Ministry of Culture in cooperation with Bangkok Art and Culture Centre and Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo proudly present Trans-Cool TOKYO  the exhibition consists of over 30 works selected from the 4000 piece-collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. This exhibition is a part of the Ministry of Culture's creative economy projects demonstrating the potential of contemporary art as cultural assets to creative industry, and a program of the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture's Tokyo Culture Creation Project.

From Yayoi Kusama's pioneering works of Japanese Pop Art to Yasumasa Morimura's role-playing in multiple identity-expressing portraits from the 1980s, the exhibition provides an opportunity to review works by these groundbreaking artists yielding context for examining how Japanese artists since the second half of the 1990s have established their own creative identities within the context of pop culture. The main thrust of the exhibition focuses on the work of artists of Yoshitomo Nara's generation or younger, emerging in the 1990s.

It is the organiser's hope that through contemporary art this exhibition will reach beyond Tokyo to contribute to the process of forming identities and fostering communication throughout Asia.

“Trans-Cool TOKYO” exhibition will be on view from 25 February to 28 March 2010, at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Pathumwan Junction. The BACC is open daily ,10am – 9pm, Mondays closed. The entry is free. For more information, please contact Tel: 02-214 6630-8.

For more information, visit< http://www.bacc.or.th/exhibition/detail/guid/008ddcdb2501a2c9613911ed5b42fccf