Yokohama Triennale announces artist list

The artistic director of the Yokohama Triennale 2014, Yasumasa Morimura, unveiled a detailed list of participating artists in his exhibition at a press conference at the Yokohama Museum of Art on Apr 22.
Morimura announced the names of 55 new participants, bringing the total number to 62. To date, only seven participants had been publicized, including Michael Landy, Melvin Moti, Akira Takayama and Miwa Yanagi.
The theme of the exhibition, “ART Fahrenheit 451: Sailing into the sea of oblivion,” is inspired by Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, and Morimura has given the exhibition a literary structure, grouping artists into thematic “chapters” spread across the Yokohama Museum of Art, the Shinko Pier Exhibition Hall and their environs.
Morimura’s artist selection spans multiple generations and practices. The exhibition will begin with the section “Introduction: Unmonumental Monuments” in front of the museum, featuring works by Wim Delvoye and Gimhongsok, and a large-scale participatory installation by Michael Landy in the museum’s Grand Hall. “Chapter 1: Listening to Silence and Whispers” includes works by Marcel Broodthaers, Isa Genzken, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Kazimir Malevich and Agnes Martin. “Chapter 3: ART Fahrenheit 451” will place the early Japanese modernist painter Shunsuke Matsumoto, who died in 1948, alongside the photographer Ikko Narahara and Edward & Nancy Reddin Kienholz. Other highlights include the Provoke photographer Takuma Nakahira with Alighiero Boetti, Simon Starling and the emerging multimedia artist Yuko Mohri in “Chapter 4: Laboring in Solitude, Wrestling in the World,” and works by Emiko Kashara, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Shinro Ohtake, Ana Mendieta, Danh Vo, and Akram Zaatari in the concluding “Chapter 11: Drifting in a Sea of Oblivion” at Shinko Pier.
Also notable will be tie-ins with two concurrent international exhibitions taking place in Japan, the Sapporo International Art Festival 2014, and the 5th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale. Directed by the musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Sapporo International Art Festival will present an event in Yokohama, while the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale will contribute a display of works and archival materials related to the exhibition.

For the full artist list, click here.

Related:
Yasumasa Morimura & Shinji Kohmoto: Yokohama Triennale 2014/PARASOPHIA 2015

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