Press Release 2023/07/12

SHOP＠CAFÉ Vol. 15 Painting Maniac Bunta Inoue
At the Café d’Art and Museum Shop at Hara Museum ARC
July 7, 2023 (Friday) - January 8 (Monday/national holiday), 2024
Part I Blue: July 7 (Friday) - September 3 (Sunday), 2023
Part II: September 9 (Saturday) - November 15 (Wednesday), 2023
Part III: November 17 (Friday), 2023 - January 8 (Monday/national holiday), 2024

Notice from the Museum Shop and Café d’Art
SHOP@CAFE is a continuing series that offers for sale art that adds vibrancy to daily life under thecatchphrase “Living with Art." For this 15th installment, we are pleased to present the work of thepainter Bunta Inoue, who began art making in Ikaho from last year. Inoue's work will be presented
at Café d’Art and the Museum Shop in three differently themed seasonal parts, one in the summer,
fall and winter, featuring highly imaginative works inspired by nature and the environment, beauty,and love.
For Part I, with "Blue" as the keyword, paintings, sketches and prints will provide a cool ambianceto the cafe in the summer.
Bunta InoueInoue embarked on his artistic career in 1998 after studying under thepainter Kuniyoshi Kaneko. His work includes Japanese-style painting, oilpainting, installation art and calligraphy. Although active in many fields,including doing the character design and art supervision for NHK's puppetry
drama TV series The Three Musketeers and Sherlock Holmes, both written
by Koki Mitani, Inoue has continued to dedicate himself to painting, like theother self-proclaimed "Painting Maniac" Katsushika Hokusai.
The special exhibition Takehisa Yumeji and Inoue Bunta: Love and Dreams
that Transcend Time and Space is being held for one year starting this spring at the Takehisa Yumeji
Ikaho Memorial (in the Minatoya Salon on the 3rd floor of the main building "Kurofune-kan").

■Outline
Title: SHOP@CAFE Vol.15 Painting Maniac Bunta Inoue
Venue: Café d'Art and The Museum Shop at Hara Museum ARC*Admission to the museum is required to access the Café d’Art.
Period: July 7, 2023 (Friday) - January 8 (Monday/national holiday) , 2024
Part I Blue: July 7 (Friday) - September 3 (Sunday), 2023
Part II: September 9 (Saturday) - November 15 (Wednesday), 2023
Part III: November 17 (Friday), 2023 -January 8 (Monday/national holiday) , 2024
■Information
Hara Museum ARC
2855-1 Kanai, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma 377-0027
Hours: Cafe 10:00 am-4:30 pm, Shop 9:30 am-4:30 pm (admission until 4:00 pm)
Closed: Thursdays (open on national holidays, December 28 and January 4), January 1 and duringchange of exhibit.
Admission: General 1,800 yen (1,500 yen*), Students 1,000 yen (700 yen*) [high school anduniversity] or 800 yen (500 yen*) [elementary and junior high], Seniors [70 and above] 1,500 yen(1,200 yen*)*Online booking price.
*Admission to Hara Museum ARC is required even when vising only the Café d’Art or the MuseumShop.
* Visitors may also view the current exhibition Opposite the Sun Is Where the Blue Sky Lies – Worksfrom the Hara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections.
Advance online discount ticket (date-specific): https://www.e-tix.jp/haramuseum_arc/en/
Official website: https://www.haramuseum.or.jp/en/arc/
Email: arc@haramuseum.or.jp■Press Enquiries
Email: press@haramuseum.or.jp