Current Exhibition
Asahi Breweries, Ltd. 120th Anniversary By the Water-lily Pond MONET, Yoshihiro SUDA and Zon ITO
2009 10/28[wed]—0101/31[sun]
This exhibition presents three artists’ expression of the water-lily pond. Foremost water-lily is a motif which a French Impressionist master, Claude MONET, loved to portray. All the five of his masterful paintings of water-lilies are exhibited from the museum collection.
About 100 years after Monet’s oeuvres, two Japanese artists created their own version of the same motif. For exhibiting his work in the same gallery as Monet, Yoshihiro SUDA carved and painted wood miraculously for creating his masterpiece Sleeping Lotus.
Zon ITO, whose main medium was embroidery, observed the leaves of water-lilies and grass carps in the pond of Oyamazaki Villa, and created his new works.
Furthermore, a writer, Shin FUKUNAGA, walked around the museum and its garden, and wrote a new essay about the visual art representing water-lilies by these artists in the exhibition leaflet.
Claude MONET
Water-Lilies 1907
Claude MONET
Water-Lilies 1914-17
Claude MONET
Water-Lilies 1914-17
Claude MONET
Water-Lilies 1914-17
Claude MONET
Water-Lilies 1914-17
PROFILE
Yoshihiro SUDA (born Yamanashi 1969)
Graduated from Tama Art University in Tokyo. Carves and paints wood miraculously and creates plants in their real sizes. Completes works by installing these objects in space. Although they are often quite modest, effacing and at times nearly invisible, the very realistic wooden plants have an overwhelming presence that dominates their surroundings.
Yoshihiro SUDA
Sleeping Lotus 2002
Zon ITO (born Osaka 1971)
Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts. Creates embroidered works on various fabrics. Their motifs are plants, animals, fishes, insects and men. The lines portraying these motifs often disappear and mingle with each other, all of which constitute a little mysterious whole. His works’ titles often humorously suggest a key to find what are represented.
Zon ITO
Sunlight Equally Shared by Lotus 2009
Making Personal Spot at Big-Yamazaki
In this workshop, you find your own great spot in the museum or its garden and name it. Your sight is mapped in a big map in the gallery.
- Date:
- During the exhibition period
- Venue:
- In the garden and the museum
- Admission:
- Free of charge (Need museum admission)
You do not need reservation.
Museum tour by Zon ITO
The artist Zon ITO guides the viewers in the museum buildings and the garden.
- Date:
- November 8th (SUN), December 20th (SUN), January 24th (SUN) 14:00～16:00
- Venue:
- In the garden and the museum
- Admission:
- Free of charge (Need museum admission)
- Capacity:
- 15 people each
- You need to make a reservation by fax:
- 075-957-3126