News Release
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November 25, 2020
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

The Artizon Museum 2021 Exhibition Schedule
The Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation (Ishibashi Hiroshi, Director) is pleased toannounce its exhibition schedule for 2021.

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Rimpa and Impressionism:
Jan.

Arts Produced by Urban Cultures, East and West
14 November [Sat], 2020 - 24 January [Sun], 2021

Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection
Special Section:
Aoki Shigeru, Sakamoto Hanjiro, Koga Harue, andTheir Age: Artists from Kurume
3 November [Tue], 2020 - 24 January [Sun], 2021

Feb.

Mar.

Steps Ahead: Recent Acquisitions
13 February [Sat] - 9 May [Sun], 2021

Apr.

MayJune

JulySelections from the Ishibashi
Foundation Collection

Monet: Questioning Nature
A special exhibition from the Museé dʼOrsay and Museé de lʼOrangerie
29 May [Sat] - 10 September [Fri], 2021

Aug.

Special Section:
Sculptures and Prints by Marino
Marini
29 May [Sat] - 10 September [Fri],
2021

Sept.

Oct.

Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation
Collection×Morimura Yasumasa

Nov.

A Gift of the Sea, M-Style
Morimura Yasumasa’s
Auto-Mythology

Dec.

2 October [Sat], 2021 - 10 January [Mon],
2022

Education and OutreachWhat’s That?
The Living Museum
2 October [Sat], 2021 - 10 January [Mon],
2022

Selections from the Ishibashi
Foundation Collection
Special Section:
France and Wine in the 20thCentury, in Illustrated Books
22 September [Wed], 2021 - 10 January [Mon],
2022*Subject to change. Please check our website for the latest information.

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Rimpa and Impressionism: Arts Produced by Urban Cultures, East and West
14 November [Sat], 2020 - 24 January [Sun], 2021
First half: 14 November 14 [Sat] ‒ 20 December [Sun], 2020
Second half: 22 December [Tue], 2020 ‒ 24 January [Sun], 2021
*Works on display will be changed during the exhibition period. Please check our website.

Tawaraya Sotatsu, Wind God and Thunder God, Edo period, 17th century,

Édouard Manet, Chrysanthemums, c.1881,

Kenninji Temple, National Treasure

The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki（On exhibit from 22 December [Tue], 2020 to 24 January [Sun], 2021)

The Rimpa school of painting was initiated by Tawaraya Sotatsu in the early seventeenth century. Itevolved through the work of Ogata Korin in the early eighteenth century and Sotatsu s and Korin scolleagues in context of the townsman culture of Kyoto, then Japan s imperial capital. In the earlynineteenth century, Rimpa was carried on by artists such as Sakai Hoitsu and Suzuki Kiitsu, in Edo(today s Tokyo), the shogun s headquarters. In Edo, the evolving Rimpa school became an urban genre
with a decorative aesthetic at its core.
Impressionism was an innovative, modern school of art that emerged in Europe in the latter half of thenineteenth century. Centered on Paris, the Impressionists included artists such as Édouard Manet, Claude
Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Paul Cézanne who candidly expressed their impressionsof their everyday experiences and the delights of urban lifestyles.
This exhibition is an innovative attempt to compare and survey, through works by artistic geniuses
nurtured by urban cultures in Japan and Europe, East and West, what the sophisticated aesthetics
characteristic of major metropolises achieved. The exhibition includes the Impressionist masterpieces
that are the core of our collection and Rimpa works from our collection being shown for the first time,plus masterworks from temples and museums in Japan. The hundred exhibits include two National
Treasures and seven Important Cultural Properties. Rimpa and Impressionism, a watershed exhibition,
makes urban culture its lens in reassessing Eastern and Western art.
Venue:

6, 5F Galleries

Hours:

10:00 ‒ 18:00(Evening hours, with the museum open until 20:00 on Fridays, have been suspended until further notice.)*Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
Closed:Mondays (open November 23, January 11), November 24, Year end and New Years(December 28 to January 4), January 12

Organizers:

Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Nikkei Inc.

Admission (tax included): Online ticket: 1,700 Yen
Same-day ticket (on sale at museum): 2,000 Yen
Student free entry (Advance online booking required.)*Same-day tickets at ticket counter only available in case online reservation tickets have notbeen sold out.
*No reservation required for middle-school students and younger.
*This admission fee gives the visitor access to all concurrent exhibitions.

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Steps Ahead: Recent Acquisitions
13 February [Sat] - 9 May [Sun], 2021

Henri MATISSE, Jacquy, 1947, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Steps Ahead introduces the Artizon Museum s recent acquisitions to the collection. In recent years, theIshibashi Foundation has worked to develop its core collection of Impressionist and modern Japanesepaintings more fully while expanding the collection s breadth to include works from the early twentiethcentury, especially Abstract paintings, contemporary art and early modern Japanese art. Since opening,
we have been gradually introducing our new acquisitions, but others remain yet to be displayed: works
by the Cubists, drawings by Henri Matisse, Box in a valise by Marcel Duchamp, women Abstract
Expressionists, Takiguchi Shūzō and Experimental Workshop, contemporary Australian paintings, portrait
photographs of artists, and much more. This exhibition of about 250 works, including 120 new
acquisitions, provides a view of the Artizon Museum s continuing progress.
Venue:

6, 5, 4F Galleries

Hours:

10:00 ‒ 18:00(Evening hours, with the museum open until 20:00 on Fridays, have been suspended until further notice.)*Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
Closed:Mondays (open May 3)

Organizer:

Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Admission (tax included):

Online ticket: 1,200 Yen
Same-day ticket (on sale at museum): 1,500 Yen
Student free entry (Advance online booking required.)*Same-day tickets at ticket counter only available in case online reservation tickets have notbeen sold out.
*No reservation required for middle-school students and younger.
*This admission fee gives the visitor access to all concurrent exhibitions.

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Monet: Questioning Nature
A special exhibition from the Museé dʼOrsay and Museé de lʼOrangerie
29 May [Sat] - 10 September [Fri], 2021

Claude MONET, Hôtel des Roches Noires, Trouville,
1870, Musée d'Orsay

Claude MONET, Water-Lily Pond, Symphony in Green,
1899, Musée d'Orsay

Photo© RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski / distributed by AMF

Photo© RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Stéphane Maréchalle / distributed by AMF

Claude Monet was fascinated by the beauty of natural light in natural settings and dedicated his life toexploring it and seeking ways to express it. The landscape paintings that this giant among theImpressionists created utterly overturned traditional approaches to painting. His work became a meansof communicating the worldview and poetic sentiments of a new era. Sylvie Patry, Chief Curator andDirector for Curatorial Affairs and Collections at the Musée d Orsay, supervised this exhibition, which
combines works from the Musée d Orsay, which has the world s finest Monet collection, with works
from collections in Japan to present a comprehensive view of Monet s landscape paintings.
Le Havre, Argenteuil, Vétheuil, Giverny, Venice: this exhibition explores Monet s oeuvre, in each periodand place. What did he see in each of his chosen places, how did he depict it, and what themes did heincorporate in his paintings? This close examination of his work reveals the distinctive characteristics ofMonet s landscape paintings.
Venue:

6, 5F Galleries

Hours:

10:00 ‒ 18:00(Evening hours, with the museum open until 20:00 on Fridays, have been suspended until further notice.)*Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
Closed:June 14, 28, July 12, 26, August 2

Organizers:

Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Nikkei Inc.

Admission:

TBD*Designated date and time entry system*Same-day tickets at ticket counter only available in case online reservation tickets
have not been sold out.

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Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection × Morimura Yasumasa

A Gift of the Sea, M-Style Morimura Yasumasas Auto-Mythology

2 October [Sat],2021 - 10 January [Mon], 2022

MORIMURA Yasumasa, Self Portrait in My Youth (Aokis Self Portrait/Youth), 2016, collection of the artist

Jam Session is a joint performance by the Ishibashi Foundation Collection and a contemporary artist. For
our second session, we welcome Morimura Yasumasa, who has, since 1985, when he produced a selfportrait photograph in which he had dressed himself to resemble van Gogh s self portrait, he hascontinued to create

self portrait-ish works

in which he disguises himself as the person in a painting or

photograph̶choosing sources from diverse periods and cultures̶and recreates it, adding his own
interpretations. Morimura has long had a secret love of the works by Aoki Shigeru in our museum andcreated works inspired by Aoki s Self Portrait (1903) and A Gift of the Sea (1904). For this Jam Session,
Morimura addresses A Gift of the Sea head on. He gives shape to the history of the many changes inJapanese culture, politics, and thought since the Meiji period, when Aoki created that work, in his own
Morimura-style, or M-style, A Gift of the Sea. He has elevated his ardent feelings for Aoki into a new seriesof works.
*For a shortened form of the exhibition title, please use Jam Session: A Gift of the Sea, M-Style Morimura Yasumasas Auto-Mythology or Jam Session: Morimura Yasumasa s A Gift of the Sea, M-Style

Venue:

6F Gallery

Hours:

10:00 ‒ 18:00(Evening hours, with the museum open until 20:00 on Fridays, have been suspended until further notice.)*Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
Closed:Mondays (open October 11, January 10), October 12, Year end and New Years(December 27 to January 3)

Organizer:

Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Admission:

TBD*Designated date and time entry system*Same-day tickets at ticket counter only available in case online reservation tickets
have not been sold out.

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Education and Outreach ̶Whats That?

The Living Museum

2 October [Sat], 2021 - 10 January [Mon], 2022Pierre-Auguste RENOIR, Mlle Georgette Charpentier Seated,1876,Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Education and Outreach Activities ̶have you heard that phrase with reference to art museums?
Museums have the power to connect people and objects, people and people, people and memories, andto create new narratives. Education and outreach activities prepare and provide access routes to art forall. The Artizon Museum has, since our Bridgestone Museum days, conducted gallery talks (for thegeneral public), school programs (for educational institutions), family programs (for families), outreach(activities extending beyond the walls of the museum), and workshops. These programs

main focus isour collection. Now we present the enormous wealth of all those programs, held thus far at the museum
and the Ishibashi Foundation Art Research Center, plus the signature works of art that have been featured
in those programs.

Venue:

5F Gallery

Hours:

10:00 ‒ 18:00(Evening hours, with the museum open until 20:00 on Fridays, have been suspended until further notice.)*Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
Closed:Mondays (open October 11, January 10), October 12, Year end and New Years(December 27 to January 3)

Organizer:

Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Admission:

TBD*Designated date and time entry system*Same-day tickets at ticket counter only available in case online reservation tickets
have not been sold out.

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Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection
The Ishibashi Foundation collection presently numbers some 2,800 works. Throughout the year, themuseum will introduce a variety of works from the collection, including Impressionist andtwentieth-century Western paintings, modern Japanese paintings from the Meiji period on, postwar
Abstract paintings, classic Japanese and East Asian art, and Greek and Roman art.

Special Section
Part of the fourth floor gallery will house this special section, in which three phases of displays of works
from the collection are planned, as described below.

Aoki Shigeru, Sakamoto Hanjiro, Koga Harue, and Their Age:
Artists from Kurume
3 November [Tue], 2020 - 24 January [Sun], 2021
Aoki Shigeru, Sakamoto Hanjiro, and Koga Harue are among the manystars of modern Japanese Western-style painting that Kurume has
produced. This exhibition focuses on artists associated with Kurume andintroduces new acquisitions, including Aoki Shigeru's Sketch of a Bugaku
Mask, which has not been displayed for many years, and the last work bySakamoto Hanjiro.
SAKAMOTO Hanjiro, Three Grazing Horses,
1932, Oil on canvas,
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Hours:

10:00 ‒ 18:00(Evening hours, with the museum open until 20:00 on Fridays, have been suspended until further notice. For
the latest information, please check our website.)*Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
Closed:Mondays (open November 23, January 11), November 13, 24, Year end and New
Years (December 28 to January 4), January 12

Organizer:

Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Admission (tax included):◆ 3 November [Tue] ‒ 12 November [Thu], 2020
During this period, only the 4F Gallery will be open; the 5F and 6F Galleries will be closed.
* The admission fee applies only to Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection, which includes this exhibition.

Online ticket: 500 Yen
Same-day ticket (on sale at museum): 500 Yen
Student free entry (Advance online booking required.)◆ 14 November [Sat], 2020 ‒ 24 January [Sun], 2021
During this period the Rimpa and Impressionism: Arts Produced by Urban Cultures, East and Westexhibition will be held concurrently. This admission fee includes admission to all concurrent exhibitons.

Online ticket: 1,700 Yen
Same-day ticket (on sale at museum): 2,000 Yen
Student free entry (Advance online booking required.)*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.

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Sculptures and Prints by Marino Marini
29 May [Sat] - 10 September [Fri], 2021
Marino Marini is known as the archetypical Italian sculptor of the twentiethcentury, but he also produced a large number of prints. Through the sculpturesand prints in the Ishibashi Foundation Collection, we introduce Marini s
diverse creative activities and the allure of his work.
Hours:

10:00 ‒ 18:00(Evening hours, with the museum open until 20:00 on Fridays, have beensuspended until further notice.)*Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
Marino MARINI, Rider, 1952,
Artizon Museum,
Ishibashi Foundation

＠SIAE, Roma & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2020 C3398

Closed:June 14, 28, July 12, 26, August 2

Organizer: Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
Admission: TBD*Designated date and time entry system*Same-day tickets are available at the museum ticket counter only for time slotsthat have not reached full capacity.

France and Wine in the 20th Century, in Illustrated Books
22 September [Wed], 2021 - 10 January [Mon], 2022

The Ishibashi Foundation Collection includes illustrated books on the themes ofwine and liquor, published in the twentieth century, for which French artists
such as Utrillo and Dufy created the illustrations. In this gallery, we introduce
Vins, Fleurs, et Flammes (Wines, flowers, and flames, 1952) and two otherbooks with illustrations by Utrillo and other artists.
Hours:

10:00 ‒ 18:00(Evening hours, with the museum open until 20:00 onFridays, have beensuspended until further notice.)*Last admission 30 minutes before closing.

Maurice UTRILLO, Book I:

Illustration for Wine, Flowersand Flames(Text by Georges Duhamel, et.
al.) Book II: Illustration for
Across our Vineyards (Textby René Héron de Villefosse)
1952, Artizon Museum,Ishibashi Foundation

Closed:Mondays (open October 11, January 10), October 1, 12, Year end and
New Years (December 27 to January 3)

Organizer: Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
Admission: TBD*Designated date and time entry system*Same-day tickets are available at the museum ticket counter only for time slotsthat have not reached full capacity.

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