After a six-month hiatus, the private gallery Takahashi Collection will be reopening Feb 18 in a new location near Tokyo’s Hinode Pier, it has been announced. The gallery has traversed a good portion of central Tokyo since it was established in 2004 by the psychiatrist Ryutaro Takahashi to display selections from his private holdings of contemporary Japanese art. Previous locations include Kagurazaka, Shirogane and, until October 2010, Hibiya, where the gallery was presented as part of a limited collaboration with Mitsui Fudosan. This latest iteration of the gallery follows a similar arrangement, as it will be hosted by SBI artfolio company’s Tabloid Gallery. At Tabloid, Takahashi Collection will produce two exhibitions a year, to be incorporated into the host gallery’s regular programming.
The inaugural exhibition in this program has been titled “Request Top 30 – Tracking the Past 10 Years,” and will revisit the 30 works from Takahashi’s collection that have received the most exhibition loan requests from local and international art museums over the stated time span. These include Makoto Aida’s A Picture of an Air Raid on New York City (War Pictures Returns (1996), Yayoi Kusama’s Juliette Greco (1970), Yoshitomo Nara’s In the Deepest Puddle (1995) and Takashi Murakami’s Zuzazazazaza (1994).
The exhibition continues through May 14.
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