Press Release 2018/06/30

Stop and Go
June 30 (Saturday) – September 30 (Sunday), 2018
Galleries A, B and C at Hara Museum ARC
Sometime during the middle of the 20th century, Jean Tinguely began using waste materials and everyday
items to create sculptural machines that moved, eventually becoming one of the leading proponents of kinetic
art. Since ancient times, because of our constant proximity to light, wind, water and other elements of nature,
we humans have continued to explore the nature of our senses and applied the power of our imaginations toendlessly represent the two diametric poles of movement and stillness. In this show, we exemplify these twothemes with selected artworks by Tinguely and other artists in the Hara Museum Collection. We also feature
an ambitious new work by Taro Izumi that was a focus of much attention at his solo show in Paris last year.
Talking paintings, moving sculptures, videos that are stopped--we invite you to come see the rich variety ofcontemporary art expression on the theme of "stop" and "go".
[1] Taro Izumi, Tickled in a dream...maybe? (The cloud fell),2017 The installation view at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017
© Taro Izumi, courtesy of Take Ninagawa, TokyoJapanese debut of his large-scale installation presented
last year at Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Tickled in a dream...maybe? is the name of a series ofworks (currently 11) that Taro Izumi began in 2014. Thispiece, cloud fell, premiered last spring at Izumi's major solo
exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, seen by many asa temple of European contemporary art. Izumi attracted
much attention for his unique works filled with humor andirony, most of which have already been purchased bymuseums and other institutions around the world. Thanks toan enthusiastic collector who wanted to "leave at least oneof the series in Japan," cloud fell was acquired anddeposited with the Hara Museum. This show marks its firstpublic display in Japan.
Born in 1976 in Nara Prefecture, Izumi received an MFA at Tama Art University in 2002. He currently lives inTokyo. Izumi's video works and dynamic video installations play on the ambiguous division between realityand fiction, stirring up questions about such relational concepts as seeing and being seen, photographing andbeing photographed. His works have appeared at many venues in Japan and abroad, including theYokohama Triennale (2011) and Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination inContemporary Japanese Art (2009) and Mercedes-Benz Art Scope 2015-2017 (2017) at the Hara Museum ofContemporary Art. In 2017, he held the show Pan at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, his first large-scale solo
exhibition which garnered much critical attention. This was followed by the solo exhibition TARO IZUMI A
Child Suddenly at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
http://taroizumi.com/en/

[2] Max Streicher, Sleeping Giants (Silenus), 2002
Streicher was born in Canada where he currently
lives. He creates three-dimensional inflatable works
that are vast in scale and also considered kinetic art.
Despite its overwhelming presence inside thegallery, Streicher's work seems to sway with alightness that comes from its bulging air-filled girth.
The title Sleeping Giants (Silenus) derives from theRoman myth of Sirenos, a servant deity toDionysus who was always drunk. Indeed, Silenus ishumorously presented as having fallen asleep in adrunken stupor while floating around like a balloon.

©Max Streicher[3] Adriana Varejão, Swimming Pool, 2005

©Adriana Varejaõ

Varejão was born in Brazil where she still lives. She hasgarnered critical attention throughout the world for works
done in a variety of mediums, from oils to watercolor. Hershow at the Hara Museum in 2007 was her first solo
exhibition in Japan. This painting is part of a series of works
that explore a theme that has occupied her in recent years:
tiles in water. We see a close-up of a tiled poolside and theundulating water surface and feel something mysterious
happening. What does this signify? It is an invitation toconsider what lies behind the work.

Featured Artists
Taro Izumi / Minoru Ohira / Yayoi Kusama / Jean Tinguely / George Rickey / Jonathan Borofsky / Cindy
Sherman / Tabaimo / Nam June Paik / Piotr Kowalski / Jesús-Rafael Soto / Hisayuki Mogami / Yukinori
Yanagi / Robert Rauschenberg and others

EventsArtist Talk: Taro Izumi
Date: July 8 (Sunday), 2018
Time: 14:00 –Participation fee: Free
This talk features Taro Izumi whose work appears in the exhibition Stop and Go. The artist will speak about
the Japanese premier of his new work, as well as his past activities at the Hara Museum and other places
around the world and his creative process.

Art is Fun!
Date: August 11 (Saturday), 12 (Sunday), 18 (Saturday) and 19 (Sunday)
Time: Five sessions at 10:30, 11:30, 13:00, 14:00 and 15:00 (eachapprox. 40 min. long)
Number of participants: 20 per session.
Participation fee: 540 yen
In this workshop, participants will make Uchiwa paper fans with washi
paper.
*Museum admission will be required for the events.
*For reservations for the events, please write to Hara Museum ARC at arc@haramuseum.or.jp

Hara Museum ARC (Gunma)
Hara Museum ARC opened in 1988 in Shibukawa,Gunma prefecture as an annex to the Hara Museumof Contemporary Art in Tokyo (see box on the lastpage). Situated in the foothills of the Mt. Haruna, oneof the so-called Jomosanzan or "Three Peaks ofJomo" (the old name of Gunma), the museum's
large-scale wooden buildings with their sleek black
exteriors (designed by Arata Isozaki) stand in stark
contrast to rich greens of the surrounding highlandscenery. In addition to exhibitions centered on themuseum's permanent collection, Hara Museum
ARC holds events, workshops and various art
Jean-Michel Othoniel, Kokoro, 2009 Photography: Yuichi Chiraku
education programs. In 2008, an Open-view Storage
and Kankai Pavilion were added as part of an expansion that has enabled Hara Museum ARC to serve as acapacious setting for art that transcends the boundaries of time and place.

Exhibition Details
Title: Stop and Go
Dates: June 30 (Saturday) – September 30 (Sunday), 2018
Venue: Gallery A, B and C at Hara Museum ARC2855-1 Kanai, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma 377-0027
Tel 0279-24-6585 Fax 0279-24-0449 E-mailarc@haramuseum.or.jp
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Hours: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm (last entry at 4:00 pm)
Organized by: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art

Closed: Thursdays (except during the month of August) *Subject to temporary closure in the event of severe
weather.
Admission: General 1,100 yen, Students 700 yen (high school and university) or 500 yen (elementary andjunior high), Free for Hara Museum members, 10% discount for a group of 20 or more, Combination ticket forHara Museum ARC and Ikaho Green Bokujo (except during Golden Week): General 1,800 yen; Students
1,500 yen (high school and university) or 1,400 yen (junior high), 800 yen (elementary), half price for thoseover 70, discount for groups of 20 or more
*Children must be accompanied by an adult.
*For residents of Gunma Prefecture: Free admission for elementary and junior high school children every
Saturday during the school term/200-yen-discount on admission for up to five persons upon presentation ofthe Guchoki Passport.
Directions: By train: Take the Joetsu Shinkansen to Takasaki, change to the Joestu Line, and disembark atShibukawa. From Shibukawa, ARC is 10 minutes away by taxi or 15 minutes by bus (take the Ikaho Onsen
bus to ″Green Bokujo Mae″). By car: 8 kilometers (about 15 minutes) from the Kan-etsu Expressway
Shibukawa Ikaho Interchange (in the direction of Ikaho Onsen).
*Visitors can view the on-going exhibitions Dynamism and Stillness (Kankai Pavilion) as well.
Concurrent Exhibition
Dynamism and Stillness at Kankai Pavilion (Traditional East Asian Art)
Part I: June 30 (Saturday) – August 23 (Thursday), 2018
Part II: August 24 (Friday) – September 30 (Sunday), 2018
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