Chiho Aoshima
City Glow

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Artist Chiho Aoshima(Japanese, born 1974)Japanese, born 1974

CultureJapanese

Titles

City Glow

Date2005

Made inTokyo, Japan

MediumFive-channel video, edition 4/5

Dimensions7 minutes, 7 seconds

Credit LineGift of Jereann and Holland Chaney in memory of Robert H. Chaney

Object number2008.534

Not on view

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Modern and Contemporary Art

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Description

Chiho
Aoshima’s City Glow is a meditation on the perils of climate change, with
the forces of good and evil vying for control of the land. Using the
phantasmagoric imagery and bright colors of Japanese anime, the
seven-minute narrative opens in a garden filled with exotic foliage and
creatures. Slowly a modern city made up of living skyscrapers grows from this
serene and fertile paradise. As night falls, the city becomes a haunted
wasteland; ultimately, however, demonic ghosts are banished by winged spirits,
and nature flowers once again.

Provenance[Blum & Poe, Los Angeles]; The Chaney Family Collection, Houston, 2005–2008; given to MFAH, 2008.
Exhibition History“Ecstasy: In and About Altered States,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 9, 2005–February 20, 2006.

“Chiho Aoshima, Mr., Aya Takano,” Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, September 24–December 31, 2006.

“Chiho Aoshima,” Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England, October 21, 2006–January 28, 2007.

“Chiho Aoshima: City Glow,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 27–October 21, 2007.

"RED HOT - Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 7–October 21, 2007.

“The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image: Part 1 – Dreams,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, February 14–May 11, 2008; Vancouver Art Gallery, June 6–September 7, 2008.

Heights Mercantile Exchange Gallery, Houston, November 3, 2017–January 14, 2018.

"Digital Worlds: New Media from the Museum’s Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 23–October 8, 2018.

"Chiho Aoshima: City Glow," Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, August 20–December 14, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Marked in ink on the front of the 5 Master DVDs: "(signature) 05 4/5 SCREEN 1-5"

Signed in ink on front of the 5 Master DVDs: "Chiho 05"

Printed on front of 5 Master DVDs: "City Glow Chiho Aoshima 7-minute animation (5 DVDs) Animation in collaboration with Bruce Ferguson Courtesy Blum & Poe, Los Angeles / © Chiho Aoshima/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. This DVD is for private, non-commercial viewing only. All other rights reserved. Any other use or any duplication whatsoever, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited."

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