The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 196 Works with 19 Themes
May 26–July 1, 2018
Today the world is flooded with information about every conceivable field, and is growing ever more globalized and diverse. In this environment, museums' conventional procedures for storing and exhibiting art by era or by region are becoming ineffective. In Europe and North America, museums of contemporary art have been holding an increasing number of thematically organized exhibitions. This exhibition presents works from the National Museum of Art, Osaka's collection, grouped according to 19 themes. These themes are ones that enable viewers to stop, think, and find new meanings, and can be roughly divided into "elements of works" and "subjects depicted in works." The art on view is diverse, ranging from iconic works that embody certain themes to selections that may surprise you, and includes around 50 new acquisitions. The basic frameworks by which we classify art - era, region, genre - are taken into account, but combinations and juxtapositions highlight connections among widely varied works of art. This special exhibition of works from the collection seeks not merely to reconfirm what each viewer already knows about art, but to elicit new discoveries and offer opportunities to think about art from new angles.
Artists：
Barnett Newman, Piero Manzoni, Jiro Takamatsu, Agnes Martin, Imi Knoebel, Teppei Soutome, Frank Stella, Joseph Kosuth, Tomoharu Murakami, Marc Quinn, Rei Naito, Futo Akiyoshi, Richard Tuttle, Lynda Benglis, Kodai Nakahara, Ushio Shinohara, Yu Araki, Richard Aldrich, Henry Moore, Aiko Miyawaki, Kenjiro Okazaki, Yuji Takeoka, Kazuo Okazaki, Dan Flavin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Anton Henning, Mike Kelley, Marcel Duchamp, Tetsumi Kudo, Daan Van Golden, Naoya Hatakeyama, Tony Oursler, Ryan Gander, Wols, Jim Dine, Tomio Miki, Laurie Simmons, Thomas Ruff, Ilya Kabakov, Jan Dibbets, Nobuo Sekine, Roy Lichtenstein, Tiger Tateishi (Koichi･Taigaa) , Stephan Balkenhol, Yoshishige Saito, Lucio Fontana, Sigmar Polke, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Anthony Caro, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Bertrand Lavier, Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys, Oliver Beer, Pablo Picasso, Jean Fautrier, Alberto Giacometti, Georg Baselitz, Richard Hamilton, John Currin, Luc Tuymans, Marino Marini, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Katsura Funakoshi, Erwin Wurm, Yoshitatsu Yanagihara, Kazuo Yagi, Daido Moriyama, Tatsumi Yoshino, Tam Ochiai, Kiki Smith, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Toshio Shibata, Man Ray, Giorgio Morandi, Arman, Rachel Whiteread, Takanobu Kobayashi, Eri Takayanagi, Kiyoshi Koishi, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Tony Cragg, Ryuji Miyamoto, Kazuyuki Takezaki, Hamish Fulton, On Kawara, Edward Ruscha, Ryuichi Yamashiro, Andy Warhol, Tadanori Yokoo, Sherrie Levine, Shinji Ogawa, Marcel Broodthaers, Ute Lindner, Candida Höfer, Mel Ziegler, Hisachika Takahashi, U-Fan Lee, Donald Judd, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Saburo Muraoka, Niele Toroni, Max Ernst, Morris Louis, Sadamasa Motonaga, Yukinori Yanagi, Bernard Frize, Yuki Onodera, Wolfgang Tillmans.