The 40th Anniversary of the Mie Prefectural Art Museum
Iwasaki Chihiro and Nakatani Tai

About

Date

July 16 - August 28, 2022

Location

Special Exhibition Room 1-4

Hours

9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Closed

Mondays (except July 18), July 19 

Admission fee

Adults: 1000(800) yen
Students: 800(600) yen
High school students and younger: Free
Prices in parentheses are for advance ticket and 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
Chihiro Art Museum
The Chunichi Shimbun

■With the grant of
The Cultural Foundation of Okada
Mie Prefectural Art Museum Assistance Foundation

■Supported by
IMURAYA GROUP CO., LTD.
Okasan Securities Co., Ltd.
San ju San Financial Group, Inc.
Chubu Electric Power Grid Co., Inc.
Japan Transcity Corporation
THE HYAKUGO BANK, LTD.
Mie Kotsu Group Holdings, Inc.
WADAKIN
Kuwanamie Shinkin Bank/ KitaiseUeno Shinkin Bank/ Tsu Shinkin Bank/ Kihoku Shinkin Bank

Cooperated with
Kintetsu Railway Co., Ltd.

Iwasaki Chihiro
Boy with Red Hat
1971 Chihiro Art Museum
 

Exhibition Overview

Iwasaki Chihiro continued to draw children with beautiful colors and lines throughout her life. The bright, sweet and soft painting world drawn by Chihiro continues to be loved widely regardless of country, generation or gender.

Before Chihiro started her career as a picture book painter, in the early 1940s, which was the period of exploration, she met a painter Nakatani Tai. Chihiro was inspired by Nakatani's work and received instruction in oil painting under Nakatani. The war forced their artistic activities to be interrupted, but after the war, Chihiro became a famous picture book painter and Nakatani became a painter.

Strictly speaking, the relationship between Chihiro and Nakatani was only a year or two, but the exchange continued throughout their lives. Although the genres they express were different, the gentleness of their eyes toward lovable things was abundant in both of their works. In this exhibition, the interaction between the two, which has not been well known until now, will be introduced with about 110 original paintings of the picturebooks, oil paintings, drawings, etc. of Chihiro, about 40 oil paintings, drawings, etc. of Nakatani, and about 20 related materials.

⇒ List of the Works


Iwasaki Chihiro
Children Playing with Hand Puppets
1966 Chihiro Art Museum

 

Events During the Exhibition

Lecture "Iwasaki Chihiro as a Mother, as a Painter"

Lecturer: Matsumoto Takeshi (Permanent Adviser of Chihito Art Museum, Visiting professor of Yokohama University of Art and Design)
Saturday, July 30
14:00- (about 90 min.)
at the auditrium
Free of Charge
Japanese only
Reservation required
 

Workshop: Watercolor Technique

Instructor:
Harashima Megumi (Curator of Chihiro Art Museum) [Saturday, July 16]
Staffs of Mie Prefectural Art Museum [Thursday, August 11]
10:30～/ 13:30～
at the workshop room
Free of Charge
Japanese only
Reservation required [July 16]
Reservation required [August 11]
 

Film: Iwasaki Chihiro　～Depature at the age of 27～

10:30～/ 14:00～
at the auditrium
Free of Charge
Japanese only
Reservation required
 

Let's Play in the world of Chihiro's Paintings
with plaplax

Using various media such as video images and space, plaplax, who continues to develop interactive art focusing on children’s play, will produce a display with the keyword “play.” It will achieve a new frontier in picture book-making while enjoying Chihiro's watercolor technique and innovative methods.


plaplax
Footsteps in Paints
2018