Camino/Kumano Artists Meet the Pilgrimage Roads
Saturday 20 September - Monday 24 November, 2014
Hours: 9:30 am-5:00 pm Entry is permitted thirty minutes before the galleries are closed.
Closed on Mondays (except for 13 October, 3 and 24 November), Tuesday 14 October and Tuesday 4 November
Admission: Adults: 900(700)yen Students: 700(500)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.
Organized by Mie Prefectural Art Museum
Subsidized by The Cultural Foundation of Okada, Mie Prefectural Art Museum Assistance Foundation |
Artists
Tomoko Arakawa
Tamotsu Kido
Katsunori Mizuno
Yuji Watabe
Miekenjinkai
(Tomoyuki Eguchi, Yuji Okamura, Masayuki Ochiai, Shuhei Kaida, Tetsuya Sugawa)
Exhibition Concepts
This year, 2014, marks a milestone as the 10th anniversary of the registration of three sacred sites in Mie, Nara and Wakayama Prefectures (Omine, Yoshino, Kumano Sanzan [three major shrines, Kumano-Hongu, Kumano-Hayatama and Kumano-Nachi-Grand Shrines], and Koyasan) and pilgrimage routes (Kumano Sankeimichi, Omine Okugake-michi Road, and Koyasan Choishi-mich) on the World Cultural Heritage list as the “Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range.” The Ise-ji route here in Mie Prefecture, too, is also one of the Kumano Sankeimichi , and a pilgrimage route that reaches from Ise Province to Kumano Sanzan,
The word “Camino” in the title of this exhibition not only stands for “road” in Spanish, but also signifies, as in Japanese “Kamino”, the “holiness” of the sacred place of Kumano. This exhibition introduces the modern role that Kumano’s nature and religion have played in the creation of art, through the works of young artists from Mie Prefecture who are intrigued to the characteristics of Kumano.
This is the first time for Mie Prefectural Art Museum to introduce young artists from Mie Prefecture to this extent. Artists whose works will be displayed in this exhibition have been pursuing their expressions in different fields, such as photos, paintings, drawings, pictures, and architecture, and being well-received both inside and outside of Japan.
Please enjoy various perspectives of artists with their quite different expressions on the same theme, “Kumano.”
Related EventsWorkshop
Saturday, 25 October 1:30 p.m. - Instructor: Miekenjinkai
For children (the third grade at elementary school and up )
Artists TalkSunday, 21 September, 2:00 p.m. Tamotsu Kido
Sunday, 28 September, 2:00 p.m. Katsunori Mizuno
Sunday, 26 October, 2:00 p.m. Miekenjinkai (Tomoyuki Eguchi, Yuji Okamura、Masayuki、Shuhei Kaida、Testsuya Sugawa)
Sunday, 3 November, 2:00 p.m. Tomoko Arakawa
Sunday, 9 November, 2:00 p.m. Yuji Watabe
Gallery Talks by the curator
Sunday, 5 October, 2:00 p.m. Sunday, 2 November, 2:00 p.m.
Open Studio
Tomoko Arakawa Yuji Watabe
Further information will be displayed on this website or tweeted @mie_kenbi. |
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