SHOP＠CAFÉ Vol. 15 Painting Maniac Bunta Inoue
Part III: New Year Around the World
November 3 (Friday/national holiday), 2023 – January 8 (Monday/national holiday), 2024
Café d'Art and The Museum Shop at Hara Museum ARC

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 the painter
Bunta Inoue, who began artmaking in Ikaho from last year. Inoue's work will be presented and offered forsale in three differently themed seasonal parts in the summer, fall, and winter, featuring highly imaginative
works inspired by nature and the environment, beauty, and love.
Part III of this event, the theme of which is "New Year Around the World," will focus on paintings thatconvey the culture and history of countries and regions around the world, works that were created for thePainting Maniac Bunta Inoue x Embassy project serialized in the bilingual magazine HIRAGANA TIMES.
The event will include works that combine various motifs that symbolize each country, such as its nationalflag, national flower and climate. There will also be a large painting of a dragon, "love & love -Mother Earth" which was inspired by the Chinese zodiac sign for 2024.

Bunta Inoue
Inoue embarked on his artistic career in 1998 after studying under the painter
Kuniyoshi Kaneko. His work includes Japanese-style painting, oil painting, 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 the other self-proclaimed "Painting Maniac" Katsushika
Hokusai.
The special exhibition Takehisa Yumeji and Inoue Bunta: Love and Dreams thatTranscend Time and Space is being held for one year starting this spring at theTakehisa Yumeji Ikaho Memorial (in the Minatoya Salon on the 3rd floor of the main building "Kurofunekan")

love & love -Mother Earth-, 2022 gold paint, gold powder and acrylic on canvas

116.7 x 363.5 cm

Venue: Café d'Art and The Museum Shop at Hara Museum ARC
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 1 (Wednesday), 2023
Part III: November 3 (Friday), 2023 -January 8 (Monday/national holiday) , 2024
Hours: Cafe 10:00 am-4:30 pm, Shop 9:30 am-4:30 pm (admission until 4:00 pm)
Closed: Corresponds with museum closure.
■INFORMATION
Hours: 9:30 am-4:30 pm (admission until 4:00 pm)
Closed: Thursdays (open on national holidays, December 28 and January 4), January 1
Admission: General 1,800 yen (1,500 yen*), Students 1,000 yen (700 yen*) [high school and university] 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 Museum Shop.
* Visitors may also view the current exhibition Opposite the Sun Is Where the Blue Sky Lies – Works from theHara Museum and the Hara Rokuro Collections Part II.
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