Hong Kong
Screening: Japon des Avant Gardes 1910-1970
Legendary exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in 1986
日本的前衛藝術 1910-1970
1986 年龐畢度國家藝術和文化中心的傳奇展覽

24 May and 7, 14, 21 June 2025

Installation view at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1986. Kazuo Shiraga, Sanbaso-Super Modern, 1957/1986 (left)
Exhibition title by Kazuo Shiraga (right)  Photo @Noriaki Okabe

wamono art proudly presents a visual project to preserve a record of the historic exhibition Japon des Avant Gardes: 1910-1970, held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from December 1986 to March 1987, together with Aomi Okabe, a renowned art critic and curator from Japan. This project delves deeply into the exhibition through interviews with Aomi, who was the only Japanese curator at the Centre, alongside valuable documentary footage she captured.

In France in the 1980s, interest in contemporary Japan was growing due to the impact of the Comme des Garçons fashion show held in Paris in 1981. To understand contemporary Japan, there was a need to comprehensively unravel the events that shaped modern Japan. Therefore, this exhibition dynamically explored the period from 1910 to 1970 in Japan from an interdisciplinary perspective, covering creative activities including art, architecture, design, literature, and music.

Portions of this recorded footage have previously been shown in lectures at the Mori Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. However, this time, wamono art will present a newly edited version, featuring commentary by Aomi Okabe.

Aomi Okabe
Art critic. Curator. Artistic director of exhibitions at Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris until 2020, and Director of the International Department of the Committee for “Ueno, a Global Capital of Culture” until 2021. Aomi Okabe was a professor at Musashino Art University for 12 years and a visiting researcher at New York University. Her curatorial achievements include co-commissioner of le Japon des avant-gardes 1910-1970 at the Centre Pompidou (1986); curator of Georges Rousse, Hanshin Art Project (1995) and Georges Rousse in Miyagi (2013); curator of the exhibitions Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi; Rei Naito; Tomoko Yoneda; Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Paris – Oscar Oiwa; Makiko Tanaka; Camille Fontaine; and contact Gonzo at Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris; and curator of José María Sicilia and Metal Silence – Cristina Lucas and Fernando Sánchez Castillo at “Ueno, a Global Capital of Culture.” Her publications include Art, Women and Images – Glocal Women.

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Wamono art 很榮幸地呈現一個以保存歷史性展覽《日本的前衛藝術1910-1970》記錄為目標的視 項目，展覽於 1986 年 12 月至 1987 年 3 月在巴黎龐比度中心與日本著名藝術評論家和策展人岡部 碧海共同舉辦。本計畫試圖透過這次展覽唯一的日本策展人碧海的採訪，以及她拍攝的珍貴紀錄片片段，來深入探討展覽。

在 1980 年代的法國，由於受1981 年在巴黎舉辦的 Comme des Garçons 時裝表演影響，人們對當代日本的興趣日益濃厚。要了解當代日本，就需要全面了解近代日本所發生的事。因此，本次展覽透過跨越藝術、建築、設計、文學和音樂等創作活動，用跨學科角度動態地探索了 1910 年至1970 年的日本時期。

這段影片之前曾在森美術館和東京都現代美術館的講座中部分展示過，但這次，wamono art 將首次以新編輯的版本呈現，並附上岡部碧海的解說。

岡部碧海
藝術評論家。策展人。擔任巴黎日本文化會館藝術總監至 2020 年，擔任上野之杜新構想執行委員會國際部門主任，任期至 2021 年。岡部 碧海曾任武藏野美術大學教授 12  年和紐約大學客席研究員。她的策展成就包括擔任龐 比度中心《日本的前衛藝術1910-1970》共同策展人 （1986）；喬治‧魯斯《阪神藝術計畫》（1995）與喬治‧魯斯《宮城藝術計畫》（2013）的策展人；真鍋 大度與石橋素展覽策展人；内藤礼； 米田知子；里約熱內盧東京、巴黎 奧斯卡·大岩；田中麻記子；卡米爾·方丹；與 contact Gonzo 巴黎日本文化會館；和何塞‧瑪麗亞‧西西里亞和 Metal Silence – 克里斯蒂娜·盧卡斯和費爾南多·桑切斯·卡斯蒂略在《上野⽂化之杜》的策展人。她的出版作包括《藝術、女性和圖像  全球本土女性》。

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