thrwy roi i’r darfodedig neu’r cyffredin ryw swyddogaeth neu ystyr newydd. Gall y darnau hyn o waith ymddangos yn ddiymhongar, yn anhysbys hyd yn oed, trwy ddefnyddio deunydd rhad a dibwys. Mae eu celf yn trawsffurfio’r cyffredin, manylion dinod ein hamgylchedd, y bensaerniaeth hen ffasiwn.
The artists: Keisuke Yamamoto, Hiroshi Sugito, Tamu Ochiai, Ryoko Aoki, Lyota Yagi, Kohki Tanaka, Makiko Kudo, Mahomi kunikata, Aya Takano, Taro Izumi, Hiroe Saeki, Maki Handa, Masaya Chiba, Chim-Pom.
A Japan Foundation touring exhibition