Logical Emotion

What is Logical Emotion? In 2014 Japan and Switzerland celebrate the 150th anniversary of their diplomatic relations. On this occasion the Museum Haus Konstruktiv, in cooperation with the Japan Foundation, is realising the exhibition project “Logical Emotion – Contemporary Art from Japan.” Taking as their point of departure the constructive-concrete and conceptual heritage of the Zurich museum, its director Sabine Schaschl and Kenjiro Hosaka of the Museum of Modern Art Tokyo are curating an extensive group exhibition on contemporary Japanese art. At the centre of their presentation stand logic and its supposed counterpart – emotion. To this end the curators draw on the most varied media: painting, installation, video, photography and architecture, through to applied art and manga drawings. Alongside the most recent Japanese art, positions that are already internationally known are also shown. In this way – entirely in the spirit of the title-giving oxymoron “Logical Emotion” – a bipolar spectrum of representation emerges, extending from a purely rational grasp of the world to purely sensuous experience. The participating artists are: Noe Aoki, Koji Enokura, Kazunari Hattori, Akihisa Hirata, Ryoji Ikeda, Teppei Kaneuji, Yayoi Kusama, Taiji Matsue, Masayasu Mitsuke, Tatsuo Miyajima, Hiroshi Sugito, Go Watanabe and Yuichi Yokoyama.

Exhibitions:
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, 2/10/2014–11/1/2015
MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, 12/2–26/4/2015
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle/Saale, 22/5–26/7/2015