We can make another future : Japanese art after 1989

WE CAN MAKE ANOTHER FUTURE: JAPANESE ART AFTER 1989 PUBLISHER Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane PO Box 3686, South Brisbane Queensland 4101 Australia www.qagoma.qld.gov.au Published for ‘We can make another future: Japanese art after 1989’, an exhibition organised by the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) and held at GOMA, Brisbane, Australia. Curator: Reuben Keehan, Curator, Contemporary Asian Art © Queensland Art Gallery, 2014 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 , no part may be reproduced without prior written permission from the publisher. No illustration in this publication may be reproduced without the permission of the copyright owners. Copyright for texts in this publication is held by the authors and QAGOMA. Copyright for all artworks and images is held by the creators or their representatives, unless otherwise stated. Copyright of photographic images is held by individual photographers and institutions or QAGOMA. Every endeavour has been made to obtain permissions from the copyright owners; inquiries concerning reproductions and rights should be addressed to the publisher. Care has been taken to ensure the colour reproductions match as closely as possible the digital files of the original works. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION ENTRY Author: Keehan, Reuben, author. Title: We can make another future: Japanese art after 1989 / Reuben Keehan ; Shihoko Iida. ISBN: 9781921503665 (hardback) Subjects: Queensland Art Gallery--Exhibitions. Art, Japanese--20th century--Exhibitions. Art, Japanese--21st century--Exhibitions. Art, Japanese--Queensland--Exhibitions. Art, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions. Art, Modern--21st century--Exhibitions. Artists--Japan. Other Authors/ Iida, Shihoko, author. Contributors: Queensland Art Gallery. Gallery of Modern Art, issuing body. Dewey Number: 709.520909943 NOTES ON THE PUBLICATION Text for this publication has been supplied by the authors as attributed. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the publisher. Dimensions of works are given in centimetres (cm), height preceding width followed by depth. Descriptive and attributed titles are in parentheses. Captions generally appear as supplied. All photography is credited as known. All works are in the Collection of the Queensland Art Gallery, unless otherwise noted. Typeset in Flama and Gotham. Image colour adjustment by ColourChiefs and printing by The Australian Book Connection. Front cover Daido Moriyama / Japan b.1938 / Shinjuku (from ‘filmograph 6’ series) (detail) 2003, printed 2014 / Gelatin silver photograph, open edition / 150 x 100cm / The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2014 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / © Daido Moriyama / Courtesy: Taka Ishii Gallery Back cover Toshio Shibata / Japan b.1949 / Onogami village, Gunma (detail) 1994 / Gelatin silver photograph, ed. 4/10 / 93 x 114.8cm / Purchased 1996 with a special allocation from the Queensland Government. Celebrating the Queensland Art Gallery’s Centenary 1895–1995 Half-title page Kohei Nawa / Japan b.1975 / PixCell-Double Deer#4 2010 / Mixed media / 224 x 200 x 160cm / Purchased 2010 with funds from the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Diversity Foundation through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Frontispiece Yukinori Yanagi / Japan b.1959 / Hinomaru ( Rising sun) (portfolio) (detail) 1991 / Lithography, embossing and collage on BFK Rives paper, ed. 9/35 / Six sheets: 83.7 x 61cm (each) / Purchased 1996. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Grant Pages 4–5 Yayoi Kusama / Japan b.1929 / Flowers that bloom at midnight 2011 / Fibreglass-reinforced plastic, urethane paint, metal frame / 181 x 181 x 268cm / Purchased 2012 with funds from the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Diversity Foundation through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Pages 6–7 Sachiko Kazama / Japan b.1972 / Nonhuman crossing 2013 / Woodcut, sumi ink on Japanese paper on wood panel, unique edition / Two panels: 182 x 360cm (overall) / The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2014 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation Pages 8–9 Tomoko Kashiki / Japan b.1982 / I am a rock 2012 / Synthetic polymer paint, masking tape on linen on plywood / 162 x 227.5cm / The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 2013 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Opposite Tsuyoshi Ozawa / Japan b.1965 / Salmon hotpot/Tokyo (from ‘Vegetable weapon’ series) 2002 / Type C photograph, unique edition / 157 x 114cm / Purchased 2005 with funds from John Potter and Roz MacAllan through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation Contents Takashi Murakami / Japan b.1962 / Into the Dream (Jumbo Corn Head Mushroom) (from ‘Takashi Murakami Prints: “My First Art” series’) 1999 / Offset lithograph with vinyl varnish on OK Muse Shiromono paper, ed. of 300 / 50 x 50cm / Gift of Dr Morris Low through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2011. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program / © Takashi Murakami. All rights reserved. The Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Art (ACAPA) is the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art’s Asian and Pacific research and publishing arm. A C A P A