It combines an account of the exhibition's framework and content with reflections on the goals, implications, and challenges of showing postwar Japanese art in twenty-first-century Brazil and a discussion of the tactics we developed for approaching this task. This Portfolio feature presents an annotated record of The Emergence of the Contemporary. It was the first major exhibition of Japanese avant-garde art ever to take place in Brazil. The exhibition thus contextualized the trajectory of the avant-garde in its dialogue with events that shaped the history of the postwar era, such as the movements against the renewal of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan (ANPO) in 19, the Expo '70 in Osaka, and, in particular, the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. We brought together some of the most representative works of the period as well as documentary photographs, films, and other historical items. We presented a panorama of avant-garde art in Japan between 19, focusing on artists whose practice and theoretical reflections marked the transition from painting toward three-dimensional objects, performance, and conceptual art. I curated the show with the collaboration of Suzuki Katsuo and the support of the Japan Foundation.
The exhibition was on view until August 28, thus coinciding with Rio's 2016 Olympic Games. ON JULY 14, 2016, The Emergence of the Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art in Japan, 1950-1970 opened at Rio de Janeiro's Pafo Imperial.
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