The "MOT x Bloomberg PUBLIC 'SPACE' PROJECT" is a program aimed at providing support to young artists and expanding access to art, using the extensive 7,400m² of exhibition space at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT).
Born in 1977, Kengo Kito represents the younger generation of artists now in their twenties. His artworks, employing organic, biomorphic forms in compositions of colorful Pop design, embody a twenty-first-century style of expression that might well be termed "bio-Pop."
"Bio-Pop" is a vigorous style of art that interjects sub-cultural noise into the cool restraint of the city―art that connotes the complexity, variety, chaos, and vitality of nature and the biological world that we identify with jungle trees, nebulae, and viruses.
This time, he has undertaken to produce a galaxy on the 15m x 28m perforated metal wall of the MOT Media Court. By means of colored liquids, moving inside tubes in a manner evoking shooting stars or fields of light energy, the artist has created on the wall a picture of an immense, ceaselessly changing universe. Viewers can enjoy this universe from various angles and heights, such as through the entrance hall glass or when descending the cafe stairs into the Media Court.
The birth of a galaxy, the beginning of a universe―a suitable theme for a new project born from a collaboration between MOT and Bloomberg.
Period:
June 2, 2007 – January 20, 2008
Closed on:
Mondays, and October 1 – 19 (due to maintenance and exhibition replacement)
Winter holiday closure: December 28 – January 1
Venue:
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) Media Court
Opening Hours:
10:00-18:00
*Last admission to the gallery floor & last ticket purchase is 30minutes before the closing hour.
Organized by:
Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Kengo Kito
1977 Born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
2001 Graduated from the Department of oil painting, Nagoya University of Fine Arts and Music
2003 Completed Postgraduate Studies, Kyoto City University of Fine Arts and Music
Lives and works in Nagoya, Aichi
Solo Exhibitions
2006 Kenji Taki Gallery, Aichi
2004 Kenji Taki Gallery, Aichi
"quasar" Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo
"cosmic dust" Kenji Taki Gallery, Aichi
2003 "grains" mori yu gallery, Kyoto
1999 "star maker" Art Space Dot, Aichi
Group Exhibitions
2005 "very very human" Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
Public Collection
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka
