Yokohama Triennale 2017 + Nissan Art Award 2017: Double Delight for MAMC Members!
2018.1.26 [Fri]
On Sunday, November 5, 2017, under clear autumn skies members of the MAMC Mori Art Museum membership program congregated to visit the Yokohama Triennale and the Nissan Art Award exhibition in a special MAMC event.
And not a moment too soon either - this was the last day of Yokohama Triennale 2017! The first fine weekend for a fortnight also helped bring out the crowds, and the Yokohama Museum of Art was packed with visitors.
For the MAMC event, Yokohama Museum of Art Project Director and Yokohama Triennale 2017 Co-Director Kashiwagi Tomoh, gave a lecture specially for the group prior to the viewing.
The title of this year’s Yokohama Triennale, the sixth edition, was “Islands, Constellations & Galapagos.” Focusing on such key issues as “isolation” and “connectivity,” the Triennale’s aim was to contemplate, through its myriad artworks and events, the current state of our world, that consists of intertwining complexity of opposing values.
After viewing works at the Yokohama Museum of Art, the group tucked into some French cuisine at Rotisserie T’s RAY, companion restaurant to BRASSERIE T’S Musée, which is situated next to the Yokohama Museum of Art. (MAMC also dined here on the 2014 excursion to the Triennale).
The Yokohama Museum of Art was not the only venue for Yokohama Triennale 2017. After lunch, the group took a chartered bus for the Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall and Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No. 1.
Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse No. 1 was dominated by works on video, so our art-lovers took plenty of time here. Outside, other events were going on, so the group split up to enjoy these individually at their leisure.
This marked the end of the “MAMC Tour of Yokohama Triennale 2017.” But not the end of the day…! Next up was the Nissan Art Award 2017 exhibition. After transferring to BankART Studio NYK, the group joined Mori Art Museum Director Nanjo Fumio, who is also head of the judging panel for the Award, to view the works of the five finalists.
Held in alternate years, the Nissan Art Award was conceived primarily to raise the international profiles of Japanese artists. The Award is well-known for the subsequent success of its selected artists; 2015 finalist Iwasaki Takahiro for example, was chosen for the Japanese Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
A portion of the works by finalists in the previous two Awards (2013, 2015) have been gifted to the Nissan Art Collection, and are apparently on display at Nissan headquarters.
To coincide with this event, we obtained special permission to view these works displayed at the Nissan Motor Corp global headquarters, and amid the hushed surroundings of the entrance and office floors, were privileged to view some extraordinary works of art.
Having met at 9:45 am, the group disbanded at 6:30 pm after an art-suffused day stretching to almost 9 hours.
This was the final 2017 event for individual MAMC members. The next event will be the MAMC night and annual cocktail party, coinciding with the “Leandro Erlich: Seeing and Believing” exhibition.
Text: Imamura Akiko (Marketing Group, Mori Art Museum)
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