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This year the Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC) will hold an exhibition on “Re-Modernologio,” which will examine contemporary societal structure, lifestyle culture, and the relationship between regional daily life and art over a three periods―July-September 2011, October-December 2011, and January-March 2012―based upon the keyword “modernologio,” a movement first advocated by Aomori-native KON Wajir?. Inspired by the barracks architecture which rose up on the burnt ruins of the Kant? Plain after the Great Kant? Earthquake, KON Wajir? developed and put into practice an unusual fieldwork method of drawing, afterwards claiming “modernologyio” as a means to portray the conditions of contemporary society. Many artists whose field is contemporary art use all sorts of things closely connected to our daily lives as materials, producing pieces to pose problems and raise issues in society. They constantly observe their own surroundings carefully, gathering and organizing information within their environment. Upon mastication of this information, they ultimately expand their activities through the mode of creating art.
During the first phrase “[phase1]” under the theme of “contemplating contemporary society through daily lives,” we invite three contemporary artists to perform work exhibitions: NISHIO Yoshinari, who has explored “the relationships between fashion and communication”using plain clothes with which we clad ourselves as materials, and has coproduced art works with local people in various places; mamoru, an artist who takes the things and actions on which we rarely reflect with their corresponding meanings, values, and everyday elements and attempts to read and modify these concepts from a standpoint of sound experience; and IIDA Ryuta, an artist who dissects and revises various old books and magazines filled with traces of human existence, people’s memories, and the problems specific to that time, only to reconstruct them through original sculpture pieces.　
Due to the Great Tohoku Earthquake, we are facing a wide variety of problems. In the present situation, we must rethink our daily lives which we took for granted. Once again we would like to sincerely reexamine the foundation of our lives―clothing, food, and shelter. In this project, the artists’ projects will undoubtedly portray rich and varied creativity, however modest. From the standpoint of artistic culture, we will ruminate on society and lifestyles, which can encapsulate many different value judgments.

*On “modernologio”: Field of study advocated by Aomori-native architect KON Wajir?. It attempts to analyze and explain a social situation and customs by concurrently investigating and researching elements in a set place and time. Characterized by fieldwork methods utilizing drawing, modernologio became a forerunner to the later living sciences and research into manners and customs.

■Exhibition
23 July - 19 September,2011 10:00 - 18:00 / Admission Free

■Artists
IIDA Ryuta / Artist
NISHIO Yoshinari / Artist, Director of Nishio Workshop, Ph.D. in Fine Arts
mamoru / Sound Artist

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