Future and the Arts Quick Walkthrough! #2
2020.1.14 [Tue]
Recreating Van Gogh’s Left Ear with Biotechnology!
The exhibition will have an experimental lab-like studio where biotechnology will be used to expand the realm of art; displays including a work that attempts to recreate the left ear that Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have cut off himself.
Sugababe
2014-
Photo: Kioku Keizo
Left: Bio-Atelier
Right: Morimura Yasumasa
Portrait (Van Gogh)
1985
C-print
120 x 100 cm
Collection: Takamatsu Art Museum, Japan
Will Humanity Achieve Immortality?
Advances in robotics and biotechnology will usher in a future of regenerative medicine, but also raise the question: to what extent should we humans be altering our bodies? The exhibition will ponder physical possibilities alongside the ethical dilemmas.
Thermal Epidermalplasty (from the series “Transfigurations”)
2013
The Future as Foretold by Phoenix
The future depicted in Tezuka Osamu’s masterpiece manga series Phoenix is a world where the basics of survival, and human life and death, are controlled by an electronic brain, and humans and robots can fall in love. We focus on warnings about the future woven into Tezuka’s famous work by showcasing original drawings.
Phoenix: Chapter of Future
1967-1968
©Tezuka Productions
