News Release
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July 19, 2024
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Place and Piece
Where was this work displayed, who loved it, and why is it here now?

July 27 [Sat] - October 14 [Mon], 2024

*The number of the works is updated.

Detached Segment from Caricatures of Animals, Heian period,
12th century, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Henri MATISSE, Nude in the Studio, 1899,
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

The Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation (Director: Ishibashi Hiroshi), presents Placeand Piece: Where was this work displayed, who loved it, and why is it here now?
Today the works of art neatly displayed in a museum’s gallery are public objects thatanyone may enjoy seeing. Looking back to when those works were created, however,
we realize that they were made as furnishings for a residence or painted to decorate a
private room: they came about through a relationship with the person who owned
them. Moreover, over time, they passed into other persons’ hands and were inheritedby later generations. This exhibition presents works by Monet, Cézanne, Fujita
Tsuguharu, Kishida Ryusei, the Rimpa School, Abstract paintings—144 highly varied
works from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection from many fields and many times andplaces—ancient and modern, East and West. Through them, we explore the situations
under which works of art were created and how they were treated and passed on.
Visitors will have the opportunity to imagine and experience those many contexts.
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Exhibition Highlights
1. Performing Space
The theme of this exhibition is imagining and experiencing the places a work of art
occupied at various times. The displays are presented to enable visitors to imagine
those places. We have attempted to prepare these settings with the cooperation oflighting designer Toyohisa Shōzō, who devised lighting so that visitors could see works
as Edo-period people would view sliding-door paintings, and interior stylist Ishii Kanae,
who created dreamed-of spaces in which visitors would yearn to relax in a living room
surrounded by works of art that suited them perfectly.

2. Three Approaches to Appreciation
At this exhibition, visitors can view the priceless curatorial resources about each workthat have been built up since our predecessor, the Bridgestone Museum of Art. Simply
read the QR code with your cell phone to access those materials. (That access is limited
to the exhibition site.) Visitors are also invited to download our official app to enjoy anaudio guide, free of charge, in addition to the brief explanatory label accompanying
each work.

3. Works Displayed for the First Time
This exhibition will fill all the galleries on the three floors with works from thecollection, displaying a wonderful variety of works. The exhibits include some pieces
that the Artizon Museum is showing for the first time. They include a large-format workby Robert Ryman, who is known as a Minimalist painter, furniture by Ettore Sottsass,
one of the leaders in the world of Italian design, and a letter written by the greatwarrior and unifier, Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Familiar masterpieces are joined by anotherside of the Ishibashi Foundation Collection.

Featured Artists ＊In alphabetical order by the artist’s surname
AOKI Shigeru, Pierre BONNARD, Constantin BRANCUSI, Paul CÉZANNE, ENKU, FUJITA
Tsuguharu, KISHIDA Ryusei, Paul KLEE, KURODA Seiki, KUSAMA Yayoi, Édouard MANET,MARUYAMA Okyo, Henri MATISSE, Piet MONDRIAN, Claude MONET, Pablo PICASSO,Jackson POLLOCK, François POMPON, Pierre-Auguste RENOIR, Robert RYMAN, SAEKI
Yuzo, SAKAI Hoitsu, Ettore SOTTSASS, SUZUKI Kiitsu, TOYOTOMI Hideyoshi, ZAO Wou-Ki

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Works on Display

CHINA, Longquan ware Vase, celadon,
decorated with iron brown spots, Yüan
dynasty, 14th century, Important Cultural
Property, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi
Foundation

ENKU, Buddhist Image, Edoperiod, 17th century, ArtizonMuseum, Ishibashi Foundation

FUJITA Tsuguharu, Interior, House in Dordogne,1940, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation★ © Foundation Foujita / ADAGP,Paris＆JASPAR,Tokyo, 2024 C4572

Pablo PICASSO, Saltimbanque Seatedwith Arms Crossed, 1923, Artizon
Museum, Ishibashi Foundation★

© 2024 - Succession Pablo Picasso BCF (JAPAN)

SAKAI Hoitsu / SUZUKI Kiitsu,

Summer, from the Twelve Months,
Edo period, 19th century, ArtizonMuseum, Ishibashi Foundation

Claude MONET, Twilight, Venice, c. 1908, ArtizonMuseum, Ishibashi Foundation

KISHIDA Ryusei, Portrait of Reiko,
1922, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi
Foundation

Ettore SOTTSASS, Totem No. 2, 1964
(design) / 1996 (produce), Artizon
Museum, Ishibashi Foundation ★
© erede Ettore Sottsass, JASPAR,Tokyo, 2024 C4572

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Place and Piece
Where was this work displayed, who loved it, andwhy is it here now?
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
Artizon Museum, 6, 5, 4F Galleries
July 27 [Sat] - October 14 [Mon], 2024
10:00 - 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays)*Last entry 30 minutes before closing.
Mondays (except August 12, September 16, 23,October 14), August 13, September 17, 24
Timed entry system(Online booking starts from May 28, 2024)
Online ticket: 1,200 yen
In-Person ticket (purchase at museum): 1,500 yen
Students: Free entry (Advance online booking required.)*In-Person ticket may be purchased at the museum, if the time slot is not full.
*Advance booking is not required for children up to junior high school age.

Curators:

HEIMA Rika, ITO Eriko

Artizon Museum
1-7-2 Kyobashi Chuo-ku Tokyo 104-0031 Japan
Tel. Domestic: 050-5541-8600 International: +81 47-316-2772 (Hello Dial)
https://www.artizon.museum/en/

Directions: 5 minutes on foot from JR Tokyo Station (Yaesu Central Exit); Tokyo Metro Ginza Line Kyobashi
Station (No.6, 7 Exit); Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, Tozai Line, Toei Asakusa Line Nihombashi Station (B1 Exit)

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