EX­hi­Bi­tion

TADA MINAMI—STILL, SHIMMERING LIGHT

Emerging out of Japan’s postwar avant-garde, Minami Tada (1924–2014) was a leading abstract artist whose practice spanned sculpture, design, and architecture. She was a pioneer in the use of industrial materials and fabrication technologies in her artistic expression, which found form in everything from Coal Mine (1957), a wall-sized relief commissioned for the Coal Miners’ Union Building, to the lighting sculpture Auspicious Clouds (1973), which still hangs in the main lounge of the RIHGA Royal Hotel in Osaka. She also made works for parks, railway stations, city halls, and theaters in addition to art spaces. This exhibition offers a comprehensive overview of Tada’s almost seven-decade career through the presentation of paintings, sculptures, lighting works, and components of architectural projects alongside photographs, sketches, and archival materials.

Also on view is “Synchronic Constellation: Cross-Boundary Perspectives in Art,” a survey of the entangled development of modernity in Taiwan and Japan, curated by Taiwanese filmmaker Huang Ya-Li, and “MOT Collection: Past Light, Present Sight.”

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo opened in 1995 as the city’s first institution for the research, collection, preservation, and display of contemporary art. The museum’s exhibition program features cutting-edge expressions by Japanese and international artists working in contemporary art, fashion, architecture, design, and other fields. Displayed across two floors of dedicated gallery space, the MOT collection comprises over 6,000 works of art, including major works of 20th-century Japanese art, with a focus on the art of the postwar years. The museum has the largest specialty library of its kind in Japan, housing over 280,000 books, catalogues, and periodicals on modern and contemporary art. Its education program engages people of all ages through an active calendar of guided tours, lectures, and workshops.

Dining options on-site.