Current Exhibition

The keyword of this exhibition is “iridescence”. There are two main features: Impressionism/Neo Impressionism and Aiko Tezuka.

From our collection, Irises and Water-Lilies by Claude Monet, and Venezia by Paul Signac are displayed at the gallery of the Annex Building.
Another highlight is works by Aiko Tezuka, which include her newest pieces created in London. There are the works that reveal both sides of embroidery, show unstitched threads, and consist of re-composed motifs borrowed from several precedent productions.

The spring in Oyamazaki Villa is the best to see a shower of prismatic lights that the cut glasses of the windows create. This exhibition will bring wonder and joy through the “lag” of habitual way of view, as the prism makes a gap between rays and separates light into the colours of the rainbow.

MONET, Claude
Water Lilies
oil on canvas
1907

MONET, Claude
Irises
oil on canvas
1914-17

SIGNAC, Paul
Venezia
oil on canvas
1908

Aiko, TEZUKA
(part of) Two same fabrics
extracted threads (door) 1
Extracting weft threads from
ready-made fabric
2010

Aiko TEZUKA
Two Types of Thread Extracted
from the Same Fabric
fabric, round wooden panels
2004

Aiko, TEZUKA
lace - home
Embroidery on lace fabric,
wooden frame
2010

Aiko, TEZUKA
drape (Florence)
pulled out from a souvenir
fabric
2010

Aiko, TEZUKA
hem - home
Untying hem of fabric,
frame
2010

Aiko, TEZUKA
hem - sky
Untying hem of fabric, frame
2010

PROFILE

Aiko TEZUKA(Born 1976 in Tokyo)

Learned oil painting in Musashino Art University, and Completed doctor of art in oil painting at Kyoto City University of Arts. Though she is originally trained as a painter, Tezuka chooses fabrics and threads as her primal material to uncover “invisible” structure, such as a process of creation and a pile of history. The vivid threads pulled from fabrics, which remind of primary colours of paints, imply the moment it had been woven. It is a consequence of her endeavour to deconstruct/reconstruct picture, as an accumulation of hidden layers by its nature.