The Brilliance of the Moment – Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
September 15 (Saturday), 2012 – January 6 (Sunday), 2013
Galleries A, B and C (Contemporary Art)
Hara Museum ARC (Shibukawa-shi, Gunma) is proud to present selected masterworks from the Hara Museum Collection that exemplify the joy of living in the moment. These include two new paintings (2012) by Lee Ufan and a large installation by Yayoi Kusama, who has attracted much attention for her grand-scale solo exhibition now touring the world and her recent collaboration with Louis Vuitton. Yoshitomo Nara is another featured artist who has been in the spotlight recently for his solo exhibition, also now on world tour, and for T-shirt designs for a recent telethon in Japan. These are only some of the contemporary artists both from Japan and abroad whose works will be on display.
Featured artists: Toshikatsu Endo / Izumi Kato / Yayoi Kusama / Yoshitomo Nara / Miwa Yanagi / Tabaimo / Lee Ufan / Ai Weiei / William Kentridge and others
Yoshitomo Nara, Eve of Destruction, 2006
Lives Lived in Pictures
Part I: September 15 (Saturday) – October 24 (Wednesday), 2012
Part II: October 26 (Friday) – November 28 (Wednesday), 2012
Kankai Pavilion (Traditional East Asian Art)
For this exhibition in the Kaikan Pavilion, we focus on works that show a variety of lives and a variety of environments under which people once lived. Starting with Female passing through a reed portiere (Important Cultural Property / Part II), which pre-dated the beautiful woman paintings of Ukiyoe, and Maruyama Okyo’s Landscape of Yodo river, which provides a detailed view of riverbank life during the Edo period. From beautiful women, sages, warriors to sumo wrestlers, the pictures in this exhibition vividly present beauty, strength and the joy of life in a variety of manifestations.
Featured works:
Part I: Female passing through a reed portiere (Important Cultural Property) two-folded screen, Edo period / Field with the moon, the subject called ″Musashino″ in Japanese eight-fold screen, Edo period / The King of Wu and Xi Shi at the palace (part of a set of twelve hanging scrolls by painters of the Kano school) Kano Saemon, hanging scroll, Edo period and others.
Part II: Sumo match pair of six-fold screens, Edo period / Ling Zhaonu with flower basket attributed to Jasoku, hanging scroll, Muromachi period / Layman Pang and his daughter Ling Zhaonu (part of a set of twelve hanging scrolls by painters of the Kano school) Kano Naganobu, hanging scroll, Edo period and others.
Part I and II: Landscape of Yodo river Maruyama Okyo, hand scroll, Edo period / Anish Kapoor, Void 1992 / David Smith, Tri-Construction 1941 Izumi Kato, Untitled, 2007 and others.
Female passing through a reed portiere (Important Cultural Property), Edo period
Place: Hara Museum ARC (2855-1, Kanai, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma-ken 377-0027) Tel: 0279-24-6585
Organized by: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
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Hours: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm *last entry 30 minutes before closing
Closed: Thursdays during the exhibition period and January 1(open on November 3 and December 29)
*Closed temporarily in the event of severe weather.
Admission: General (over 12) 1,000 yen; children (over 3) 500 yen; 10% discount for a group of 20 or more.
**Children must be accompanied by an adult
***Combination ticket for Hara Museum ARC and Ikaho Green Bokujo ranch: General 1,800 yen; Children 900 yen
Getting There: By train: Take the Joetsu Shinkansen to Takasaki, change to the Joestu Line, and disembark at Shibukawa. From Shibukawa, ARC is 10 minutes away by taxi or 15 minutes by bus (take the Ikaho Onsen bus to “Green Bokujo Mae”). By car: 8 kilometers (about 15 minutes) from the Kan-etsu Expressway Shibukawa Ikaho Interchange (in the direction of Ikaho Onsen).