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Collection Exhibition 2015-Ⅰ
When Documents Become From

2015.2.28(Sat) — 5.31(Sun)

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This exhibition is aimed to explore the various forms that “documents” take as artistic expressions through a wide range of media including photography, video, and installation.
In their quest to visualize the trajectory of movement and the flow of time, and capture transitions in visible states, artists have attempted to document “actions” and “processes.” And by giving them a form that can do playback and be displayed, the artists convert these documents into “works” that we can see.
Along with photography, technical innovations and the popularization of portable video equipment in the late 1960s greatly stimulated artists’ creativity and came to be used as a new medium of expression. This made it possible to present one-time-only actions, processes, and the passage of time, and transformed video from a documentary medium into a creative expression. The act of creating a work by documenting something also gave rise to a change in perspective in which conventional forms of art such as painting and drawing also came to be seen as documentary or archival methods.
In this exhibition, a group of works is presented divided into four different sections : practices made by land artists who went outdoors from their studios and staged various expressive acts using the earth as their stage; attempts to record the passage of time by moving beyond momentary shots; time-based art in which video was used to document a performance or action, and documents focusing on views of people and ordinary landscapes.

artists
Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, ITO Takashi, KAWANAKA Nobuhiro, KAWARA On, NAKAHARA Kodai, Richard Long, SUGIMOTO Hiroshi, TANAKA Koki, TONOSHIKI Tadashi, TSURUOKA Masao, YAMAJI Sho, YOKOMIZO Shizuka and more..

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Exhibition Period

2015.2.28(Sat) — 5.31(Sun)

Opening Hours

10:00–17:00

No admittance 30 minutes before closing

Closed

Mondays *unless Monday is a national holiday, in which case the museum will be closed on the next non-holiday.

Admission

Adults 370 (280) yen, University Students 270 (170) yen, High School Students and Seniors [65 and over] 170 (130) yen
*Price in parentheses is a group of 30 or more
*Free for children under Junior High School age
*May 5 (Children’s Day): Free for children under High School age

Organized by

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art