ART OSAKA 2018

Over the years, ART OSAKA has introduced young and promising artists to the art fair exhibitions through collaboration with Kyoto City University of Arts. This year we will hold a group exhibition with four young artists; Sae Fujita (Printmaking), Sayoko Kobayashi (Nihonga, or Japanese-style painting), Yohei Kumano (Concept and Media Planning), and Momoko Yoshida (Oil Painting). Don’t miss this chance to witness the bursting energy of these young artists.

In the 1980s, Modernism came to the end and the Postmodernism era began. In the era of cultural globalization that came along with the arrival of Postmodernism, art parted from the Modern art tradition and brought forth Postmodernism.
One of the important characteristics of Postmodernism is its remarkable diversity. Contemporary art in Japan went through “Gutai” and “Mono-ha” and entered the Post Mono-ha era, and in the late 1980s it demonstrated a diversity which had never seen before.
This year, exhibitions themed ‘Japanese art of the 1980s’ have been held all over Japan, and the National Museum of Art,
Osaka will hold an exhibition “New Wave: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1980s” this November. Mr. Masahiro Yasugi,
the curator of this exhibition, will talk about the fascinating aspects of art in the 1980s from the curator’s point of view.

[Curator Salon JAPAN] is a non-profit art project which has aim to build an art platform which enhances art exchanges between curators from Korea and Japan. In this platform, curators can share their expertise on artworks by both countries’ artists. Furthermore, this project can be expanded to the area of East Asia for exchanging ideas and curating projects of each countries’ curators.