Tatsumi Orimoto：Carrying a baby pig on my back
11.15 – 12.6.2014
http://aoyamameguro.com/artists/installation-view-tatsumi-orimoto/
November 15 through December 6, 2014
Open from 12 to 19 pm (closed on Sundays and national holidays)
Opening Ceremony : November 15〈Sut〉
17:00- Performance
18:00- Party
Event Ceremony : November 29〈Sut〉
16:00- Performance
17:00- Talk Mihoko Nishikawa(Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo), Kazuhiko Yoshizaki(Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)
18:00- Party
Aoyama | Meguro is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Tatsumi Orimoto (b.1946) “Carrying a baby pig on my back”.
For quite some time, I have done various performances together with animals, such as the cow, pig, chicken, donkey, alpaca, and owl. I like to have freer ideas to make art – there is no reason that animals cannot have art if humans can. In 2012, I visited a baby pig farm in Ibaraki, Japan, because I had a desperate urge to carry a lovely baby pig on my back.
What the current exhibition presents is a record of my performance there: how I struggled with a raging baby pig – peeing and pooping all over my body – until I finally succeeded in literally piggybacking it.
Carrying a baby pig on my back 2012
500 GRANDMOTHERS-LUNCH PORTUGAL
11.2 – 11.30.2014 @ CAPSULE
CAPSULE http://www.capsule-gallery.jp/
Address: 2-7-12 Ikejiri, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 154-0001
November 2 through November 30, 2014
Open from
Sut,Sun and national holidays 12 to 19 pm
Mon,Wed 13 to 18 pm
Opening Ceremony : November 2〈Sun〉
16:00- Performance
17:00- Talk Kenjiro Hosaka(The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
18:00- Party
19:00- Dinner
Limited to 50 people 3,000Yen
tel & fax 044-333-0271 info@aoyamameguro.com
In April this year (2014), I invited 500 elderly women to a monastery in Evora, a UNESCO World Heritage city in Portugal. We had an extremely fun time, dancing and singing folk songs together, while enjoying pumpkin soup, fried rice with duck, local special cakes and red wines. It was such a “communication art” in the form of eating together, which I believe is the most important way of sharing time for human beings. The current exhibition features my latest work that revolves around this event, composed of an approximately 20-minute video that documents the gathering, related drawings, picture postcards and reference materials.
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11.2 – 11.30.2014 @ SUNDAY
SUNDAY http://sunday-cafe.jp/
November 2 through November 30, 2014
Open from 11:30 to 22 pm (closed on Wednesday)