Museum of 21st Century Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. | Exhibition of the collection　Adventure in "Viđenje" (2023)

bacteria sign (circle)in 2000
soil, dead leaves, acrylic on wood panel
V45xŠ45xD0,9 cm
collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the 21st Century, Kanazawa
© SUZUKI Hiraku Cijena: SAIKI Taku

SUZUKI Hiraku

Born in Miyagi, Japan in 1978. He lives and works in Kanagawa. Working in a variety of media, including 2D works, sculpture, installations, live drawing and video, Suzuki Hiraku explores 'writing' and 'drawing' alike. Discovering forms of all kinds - street signs and words, natural plants, artificial concrete fragments - he collects, disassembles and reconstructs them into new lines and shapes. Suzuki also freely crosses genres, for example in collaboration with musicians and fashion designers.

Genesis of the worldin 2004
larger oval diameter: 700cm
collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the 21st Century, Kanazawa
© Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor

Born in Mumbai, India, in 1954. Lives and works in London, UK. After spending his childhood in India, Anish Kapoor moved to England at the age of 17. From the late 1970s he started exhibiting his works. At first he made many sculptures covered with pigments on the surface. Later these pigment works began to reveal openings, leading to works resembling cave entrances or fissures in the ground, covering the interior of a crack or hole in a rock-like floor with pigments. His works made of different materials always encourage us to revise our visions and our usual perceptions. In the unknown world created outside the dimensions, Kapoor's own views on human existence and life are reflected.

Workin 1963
acrylic on canvas H212.2×W136.4cm collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the 21st Century, Kanazawa
© YAMAZAKI Tsuruko
photo: SAIKI Taku

YAMAZAKI Tsuruko

Born in Ashiya, Hyogo, Japan in 1925. Lives and works there. Yamazaki Tsuruko was one of the founders of the Gutai Group, which was founded in 1954. She later co-founded the Artists Association and participated in solo and group exhibitions where she presented a range of works, including three-dimensional works using tin plates, performances and paintings. Throughout her long career, Yamazaki has created works with themes of real and virtual images and vision/cognition/recreation that express her unique view of the relationship between the individual and the world. The Gutai Group's avant-garde art theory, epitomized by its leader YOSHIHARA Jiro's saying, "create what no one has ever done before," continued to have a great influence on Yamazaki's later artistic activities.

Amaranth, from The Shards seriesin 2004
pigments, pastels and binder on linen
V250 x Š250 cm
collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the 21st Century, Kanazawa
© Monique FRYDMAN foto: SAIKI Taku

Monique FRYDMAN

Born in Nages, Tarn, France in 1943. He lives and works in Paris and Senantes.
Recognized as one of the most important French artists, Monique Frydman became an active artist in the late 1970s. Focusing on painting as her primary medium, she explores color and light using materials such as canvas, pigments, pastels, thread and paper. Her colors and images, which arise from an intimate, two-way dialogue between her materials and her own body, manifest fragments of memories and relics from her distant past – sometimes unconsciously, and evoke our own emotions and memories. In recent years, he has also made special installations out of glass, Plexiglas, paper and fabric.

butterfly release2015
Resizable HD video, paper, watercolor pigment
collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the 21st Century, Kanazawa
© KOGANEZAWA Takehito

KOGANEZAWA Τακεχίτο

Born in 1974 in Tokyo (Japan), based in Hiroshima. Koganezawa Takehito participated in the activities of Studio Shokudo while studying visual arts and sciences at Musashino Art University and presented video art work at a group exhibition held in Yokohama in 1997. Shortly after graduation, he moved to Germany where he continued to live and work until early 2017. His the work, which focuses on video but also includes performance, drawings and installations, has been widely exhibited in Japan and abroad. He has been widely acclaimed for his sharp insights into the subtleties of everyday life and insights into the mystery, discomfort, beauty and humor that lie beneath its surface.

Glass no. 4 Hin 1998
glass H83xW83xD77cm
collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the 21st Century, Kanazawa
© Kadonaga Kazuo
Fotografija: NAKAMICHI Atsushi / Nacása & Partners

Kadonaga Kazuo

Born in Tsurugi (now Hakusan), Ishikawa, Japan in 1946. Lives and works in Kanazawa, Ishikawa.
Originally aspiring to become a painter, Kadonaga Kazuo began creating wooden sculptures in the early 1970s in response to the influences of minimal art and conceptual art in the 1960s. He then developed his own production style. This usually involved thinly slicing a log or square of wood, drying the slices and reassembling them in their original form, or stacking wet sheets of washi paper, pressing and drying, then partially peeling each sheet. In such works, he tried, as far as possible, to eliminate artificial construction and highlight the inherent qualities of the materials and the process of art production. He applied this creative approach equally to the use of bamboo, glass, silk (silkworm) and other media.

One way or anotherin 2001
marble H247×W90×D90cm
collection: Museum of Contemporary Art of the 21st Century, Kanazawa
© Tony CRAGG
Fotografija: NAKAMICHI Atsushi / Nacása & Partners

Tony CRAGG

Born in Liverpool, UK in 1949. He lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany.
Tony Cragg continues to consistently create works that reflect his insight into objects and the relationship between them. His approach is to examine the form and function of a wide range of objects from the anthropogenic to the natural world and discover their deep connections. The arrangement of objects expresses a sense of organization, in which the part becomes the whole and the whole the part. It also observes variations in the utility and exchange value of objects according to their functions. In recent years he has produced several solid sculptures focusing on the analysis of organic life forms.

Lehmbruckin 2000
wood, metal, aluminum foil, postcard
V320xŠ20xD18cm
collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the 21st Century, Kanazawa
© Isa GENZKEN
Fotografija: NAKAMICHI Atsushi / Nacása & Partners

Isa GENZKEN

Born in Bad Oldesloe, Germany in 1948. He lives and works in Berlin.
In the early 1980s, Genzken became known for her large floor sculptures. He later began creating works using many different media including oil paintings, photography and film. He continues to produce pieces that place two opposing concepts on one platform: roughness and delicacy, openness and closure, transparency and opacity, etc. Genzken is an artist who juxtaposes careful calculation and unpredictability, and tries to properly balance the two.

Rotating pyramid IIin 2007
mirror, technical device
V200׊200×D110 cm
collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the 21st Century, Kanazawa
© Jeppe HEIN
Courtesy: Johann König, Berlin, Gallery 303, New York, and SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
photo: KIOKU Keizo

Jeppe HEIN

He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1974. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
He graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Arts in Copenhagen. Jeppe Hein produces sculptures that combine simple geometric shapes, such as circles and squares in white or other unpainted colors, as well as mirrors and transparent materials in a way that is initially associated with minimalism in the 1960s. However, Hein's works hide playful, humorous elements, which sometimes begin move in response to the viewer or offer other hidden surprises. These cute pranks remove any sense of tension from the audience towards the works and often aim to encourage communication between viewers. Hein also works on permanent public artworks, such as a fountain created in the gardens of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and repurposed benches installed in Kastrup in Copenhagen.