Correspondences and Hyōryūshi [Drifting-poetry]
Shuzo Takiguchi (1903-1979), a poet, exhibition organizer, art critic, and artist, received many items from various people, and letters are one of them. The number of letters that remain today is enormous, approximately 3,500 (under the jurisdiction of the Keio University Art Center). No matter how blunt it is, or no matter how many leaves are piled up, letters are written with various thoughts for someone far away. It is much like the “Hyōryūshi” [Drifting-poetry] that Takiguchi said about.
This exhibition will focus on various works such as the letters sent to Takiguchi by Shusaku Arakawa/Madeline Gins.*
For instance, in 1974, Édition Épave created a box-shaped object with nine compartments called “Hyōryūbutsu-Hyōhonkan” [Drifting Things/Specimen Box]. Multiple artists placed objects as flotsam in each of the small rooms. Among the participating artists were Takiguchi and Arakawa/Gins. There, Arakawa/Gins added 30 old photographs and metamorphosed them into something else.
And these are similar to the letters that Arakawa/Gins sent to Takiguchi. We will not only look at these as objects, but also think about the different expressions that emerge when we look at them as letters or their enclosures.
*This exhibition is a joint project of the Keio University Art Center (KUAC) and Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design (TAD) which own the Shuzo Takiguchi archive. This exhibition at TAD (Shuzo Takiguchi Collection Room), the symposium at Keio University (December, 2024), and the Art Archive Exhibition XXVII “Correspondences or Letters, and Inspiration: Shuzo Takiguchi and Shusaku Arakawa/Madeline Gins” at KUAC(March, 2025) share the theme of “Letters”.
Currently, KUAC, ARAKAWA+GINS Tokyo Office, and Reversible Destiny Foundation are collaborating to research the letters sent by both artists, and this exhibition was based on this project.
The work shown in the photograph（Drifting Things / Specimen Box） is from the collection of the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design
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Date
November 7 [Thur], 2024 – February 11 [Tue], 2025
at 9:30–18:00 (Admission by 17:30)
Closed: Wednesdays, December 29, 2024–January 3, 14, 2025
*The museum may also be temporarily closed on other days.
Venue
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design (TAD)
3F, Exhibition Room 6
Audience
Open to anyone
Cost
Adults 300yen (240yen)
*This ticket is for the Collection Exhibition.
*( ) admission for groups of more than 20 people.
*Admission free for university students or younger, and seniors [70 and over].
*Tickets for the special exhibitions also include admission to the collection exhibition.
Enquiries and bookings
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design
3-20, Kibamachi, Toyama, 930-0806, Japan
TEL +81-76-431-2711
Keio University Art Center
2-15-45, Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8345, Japan
TEL +81-3-5427-1621
Date
November 7 [Thur], 2024 – February 11 [Tue], 2025
at 9:30–18:00 (Admission by 17:30)
Closed: Wednesdays, December 29, 2024–January 3, 14, 2025
*The museum may also be temporarily closed on other days.
Venue
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design (TAD)
3-20 Kibamachi, Toyama 930-0806 Japan
Audience
Open to anyone
Cost
Adults 300yen (240yen)
*This ticket is for the Collection Exhibition.
*( ) admission for groups of more than 20 people.
*Admission free for university students or younger, and seniors [70 and over].
*Tickets for the special exhibitions also include admission to the collection exhibition.
Booking
Not required
Enquiries and bookings
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design
3-20, Kibamachi, Toyama, 930-0806, Japan
TEL +81-76-431-2711
Keio University Art Center
2-15-45, Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8345, Japan
TEL +81-3-5427-1621
Organiser(s)
Organized by Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design, Keio University Art Center
With cooperation of ARAKAWA+GINS Tokyo Office, Reversible Destiny Foundation