Carrying a baby pig on my back : Tatsumi Orimoto

Tatsumi Orimoto：Carrying a baby pig on my back

11.15 – 12.6.2014

https://aoyamameguro.com/news/am-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