Representative Artist of Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Rafaël Rozendaal will participate in the group show at Kawasaki City Museum.

The global spread of computers and the Internet in the 21st century has given rise to a completely new worldview. The influence of new technology and media on our lives grows stronger with each passing day and deciding whether or not to use such things is no longer a simple matter. We are living in a complex and unprecedented communication environment. As we deal with society, it seems as if different ways of understanding and seeing the world are being installed in us through the media. Championing art that is a product of new developments in technology and media, the Kawasaki City Museum, which opened in 1988, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.
In this exhibition, based on a focus that befits the museum as an institution which has long valued the relationship between the media and the arts, we join a group of young Japanese and foreign artists (five individuals and three pairs of artists) in considering and examining a variety of topics. Among these will be our current outlook on life, which has been greatly altered by communication tools and the media, our awareness of privacy, and our sense of distance in regard to others and the world.

Artists:
aricoco, Tsuyoshi Anzai, Nobuk Kitakami, Akiko Takada & Masako,
Masanori Tominaga & Tamaki Tsuchida, Dokou Nakamura, Rafaël Rozendaal 
Takeshi Fujimura & Sayaka Uchino

*image (left)
Into Time with mirrors, 2012
mirrors, computers, projectors
Installed at Museu Imagem e Sol, San Paulo
© Rafaël Rozendaal
Courtesy of Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Kawasaki City Museum