<introduction> Chisai and this last ten years (2)
My name is Chisai Fujita 藤田 千彩. my job is writing articles and research about contemporary art. This is a continuation of my self-introduction following the previous one.
Before moved to Kyoto, I lived in Tokyo about 20 years. After graduated university, I worked as an office worker for five and a half years. My job is editor as company newsletters. It is a big company, so I went to our branches and factories in many areas in Japan and often got Shinkansen train and airplanes. Even after I quit my job and started writing articles about art for magazines and websites, I started going to various museums and galleries all over Japan, not only Tokyo.
Chisai’s writing works, 2000s
I was dissatisfied that Japanese art “picks up only Tokyo”. Because I've known since I was a baby that I'm not from Tokyo, but there are local artists who presented great artworks. Most of the publishers are in Tokyo, and more than 10% of the Japanese population live in Tokyo, so we know “Japan = Tokyo”. But that's not TRUE! In 2004, I and a web designer living in Nagoya started a website “PEELER”. When I went all over Japan, I found art people who can write the article, they contributed monthly for PEELER. (Now they become curators and art professional).
Art Web Magazine “PEELER”, 2011
In 2008, Japan (and China) had “art bubble”. Japanese (and Chinese) artists were attracted attention from all over the world. You know, Japan has Yoshitomo Nara and Takashi Murakami, everyone know only them still now > < And Japan became more and more introverted after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Japanese artists stopped new thing, new thought, they (want to) keep their style over 15 years. Almost Japanese curators work in public museums, they can’t show artworks that have critical society.
In the meantime, Chinese artists and curators are moving fast and wide, thinking deeply. And (it just happened to overlap with the Covid era) they opened many new museums in Mainland China. The population of China is ten times larger than that of Japan. There are “Overseas Chinese” (who roots China) all over the world. I noticed it when I first went to China in March 2014. So I started to learn Mandarin language and I started to research.
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