Statement:

The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo houses approximately 5,700 artworks in its extensive collection, which spans the modern and contemporary periods with a focus on art of the postwar years.

Each “MOT Collection” exhibition introduces artworks in the collection from a different angle, to demonstrate the diverse appeal of contemporary art.

The third floor, under the title “Eye to Eye,” focuses on different types of gaze, presenting the “painted gaze” in the works of artists including Alex KATZ, Roy LICHTENSTEIN, NAKAMURA Hiroshi and NAKAZONO Koji, and “involving gaze” in, for example, the sculptures and reliefs of TADA Minami and Monir Shahroudy FARMANFARMAIAN using reflective materials.

This section also covers a plethora of techniques, with a special emphasis on looking and seeing, including the “camera eye” of MATSUE Taiji capturing the workings of cities and nature around the world; and “critical gaze” directed on minute landscape details by the video work of Maya WATANABE.