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Collection Exhibition 2020-Ⅰ
Collection Highlights & Special Feature1: The Earth /Special Feature2: The Art of Fate

2020.2.29(Sat) — 5.6(Wed)

Outline
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This exhibition is composed of three parts: “Collection Highlights,” and two special features, “The Art of the Fate” and “The Earth.”

In “Collection Highlights,” the focus is on three-dimensional works. Although they might all be three-dimensional, there is a diverse range of works, including stone, wood, and bronze sculptures as well as almost entirely unprocessed materials such as wood and stone that are presented in their natural state. There are also large-scale works that are big enough to allow viewers to go inside them, and an installation that incorporates the surrounding space into the work. In addition to using many different materials, these pieces are distinctively contemporary works, which were boldly developed without any size limitations.
One of the two special features deals with the theme of the earth, which underlies the activities of all natural life forms. The exhibit comprises myriad expressions of the earth, such as Nihonga (Japanese-style paintings) by members of the Pan-Real Art Group, whose daring works were designed to break with convention, and Shin Miyazaki’s dynamic paintings, which were fashioned out of burlap. The second special feature, opening ahead of Ryuzaburo Shikiba: Mirrors of Cerebral Ventricles, an exhibition that starts on March, introduces works that are based on the psychiatrist Ryuzaburo Shikiba’s 1943 book Shukumei no geijutsu (The Art of Fate). While accepting fate (i.e., circumstances that could neither be avoided nor altered with one’s own power) and confronting themselves, the artists in this section were impulsively driven to immerse themselves in their practice.

artists
●Collection Highlights
Lee U-Fan, Yoshihiro Suda, Montien Boonma, Toshikatsu Endo, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Hitoshi Ushijima
●Special Feature1: The Earth
Ryonosuke Shimomura, Ryoji Koie, Ha Chong-hyun, Shin Miyazaki, Shu Takahashi, Kei Sato, Yuji Kojima, Tadayoshi Nakabayashi, Yozo Hamaguchi, Tatsuo Ikeda, Boyle Family, Mark Boyle, Roy Lichtenstein, Masayuki Kai, Yoshio Murakami, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Makoto Mikami, Kenzo Tabe
●Special Feature2: The Art of Fate
Yayoi Kusama, Shiko Munakata, Katsuro Yoshida, Tadashi Tonoshiki

Information

Exhibition Period

2020.2.29(Sat) — 5.6(Wed)

Opening Hours

10:00–17:00

No admittance 30 minutes before closing

Closed

Mondays
*unless Monday is a national holiday, in which case the museum will be closed on the next non-holiday.

Admission

Adults 300 (250) yen, University Students 200 (150) yen, High School Students and Seniors [65 and over] 150 (100) yen
*Price in parentheses is a group of 30 or more
*Free for children under Junior High School age
*May 5 (Children’s Day): Free for children under High School age

Organized by

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art