JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ART TRAVELING EXHIBITION COMES TO PENANG THIS MONTH

After successfully touring Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, the Japan Foundation traveling exhibition, “Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art”, will finally arrive on Malaysian shores by way of Penang from 17 April to 16 May at Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah.

14 of Japan’s leading contemporary artists will showcase works representative of “micropop”, a term coined by curator Midori Matsui to describe the unique worldview of some individuals who rearrange fragments of information and knowledge to suggest fresh ways of perceiving the outmoded and banal.

Participating artists include Chim↑Pom (Prudential Eye Award 2015 overall winner), Koki Tanaka (Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2015), Lyota Yagi, Ryoko Aoki, Masaya Chiba, Masanori Handa, Taro Izumi, Makiko Kudo, Mahomi Kunikata, Tam Ochiai, Hiroe Saeki, Hiroshi Sugito, Aya Takano and Keisuke Yamamoto.

The exhibition will move to the University of Malaya Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur in June.

Date: 17 April–16 May, 2015

Venue: Muzium & Galeri Tuanku Fauziah, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Visiting time: 9 a.m.–6 p.m., Monday–Saturday

Admission: RM4 for Adult, RM2 for Children aged 5–12 years old. Free for staff, USM students, retirees, senior citizens and OKU

For more info please visit JAPAN FOUNDATION WEBSITE HERE.