Nagoya City Art Museum
Nagoya City Art Museum ( Japanese 名古屋 市 美術館 , Nagoya-shi bijutsukan ) is the English name for a modern art museum founded in 1983 in the Japanese city of Nagoya . The collection includes works by regional artists, the École de Paris , modern Mexican and contemporary art.
building
The museum is located in Shirakawa Park in central Nagoya. The two-story building with an additional basement was designed by the architect Kisho Kurokawa . It faces north to south and has a northwest side entrance. In the basement there are rooms for the permanent exhibition, business premises and a lobby with an open ceiling and a low-lying garden. There are rooms for temporary exhibitions on the first and second floors. There are panels to block the incidence of light entirely or to reduce the light intensity. A wide variety of lighting moods can thus be created.
collection
The collection includes around 1200 works and has a focus on modern Japanese art. Works by artists such as Tamiji Kitagawa , Setsuko Migishi, Shusaku Arakawa , On Kawara and Tadaaki Kuwayama were purchased in chronological order so that a larger overview of their oeuvre is possible. In addition, there are works that were created in Paris between 1910 and 1930 and influenced Japanese artists such as Takanori Ogisu in the collection. They come from Amedeo Modigliani , Marc Chagall , Chaim Soutine , Jules Pascin , Moise Kisling and Tsuguharu Fujita , among others .
The collection also includes art from Mexico after the revolution of 1910 , which resulted in the establishment of an independent culture. This art is important to the museum because it had a great influence on the Japanese artist Tamiji Kitagawa. Artists whose works are part of the collection include José Clemente Orozco , Diego Rivera , David Alfaro Siqueiros and Frida Kahlo . This branch of the collection also includes modern and contemporary American art that has been influenced by these artists in order to convey the most comprehensive possible picture of their art. In addition to these works, the collection also includes works by contemporary artists that provide an overview of current art events.
The museum pursues three objectives in building the collection:
- To show the influences and relationships of well-known artists in the region to art history .
- The greatest possible depth of the collection in order to give the museum its own profile.
- To internationalize the collection.
Special exhibitions
In addition to its own collection, the Nagoya City Museum shows several special exhibitions every year that deal with modern art at different times, as well as contemporary art. For example, in 1988 a Pierre-Auguste Renoir retrospective and Barbizon School, Impressionist, Early Modern Paintings from the Hermitage Museum . In 1994, for example, the Toulouse-Lautrec and the Japonisme exhibition was shown. There were also other exhibitions such as Surrealism in Japan 1925-1945 (1990), The Depicted Utopia - Another Facet of Japanese Modern Photography in Manchoukuo (1994), Masterpieces from the Museum Folkwang Essen (1996) and Man Ray (1991).
Web links
- Official website (English, Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on kandou10.jp ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 35 ° 9 ′ 49.8 ″ N , 136 ° 54 ′ 3.7 ″ E