Outline
Date : Sunday, November 29, 2009 (13:30 - 17:00)
Venue : The National Museum of Arts, Osaka (4-2-55 Nakanoshima, kitaku, Osakacity, Osaka)
Organizers : Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan / Nikkei Inc. / NHK / Council to Promote the Power of Culture from Kansai / The National Museum of Art, Osaka |
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TAKASHINA Shuji (Japan)
Director, Ohara Museum of Art
TAKASHINA Shuji's distinguished career has included service as senior researcher at the National Museum of Western Art, professor at the University of Tokyo, visiting professor at Le Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, guest professor at the College de France, and visiting scholar at Harvard University. He was appointed professor emeritus at the College of Arts and Science of the University of Tokyo in 1992, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Université de Paris I in 1997. Following his service as Director-General of the National Museum of Western Art from 1992 to 2000, he became president of the Western Art Foundation in 2000, and took up his current position in 2002. |
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KIM Young-Soon (Republic of Korea)
Art Critic / President of Advisory Committee, Arko Art Center, The Arts Council Korea
After serving as Director of the Young-eun Museum of Contemporary Art and Adjunct Professor of The Graduate School of Mass Communication, Sejong University, KIM Young-Soon acted as visiting professor and visiting researcher in the Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Humanities & Sociology, Graduate School, the University of Tokyo. KIM then became Artistic Director of Visual Arts, Seoul Arts Center and President of the Association of Biographical Art History in Korea. Her research papers on the social role of art exhibitions and art galleries or museums as a communication media include “Study of Rosalind Krauss Essay: The Cultural Logic of the Late Capitalist Museum” (1999) and “Use of ‘Art’ at the Chosen Industrial Competitive Exhibition, 1915: Art Exhibition and Picture Postcards - Cultural Resources Studies “(2004). Kim is currently engaged in activities as art critic, art historian and lecturer. |
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Pier Luigi TAZZI (Italy)
Art Critic / Independent Curator
Pier Luigi TAZZI (Colonnata, Florence 1941) is a critic, columnist, teacher and curator, currently based in Capalle, Florence, and in Bangkok. Among others, he was curator at the 1988 Biennale of Venice, co-director of DOCUMENTA IX in Kassel (1992), co-curator of Wounds, the inaugural exhibition of the new building of Moderna Museet in Stockholm (1998), of Happiness, the inaugural exhibition of Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2003), and art curator of Rites de passage at Schunck-Glaspaleis, Heerlen (2009).
Currently he is president of the Fondazione Lanfranco Baldi onlus in Pelago, permanent curator of Spread in Prato, Prato, and guest curator at the Aichi Triennial 2010 in Nagoya.
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Françoise LEVAILLANT (France)
Director of Researches, National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS)
Dr. Françoise LEVAILLANT has devoted her career to teaching and researching in the field of modern art, firstly at the University of Paris I and now as a Director of Research at the CNRS in Paris.
Her main theme is the relationship between art and printed culture (image and text, words in pictures, art magazines, artists’ writings, readings, books...), but she is also interested in applying the iconological method to approach the works of artists such as Masson (on which she is a specialist), Picasso, Picabia, etc. Since encountering modern Japanese art in 1972, she has devoted part of her research and writings to modernity and Japanese cubism, surrealism, and the Gutai movement.
CHANGE NOTICE: Dr. Françoise LEVAILLANT, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France, has cancelled attendance. |
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TATEHATA Akira (Japan)
Director, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Before assuming his current position in 2005, TATEHATA Akira was a professor at Tama Art University, Tokyo. Specializing in the study of modern and contemporary art, he previously served as the Curator of the National Museum of Art, Osaka. He was the Artistic Director for the 2001 Yokohama Triennale and the Japanese Commissioner for the 1990 and 1993 Venice Bienniale, and the Artistic Director for the 2008 Aichi Triennale. His overseas activities include a period as visiting scholar at Colombia University between 2002 and 2003. Also active as a poet, he was awarded the Takami Jun Prize for his work "Reido no Inu" in 2005 and the Rekitei New Poet Prize for "Yohaku no Runner (Runner in the Margins)" in 1991. |
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Program
* The program may be subject to change.
Opening 13:30
• EXPERTS’ MEETING III:
Cultural Diversity & Modern Arts - Art in the Age of Globalization
TAKASHINA Shuji
KIM Young-Soon
Pier Luigi TAZZI
Françoise LEVAILLANT
TATEHATA Akira
Closing 17:00 |
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