Artists of Shunyo-kai: Celebrating Its 100th Anniversary
開店時刻: 2023/09/16
閉店時刻: 2024/11/12
スケジュール: Tue - Sun 9 am - 6 pm
チケット: 1400 Yen
ロケーション: Tokyo Station Gallery
住所: 1-9-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005
An artistic society founded by artists. An artistic society with a hundred-year history. It is Shunyo-kai, a "club" where - since its foundation - the members respect the originality of each one and where the group supports the activities that each member carries out with a free spirit. The founders did not aim to become a group of artists with similar artistic principles. Instead, they preferred "individualism" and believed it was important to respect the originality of each artist. In Shunyo-kai, artists commented on each other's works to further their studies, raise the next generation, and solidify their foundation. In the Shunyo-kai exhibitions, not only oil paintings but also prints, drawings, ink paintings, and original works for newspaper illustrations were presented. Famous yōga painters (Western-style painting) such as Kosugi Hōan, Kimura Shōhachi and Hasegawa Kiyoshi were active in the group of which in this exhibition we will see over 100 works from its foundation in 1922 to the 1950s.
This exhibition features more than 70 new works by seven groups of eight high-profile artists from Japan, Vietnam and Finland. The theme is that of photography which goes beyond the idea of "memory".
The exhibition chronicles how Jōdo Shū - the Pure Land School of Buddhism - spread under the patronage of the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo Period (1603-1868). An historical journey through precious works of art, including numerous national treasures and important cultural properties.
Shimizu Takashi is perhaps Japan's most famous sculptor. As a young man when he lived in Paris he would have liked to be a painter instead. This exhibition tells the story of him and shows some of his paintings from that historical period.
Men and animals. Relationships with others for TCAA award winners
Saeborg and Michiko Tsuda, winners of the fourth TCAA prize, in a double exhibition at the MOT in Tokyo. For both artists, the actions of spectators in the galleries become part of their work focused on different themes that have to do with "relationships with others".