MOT Collection will be presenting an encounter with 'others' through art works as introduction to contemporary art. Communing and co-existing with others and accepting the presences of different worlds are one of the important messages art has widely told. In a first part, 'Our ninety years 1923-2013', how the artists have believed a power of art and fought for crisis from Kanto earthquake to present based on representative collections. A theme of second part is 'From Me to You – Close but Distant Journeys'. Attention to others is eventually same as a question, who 'I' am.

Artists
Part 1. Kanokogi Takeshiro, Inoue Chojaro, Tsuruoka Masao, Fujimaki Yoshio,
Taiga Tateishi, Ushio Shinohara, Aida Makoto, Oscar Oiwa, Roy Lichtenstein, Thomas Demand

Part 2. Honma Takashi, Saki Satomu, Chim↑Pom, Izumi Kato, Takehito Koganezawa,
Taro Izumi, Mika Kato, Yoshitomo Nara, Andy Warhol, Alex Katz, David Hockney

*image (left)
Thank You Celeb Project – I’m BOKAN, 2007
© Chim↑Pom

Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo