Warehouse TERRADA’s WHAT MUSEUM to Hold Obayashi Collection Exhibition “Between the City and Me”

WHAT MUSEUM was opened in December 2020 aiming to make artists’ and collectors’ precious art properties that have been entrusted to us accessible to the public. It exhibits works by artists active in the contemporary art scene side-by-side with the thoughts of the collectors as well as the artists, offering a new kind of space for the appreciation of art. At this Obayashi Collection Exhibition, we will be highlighting a collection of masterpieces accumulated over many years by Mr. Takeo Obayashi, Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the international art festival, “Aichi Triennale 2022” (Aichi Prefecture), and exhibiting the collection along three different themes. By displaying “Tadao Ando : The Act of Drawing,” “Between the City and Me,” and “Self-History,” not only will we aim to demonstrate the changing nature of this collection, we will also attempt a more multi-faceted approach to this assemblage of artistic works.

In “Between the City and Me” of the Obayashi Collection Exhibition, 15 separate works of photography by 9 artists capturing the sight of cities from the artists’ unique perspectives will be displayed. The subjects of these works will include various building blocks of cities that exist in the spaces “between” the cities and its people (the artists and the rest of us), such as urban infrastructure, architecture, interiors, and models. The “untitled/Osaka” series by Naoya Hatakeyama renders the changing vista of cityscapes as altered by time, while the “Untitled (Barragan House)” series by Luisa Lambri depicts minute changes wrought by time and personal experiences found in the Barragan House, which was designed by Luis Barragan. Furthermore, the subject of “Museum H 64” by Thomas Demand is the architectural models developed in the atelier of architect Kazuyo Sejima, as they are built day after day over the process of completing a building. These works evoke the image of “another” city as captured and visualized through the lens of a camera, one that exists “between” the physical city and the artist. Through this exhibit, we will create opportunities for visitors to witness cities from a new perspective.

We also plan to hold talks during the exhibition period, and will announce them on the WHAT MUSEUM website as soon as they are finalized.

Titlev  : Obayashi Collection Exhibition “Between the City and Me”
Dates  : September 25th (Sat), 2021 – February 13th (Sun), 2022 (It will be closed during the year-end and New Year holidays.)
Venue: WHAT Museum 1F Space2 (Warehouse TERRADA G Building 2-6-10 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002)
Open Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Admission until 5:00 PM), closed on Mondays (but open when Monday is a public holiday, then closed the following Tuesday)
Admission   : Adults 1,200 yen / University or vocational college students 700 yen / Junior and senior high school students 500 yen / Students under elementary school age Free
* Including the admission for the exhibition “Tadao Ando: The Act of Drawing,” and “Self-History”
* Tickets will be on sale from September 1st (Wed). Please visit the WHAT MUSEUM official website for details.
* We are planning to replace a part of the exhibits with new works during the exhibition period.
Organizer/Planner       : WHAT MUSEUM
Special Cooperation     : Takeo Obayashi
Cooperation in writing: Mariko Takeuchi
Venue graphic               : Kohei Sekigawa
Graphic                           : ujidesign
URL: https://what.warehouseofart.org/en/exhibitions_events/between-the-city-and-me

Naruki Oshima, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates (architectural model), Thomas Demand, Rika Noguchi, Naoya Hatakeyama, Ryuji Miyamoto, Luisa Lambri, and Thomas Ruff

– Exhibit of early works by Rika Noguchi, Thomas Ruff, and Andreas Gursky
– Exhibit of Naoya Hatakeyama’s “untitled/Osaka” series, with pieces reaching a height of 1.8 meters
– Simultaneous exhibitions of the “Sumida Hokusai Museum” study model by Kazuyo Sejima and Associates, as well as photographs by Thomas Demand depicting the model

– Obayashi Collection Exhibition “Tadao Ando: The Act of Drawing”
U R L ：https://what.warehouseofart.org/en/exhibitions_events/tadao-ando-the-act-of-drawing
– Obayashi Collection Exhibition “Self- History”
The details will be announced later.

Born in Tokyo in 1954. President of the Obayashi Foundation. In addition to his role as the Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the international art festival “Aichi Triennale 2022,” he is also a member of various domestic and international museum councils. He is the author of “Toshi wa Bunka (Art) de Yomigaeru (Art Will Revive the City)” (Shueisha, 2019).

WHAT MUSEUM opened in Tennoz, Tokyo in December 2020. It is a facility to make artists’ and collectors’ precious art properties that have been entrusted to us accessible to the public. We have used our unique insight as a warehousing company to explore the concept of what an art facility should be. The result is to open up the warehouse to offer the public a look at art that they would not ordinarily have the opportunity to see. The museum exhibits works by artists active in the contemporary art scene side-by-side with the thoughts of the collectors as well as the artists, offering an innovative space for the appreciation of art.
The name of WHAT (WAREHOUSE OF ART TERRADA) implies the cultural value which is gleaming quietly in the warehouse, and the museum exhibits paintings, three-dimensional works as well as architectural models, photographs, movies, literature and installations. We plan and exhibit these diversified arts and cultures in our individual style of museum as a warehouse company in new and unique approaches.

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It was transformed from ARCHI DEPOT MUSEUM which had been stored and exhibited architectural models since 2016, and continues the planning of exhibitions and the operation of Architectural Model Warehouse.
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