村上隆のインスタグラム(takashipom) - 8月5日 10時02分

Of course in Japan, some artists imitated and followed the said movement, but the monstrous ballooning of the economy made everyone hysterical; what came out of it was something not-quite-art, frenzied and nonsensical.
The organically developing theme of this exhibition series, then, seems to be to summon the participants in this frenzy in order to contemplate the period anew.

Over the past decade or so, I have been collecting Japanese contemporary ceramics. As I began to gain knowledge of the field, the fact that the era of twenty-year void may be linked to the history of the rise of ceramics started to reveal itself. Ceramics thrived in the shadow world of the Bubble Economy at its peak—it blossomed behind the scene.

On the other hand, in the limelight of the Bubble Economy was Katsuhiko Hibino, spearheading the cultural scene of the time as a graphic designer. His name is almost never mentioned in the contemporary art scene now, but looking back, I came to think that Hibino is a crucial figure in discussing Japanese contemporary art in that his presence upended the movements after Mono-ha as detailed in the Japanese contemporary art magazine Bijutsu Techo.

Katsuhiko Hibino made his debut as a graphic artist in 1982, swiftly devouring the entire Japanese creative scene and becoming the brilliant light of the era itself. In the ensuing years, Hibino, the Japanese graphics exhibitions, the department store PARCO, Seibu Saison (Sezon) Group’s money, and the Bubble Economy, interlocked together, came to embody the era.
So I was determined to present Hibino’s debut work in this exhibition, and started the process by borrowing the work from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu. And the work arrived—the famous work I had seen so many times in the media when I was an art university student.

When I saw the work in person, truly all types of thoughts and feelings rushed through me, fundamentally shaking the structure of this exhibition I had envisioned before seeing the work. ↑this is PART2
again ! to be continued

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