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KAMAKURA ANNEX Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
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KAMAKURA ANNEX February 23, 2024 – May 6, 2024
KOGANEZAWA Takehito×SANO Shigejiro: Drawing / Cinema
Featuring two artists, contemporary and from the museum's collection, this exhibition will provide a reading from a single perspective. The exhibition introduces the work of Koganezawa Takehito, who has developed a diverse range of media from painting to video and three-dimensional works, and Sano Shigejiro, whose work in book design and illustration with unique hand-drawn text and line drawings is as beloved as his oil paintings. How does "drawing," rendering an image with lines, differ from illustration? What is the sense of movement brought about by the sequence of images? This exhibition will explore the boundaries of two-dimensional expression, focusing on the colors and lines created by the artist's hands and eyes.
Images: Koganezawa Takehito, Drawing / Cinema (variation after Sano Shigejiro’s drawings), 2024, Collection of the artist
Coming
KAMAKURA ANNEX May 18, 2024 – July 28, 2024
One of the key roles of an art museum is to preserve its collection of works and pass it on to future generations. Over the years, we have been striving to maintain an environment that protects the artworks, providing maintenance when necessary, and constantly updating our preservation methods to find the best ways to conserve them for the future. In this exhibition, the three words "repairing," "preserving," and "keeping" serve as a guide as we introduce the museum's behind-the-scenes efforts. Usually unseen, we reveal restoration processes, the tools used, and the ingenuity employed to exhibit works while protecting them.
Image: Illustrative image for Restoration of The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama. Photo: Sato Kasuaki
Coming
KAMAKURA ANNEX August 10, 2024 – October 20, 2024
Goya: Prints from the Museum Collection
Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) is considered a pioneer of modern painting, recognized for his piercing depictations of humanity. In his late forties, unsatisfied with his success as a court painter in Spain and after losing his hearing, he turned to printmaking to pursue his creative vision. This exhibition will present a complete collection of the prints from Goya's two major print series, "The Caprices" and "The Disasters of War," presented separately for the first and second half of the exhibition. We also trace themuseum's extensive history of exhibitiong Spanish prints through related works and documents shedding light on how Goya was received by Japanese audiences.
Image, Francisco de Goya, from the series "The Disaster of War," 44. I saw it, Museum collection
Coming
KAMAKURA ANNEX November 2, 2024 – January 19, 2025
New Treasures of the Museum Collection IAcquisitions from 2015 to 2019
We will introduce our newly acquired artworks in a series titled "New Treasures of the Museum Collection." This time, we will exhibit about 70 pieces, including oil paintings, sculptures, and prints that have previously not been exhibited, acquired from the fiscal years 2015 to 2019. Discover the diversity of our collection’s new additions.
Image: Okamoto Hanzo, Tronoën (Chapel in Bretagne), 1955, Museum collection
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KAMAKURA ANNEX February 1, 2025 – April 13, 2025
Through exhibiting selected works from the museum’s collection of Japanese art, such as Tawaraya Sotatsu’s (n.d.–ca. 1640) Puppy, and Mandala of Both Realms, alongside works by the collaborative unit Iwatake Rike + Kataoka Junya (both 1982–), this project will cast a new light on the museum’s extensive catalog. Kinetic works inspired by daily life and natural phenomena, as well as paintings and prints incorporating the scenes captured by telescopes and microscopes, will be installed to provide a unique method to explore the sculptural characteristics found in Japanese art, such as visual association and multiple viewpoints.
Images: (left) Iwatake Rie, Bodyscape , 2024, Collection of the artist; (right) Tawaraya Sotatsu, Puppy, Edo period, Museum collection
