EX­hi­Bi­tion

JAM SESSION: THE ISHIBASHI FOUNDATION COLLECTION × FUJII HIKARU: WHOSE LIGHT?

The Jam Session exhibition series invites contemporary artists to make work in dialogue with the Ishibashi Foundation Collection. This year’s seventh edition features Hikaru Fujii, whose multimedia practice builds on intensive research and fieldwork to study the close relationships between art, society, and history. For his Jam Session exhibition, Fujii takes inspiration from the key figure of the light-as-truth in Plato’s allegory of the cave. Rather than focusing on what the light illuminates, Fujii turns the question around to ask who is shining the light. Critically examining the structure of truth itself, he develops his inquiry through a selection of holdings from the collection that trace a timeline from antiquity to the middle ages, the modern era, and the postwar period, presented in juxtaposition with his own works. Fujii is also producing a new work for this exhibition.

“The Strangers’ Gaze: Japanese Artists in Europe” will also be on view during Art Week Tokyo.

ARTIZON MUSEUM

The Artizon Museum offers cutting-edge cultural experiences in the heart of central Tokyo. Originally known as the Bridgestone Museum of Art, the museum was established in 1952 to house the collection of its founder, businessman and philanthropist Shojiro Ishibashi. Now numbering some 3,000 artworks, the collection spans from Impressionist masterpieces to Japanese Western-style paintings, and from antiquities to contemporary art.

The museum relaunched in 2020 with the opening of new state-of-the-art facilities anchoring the 23-story Museum Tower Kyobashi. The name Artizon, which combines the words “art” and “horizon,” reflects the museum’s mission to transcend generational and geographic boundaries, serve the public interest, and shape the future. This is achieved through a robust program of exhibitions that interweave art histories from different continents and centuries.

Dining available on-site.