Mona Lisa
1973 · Standard-definition video (color, sound)
3:30 min.
Museum of Modern Art
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Toshio Matsumoto
1932
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Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Photographs from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
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Diogenes with a Camera II
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1952–1953
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Christmas Photographs
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951–1952
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Photographs by 51 Photographers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1950
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Toshio Matsumoto was a Japanese filmmaker and video artist whose experimental practice emerged from postwar avant-garde cinema. Working across film, video, and installation, he developed a rigorous formal language that interrogated the nature of time, perception, and the materiality of the medium itself. His work challenged conventional narrative structure through techniques including rapid montage, chromatic distortion, and non-linear temporal strategies. Matsumoto's influence extended across multiple generations of experimental practitioners in Japan and internationally.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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