SETAGAYA ART MUSEUM
1-2, Kinuta-koen
Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157
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Closed for repair December 1 - end of February




 •Art in Everyday Life: Rosanjin New Contexts
May 19 - July 1, 2001

This exhibition shows how Rosanjin Kitaoji¹s works were designed for use in everyday life, arranging Rosanjin¹s pottery together with other objects from the collection as if in a residential space. Art is often thought of as something separate from everyday life, but this show looks at it in a new way. The show includes nearly 150 objects, including craft items such as Jiro Hayashi chairs, a Kenkichi Tomimoto ceramic box, and a Mitsugu Yamada kimono, as well as Japanese-style and Western-style paintings.


•Featuring Kimonos Worn by Nakamura Utaemon VI in the Kabuki Play, Sukeroku
May13 - July13, 2001

The Kabuki actor Nakamura Utaemon has donated six kimonos that he wore in the role of Agemaki in the play, Sukeroku, to the museum collection. They will be exhibited with other works in the permanent collection. These kimonos are decorated with images painted for Utaemon by major Japanese-style painters including Seison Maeda, Nanpu Katayama, Hoshun Yamaguchi, Meiji Hashimoto, and Kaii Higashiyama. These kimonos might be described as a collaboration between Kabuki and Japanese-style painting.


•Postwar Art and Art Museums
July 20 - November 28, 2001

How was art represented and what role was played by the art museum in Japan during the postwar period, that is, the latter half of the twentieth century? These questions are pondered through examples selected from the collection.


•Shigeo Fukuda, Miran Fukuda
July 14 - September 9, 2001

Shigeo Fukuda, a major Japanese designer, is known for his lively poster designs and three-dimensional art objects. His daughter, Miran Fukuda, uses art as a mysterious device to contain the overflow of images from contemporary life, overturning viewers¹ preconceptions. This exhibition demonstrates the artistic intelligence of Shigeo Fukuda, a master of graphic design and Miran Fukuda, a contemporary star who has maximized her inborn talent.


•Sofu Teshigahara and the Postwar Avant-Garde
September 22 - November 25, 2001

The postwar period was a chaotic time when many brilliant artists both cooperated and quarreled with each other as they created an avant-garde movement and restored vitality to Japanese art. One of the leaders was Sofu TESHIGAHARA (1900-1979), who created the revolutionary Sogetsu School of flower arrangement(ikebana). With a free approach that departed from the conventions of ikebana, he created a unique world of artistic expression, energetically crossing over into other fields of creativity. This exhibition focuses on this innovative artist, who reflected the turmoil of the postwar years in his work, and examines related developments of the period.


•Junkichi MUKAI's Paintings and Photographs of Japanese Houses: An Exhibition Commemorating the Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth (tentative title)
March 16 - May 12 , 2002

Junkichi MUKAI spent most of his life painting traditional Japanese farmhouses with thatched roofs. He traveled throughout the country and always worked on location. He also made photographs that preserved scenes around his work sites and on his travels. This exhibition presents MUKAI's photographs for the first time in combination with his famous paintings of farmhouses which grew out of he beautiful natural environment of Japan.


•On Display for the First Time
March 15 - May 12, 2002

A presentation of works that have not been previously exhibited, including recent acquisitions and donations to the collection and works that are being shown for the first time after restoration and repairs.












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