2014/07/03

Exhibition 1

Hiroshi Fuji and the Uncharted Land of Toysaurus
Venue: Gallery A
July 5 (Saturday) - October 5 (Sunday), 2014
Hundreds of thousands of brightly colored plastic toys collected from children from around the world. These toys
gave birth to Toysaurus, a toy dinosaur that suddenly appeared at an art museum at the foot of the Haruna
Mountains, in the uncharted land where it lives...

Hitoshi Fuji, Toys Paradise, 2010, 3331 Arts Chiyoda

The artists Hiroshi Fuji is known for his unique activities that create platforms in which people can dialog with
one another and create new relationships on a voluntary basis. For this exhibition, Fuji used an uncountable
number of small plastic toys and twigs from the museum grounds.
One of the things engaged in by Fuji and his family is the Kaekko Bazaar, which now has a history of travelingthroughout Japan. Through this miraculous system, once-loved but now discarded toys are once again taken up
by human hands, sorted and brushed up. Now, in the form of Toysaurus, these toys once again see the light ofday and are given new life. Why not join us to explore this uncharted land and listen to the story of Toysaurus?
(Note: For the first time in Japan, actual footprints of a dinosaur were discovered in the southwestern part ofGunma Prefecture.)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hiroshi Fuji (Artist, Director of the Towada Art Museum)
After completing a B.A. and an M.A. at Kyoto City University of Arts, Fuji joined Japan
International Cooperation Agency and worked as a lecturer at the former Papua New
Guinea National Arts School. He went on to join an urban planning group, and after that
established the Fuji Hiroshi Design and Production Studio. He carries out projects innumerous regions engaging in dialogue and community experiments, such as the Vinyl
Plastics Connection (Kaekko) and others. He showed work at the Hara Annual Vexhibition (1985) at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, created an on-site work at
Hara Museum ARC in 1989, and showed work in the Art is Fun exhibition in 1990 at
Hara Museum ARC. He is currently active in Fukuoka and Aomori prefectures. http://geco.jp

[Related Event]
A Hiroshi Fuji workshop for the young and old alike
Kaekko Bazaar
Venue: Hara Museum ARC
Every Saturday and Sunday in August; September 13, 14, 20 and
21; October 4 and 5, from1:30 pm
Kaekko is a workshop, first launched in Fukuoka in 2000, in whichchildren use specially designed currency called "kaeru (frog) points"
in various activities that they develop on their own. The name isbased on the Japanese word "kaeru" which can mean "frog" or "toreturn". The workshop has been conducted in over 1,000 places,
throughout Japan, including schools, nurseries, shopping streets, parks, public halls, private homes, museums
and recycle centers. Toys that children no longer want can be exchanged for frog points, which in turn can beused to receive another toy. The system is supported by many people now as a way of keeping toys incontinuous circulation throughout the world.
☆ Even if they do not bring a toy, participants can earn frog points by helping out with themuseum workshop, with special Kaekko programs, or sorting toys.
http://www.geco.jp/kaekko/---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Exhibition 2

Big Small Wide and Tall - Selections from the Hara Museum Collection
Venue: Gallery B・C
July 5 (Saturday) - October 5 (Sunday), 2014
Something big, something small, something shaped, something colored, something bright: what waits for you
behind the door?
[Featured Artists]
Yayoi Kusama, Tabaimo, Satoshi Ohno, Surasi Kusolwong, Jason Teraoka and others[Images for Publications]1.

2.

1. Yayoi Kusama, Mirror Room (Pumpkin), 1991
2. Tabaimo, Midnight Sea, 2006 / 2008
3. Jason Teraoka, Neighbor, 20063.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------The following events will be held during this period:
Exhibition: Pictures That Tell a Story
Dates: [Part I] July 5 (Saturday) – August 20 (Wednesday) [Part II] August 22 (Friday) – October 5 (Sunday), 2014
Venue: Kankai Pavilion
Workshop I: Let's Make Art Fans!
Date: August 2 (Saturday), 3 (Sunday), 9 (Saturday), 10 (Sunday) Venue: Corridor Time: 10:00 am, 1:00 pm,
3:00 pm
Workshop II: Nakadai Ikaho Factory: Mono Factory x Hara Museum ARC
Date: August 13 (Wednesday) -17 (Sunday) Venue: Corridor Time: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm (last registration at 3:30pm)
Talk Event
Hiroshi Fuji (artist, director of the Towada Art Museum) x Sumiyuki Nakadai (manager, Maebashi Branch, NakadaiCo. Ltd.)
Moderator: Kazuko Aono (curator, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art)
Date: August 17 (Sunday) Time: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm---------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hara Museum ARC
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