A series of special exhibitions held at the Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art, MonET from 2023. Guest curators will select an artist for each exhibition.

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Prologue to the Exhibition Series

The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale has been working to revitalize local communities through art. In order to make the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale even more community-based, we will explore new possibilities for the region and art, meet the artists who will lead the future, and create new collaborations. The Museum on Echigo-Tsumari (MonET) plans to organize and hold a series of long-term exhibitions starting in 2023.

Kitagawa Fram  (General Director of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale)

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Echigo-Tsumari MonET Exhibition Series Vol.6

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Mitsuoka Koichi "there is a lot of dangers around here"

Every exhibition has a “statement” that describes what the exhibition will show and what it aims to achieve. You will probably read the statement and choose which exhibition you want to go to.
The more wonderful the statement is, the more it may reflect too much of both the work and the artist. Contemporary art is characterized by its ability to express not only the beautiful and interesting, but also the darker feelings that cannot be captured in words.
The words that follow are a series of images that do not make sense. These are the sincere words that we can only express through the medium of contemporary art.

Dogs Die, Pyramids, and Running Away / What is art in the first place? / The question is set up wrong / Choose to live with me or die with me / Gradually slowing finger movements / Driving through the thicket / Driving away at breakneck speed / High beams make the shadows of trees look many times bigger than they are / D-Pop trees are growing / But do you feel alive right now? / Life doesn’t turn out the way you want it to / But it never does / The living dead / Live like you’re dead, but crawl on the ground / How the brain works / I had a dream where I knew I was inside my own nostrils / “This was it. / A moment as clear as crystal, / The Great Texas Download. / That breathtaking moment when you dive in / I’m tired of making something out of the emotions I know / Something really pisses me off, doesn’t it? / There are so many dangers here / It’s strange and depressing that I am built on the relationship between various things / The city is expanding inside Mitsuoka’s body / There is a space within a space, and the entrance and exit are different, but the space emerges from the same place

Exhibition Outline

【period】Dec 23 ,2024 – Jan 13, 2025 / Closed on Tue ＆ Wed except holidays , New Year’s holiday
【time】10:00～17:00（30 minutes before last entry）
【Admission Fee】 Individual tickets (¥1,200 for adults / ¥600 for elementary and junior high school students)

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Related event: Meet with Artists

Event：Cold and Sammy Winner! Heavy snowfall great pleasure contest

As a related event to this exhibition, we will be holding a big comedy competition at MonET’s pond. Please shout out your best answers and let us hear them. It is said that if it is funny, you win, but this event has a special rule that the person who fails to answer wins. Let’s create a chilly and cold place that will instantly make you feel sad and funny.
Date: Saturday, December 14, 2024 from 13:00
Place】Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art MonET Outdoors
Fee: Included in museum admission (individual tickets)
Notes:
This event will be held outdoors. Please wear warm clothes and waterproof shoes.
Children under elementary school age (pre-school to elementary school) are welcome to participate, but we ask that they be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

【Date】14 Dec　13:00,~
【Venue】 Museum on Echigo-Tsumari, MonET

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