In 2023, Mori Art Museum is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, presenting the exhibition “WORLD CLASSROOM: Contemporary Art through School Subjects” from April 19 to September 24.
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Since the Nineties, when the event of up to date artwork started to be thought-about from a number of views in numerous components of the world, now we have been seeing that modern artwork immediately goes far past the framework of arts and crafts and high-quality artwork within the faculty classroom. It is a composite area with connections to all topics, together with language and literature, arithmetic, science, and social research. In every of those disciplines, researchers are exploring the “unknowns” of the world, delving into historical past, and making new discoveries and innovations from the previous to the longer term so as to enrich our notion of the world. The stance adopted by modern artists that seeks to transcend our preconceptions in a artistic means can also be linked to this exploration of those unknowns. In this sense, the modern artwork museum is one thing akin to a “classroom of the world” the place we are able to encounter and find out about these unknown worlds.
World Classroom: Contemporary Art by School Subjects, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Mori Art Museum, is an try for the Mori Art Museum to come across a world now we have by no means seen or identified from all kinds of views, utilizing the themes we be taught in school as a gateway to modern artwork. Even although this exhibition is split into sections corresponding to “Language and Literature,” “Social Studies,” “Philosophy,” “Arithmetic,” “Science,” “Music,” and “P. E.,” every work, actually, crosses over a number of topics and domains. While over half the exhibited works will likely be drawn from the Mori Art Museum Collection for the primary time ever, there will even be newly-commissioned artworks for this exhibition – altogether making a “classroom of the world,” place of studying with works by some 50 artists/artist teams.
Among the artists represented within the exhibition are Ai Weiwei, Joseph Beuys, Susan Hiller and Shilpa Gupta, amongst others.