The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo will hold "Sakamoto Ryuichi: Seeing Sound, Listening to Time," the musician and artist Ryuichi Sakamoto's (1952-2023) largest-scale solo exhibition in Japan, which will comprehensively introduce his large-scale installation works.
For over 50 years, Sakamoto has always been at the forefront of his time through his diverse artistic endeavors. Since the 1990s, he has been performing live performances using multimedia, and since the 2000s, through collaborations with various artists, he has actively considered and put into practice the attempt to install sound in a three-dimensional manner in exhibition spaces. Based on the exhibition concept that Sakamoto left for the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo during his lifetime, this exhibition will dynamically compose and deploy over ten immersive, experiential sound installations, including new unreleased works and his representative works, in the spaces inside and outside the museum, on the theme of sound and time, which have long been a preoccupation in Sakamoto's creative activities. Through these works, we will trace the trajectory of Sakamoto's pioneering and experimental creative activities, and widely introduce a new side of this extraordinary artist.
Ryuichi Sakamoto's "seeing sound, listening to time" opens the viewer's eyes and ears, stirs the heart, and creates an experience different from conventional music appreciation or art appreciation. Sakamoto's artistic challenge of "installing sound in space" and his profound question of "what is time" transcend time and space, bringing us new perspectives and continuing to open new horizons for creativity and experience.
Collaborating Artists: Shiro Takatani, Daito Manabe, Carsten Nicolai, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Zakkubalan, Toshio Iwai
Special Collaboration | Fujiko Nakaya
Ryuichi Sakamoto portrait
Photo by Neo Sora ©2020 Kab Inc.
"Ryuichi Sakamoto: Seeing Sound, Listening to Time" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2024
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"Ryuichi Sakamoto: Seeing Sound, Listening to Time" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2024
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani LIFE – fluid, invisible, inaudible... 2007 ©2024 KAB Inc. Photo: Go Asano
"Ryuichi Sakamoto: Seeing Sound, Listening to Time" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2024
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani "async-immersion tokyo" 2024 ©2024 KAB Inc. Photo: Go Asano
"Ryuichi Sakamoto: Seeing Sound, Listening to Time" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2024
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani "TIME TIME" 2024 ©2024 KAB Inc. Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga
"Ryuichi Sakamoto: Seeing Sound, Listening to Time" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2024
Ryuichi Sakamoto with Shiro Takatani "IS YOUR TIME" 2017/2024 ©2024 KAB Inc. Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga
"Ryuichi Sakamoto: Seeing Sound, Listening to Time" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2024
Ryuichi Sakamoto + Shiro Takatani LIFE – fluid, invisible, inaudible... 2007 ©2024 KAB Inc. Photo: Ryuichi Maruo
"Ryuichi Sakamoto: Seeing Sound, Listening to Time" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2024
Ryuichi Sakamoto×Toshio Iwai《Music Plays Images X Images Play Music》1996–1997/2024　©2024 KAB Inc.
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