Ueno Artist Project 2023 Transmitting Life - Fungi, Plants, Animals, Humans
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
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| Date and Time | Date: November 16, 2023 (Thursday) - January 8, 2024 (Monday/Holiday) Venue: Gallery A/C Closed: November 20, 2023 (Monday), December 4th (Monday), December 18th (Monday), December 21st (Thursday) - January 3rd, 2024 (Wednesday) Opening hours: 9:30-17:30 (Last entry is 30 minutes before closing) Night opening: 9:30-20:00 on Friday, November 17th, Friday, November 24th, Friday, December 1st, and Friday, December 8th, 2023 (admission is only after the room is closed) (until 30 minutes before) |
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| Venue | Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
| Details | This exhibition introduces six creators who have continued to work on translating non-human creatures from the natural world. Animals and plants are extremely popular subjects in creative and expressive activities, but this time we will be focusing on the animals and plants that have formed an inseparable relationship with specific living things and have continued to be passionate about them for decades. These are the creators who have continued to chase the shape. Michiko Kobayashi became fascinated with wild mushrooms after a chance encounter and has continued to search for and draw mushrooms that live in various places ever since. While active in the art world from the end of the Meiji period to the Showa period, Hisashi Tsuji loved plants and flowers since he was a boy and continued to draw and record their forms every day. Haruo Uchiyama opened up the world of bird carving in Japan with the skills he honed as a wood inlay craftsman. After breaking into the postwar photography world with his poetic and experimental style, Hisae Imai devoted the latter half of his life to photographing thoroughbreds. Miho Tomita was fascinated by the cows she encountered on a farm while attending university, and continues to engrave the existence of cows in her woodblock prints while working at a dairy farm. Chisato Abe has followed, communicated with, and written about gorillas living in zoos around the world and in the wilds of Africa. What did each creator look at as they earnestly sought a single theme and photographed, painted, and modeled it? In this exhibition, we would like to think about the future in which we humans live together with other living things, while confronting the various ways in which we interact with others that unfold in the activity of ``transfer.'' In addition, some of the works in this exhibition can be touched and appreciated, as well as tactile tools, so that visually impaired people can enjoy the works as well. *The "Ueno Artist Project" is an exhibition series that actively introduces artists involved in public exhibitions in 2017 in order to inherit the history and develop into the future of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, which is also known as the "hometown of public exhibitions." Since 2017, we have set a different theme every year. |
| Price | Same-day ticket: General 500 yen / 65 and over 300 yen / Free for students and under *Free admission for those with a physical disability certificate, love notebook, rehabilitation notebook, mental disability health and welfare notebook, or atomic bomb survivor health notebook and their accompanying person (up to 1 person) *Please present proof of both. *Free admission by presenting a ticket to the special exhibition “Eternal City of Rome” held at the same time. |
| Organizer | Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
| Contact | Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum 03-3823-6921 |
| Contact(Phone) | Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum 03-3823-6921 |
| Web site | https://www.tobikan.jp/exhibition/2023_uenoartistproject.html |