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Contemporary Asian art

ESSAY: Teruya’s Notice – Forest

An installation view of a bright gallery space, with a sculptural artwork taking the form of a van carrying a cobbled-on second level on top.

ESSAY: YNG’s Mobile Studio

Takashi Murakami

ESSAY: Murakami’s Mr DOB

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Yoshizawa’s vibrant abstraction

ESSAY: Moriyama’s distinctive photographs

ESSAY: Takahiko Iimura’s video experiments

ESSAY: Mieko Shiomi: The world as a process

Ay-O’s ‘finger boxes’

ESSAY: Sugimoto’s Hall of Thirty-Three Bays

ESSAY: Toshio Shibata’s Onogami village, Gunma

ESSAY: Tsuguo Yanai’s ‘Protoplasm’ lithographs

ESSAY: Kimio Tsuchiya’s cycles of loss

A photograph of a rural road in Japan, with a house seen at left and fields either side.

ESSAY: Asakai’s ‘Passage’ series

A delicate, tiny sculpture of a white pillow, photographed with a white background.

ESSAY: Rei Naito

ESSAY: Sato’s Breath-graph no. 21

Shigeo Toya / Japan b.1947 / Woods III 1991–92 / The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art. Purchased 1994 with funds from The Myer Foundation and Michael Sidney Myer through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation and with the assistance of the International Exhibitions Program / © Shigeo Toya / A sculptural work made of carved wooden pillars arranged in a geometric form on a gallery floor.

ESSAY: Shigeo Toya’s Woods III

ESSAY: Lee Ufan’s Relatum

A detail view of a painting of many tiny crescents on a cream background, appearing to represent foam, water or cells.

ESSAY: Yayoi Kusama's infinities

EXPANDED LABEL: Nakamura’s ‘Atlas of Japanese Ostracon’ series

EXPANDED LABEL: 2014.122a-h ASAKAI

EXPANDED LABEL: 1991.296 SATO

EXPANDED LABEL: 1994.091a-dd TOYA

An installation that represents infinity, appearing to stretch into all directions like outer space.

ESSAY: Yayoi Kusama

A photograph of the bright green leaves of a bodhi tree.

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ESSAY: Michiko Kon: High heel of salmon and flatfish

ESSAY: Lee Ufan’s ‘Relatum’ sculptures

EXPANDED LABEL: 1999.035 IIMURA

ESSAY: Tokihiro Sato

LABEL: KON 1996.195 1996.196