The 100th Anniversary of "Manifeste du surréalisme" - Surrealism and Japan

About

Date

Saturday, April 27, 2024 - Sunday, June 30, 2024

Location

Temporary Exhibition Galleries 1-4

Hours

9:30 a.m. -5:00 p.m.

Closed

Mondays (except April 29, May 6), May 7

Admission fee

Adults: 1,000 (800) yen
Students: 800 (600) 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
The Chunichi Shimbun

■Cooperated with
The Museum of Kyoto
Itabashi Art Museum

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

 

Exhibition Overview

     One hundred years ago, in 1924, the French poet André Breton published his "Surrealist Manifesto" which launched Surrealism, the greatest artistic movement of the 20th century that has had a broad impact on contemporary culture. This movement, which explored the beauty of the human unconscious and wonder and aimed at spiritual freedom and liberation, eventually spread to many countries.
In Japan, Harue Koga, Ichiro Fukuzawa, and others introduced surrealism in the late 1920s, and surrealist pictorial expression gained momentum in the 1930s. Art students such as Koitaro Migishi, Noboru Kitawaki, Aimitsu, and Taro Okamoto created remarkable works and formed avant-garde groups that became a new force in the art world. Soon, however, Japanese militarism suppressed this movement, and the war claimed the lives of many painters, and many of their works were scattered or destroyed by fire.
This exhibition introduces Japanese Surrealist expression in the pre-Showa period on a large scale for the first time in about 30 years, with a total of about 200 works and materials, including paintings, drawings, and photographs by about 90 artists, that have survived.


⇒ List of the Works