World of Trick Art

20 February to 11 April 2010

Hours: 9:30a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Entry is permitted thirty minutes before the galleries are closed.
Closed: Closed on Mondays (except 22 March), and 23 March

Admission: Adults: 900 (700) Yen
Students (College or senior high): 500 (400)Yen
Students (elementary or junior high school): no charge
(Concession for groups or advanced tickets)

Human being attaches importance to sight among five senses, and tends to comprehend visible object as true existence. However, does a visible object really have substance as being seen? We ordinarily experience illusion by sight or prejudice. Sight easily deceives us and throws us into confusion.

Painters of any time and place have paid attention to such structue of sight, and have produced various "trompe-l'oeil" which deceives and amuses viewers. Contemporary art also takes over attitude challenging sight, and brought about diverse modes of expression conscious of viewpoint of viewers such as Op Art of the 1960s featuring effect of optical illusion, Light Art utilizing light, Superrealism of the 1970s based on photography, and Parodies of the 1990s referirng to Classical Painting.

This exhibition mainly consists of the collection of the Takamatsu City Museum of Art which is centered upon Post-war Art and introduces works undermining fixed images of sight as "Trick Art". We hope that visitors might experience 'wonder of seeing' and 'pleasure of being deceived' again through various tricks set up by 26 artists.

Table of contnts:

Ⅰ.　Between fictive and real	TAKAMATSU Jiro KASHIHARA Etsutomu HORIUCHI Masakazu ITO Toshihiko KOMOTO Akira
Ⅱ.　Op Art and Light Art	Victor VASARELY KUWAYAMA Tadasky MIYAWAKI Aiko KUWABARA Moriyuki TADA Minami ITO Takayasu KAWAGUCHI Tatsuo YOSHIMURA Masunobu NAWA Kohei
Ⅲ.　Superrealism	UEDA Kaoru Chuck CLOSE KIM Tschangyeul SATO Masaaki GO Shigi NAKAGAWA Naoto MIO Kozo MISHIMA Kimiyo SAKAMOTO Kazumichi
Ⅳ.　On Classical Painting	TATEISHI Tiger FUKUDA Miran MORIMURA Yasumasa