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An artwork featuring a small figure with a large head and expressive eyes, wearing a brown outfit and white head wrap, standing in ripples.

Fairytales:
Selections from the Takahashi Ryutaro and M+ Collections (working title)

Fairytales:
Selections from the Takahashi Ryutaro and M+ Collections (working title)

This exhibition presents highlights from the Takahashi Ryutaro Collection, the preeminent private collection of contemporary Japanese art. Dr Takahashi Ryutaro began collecting around 1997, capturing the wave of experimental and socially engaged practices that emerged after the collapse of Japan’s bubble economy in the 1980s. Informed by the student activism of the 1960s and his work as a psychiatrist, Dr Takahashi’s collection explores issues of social and individual psychology, sex and violence, and the hidden costs of economic prosperity. This exhibition places works from the M+ Collections in dialogue with icons of contemporary Japanese art, many shown in Hong Kong for the first time. Featured artists include Aida Makoto, Ikeda Manabu, Konoike Tomoko, Murakami Takashi, Nara Yoshitomo, and Yanagi Miwa.

A photograph of a group of individuals in blue uniforms and black hats gathered around a hexagonal glass display case containing shoes, with mirrored panels and greenery in the background.

Yanagi Miwa, Elevator Girl House 3F, 1998. Chromogenic print. © ️Yanagi Miwa. Courtesy of Yoshiko Isshiki Office, Tokyo

An intricate illustration of a fantastical, multi-layered city built into a mountainside, featuring East Asian architectural elements, pagodas, and integrated natural features.

Ikeda Manabu, History of Rise and Fall , 2006. Pen and acrylic ink on paper, mounted on board. © Ikeda Manabu. Image courtesy of Mizuma Art Gallery. Photo: Horiuchi Color Ltd.

Image at top: Nara Yoshitomo, In the Deepest Puddle Ⅱ, 1995. Acrylic on cotton, mounted on canvas. © Nara Yoshitomo. Photo: KIOKU Keizo

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