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Dean Bowen Australia: Land, Sky, Birds and Creatures
Museum of Modern Art, Gunma
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Dean Bowen
Dean Bowen (1957-), based in Melbourne, Australia, is an artist who has used a variety of media and his rich imagination and humor to depict the Australian landscape, nature, and the universe, the big and small things that live there.
Bowen first studied printmaking at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and later worked in several different professions, but his desire to create remained unabated, and he went to Europe to study in a printmaking studio. In France, he became acquainted with the works of Jean Dubuffet, the great master of "Art Brut" and his way of expression. He eventually won the Grand Prix at the Fremantle Printmaking Awards (1994), the highest award in Australia, as well as a series of special awards at the Osaka Triennale of Printmaking (1994 and 1997). Many of his sculptures look like Bowen's prints. Many of his sculptures are "somewhat flat" three-dimensional objects, assemblages, or self-portraits that seem to have sprung out of Bowen's prints.
Bowen also developed an affinity for the creatures that lived around him from an early age, animals that are indigenous to Australia. The echidna on the head of his self-portrait was inspired by his grandmother, who likened Bowen's tousled hair to an echidna, and his work also includes owls, kingfishers, koalas, wombats, and many imaginary birds and insects. Furthermore, the houses where people live and the vehicles such as cars, airplanes, and boats that often appear in his works seem to represent our human desire to "travel somewhere far away."
The artist Bowen's creative adventure continues in the southern hemisphere, in Australia, to the endless world that surrounds us. This exhibition presents 150 works, including 80 prints and 70 oil paintings, watercolors, bronze sculptures, assemblages, and artist books. We hope you will enjoy his colorful and lovely motifs and his gaze toward nature and life.
[Events]
1. Talk Event "The Charm of Dean Bowen"
Speakers: Yutaka Miyawaki (Representative of Galerie Miyawaki), Shinichi Tomoi (Curator, Tokushima Prefectural Museum of Modern Art), Karin Ota (Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma)
Date: Saturday, August 12, 14:00-15:30
Place: 2F Auditorium
Capacity: 100 people (no application required, free of charge)
2. Explanation of the Works by the Curator
Date: July 15 (Sat), August 2 (Wed) 14:00-15:00
Place: Gallery 1 (no registration required, admission fee required)
Please check the official website for event details.
Bowen first studied printmaking at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and later worked in several different professions, but his desire to create remained unabated, and he went to Europe to study in a printmaking studio. In France, he became acquainted with the works of Jean Dubuffet, the great master of "Art Brut" and his way of expression. He eventually won the Grand Prix at the Fremantle Printmaking Awards (1994), the highest award in Australia, as well as a series of special awards at the Osaka Triennale of Printmaking (1994 and 1997). Many of his sculptures look like Bowen's prints. Many of his sculptures are "somewhat flat" three-dimensional objects, assemblages, or self-portraits that seem to have sprung out of Bowen's prints.
Bowen also developed an affinity for the creatures that lived around him from an early age, animals that are indigenous to Australia. The echidna on the head of his self-portrait was inspired by his grandmother, who likened Bowen's tousled hair to an echidna, and his work also includes owls, kingfishers, koalas, wombats, and many imaginary birds and insects. Furthermore, the houses where people live and the vehicles such as cars, airplanes, and boats that often appear in his works seem to represent our human desire to "travel somewhere far away."
The artist Bowen's creative adventure continues in the southern hemisphere, in Australia, to the endless world that surrounds us. This exhibition presents 150 works, including 80 prints and 70 oil paintings, watercolors, bronze sculptures, assemblages, and artist books. We hope you will enjoy his colorful and lovely motifs and his gaze toward nature and life.
[Events]
1. Talk Event "The Charm of Dean Bowen"
Speakers: Yutaka Miyawaki (Representative of Galerie Miyawaki), Shinichi Tomoi (Curator, Tokushima Prefectural Museum of Modern Art), Karin Ota (Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma)
Date: Saturday, August 12, 14:00-15:30
Place: 2F Auditorium
Capacity: 100 people (no application required, free of charge)
2. Explanation of the Works by the Curator
Date: July 15 (Sat), August 2 (Wed) 14:00-15:00
Place: Gallery 1 (no registration required, admission fee required)
Please check the official website for event details.
Schedule | Jul 8 (Sat) 2023-Aug 27 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥800; University and High School Students ¥400; Junior High School Students and Under, Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free. | ||||
| Website | https://mmag.pref.gunma.jp/exhibition/exhibition-3408 | ||||
| Venue | Museum of Modern Art, Gunma http://mmag.pref.gunma.jp/english/ | ||||
| Location | Gunmanomori Park, 992-1 Watanuki-machi, Takasaki-shi, Gunma 370-1293 | ||||
| Access | 10 minutes by taxi from JR Shinmachi Station, 15 minutes by taxi from the South exit of JR Kuragano Station; From the East exit of Takasaki Station, take the bus for 30 minutes and get off at Gunmanomori. The venue is 5 minute walk from there. | ||||
| Phone | 027-346-5560 | ||||
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