Kinoshita Tomio: 100th anniversary of birth, 2023
About
Date
October 11, 2023 - January 8, 2024
Location
Permanent Collection 2-3
Hours
9:30 a.m. -5:00 p.m.
Closed
Mondays (except January 8), December 29 - January 3
Admission fee
Adults: 310 (240) yen
Students: 210 (160) yen
High school students and younger: Free
Prices in parentheses are for groups of more than 20 persons.
Persons with disability, one person accompanying them are admitted free of charge.
Organization
■Organized by
Mie Prefectural Art Museum
■With the grant of
The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences
Mie Prefectural Art Museum Assistance Foundation
Exhibition Overview
A retrospective exhibition will be held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kinoshita Tomio (1923-2014), a printmaker from what is now Yokkaichi City, Mie Prefecture. Kinoshita began producing woodblock prints in the 1950s, inspired by Munakata Shiko's woodblock prints that received international acclaim. Soon after, he won the Japan Print Association Award in 1958, and the Kokuga Award in 1960. He has also received high praise overseas, winning the Seattle Art Museum Award at the Northwest International Print Exhibition.
Kinoshita's works are characterized by human faces created by jagged lines carved using a technique called tsukibori. Faces reduced to geometric shapes such as squares, triangles, and circles fill the entire screen. Their faces, which appear primitive at first glance, reflect the social issues and social conditions of the time, and provide deep insight into human beings.
This exhibition will display Kinoshita Tomio's valuable early works to his late works, and explore the charm of his prints.
⇒ List of the Works
Events During the Exhibition
Lecture: Kinoshita Tomio: The man and his works
Lecturer: Ohara Yoshio (Artist)
Saturday, October 14, 14:00- (About 90 min.)
at the auditrium
Japanese only
Slide Talk by the Curator of Mie Prefectural Art Museum
Lecturer: Sakamoto Ryuta
Saturday, December 2, 14:00- (About 30 min.)
at the auditrium
Japanese only