Principle use: EXHIBITION SITE
Production: TANSEI DISPLAY
Credit: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo / Graphics: Atsushi Hiratno / Curtain: Onder de Linde
Building site: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Total floor area: 1118m2
Design period: 2020.03-2020.08
Construction period: 2020.11
Duration: 2020.11.25-2021.02.23
Photo: Koji Honda
Website:https://www.momat.go.jp/english/am/exhibition/sleeping/
The exhibition space for "Sleeping: Life with Art - From Goya and Rubens to Shiota Chiharu," was held in The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. In this joint exhibition of the National Museum of Art, approximately 120 art pieces assembled from various art genres elaborate on the potential of portraying sleeping in art through 7 chapters.
Symbolizing the theme of "sleeping", the exhibition starts in the entrance decorated with a heavy and tactile curtain, reminiscent of a bedroom interior. In each chapter's entrance, there is a piece of Goya, a Master of Art in 18-19 century, as the guide of this exhibition, between curtains drawn graphically on the wall. The textile curtain with drapes runs meandering along the aisle, inviting people further away. The depth of sleeping expressed in the chapters changes as you go through the chapters; "Closing Your Eyes", "Dream or Reality?", "The Sorrow of Life", and "Waiting to wake". We planned the space to make visitors feel like they are gradually drawn into sleep with details and gimmicks, making people think about border between waking and sleeping, with a mix of real curtains and graphical ones, and typo graphs with unstable impression. In this exhibition, "sustainability" is also the main theme, where we positively utilize the walls used in the previous exhibition. It makes it difficult to identify the newly added walls and exiting ones from the last exhibition by adding the walls that have a difference of elevation and curves to round the existing walls to maximize the curtains' expression.
The exit has a bedroom image with a window side and sheep-patterned wall paper, inviting visitors to fall asleep. When you look back at the exit, the face with closing eyes of Kim Myung-sook "Myobon" can be seen through the window.
In the roomy area with space, you can enjoy the art pieces, the wider and deeper meaning of "sleeping" and "closing eyes" embraces the visitors. We aimed to plan the exhibition, which provides an opportunity to look back on your daily life and tips to "open your eyes."