Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s

Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990sParergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s brings together some of the most enigmatic works that were first generated during a rich two decade period that are pivotal to the way we understand contemporary Japanese art today. In the aftermath of the conceptual reconsideration of the object and relationality spearheaded by Mono ha in the 1970s, this era opened up new critical engagements with language and medium where artists explored expansions in

Bennett Simpson

and pornography for men

and although the imagery of Japanese manga and anime is often mentioned in reference to his work

Anna Park is Anna Park’s first monograph

June 30-October 2

her pots and other interventions generate a kind of silent indistinct chatter that harkens back to the heyday of Neutra’s VDL house when it played host to a wide array of artists

Ignoring the traditional separation of sculpture and furniture he worked without a conception of fixed categories

This spring the definitive monograph on the artist

logged time in the Instituut Voor Sonologie to compose music for a documentary being made on himself by cinematographer Jan Vrijman

Written by Mika Yoshitake and Michael Govan

Widely recognized as a pioneering figure in postwar Korean art and a central force in the Dansaekhwa movement

are corporeal articulations yielded from a mantra-like exercise in muscle memory