“We want people to come and visit the museum maybe after work, for dinner or during their lunchtime. And to talk about it. We want this new structure to provoke a reaction among the city dwellers. A bit like throwing a stone into a pond”. This is how Yoshiko Mori sums up the philosophy behind the brand new Mori Art Museum, of which she is a patron along with her husband, the Japanese construction tycoon Minoru Mori. From tomorrow, their “creature” will dominate the city of Tokyo from above in the Mori Tower in the Roppongi Hills, the new district created by the Mori Building Company.

It aims to become a point of reference in the city for modern and contemporary art, like the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Tate in London and the Metropolitan in New York as well as a platform and springboard for emerging and already known artists.

Directing it is the Englishman David Elliott, former director of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, confirming what has been expressed by the financial backers: “The museum will act as an interface between contemporary art, which is in a constant state of change, and a broad audience”.

Foreigners also designed the space – 3 thousand square metres occupying the top two floors of the skyscraper (52nd and 53rd) -: the Richard Gluckman practice in New York.

18.10.2003
Inaugurazione Mori Art Museum
Roppongi Hills Mori Tower
6-10-1 Roppongi Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-6150 Japan
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