After nearly three years of renovations, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, situated at one end of Kiba Park in Koto Ward, has re-opened its doors with ¡°Weavers of Worlds: A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern/Contemporary Art.¡±
It¡¯s an ambitious exhibition that, in order to span an entire century¡¯s worth of art, literally runs through the majority of the museum building ¡ª with viewers traversing four floors to see the entire show. Allow yourself ample time to make your way through it.
¡°Weavers of Worlds¡± posits Japan¡¯s 20th-century artists as ¡°weavers,¡± selectively ¡°editing¡± disparate artistic elements into a chimera-like whole and pursuing individual expression even while absorbing the Western art movements du jour ¡ª cubism, dadaism, surrealism, art informel. This act of ¡°editing¡± a creative vision becomes, in many cases, the motif of the art itself; the executive decisions of what to include ¡ª or not ¡ª taking on additional significance.
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