The sea and the mountains are distinctive natural elements of the Japanese landscape, surrounded by spirituality and respected since ancient times by the population, who have always been a favorite subject for artists. The exhibition features a wide variety of paintings depicting the mountains and sea of Japan, accompanied by the elegant writings of Shiga Shigesubaru. A tradition that has lasted for centuries and which in recent times has suffered a strong backlash. In fact, during the Meiji Era, with the advance of modernization, the relationship with the natural environment changed profoundly. The modern styles of mountaineering, introduced by the West, have opened up different approaches to scientific research and leisure that were not known before. In 1894, Shiga Shigeaki's bestselling Japanese Landscape Theory did the most to revolutionize Japanese landscape consciousness and the way painters related to the natural landscape.
Keiichi Tanaami is widely recognized internationally as a Japanese pioneer in the ever-expanding context of Pop Art. This exhibition he engages with the theme of “memory,” a keyword which serves to unravel Tanaami's artistic practice spanning over half a century, and attempts to uncover the entirety of his diverse oeuvre.
The Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition Ho Tzu Nyen: A for Agents traces the trajectory of the Singapore-born artist's practice, presenting six film-based installations alongside new work.
42 Days is an exhibition by Nina Canell and Reijiro Wada focused on their sculptural work, presented in two overlapping spatial configurations and where the duration of the exhibition itself is an active component of the show.
On the occasion of the three hundredth anniversary of his death, the Suntory Museum of Art celebrates Hanabusa Itchō, painter, calligrapher and haiku poet born in Osaka in 1652.