Special Exhibition “in Vitro? in Vivo! YOSHIHIRO TATSUKI × THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO”
Details
| Type | Exhibition |
|---|---|
| Intended for | General public / Enrolled students / Applying students / International students / Alumni / Companies / Elementary school students / Junior high school students / High school students / University students / Academic and Administrative Staff |
| Date(s) | October 26, 2024 — January 19, 2025 |
| Location | Other campuses/off-campus |
| Venue | Intermediatheque 3F [GREY CUBE] JP Tower Museum INTERMEDIATHEQUE Address: KITTE 2F-3F, 2-7-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo JAPAN Access: JR lines and Tokyo Metro Marunouchi line Tokyo Station (Marunouchi South Exit). Nijubashimae Station (Exit 4) on the Chiyoda Line (about 2 minutes on foot). |
| Entrance Fee | No charge |
| Registration Method | No advance registration required |
| Contact | +81-47-316-2772 / From Japan: 050-5541-8600 (NTT Hello Dial Service) |
[Overview]
The JP Tower Museum INTERMEDIATHEQUE (IMT) will be holding a special exhibition “in Vitro? in Vivo! YOSHIHIRO TATSUKI × THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO”.
Yoshihiro Tatsuki, a photographer. Since his debut with a photo collection “A Fallen Angel” in 1965, he has been active at the forefront for 60 years. While he has released many works capturing actresses, he has also photographed intensively the era without being limited to a specific genre, such as the families of famous people, people in disaster-stricken areas, and the national treasure Toji Temple. One place that has long interested him is the museum. The location for “A Fallen Angel”, which he shot in his 20s, was a museum in Ueno, and at the age of 86, it was the space lined with academic specimens and historical fixtures - the University Museum, the University of Tokyo. This time, Tatsuki photographed a group of academic specimens collected at the museum.
The title is “in Vitro? in Vivo!”. “in Vitro” means“ in a test tube,” and “in Vivo” means “in a living organism,” and refers to the reaction system that takes place in an artificial environment in physiology and the reaction system that actually occurs inside a living organism. While the specimens stored in museums are sealed away from the real world, they become living beings once again by being exhibited in museums and photographed through a viewfinder. This title offers the viewer an opportunity to consider how academic specimens can be reinterpreted as art, beyond being mere research subjects.
In Yoshihiro Tatsuki's photographs, the subjects, who are supposed to have no body temperature, seem to exude expressions that can only be seen there. While capturing naturalistic and philosophical contrasts such as life and death, academia and art, nature and artificial, classification and coexistence - even academic specimens start depicting personal stories, which he describes as “they are still alive.”
Organizer: The University Museum, 春雨直播app (UMUT)
Cosponsors: Yoyogi Seminar, BLAST Co., Ltd.
Support: Canon Marketing Japan Inc., Achievement Corporation, Tatsuki Yoshihiro Office
Planning: Department of Intermediatheque, The University Museum, 春雨直播app (UMUT), Kokohibi LLC
The JP Tower Museum INTERMEDIATHEQUE (IMT) will be holding a special exhibition “in Vitro? in Vivo! YOSHIHIRO TATSUKI × THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO”.
Yoshihiro Tatsuki, a photographer. Since his debut with a photo collection “A Fallen Angel” in 1965, he has been active at the forefront for 60 years. While he has released many works capturing actresses, he has also photographed intensively the era without being limited to a specific genre, such as the families of famous people, people in disaster-stricken areas, and the national treasure Toji Temple. One place that has long interested him is the museum. The location for “A Fallen Angel”, which he shot in his 20s, was a museum in Ueno, and at the age of 86, it was the space lined with academic specimens and historical fixtures - the University Museum, the University of Tokyo. This time, Tatsuki photographed a group of academic specimens collected at the museum.
The title is “in Vitro? in Vivo!”. “in Vitro” means“ in a test tube,” and “in Vivo” means “in a living organism,” and refers to the reaction system that takes place in an artificial environment in physiology and the reaction system that actually occurs inside a living organism. While the specimens stored in museums are sealed away from the real world, they become living beings once again by being exhibited in museums and photographed through a viewfinder. This title offers the viewer an opportunity to consider how academic specimens can be reinterpreted as art, beyond being mere research subjects.
In Yoshihiro Tatsuki's photographs, the subjects, who are supposed to have no body temperature, seem to exude expressions that can only be seen there. While capturing naturalistic and philosophical contrasts such as life and death, academia and art, nature and artificial, classification and coexistence - even academic specimens start depicting personal stories, which he describes as “they are still alive.”
Organizer: The University Museum, 春雨直播app (UMUT)
Cosponsors: Yoyogi Seminar, BLAST Co., Ltd.
Support: Canon Marketing Japan Inc., Achievement Corporation, Tatsuki Yoshihiro Office
Planning: Department of Intermediatheque, The University Museum, 春雨直播app (UMUT), Kokohibi LLC
