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Open: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

We are closed on Bank Holiday Mondays.

Please note that on Wednesday 26 February Kettle’s Yard will be closing at 3.30pm for a private event. Last entry to the house will be at 2.15pm. Thank you.

Please note that Kettle’s Yard is closed on Easter Sunday (20 April).

Nobuo Sekine Phase-Mother Earth 1968
Exhibition

Mono-ha: School of things

26 May – 22 July 2001

Mono-ha, literally ‘school of things’, is the name given to a group of artists who came to critical attention in Japan in the late 1960s. These ‘things’ refer not only to the material things from which their work is made, such as oil clay, stones, glass, iron plates, ropes, wood and earth, but also to the strangeness of the works themselves.

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Neither quite sculptures, nor installations, their very existence appears to confound traditional artistic genres. Although fiercely critical of Western modernism, their use of natural materials, and their radical attack upon traditional assumptions about the work of art, seem to share many affinities with Minimalism and Arte Povera.

Despite shows in France, Italy and the United States, exhibitions by Mono-ha are incredibly rare, given that much of their work is site-specific and ephemeral. For this first exhibition in Britain of work by Mono-ha, Kettle’s Yard invited four of the six artists to make work in the gallery. The exhibition was timed to coincide with Tate Modern’s Arte Povera retrospective, and provided a unique opportunity for comparison between the two movements.

Supported by:

Japan 2001, The Arts Council of England, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, The Japan Foundation, Shiseido Co. Ltd, Asahi Breweries Ltd.