Line and Space: Cy Twombly and East Asia
May 29 (Friday) – September 2 (Wednesday), 2015
Kankai Pavilion at Hara Museum ARC

Installation view at the Kankai Pavilion Photo by Keizo Kioku
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1970 © Cy Twombly Foundation / Courtesy Cy Twombly Foundation, of Yodo River, Maruyama Okyo, Edo period
LandscapeCy Twombly (1928-2011) was one of the most widely admired artists of the 20th century. His honors and awards
included Japan's Praemium Imperiale and the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Biennale. The Hara Museum ofContemporary Art, of which Hara Museum ARC is an annex, will be holding Twombly's first solo exhibition inJapan Cy Twombly – Fifty Years of Works on Paper, a retrospective featuring works on paper (drawings, paintings,monotypes) spanning 50 years of Twombly's remarkable career. Twombly's art, which could be likened to painted
poetry or a child's graffiti, is characterized by improvisation and passion, its unique pictorial spaces filled withplayfully floating lines, symbol-like markings, letters and even snippets of text.
This companion exhibition, Line and Space: Cy Twombly and East Asia, juxtaposes a number of Twombly'sartworks with selected works of traditional East Asian art from the Hara Rokuro Collection. The venue is theKankai Pavilion, a gallery designed by Arata Isozaki in the style of shoin architecture, incorporating suchtraditional elements as tokonoma (alcove) and chigaidana (staggered shelves). The gallery is dedicated to the Hara
Rokuro Collection. The comparison of Twombly's art with the traditional idiom of East Asian painting is intended
to throw light on his use of line, space and tone to create form. We invite you to explore the differences andsimilarities in a dialog that transcends time and culture.

[Featured Works]
Cy Twombly, Bolsena, 1969 / Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1970 and others (Total: 6 works)
Landscape of Yodo River, Maruyama Okyo, Edo period / Dragon and tiger, Kano Tan'yu, Edo period and others

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2. Untitled, 1970 70.5 x 100 cm wax crayon, house paint on paper© Cy Twombly Foundation / Courtesy Cy Twombly Foundation

3. Bolsena, 1969 145.5 x 180.5 cm pencil, color pencil, felt pen on paper© Cy Twombly Foundation / Courtesy Cy Twombly Foundation4, 5. Dragon and tiger, Kano Tan'yu, pair of hanging scrolls, ink on silk, Edo period[The Hara Rokuro Collection]
Rokuro Hara (1842-1933) was a prominent Meiji-era businessman and connoisseur who contributed to theindustrialization of Japan through his involvement in railroads, banks and other endeavors. He amassed a large
collection of traditional Japanese and East Asian art, part of which now comprises the Hara Rokuro Collection ofthe Foundation Arc-en-Ciel. Noted items in the collection include the National Treasure Celadon vase with longneck on globular body and the Important Cultural Property Female passing through a reed portiere. Early-modernJapanese paintings that comprise the bulk of the collection include Landscape of Yodo River by Maruyama Okyoand scroll paintings by the Kano school that were originally wall and partition paintings at the Nikko-in in
Mi'idera temple. Also included are superb examples of crafts and calligraphy.
[Exhibition Details]
Title: Line and Space: Cy Twombly and East Asia
Dates: May 29 (Saturday) – September 2 (Wednesday), 2015
Venue: Kankai Pavilion at Hara Museum ARC 2855-1 Kanai, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma 377-0027
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Organized by: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Hara Museum FundIn collaboration with: Cy Twombly Foundation
Supported by: Terra Foundation for American Art
Special grant provided by: U.S. Embassy, Tokyo
Cooperation provided by: The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
Hours: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm (last entry at 4:00 pm)
Closed: Thursdays (except August), July 6 - 17 *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 and juniorhigh), Free for Hara Museum members, 10% discount for a group of 20 or more, Combination ticket for HaraMuseum 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 those over 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 of theGuchoki 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 busto ″Green Bokujo Mae″). By car: 8 kilometers (about 15 minutes) from the Kan-etsu Expressway Shibukawa
Ikaho Interchange (in the direction of Ikaho Onsen).
[Related Exhibition]
Cy Twombly – Fifty Years of Works on Paper
May 23 (Saturday) – August 30 (Sunday), 2015
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art

4-7-25 Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0001

http://www.haramuseum.or.jp (See the website for museum operating hours, schedule and access.)
This exhibition is Twombly's first solo exhibition at a Japanese art museum. It originally opened at the State
Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg to high acclaim. The exhibitions at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
and Hara Museum ARC were made possible by the generous support of the Terra Foundation for American Art,and a special grant provided by U.S. Embassy, Tokyo.

For publicity material, please contact: Hara Museum ARC 2855-1 Kanai, Shibukawa-shi, Gunma 377-0027
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