News Release
ATZ200602E_E_1

June 2, 2020
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection×Tomoko Konoike

Tomoko Konoike: FLIP
23 June (Tuesday) to 25 October (Sunday), 2020
The Artizon Museum of the Ishibashi Foundation (Director : Ishibashi Hiroshi ) is delighted to announce that
Jam Sessions are annual joint showings of works from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection and works bycontemporary artists. The Jam Sessions are a new, adventurous challenge for the museum.
For the first in this series we welcome Tomoko Konoike, whose work transcends the conventional approachesof painting and sculpture, using as her media travel (which combines time and motion), song and narrative(which are verbal languages), toys and handicrafts--the familiar actions and means of daily life. In theseworks she reconsiders the primal form of human culture, hunting and gathering, continuing her fundamental
questioning of art.
Konoike, in preparation for this exhibition, has repeatedly engaged in dialogs with many of the elements thathave shaped the Artizon Museum. She visited the Bridgestone’s tire factory in Kyushu and its technical centerin Tokyo and interviewed the Museum’s director and others involved. She also listened to lectures about thecollection by the Museum’s curators and carefully explored the framework that guided creation of museums
during the modern period, searching for new possibilities.
The result of this process is an installation with a round large fusuma-e (sliding-door painting) as its center,that reaches across the entire gallery. Encountering this work through all five senses subtly reorients--flips-the visitor’s point of view..
As animals, each human being grasps the world with totally different perceptions. We see theworld through our own umwelts. None are the same. No words are identical. No light isidentical. If the arts prepare themselves for that and address it honestly, then in time a newecosystem, filled with the senses, for a small organism, will begin to function. Instead of
substituting illusions for words, let us feel our way to the small things we encounter daily, play,and quietly do our work. (Konoike)①Leather Kite, as displayed atthe Setouchi InternationalArt Festival 2019.

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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 ofabout 2,800 works, the collection spans Western paintings, modern Japanese-style paintings, sculpture andceramics from East and West, and Chinese and Japanese calligraphy and paintings, as well twentieth century
and contemporary art.

Jam Sessions
The Jam Sessions embody “Experiencing Creativity,” the concept guiding the Artizon Museum, which
reopened in a new form in January 2020. For Jam Sessions, artists and curators working together organize
exhibitions with new works inspired by specific works in the Ishibashi Foundation Collection and sessions inwhich the collection and the artist’s 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 everyyear.

Highlights(1) An installation newly created for this exhibition
The central work is the newly created large fusuma-e (sliding-door painting). A unique slope was been madeto surround it. Around it are shadowgraph hanging paper lanterns, symbolizing mandalas, and in the artist’svoice, sounds of creatures other than human beings--wolves, winds, snow maidens--reverberate. By shifting
perspectives, it creates new experiences, new ways to appreciate the world. This is Konoike’s first major solo
exhibition in Tokyo in eleven years, since her 2009 Inter-Traveler exhibition at the Tokyo Opera City Art
Gallery.
(2) A session with the artist and the Ishibashi Foundation Collection
Leather Kite, a work twelve meters wide and four meters tall, was shown at the Setouchi International ArtFestival 2019, where it was installed on a hill for a year and then brought to this exhibition, where it shows
the changes it has undergone over time. Beside it, works from our collection, including Gustave COURBET’s
Deer Running in the Snow and Alfred SISLEY’s Women Going to the Woods, are placed to engage inconversation with it. A wild ambience fills the gallery.
(3) Looking with newborn eyes: The birth of seeing
Between each gallery, bear and wolf skins, wood, vinyl, ceramics, yarn, and other materials hang down,
creating paths through a forest. As we wend our way through them, sensesdormant within us are aroused,
and a newborn, primitive body opens its eyes. The full body experience--not just vision, but touch, smell,and hearing--Konoike has named ”the birth of seeing.” It is the genesis of savoring the surprises and richnessof as-yet-unknown experiences.

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Tomoko Konoike Biography
Born in Akita in 1960. Recent solo exhibitions include, Primordial
Violence, 2015-17, in Kanagawa Kenmin Hall, the Museum ofModern Art, Gunma, and the Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum(awarded the 2016 Ministry of Education’s Art EncouragementPrize); Fur Story, 2018, Leeds Arts University (UK); and Hunter
Gatherer, 2018, Akita Museum of Modern Art. Groupexhibitions include Temporal Turn, 2016, Spencer Museum,
University of Kansas, USA; Nous, 2016, 21st Century Museum ofContemporary Art, Kanazawa; Japan—Spirits of Nature, 2017
Nordiska Akvarellmuseet (Sweden); and the Setouchi
International Art Festival 2019. Writings include Animal
Language and the picture book Book Burning World of Wonder(both published by Hatori Shoten).

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Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection×Tomoko Konoike
Tomoko Konoike: FLIP
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
6F Gallery
June 23 (Tuesday) to October 25(Sunday), 2020
10:00 – 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays/ suspended until further notice)* Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
Closed on Mondays (open 10 August, 21 September), 11 August, 23 September
Online reservation available beginning Wednesday, June 3
Online reservation: 1,100 Yen / Same-day ticket (available at ticket counter):
1,500 Yen/ Student discount: free admission for students (online reservationrequired)
Same-day tickets at ticket counter only available in case online reservation
tickets have not been sold out. (No reservation required for middle-school
students and younger.)*Tickets include admission to the two concurrent exhibitions detailed below.
Kagawa Kyoko and Ueda Anna

Concurrent Exhibitions
・Exhibition in Japan of the Japan Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia, “Cosmo-Eggs” (5F Gallery)
・Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection, Special Section
New Acquisitions: The Paul Klee Collection (4F Gallery)
・Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection, Special Section
Women Impressionists (4F Gallery)

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Artizon Museum

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Image Credits

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① Leather Kite, as displayed at the Setouchi International Art Festival 2019
② Drop Curtain of Cowhide, as displayed at Primordial Violence, 2015, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery③ Moon Bear, 2018 (reference image)④ Moon Bear Goes up the River, video, 2018 (reference image)⑤ Dream Hunting Grounds, as displayed at the Hunter Gatherer exhibition, 2018, Akita
Museum of Modern Art⑥ Dream Hunting Grounds, as displayed at the Hunter Gatherer exhibition, 2018, Akita
Museum of Modern Art⑦ Gustave Courbet, Deer Running in the Snow, ca. 1856-57; Artizon Museum, Ishibashi
Foundation

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