Tokyo 26th,
Japan 2017-2018

I go to visit the Mori Arts Center at Roppongi Hills. This time I visit the "Mori Arts Center Gallery", "Tokyo City View", and the "Mori Art Museum".  This is a visit that I will repeat each time that I come to Tokyo. I cannot recommend it enough if you are interested in any of the exhibitions.

The exhibits change constantly. This time the Mori Arts Center Gallery is showing a Doraemon tribute. The last time I visited, the exhibition was a Gundam.

"“Create Your Own Original Doraemon” Organized under this concept, 28 artists and groups will be presenting their unique art pieces capturing memories of Doraemon at the exhibition in Tokyo, November 2017. Since its birth in 1970, Doraemon has been capturing the imagination of audiences across Japan. There is also a great number of Doraemon fans among globally renowned Japanese artists who have been touched and inspired by Doraemon. How exciting it is to see these artists expressing their feelings and memories of Doraemon through their work? The exhibition invites you to share the special moment when “art” and “Doraemon” come together." .- THE Doraemon Exhibition TOKYO 2017

From the Tokyo City View one can see, unsurprisingly, extraordinary views of the city. In a clear day is even possible to see Mont Fuji.

Finally, I attend the Leandro Erlich exhibit at the Mori Art Museum. I find it one of the most extraordinary exhibitions that I have ever seen. The participative art is engaging, and I see many people trying different exhibits and taking pictures. I do the same.

"An Argentinian contemporary artist of global repute, Leandro Erlich is perhaps best known in Japan as the creator of The Swimming Pool, a permanent installation at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. From massive installations to videos, Erlich’s works employ optical illusions and sound effects to shake up our notions of common sense. Though what the audience sees may at first glance seem familiar, on closer inspection it proves to be a surprising, unsettling deviation from the usual, in the form of, for example, a boat floating in the absence of water, or people sticking to the wall in various poses. Viewers begin to doubt whether what they see is actually reality, and notice just how much unconscious habit influences the way they look at things. Covering the entire 25 years of Erlich’s career to date, “Leandro Erlich: Seeing and Believing” will be the largest-ever exhibition devoted to the work of this fascinating artist. Of the 44 works on display, 80 percent will be making their Japanese debut. Through Erlich’s works, we will realize by ridding of our inertia, habit, preconceived notions, and received wisdom that the visible is not all there is to reality, and experience for ourselves, with our newly unclouded vision, the advent of a new kind of world." .- Leandro Erlich: Seeing and Believing

My next stop is the Meiji Shrine Sanshuden. I am tired, but there is much to see.

It has been a long day, but one of the most interesting yet.