'Chronicling Architecture and Society: The 400-Year History of Takenaka Corporation'
Jan. 11-March 1 The architect Toemon Takenaka (1877-1965) was an independent contractor, entrepreneur and politician during the late Meiji Era (1868-1912) to early Showa Era (1926-1989). In 1899, he officially founded Takenaka Corporation, one of Japan's major contractors. His family, however, had been building shrines ...
Dec 15-Apr 15, 2020 The birth of the literary and artistic movement of surrealism is often credited to the writer, poet and critic Andre Breton (1896-1966), who challenged enlightenment by reason and rationality and promoted the potential of the unconscious mind to reveal an alternative ...
Dec 26-Jan 24, 2020 As Expo 2025 in Osaka approaches, the Oita Prefectural Art Museum looks back on the career of the artist Taro Okamoto (1911-1996), who is well-known for the "Tower of the Sun" sculptural building that became the symbol of Expo '70. Consisting of ...
'Five Rooms for Kyoto: 1972-2019'
Dec. 14-Feb. 2, 2020 When media began to influence art during the early 1970s, Joan Jonas was an influential pioneer of video performance art, and is often cited as one of the most important female artists of her generation. Today, at the age of 83, she ...
'Kenjiro Okazaki: Retrospective Strata'
Nov. 23-Feb. 24, 2020 Since his first solo exhibition in 1981, Kenjiro Okazaki has pursued various genres, including sculpture, painting, film, media arts, architecture, textiles, scenography, picture books and even drawing using robotic art. As a follow-up to his 2017 show, "Abstract Art as Impact" at ...
'Itsukushima in Art: An Enchanting Voyage Through a Sacred Land'
Nov. 23-Dec. 29 The island of Itsukushima, also known as Miyajima of Aki, is located northwest of Hiroshima Bay. Historically known as a sacred place, it was often visited by nobles, including Tairano Kiyomori, a military leader of the late Heian Period (794-1185) who helped ...
Nov. 15-Dec. 14 Daisuke Ida is a Japanese contemporary artist whose artworks highlight various social issues such as income inequality and excessive productivity. Ida's recent focus has been on researching and photographing mannequins, which made him realize that the invention of photography has caused the image ...
'Umeda Tetsuya: On the Origin of Voices'
Nov. 2-Jan. 13, 2020 Tetsuya Umeda is an internationally acclaimed Japanese contemporary artist, largely known for his live interactive installation and performance works that incorporate daily objects, waste and human-generated "phenomena" such as sound and movement. He also produces site-specific works in rural and urban spaces, ...
'Aono Fumiaki: Mono, Sleeping, Koejiyama, Voice-over'
Nov. 2-Jan. 12, 2020 Fumiaki Aono is known for his work with found objects from various regions of Japan. He has worked with worn-out furniture and items washed up on beaches, "repairing" them into works of art based on imagined narratives, histories and memories of ...
Nov. 1-Dec.15 Led by pop artist Shinjiro Okamoto, "Earth Attack" is an art project by nine collaborators — Yoshio Isaka, Giichi Ichikawa, Miho Otsubo, Reiko Kobori, Yoko Shimizu, Miho Shirai, Akira Matsumoto, Keisuke Yamaguchi and Wang Shuye. Inspired by the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World ...
'The Works of Architect Shizutaro Urabe'
Oct. 26-Dec. 22 Shizutaro Urabe (1909-1991), an architect known in particular for re-working old structures, contributed to more than 280 postwar buildings over the course of half a century. Around 20 percent of his works are in Kurashiki in Okayama Prefecture — where he was ...
Oct. 12-Dec. 21 Since his first solo exhibition in 1983, sculptor Shiro Matsui has continued to use various materials, such as wood, metal, soil and stone, for installations of different forms, colors and scale that not only speak to our senses with wit and humor, ...
