Outline

The 2013 season at the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art is divided into three periods during which portions of the museum’s collection are exhibited throughout its galleries. The first of these begins in April with an exhibition titled “5 Rooms” in which the square space of gallery 203 created in 2008 is divided into five exhibit rooms to display approximately 40 works of sculpture, art objects and three-dimensional works from the Kawamura collection, ranging from Rodin to contemporary works. We hope this exhibition will provide the opportunity to enjoy the unique beauty surrounding these sculptures and three-dimensional works, many of which have seldom been displayed before.

Rodin stands as one of the greatest artists of modern sculpture who consistently sought to sculpt with clay the very substance of human thought and ideals. The era Rodin was active from the end of the 19th century into the 20th was a time of great change in society, and the developments in the arts were equally revolutionary. The changes in the structure of society and the development of material culture, science and technology led to the emergence of an increasing number of three-dimensional art works that no longer fit within the traditional concepts of sculpture. By taking objects as they were and creating objet, or art objects from them, artists were deliberately divorcing the objects of their accepted meanings or associations in search of new relationships between the human being and object and matter. Advances in technology also led to new materials that enabled artistic quests for spatial creation different from that of traditional sculpture. Furthermore, artists began creating three-dimensional works that crossed the boundaries between the conventional genres of painting, sculpture and architecture. This exhibition seeks to introduce these diverse artistic explorations in sculpture, art objects and three-dimensional works selected from the museum's collection.

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Concurrent exhibition: Roy Lichtenstein Prints

Print works from the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art collection by one of the representative artists of the American pop art movement, Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), will be on display. Lichtenstein is widely known for his works from the 1960s employing motifs from comic book illustrations and painted in the same style with clear, concise outlines, bright colors and accentuated printing dots. However, he also questioned the basic assumptions of visual arts in other ways, such as re-interpreting Monet’s famed Haystacks and Cathedral series paintings and transposing architectural decorative designs into works in his Entablature print series. In this exhibit we introduce a part of Lichtenstein’s artistic quest.

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Events

Workshop for viewing “5 Rooms”

May 11(Sat.) 15:00－16:30
Shinya Koizumi (Professor, College of Education, Ibaraki Univ.) 
Tickets distributed at Lobby reception desk from 14:00
(first 20 persons, reservation priority for Friends of the Museum)

Gallery Talks by the curator

June 8 (Sat.), June 22 (Sat.), July 13 (Sat.)　
14:00－15:00
No reservations needed / Gather at Entrance Hall

Guided Tours

Daily 14:00－15:00 (except days of the workshop, Gallery Talks)
Tours of the permanent collection and the 5 Rooms exhibition by guide staff. 
No reservations needed / Gather at Entrance Hall

Audio Guide (In Japanese)

Hear to recorded explanations of the works
500 yen per headset

Niwanowa Arts & Crafts Fair, Chiba

June 1 (Sat.) and 2 (Sun.) 10:00－16:00 
Outdoor market of craft works, etc., by artists who love Chiba. 
Crowded traffic conditions are expected, so please check access information prior to coming. 
Organizer: Iwanowa Organizing Committee
http://niwanowa.info/