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STAR GUIDED ART TOUR
14-Sep-2019	 – 18-Nov-2019
Flying on Black, 1998/99, oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Achi, Japan © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2019. Photo: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Achi, Japan.
© Iwami Arts Museum 2019.
Stars lead to an encounter with artThis exhibition is an attempt to interpret art works in association with 10 celestial bodies used in astrology. Art reflects the thoughts of the artist and the mood of the times. Astrology, on the other hand, is a study that tries to grasp the world by the movement and arrangement of stars. Among the stars, the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are important to hold the key. Each celestial bodies has been given characteristic, for example, "ego and autonomy" for the Sun and "wisdom and communication" for Mercury. This exhibition focuses on the commonalities that both focus on human nature and social movements, and uses the keywords related to celestial bodies as the starting point. Introducing works of art. This project, realized in cooperation with the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, is the first opportunity to present an overview on contemporary art since its opening. More about the exhibition.
Artists: Nobuyoshi Araki, Jean Arp, Francis Bacon, Brassai, Daniel Buren, Jean Dubuffet, Olafur Eliasson, James Ensor, Max Ernst, Lucio Fontana, Miran Fukuda, Ryan Gander, Noboru Hiroi, Leiko Ikemura, Yasuo Iwasa, Takahide Koike, U-Fan Lee, René Magritte, Naofumi Maruyama, Boris Mikhailov, Futoshi Miyagi, Edvard Munch, Tomoharu Murakami, Kyoko Murase, Ikko Narahara, Roman Opałka, Blinky Palermo, Man Ray, Alexander Rodchenko, Chiharu Shiota, Kazuo Shiraga, Hiroshi Sugito, Naoki Suwa, Jiro Takamatsu, Tadashi Tonoshiki, Anton Josef Trčka, Isamu Wakabayashi
List of artists and works.
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