2023.3.17
WHAT MUSEUM to Hold Open Creation of Art “Immerse yourself in the transitory nature” by Masayoshi NOJO from April 28th, (Fri) 2023
The Collectors' Museum of Contemporary Art, WHAT MUSEUM, operated by Warehouse TERRADA, will hold Open Creation of Art "Immerse yourself in the transitory nature" by Masayoshi NOJO“ from April 28th (Fri) to August 27th (Sun), 2023 at SPACE2 on WHAT MUSEUM’s 1st floor.
We are delighted to host our first exhibition as the Open Creation of Art project at WHAT MUSEUM. The project invites artists to develop new works in a gallery setting, which functions as an open studio and displays their recent pieces. For the first installment, we welcome Masayoshi Nojo, who draws inspiration from natural phenomena and attempts to create various visual experiences by incorporating serendipitous and phenomenological elements into his work. In this Open Creation of Art, the artist will create his new “Links” series, which evokes the growth rings of a tree and wriggling cells. We will also display his notable silver and aluminum leaf-covered “Mirage” series with new additions exclusively produced for this exhibition. We will probe into the artist’s inner world and methods through interviews and videos showing his creative process which was filmed for this exhibition.
Opening a venue for visitors to meet artists means providing an opportunity to gain new insights, allowing them to see the artmaking process that is often inaccessible and nurture a deeper understanding of the artists’ work and thoughts behind it. With the launch of this project, we wish to provide artists with an opportunity to immerse themselves in an unusual setting and studio space while communicating with the public and discovering inspirations for new artistic endeavors. The visitors will be able to relish the changing scenery of work in progress on every visit and communicate with the artists and their works which can only be met here. To introduce a diverse range of artists to the public, we will continue to hold Open Creation of Art in the future.
Workshops and talks will be held as related events in addition to the sale of pieces created during this exhibition. More details will be announced soon on the official website.
[Overview of the Exhibition]
Title: Open Creation of Art “Immerse yourself in the transitory nature” by Masayoshi NOJO
Dates: April 28th (Fri) – August 27th (Sun), 2023
Venue: SPACE2, 1st floor at WHAT MUSEUM (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 1,500 yen / University or vocational college students 800 yen / Students under high school age Free
* Online ticket system
* Including the admission for the concurrent exhibition
* Re-entry ticket valid during the exhibition will be on sale
WHAT MUSEUM PASSPORT 2,000 yen
* WHAT MUSEUM’s ARCHI-DEPOT stores more than 600 architectural models, which architects and architectural firms entrust to us, and exhibits a part of them for visitors.
Price: Admission for ARCHI-DEPOT 700 yen / Admission including both the exhibition and ARCHI-DEPOT 2,000 yen
Organizing and planning: WHAT MUSEUM
Planning and operational cooperation: Art Management Office Ahoy!
Cooperation: Ryuichi Maruo
Graphic: ujidesign
URL: https://what.warehouseofart.org/en/exhibitions/opencreation1-en/
[Artist creation schedule] (Tentative)
April 29th (Sat)
May 3rd (Wed), 6th (Sat), 10th (Wed), 13th (Sat), 17th (Wed), 20th (Sat), 24th (Wed), 27th (Sat), 31st (Wed)
June 3rd (Sat), 7th (Wed), 10th (Sat), 14th (Wed), 17th (Sat), 21st (Wed), 24th (Sat), 28th (Wed)
July 1st (Sat) and 8th (Sat)
* The artist will stay at the venue daily from 1:00 PM until 5:00 PM.
* The schedule may vary depending on circumstances. Please check the WHAT MUSEUM official social media before your visit.
* The creation will be scheduled for completion early in July, and the completed works will be exhibited at the venue after that.
Mirage #76” 2022
“Links #3” 2022
* “Links”series reference work
[About Masayoshi Nojo]
Photo by Ryuichi Maruo
Masayoshi Nojo, born in 1989, completed his MA in Japanese Paintings in 2015. He fuses contemporary visual languages with Japanese aesthetics to explore themes of memory and the passage of time. During his studies, he became interested in collective memory. His exploration of time and memory is achieved using an innovative variety of mixed media and other techniques. He selects mixed media, including photography, to eliminate the arbitrariness of creation. He abstracts form and colors from photographs as the minimum constituent elements of image in memories. By disassembling and reconstructing his photographs with metal foils, the photographs, affected by both light and space transform into forms of faint existence, abstracting the factuality of photography. With this unique process, he conjures a sense of deja-vu in the viewer, evoking their memories from deep within subconscious. (YUKIKO MIZUTANI)
[Concurrent Exhibition]
“ART de Cha Cha Cha − Exploring the DNA of Japanese Contemporary Art −” from the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection at SPACE1, 1st floor and 2nd floor at WHAT MUSEUM
[Video Interviews with Exhibiting Artists]
Interviews with artists whose works are / were featured in the exhibition will be available in our WHAT ARTIST INTERVIEW series via the official WHAT MUSEUM YouTube channel. Interviews related to this exhibition will be released sequentially.
Official YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WHATMUSEUM
[About WHAT MUSEUM]
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 two- and 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.
https://what.warehouseofart.org/en