I have long harbored the fantasy of living in Japan . My main reason for this is that I am really disorganized, and messy and for me Japanese culture with its emphasis on simplicity is the opposite of these things.I always thought that if I lived in Japan, I would magically become organized. Organization would seep into me like the air. I don't know if this would have actually worked, and I have seen some messy Japanese people, but there does seem to be a thoroughness of design. The thing I like about this show is that you can't lob the common criticism of modern art at it. Your five year old sister,son or cousin could not have made any of this art.
The first room was devoted to photographs of grandmothers of the future, by Miwa Anagi. There were grandmother Geishas. I liked these photos somewhat.I wasn't sure about them, too. I don't know if really old people doing things that very young
people normally do was really so subversive, maybe it is.
In the second room there were works on paper. The miniaturization of Japanese art is especially striking. There are protrayals of all the activities within an airporttaking place inside the planes themselves, with Yamaguchi Akira. Maneka Ikeda's huge trees which contain hidden teeming but somehow harmonious life.
There was a student of Marina Abramovich who has lived in Berlin for the past decade who made a clothing specific work of
art with tubes, like blood going in and out of a wedding dress.
A huge paper cut out called the vortex dominates the center of the next room, it's the first thing you see after you pass a Kohei Nawa's deer covered with crystal balls.Deers are sacred to the Japanese. Does a deer covered in crystal balls say something about the future? It's pretty in any case.Haruka Kojin's hanging fractal flower patterns adorn a wall.
And a film plays in the last room along with a photo showing the Kittys themselves presiding
over a tombstone in a pet cemetary.
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