THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, KYOTO Enshoji-cho, Okazaki, Sakyoto-ku, Kyoto 606-8344 tel: (075) 761-4111; (075) 761-9900 internet: www.momak.go.jp/menu_e.html
		•From Decadence to Hope : The Art of Hata Teruo -with Takehisa Yumeji, Nonagase Banka and Tobari Kogan December 9, 2003 – January 25, 2004
			After graduating from the Kyoto Municipal School of Arts and Crafts in 1904, Kyoto-born artist Hata Teruo (1887-1945) joined art groups such as Heigogakai and Le Chat Noir in search of a new style of Japanese painting. But in the Taisho period he kept a distance from the art world and wandered around Osaka, Kobe and Tokyo, showing his paintings in solo exhibitions. In his expressionistic manner he depicted laborers and women of the pleasure quarters, exposing a darker side of society and expressing sympathy for those who dwelled there. With the birth of his child in 1920 Hata returned to Kyoto. His paintings gradually acquired a religious leaning as he concentrated on painting the images of Buddha. Together with the paintings of his friends – Nonagase Banka, Takehisa Yumeji, Tobari Kogan and others – the exhibition of 150 paintings follows the art of Hata Teruo and his time.
		• 130 Years of Western-style Painting in Japan February 3 - March 7, 2004
			The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2003 and during these forty years the museum has collected masterpieces by the painters of modern yoga (Western-style painting) in Kyoto and the Kansai area, as well as contemporary paintings. Today the museum houses more than 700 Western-style paintings (oil paintings and watercolors), comprising an impressive collection of Western-style painting in Japan. This exhibition is the first opportunity to present the Western-style painting collection on a large-scale. It is divided into seven sections: Modern Western-style Painting in Kyoto,Suda Kunitaro and the Painters of the Independent Art Association, Masterpieces of Modern Western-style Painting, Avant-garde in Prewar Period, New Expressions in Postwar Period, Painters Active Abroad in Postwar Period and Contemporary Western-style Painting. The selected 150 paintings cover the years from the dawning of Western-style painting in Japan to the latest tendency and reflect the history of 130 years of Western-style painting in Japan.
		•The World of Horiuchi Masakazu - A Sculptor March 13 - April 18, 2004
			Horiuchi Masakazu (1911-2001), born in Kyoto, is one of the most renowned abstract sculptors. His work was accepted by the 16th Nika Exhibition while he was studying at the Tokyo Higher Craft School. He was the youngest sculptor to be accepted at the Nika Exhibition, thus, he was determined to pursue abstract sculpture from early on. He received high acclaim with his unique style of clear geometric form full of sense of humor, rationality and wit. On the other hand, he was also an excellent teacher and since 1950 taught at the Kyoto Municipal College of Art and nurtured many young artists. He is also known for his witty essays. This is the first retrospective exhibition of Horiuchi Masakazu after his death and presents eighty works, from figurative sculptures in the early period to three-dimensional works in his last years as well as paper sculptures (paper models) and drawings which are the sources of his sculpture to clarify the entire scope of his creativity.
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