From Hara Museum ARC, Gunma
Kengo Kito: Multiple Star (2017)
Photograph: Nobuya Kogure © kengo kito 2017
Currently featured in Gallery A is Part III of the highly popular year-long exhibition Kengo Kito: Multiple Star, featuring a new large-scale installation created on-site by the artist who, after creating two other installations in Parts I and II, arrived at a totally different approach for Part III.
As one of its special features, Gallery A is illuminated by natural light from a skylight, which filters through the variously colored cloths that span horizontally across the room, filling the space with glowing colors that change with the weather and time of day. Other works include an oval mirror rotating at eye level and a neon light-incorporating work projecting rays of strong light and shadows. Being variously located deep within the space, these elements join together in a symphony of light, color and sound.
Kengo Kito: Multiple Star (2017) (detail)
Photograph: Nobuya Kogure © kengo kito 2017
Here and there throughout the space are devices that circulate water and bubbles, seemingly like living creatures breathing in and out. In them is a resonance between the organic and inorganic, between the “dynamic” and “static” that can be perceived and enjoyed.
Kengo Kito: Multiple Star (2017) (detail)
Photograph: Nobuya Kogure © kengo kito 2017
The design of the installation is such that visitors are naturally moved to ‘take in” the artwork As they enter the gallery, visitors unconsciously find themselves moving around to different positions, gazing up, crouching down and peeking into the artwork. We hope many will come to the show before it ends and “take in” this very special installation.
■ Concurrent Exhibitions
(1) Layered Forms – Selections from the Hara Museum Collection in Galleries B and C (contemporary art)
(2) A Bounty of Art in the Kankan Pavilion (traditional East Asian art)
※ The artworks in the exhibition will be changed during in Part II of the exhibition.
■ Event
Movie: Olafur Eliasson: Space is Process
Nationwide Art Museum Cinema Caravan at Hara Museum ARC
November 18, 2017 [Sat] 3:30 pm – 5:45 pm
Special website: https: //motion-gallery.net/projects/olafur02
■ From The Museum Shop
SHOP@CAFE
Flowers–Bewitching Forms, Beautiful Shapes by Satoshi Kanai (until Wednesday, November 8)
Venue: Café d’Art at Hara Museum ARC
Exhibition Details
Title: Kengo Kito: Multiple Star III
Dates: September 16 (Saturday), 2017 – January 8 (Monday, national holiday), 2018
Venue: Gallery A, Hara Museum ARC
2855-1 Kanai, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma 377-0027
Tel 0279-24-6585 Fax 0279-24-0449 E-mail arc@haramuseum.or.jp
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Organized by: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
Sponsored by: GATEAU FESTA HARADA
Cooperation provided by: rin art association
Hours: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm (last entry at 4:00 pm)
Closed: Thursdays (open on November 23), January 1st and during change in exhibition items.
*Subject to temporary closure in the event of severe weather.
Admission: General 1,100 yen, Students 700 yen (high school and university) or 500 yen (elementary and junior high), Free for Hara Museum members, 10% discount for a group of 20 or more, Combination ticket for Hara Museum ARC and Ikaho Green Bokujo (except during Golden Week): General 1,800 yen; Students 1,500 yen (high school and university) or 1,400 yen (junior high), 800 yen (elementary), half price for those over 70, discount for groups of 20 or more
*Children must be accompanied by an adult.
*For residents of Gunma Prefecture: Free admission for elementary and junior high school children every Saturday during the school term/200-yen-discount on admission for up to five persons upon presentation of the Guchoki Passport.
Directions: 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).
*October 28 (Saturday) is Gunma Prefectural Citizen’s Day. Admission on this day will be free for college students residing in the prefecture. An original postcard set will also be presented to the first 20 visitors from the general public.