News Release
ATZ220222̲E̲JFebruary 22, 2022
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Photography and Painting: From Cézanne

Shibata Toshio and Suzuki Risaku
Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × Shibata Toshio × Suzuki Risaku

April 29 [Fri.]−July 10 [Sun.], 2022

SHIBATA Toshio, Obanazawa City, Yamagata Prefecture, 2018SUZUKI Risaku, Sensation 09, C-58, 2009

The Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation (Director: Ishibashi Hiroshi), presents

Photography and Painting: From Cézanne Shibata Toshio and Suzuki Risaku Jam Session:The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × Shibata Toshio × Suzuki Risaku.
Photography was invented and was popularized in the nineteenth century. At thatsame time, the Impressionists were a starting point in a series of major changes from what
had been traditional painting styles. Photography played a considerable role in motivating
those changes. Meanwhile, since its birth in the mid nineteenth century, the photographhas also sought to be treated as a work of art, in a painterly style, rather than a mere
documentary record. That art photography mindset lives on today. The photographic worksby Shibata Toshio and Suzuki Risaku, two contemporary artists, share a creative concept
with modern art: expressing the human view of objects. This Jam Session thus pairs themwith work by Paul Cézanne, whom they had been interested in since the very beginning of
their careers, to explore the relationship between contemporary photography and painting.
The exhibition consists of six sections. Of them, four are jam sessions unfolding
between both artistsʼ work, including new works, and the Ishibashi Foundation Collection.
The Paul Cézanne section and the Sesshu section will each offer collaborations by threeartists.
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Exhibition Highlights

SHIBATA Toshio, Okawa Village, Kochi
Prefecture, 2007, Collection of TOKYOPHOTOGRAPHIC ART MUSEUMPaul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire andChâteau Noir, c. 1904-06, Artizon Museum,
Ishibashi Foundation

SUZUKI Risaku, Sensation 09, C-58, 2009

With dams, bridges, and other artificial structures in natural settings as his subject, Shibata
Toshio captures the viewerʼs imagination by simplifying forms through his awareness ofthe relationship between his works and paintings and throwing the central motifs in sharprelief. Meanwhile, Suzuki Risaku addresses issues related to the way in which we see things
by capturing subjects such as Mont Sainte-Victoire, Cézanneʼs studio, cherry blossoms, andsnow through the mechanical perception of the camera.
Both Shibata and Suzuki have viewed Cézanneʼs attitude (as an artist who dared tomanifest his own sense of vision while conforming to nature) and innovative approach asimportant points of reference since the beginning of their careers.
This exhibition highlights the uniqueness and charms of their photographic
works by juxtaposing them with various paintersʼ works in the Ishibashi Foundation
Collection. While both focus on Cézanne, Shibata also deals with Fujishima Takeji, Henri
Matisse, and Piet Mondrian; and Suzuki with Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, and PierreBonnard.

Piet MONDRIAN, Dune, 1909,Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

SHIBATA Toshio, Minobu Town,
Yamanashi Prefecture, 2021

Pierre BONNARD, Peaches,
1920, Artizon Museum,Ishibashi Foundation

SUZUKI Risaku, Still Life 21,
ST-127, 2021

Shibata Toshio
Born in Tokyo in 1949, Shibata completed the oil painting graduate program at Tokyo Universityof the Arts, then entered the photography course at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gent,Belgium, and began his full engagement in photography. Using a large format camera, hephotographs landscapes with built structures, including dams and concrete retaining walls,
publishing his work as detailed black-and-white prints. He also began working in color in the2000s, expanding his expressive range. His work is in many museum collections in Japan andabroad.

Suzuki Risaku
Born in Shingu, Wakayama prefecture, in 1963. Graduated from the Tokyo College ofPhotography Research Department. In 1998, he published KUMANO, his first photo book,composed of sequences on the subject of visualizing points of view moving from here to there,shifting settings, and temporal change. Consistently making an analytic focus on the act ofseeing as the basis of his work, he continues to photograph on themes that include Kumano,Mont Sainte-Victoire, cherry trees, snow, flowers, portraits, and the waterʼs surface. He presents
his work in exhibitions and photo books.
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The Ishibashi Foundation Collection
The Ishibashi Foundation Collection began as the personal collection of Ishibashi Shojiro, its
founder, and is now owned by the Ishibashi Foundation, which continues those collecting
activities. Presently consisting of about 2,800 works, the collection spans Western paintings,
modern Japanese-style paintings, sculpture and ceramics from East and West, and Chinese andJapanese calligraphy and paintings, as well twentieth century and contemporary art.

Jam Sessions
The Jam Sessions embody Experiencing Creativity, the concept guiding the Artizon Museum.
For Jam Sessions, artists and curators working together organize exhibitions with new works
inspired by specific works in the Ishibashi Foundation Collection and sessions in which thecollection and the artistʼs works interact to create new points of view. Our goal is a project thatwill be a bridge past and present and lead on to the future. The museum plans to hold a Jam
Session every year.

Works on Exhibition
Shibata Toshio

Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture, 2008

Gent, Belgium, 1979

5Nasushiobara City, Tochigi Prefecture, 2020

Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture, 2013

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Suzuki Risaku

Giverny 16, G-41, 2016

Sensation 09, C-96, 2009

La plaque sensible 18, PS−434, 2018

Apples 21, P-13, 2021

The Ishibashi Foundation Collection

SESSHU, Landscape of the Four Seasons, Muromachi period, 15th century, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

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Exhibition Overview
Exhibition title:

Photography and Painting: From Cézanne
Shibata Toshio and Suzuki Risaku
Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × Shibata Toshio × Suzuki
RisakuOrganized byArtizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Venue:

Artizon Museum, 6F Gallery, a part of 4F Gallery

Exhibition period:

April 29 [Fri.] ‒ July 10 [Sun.], 2022

Opening hours:

10:00 ‒ 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays except April 29)*Last entry 30 minutes before closing.

Closed:Mondays

Admission (incl.tax):

Timed entry system(Online booking starts from March 1, 2022)
Online ticket: 1,200 yen
Same day ticket (on sale at museum): 1,500 yen
Students: Free entry (Advance online booking required.)*This admission fee gives visitor access to the concurrent exhibitions.
*Same day tickets on sale at the museum are available only for time slotsthat have not reached full capacity.
*Advance booking is not required for children up to junior high school age.

*The exhibition details are subject to change without notice.
Total number of works on exhibition: app. 270
Shibata Toshio: app. 150 works (40 of which are new or never before shown)
Suzuki Risaku: app. 90 works (65 of which are new or never before shown)Works from the Ishibashi Foundation: app. 30
Curators:

SHIMBATA Yasuhide, UTSUMI Junya

Concurrent Exhibitions:

Transformation: Arts Crossing Borders in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection: Special Section
Learning: Prints by Picasso and Miró

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