Best Exhibitions Starting in August 2023
Ryuichi Ishikawa “Topography: The Shell of Humanity” at the Communication Gallery Fugensha © Ryuichi Ishikawa
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Tokyo Art Beat presents a selection of the best exhibitions opening in August 2023. If you bookmark the exhibitions on the TAB website or TAB app, you will never miss the openings and closings.
- ICC Kids Program 2023: Hi, Nice to Meet Me! (NTT ICC Inter Communication Center)
- Hiroshige Utagawaー Traveling Mountains and Seas (Ota Memorial Museum of Art)
- Ryuichi Ishikawa “Topography: The Shell of Humanity” (Communication Gallery Fugensha)
- Who Will You Show Your Art To? (The University Art Museum - Tokyo University of the Arts)
- After the Landscape Theory (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)
- Exploring the World Beyond: The Ten Kings of Hell (Seikado Bunko Art Museum)
- E-maki of Edo Yokai (National Museum of Japanese History)
- Shinro Ohtake Exhibition (Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design)
- Kansetsu Hashimoto and Shiho Sakakibara, Painters Who Broke New Ground in the Field of Animals, Flowers, and Birds (Adachi Museum of Art)
- Tom and Jerry Cartoon Carnival (Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum)
ICC Kids Program 2023: Hi, Nice to Meet Me! (NTT ICC Inter Communication Center)
The ICC Kids Program is an annual summer event held at the NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC] in Hatsudai. Based on the concept of reencountering various selves through technology, the exhibition features interactive works using photography, AR, 3D models, mirrors, theater, and more. Exhibiting artists are K Ushio, Takayoshi Ohara, Mika Kan, Tomo Kihara, Daisuke Kuroda, Nene Koyama, Kaito Sakuma, and Goki Muramoto.
Venue: NTT ICC Inter Communication Center
Schedule: August 1 - August 20
Hiroshige Utagawaー Traveling Mountains and Seas (Ota Memorial Museum of Art)
Ota Memorial Museum of Art presents an exhibition featuring prints of Hiroshige Utagawa. Known as a leading landscape painter, Hiroshige traveled across Japan, capturing nature. The exhibition features the works of his latter years and the famous places he depicted by rearranging existing geographical books.
Venue: Ota Memorial Museum of Art
Schedule: August 1 - August 27
Ryuichi Ishikawa “Topography: The Shell of Humanity” (Communication Gallery Fugensha)
Communication Gallery Fugensha presents an exhibition commemorating the publication of the magazine Shashin Vol.4 Terroir. On view are works of Ryuichi Ishikawa, as well as a special exhibition featuring six cover artists - Keiko Sasaoka, Masaru Tatsuki, Nao Nakai, Soichiro Yamaguchi, Kazutomo Tashiro, and Kazuo Kitai.
Venue: Communication Gallery Fugensha
Schedule: August 3 - September 3
Who Will You Show Your Art To? (The University Art Museum - Tokyo University of the Arts)
This exhibition focuses on the viewer's existence and explores new possibilities for the interrelationship between the artist and the audience and the viewing experience. Various works on display explore contemporary issues such as loneliness, the body and sexuality, the relationship between humans and nature, and collaboration and solidarity with others. Featured artists are Satoru Aoyama, Andrea Bowers & Suzanne Lacy, Melanie Bonajo, Masato Kobayashi, Muyun Li, Kao Okada, Sanghyun Park, and Rintaro Unno.
Venue: The University Art Museum - Tokyo University of the Arts
Schedule: August 8 - August 27
After the Landscape Theory (Tokyo Photographic Art Museum)
The landscape has been associated with art and beauty and is the subject of modern Western art, as illustrated by landscape painting dating back to the early Renaissance. This exhibition focuses on the theory of landscape, which greatly influenced photographers and filmmakers around 1970, and photographic and visual expression since then. On view are works of Keiko Sasaoka, Maiko Endo, Norio Imai, Yoshiko Seino, Toshiko Takashi, Takuma Nakahira, Nagisa Oshima, and Koji Wakamatsu.
Venue: Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Schedule: August 11 - November 5
Exploring the World Beyond: The Ten Kings of Hell (Seikado Bunko Art Museum)
Seikado Bunko Art Museum brings together some of the finest and most energetic works in all Buddhist art, including The Ten Buddhist Kings of Hell and Two Messengers from Hell and Picture of the Bodhisattva Jizō (Ksitigarbha) and the Ten Kings from Yuan-dynasty China. Also displayed are recently restored Buddhist paintings and the sixteenth-century depiction of Twelve Chinese Miraculous Animals.
Venue: Seikado Bunko Art Museum
Schedule: August 11 - September 24
E-maki of Edo Yokai (National Museum of Japanese History)
The Edo period was a time of a yokai (monsters/ghosts) boom, with countless illustrations of yokai portrayed in picture books, paperbacks, scrolls, and Nishiki-e. National Museum of Japanese History presents an exhibition featuring various works from the collection, including Hyakki Yagyo scrolls, Tsuchigumo Zoshi, and Bakemono Emaki.
Venue: National Museum of Japanese History
Schedule: August 1 - September 3
Shinro Ohtake Exhibition (Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design)
Shinro Ohtake’s large-scale solo exhibition, previously held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and The Museum of Art, Ehime, is now on its way to Toyama. Ohtake has earned an international reputation as a contemporary Japanese art leader after participating in the 2012 Documenta and the 2013 Venice Biennale. The exhibition features approximately 500 items, including works shown at international exhibitions. You can also find his interview with Kazuko Koike here.
Venue: Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design
Schedule: August 5 - September 18
Kansetsu Hashimoto and Shiho Sakakibara, Painters Who Broke New Ground in the Field of Animals, Flowers, and Birds (Adachi Museum of Art)
Kansetsu Hashimoto and Shiho Sakakibara worked in Kyoto from the Meiji to Showa periods. Hashimoto studied Chinese classics and was heavily inspired by its literature. On the other hand, Sakakibara was fascinated by flowers and birds and continued to paint flower-and-bird paintings throughout his life. This exhibition introduces the works of two artists who broke new ground in their respective animal and flower-and-bird painting fields.
Venue: Adachi Museum of Art
Schedule: August 31 - November 30
Tom and Jerry Cartoon Carnival (Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum)
Tom & Jerry was first introduced as a short film in 1940 and has been loved worldwide for over 80 years. In addition to introducing animated works from the first film, this exhibition features a mysterious spot where the characters appear when you take a picture, characters exhibitions, and a spatial presentation of the world of cheese, Jerry’s favorite food. Collaborative works with Amelicart, Ochappi, Kim Songhe, Keisuke Saka, Yuko Higuchi, Kenji Murabayashi, and others are also on display.
Venue: Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum
Schedule: August 11 - September 3
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