“I’m under Japanese influence”
In this final week of the V&A’s DAVID BOWIE is at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, the dates for the exhibition’s stint in Japan have been announced.
DAVID BOWIE is will open in Tokyo on January 8th 2017 and will run through till April 9th 2017 at the Warehouse TERRADA G1 Building.
Keep reading for the official press release…
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Exhibition title: DAVID BOWIE is
Period: Sunday 8 January, 2017 – Sunday 9 April, 2017
Venue: Warehouse TERRADA G1 Building
2-6-10 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
Curated by: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Organiser: “DAVID BOWIE is” Japan exhibition committee
Official website: www.DAVIDBOWIEis.jp
43 years ago this week, David Bowie, the most influential artist of the 20th century, disembarked from the luxury cruise liner, the “Oronsay”, and set foot in Japan for the very first time. It is announced today that the major exhibition, “DAVID BOWIE is” will open in Japan on the 8th of January 2017, the day that would have been his 70th birthday. Japan will be the only Asian country to host the exhibition.
“DAVID BOWIE is” was created by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London, as the first international exploration of the extraordinary career of David Bowie – one of the most pioneering and influential performers of modern times. The V&A’s curators have selected more than 300 objects from the David Bowie Archive. The exhibition will explore the broad range of Bowie’s collaborations with artists and designers in the fields of fashion, sound, graphics, theatre, art and film. The exhibition coincidentally kicked off at the V&A in London after the release of “Next Day” in 2013, and has since travelled to various international cities, including Toronto, Sao Paolo, Berlin, Chicago, Paris and Melbourne, It is currently on display in Groningen in the Netherlands. There have been record-breaking numbers of visitors at each venue, and to date more than 1.4 million people have visited the exhibition, and enjoyed the David Bowie experience.
Victoria Broackes, exhibition co-curator, said: “We are delighted that the DAVID BOWIE is exhibition will be showing in Tokyo next year. From an early stage and continuing throughout his career, Japan and Japanese culture were fascinating to Bowie and had a great influence on him. It is absolutely appropriate that Japan will be the only Asian country hosting the exhibition, a country where Bowie had great working relationships and where he performed dozens of concerts to many thousands of fans.”
Warehouse TERRADA, located in Tennoz Isle, has been selected to host this exhibition. This venue, with its mission to become the main outlet for young upcoming artists and creative people, has been a key supporter of the development of today’s art culture. Further details about the exhibition will be revealed on the official exhibition website (www.DAVIDBOWIEis.jp) at a later date.
David Bowie’s 28th studio album “★“ (”Blackstar“), which was released on his 69th birthday this year, has charted No.1 on album charts in more than 20 countries around the world, including Japan, the USA, the UK, France, Germany and Spain. It has also hit No.1 in the iTunes charts in 69 countries.
About V&A
The exhibition was originally organised for the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, by curators Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh. Victoria Broackes is Head of Exhibitions for the Department of Theatre and Performance at the V&A and Geoffrey Marsh is the Director of the Department of Theatre and Performance at the V&A. The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design with collections unrivalled in their scope and diversity. It was established to make works of art available to all and to inspire British designers and manufacturers. Today, the V&A’s collections, which span over 5000 years of human creativity in virtually every medium and from many parts of the world, continue to intrigue, inspire and inform.