UMEDA Tetsuya is an artist who shows installations with lights, sound and movements, consisting of everyday items, scraps and things found in the venue, and performance works engaging audience with his interactive piece both in and outside of Japan and receives considerable acclaim internationally.
What’s found in the base of his activities crossing genres such as music, visual art and theatrical performance are his understanding of them as not-separated artforms and continuous study about the possibility of connecting physical phenomena, art and living life together and practice.
On November 3rd, it will be the 40th anniversary of the inauguration of Fukuoka Art Museum that reopened on October 21st, 2019 after the renovation. It can be said that organizing Umeda’s solo show in such a time of celebration is a new challenge for our museum.
His method of bringing an artwork into existence, striving with established rules by intervening into architecture, equipment and, furthermore, institution, must shake stereotypes found in art museums and encourage you to reconsider art.
In this exhibition, Umeda’s installation works are shown at several spaces in the museum which is structured with both new and old elements.
You will be requested to look and listen carefully, to feel, to think and to imagine by his artworks.
What is it right here? What is about be born? How are they related to each other? What is not found here? What will be lost soon from here? And why is that?
The thoughts and imaginations led by Umeda’s artworks shall link not only to daily life but also to the future and history of art (museums) and to the origin and distant future which are much beyond our imagination as well.