News Release
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April 21, 2021
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Special Section: Sculptures and Prints by Marino Marini
May 15 (Sat.) ‒ September 5 (Sun.), 2021
Held concurrently with STEPS AHEAD: Recent Acquisitions

Marino Marini, Rider on a Green Ground, 1957, Lithograph©SIAE, Roman & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2021 C3493

The Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation (Director: Ishibashi Hiroshi) will hold the Sculptures

and Prints by Marino Marini exhibition in the special section on the museum’s fourth floor.
Marino Marini (1901-1980), one of Italy’s most celebrated twentieth-century sculptors, isfamed for his sculptures of horses and riders. Early in his career, he produced paintings, but fromthe 1940s on he made sculpture the core of his work, fascinating people with a style that
concisely expresses a powerful life force. His being awarded the Grand Prize for Sculpture at theVenice Biennale in 1952 established his reputation internationally. He also made printmaking amajor part of his creative practice, producing a large number of prints. The Ishibashi Foundation
Collection includes lithographs that Marini created between 1943 and 1965, making possible
seeing changes in his style over two decades.
This exhibition displays twenty-five works by Marini from the collection, including two
sculptures, twenty-one prints, one painting, and one book, presenting this artist’s multifaceted
creative activities and their captivating results.
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Exhibition Overview
Exhibition title:

Special Section: Sculptures and Prints by Marino Marini

Organizer:

Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Venue:

4F Gallery

Exhibition period:

May 15 (Sat.) ‒ September 5 (Sun.), 2021

Opening hours:

10:00 ‒ 18:00 (evening hours on Fridays suspended until further notice)*Last admission 30 minutes before closing.

Closed:Mondays (except August 9) and August 10

Admission (tax included):

Date and time reservation system
Online ticket: 1,200 yen
Same day ticket (on sale at museum): 1,500 yen
Students Free entry (Advance online booking required.)*The ticket price includes entry to all 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 children up to junior high school.

Curator:

Kagawa Kyoko

Concurrent Exhibitions:

STEPS AHEAD: Recent Acquisitions (6F, 5F, 4F Galleries)
National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties from Ishibashi
Foundation’s collection of East Asian and Japanese art, with exhibits
divided between two display periods (4F Display Case Room)

Artizon Museum
1-7-2 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031, Japan
Tel. Domestic: 050-5541-8600 International: 047-316-2772 (Hello Dial)
www.artizon.museum

Images for Press Use
Marini’s works are still under copyright. Please confirm the conditions below when using these images anduse the image credits as provided. Do not trim images or overlay them with text.

Conditions of Use*We will lend an image for use in newspapers and magazines, to publicize this exhibition, if the image as
published will be within 50 cm2 in size (with no trimming or overlaid text) and the accompanying text
within 400 words (in the case of Japanese). To borrow an image, please contact our public relations office.
*For use in other media, including on the web, please consult our public relations office.
*For other images, please contact our public relations office.

For inquiries about this press release:
Artizon Museum Marini 2021 PR Office (within OHANA, Inc.)
Contacts: Takahashi, Hosokawa, Senō
Tel.: 03-6869-7881 Fax: 03-6869-7801 E-mail: artizon-pr@ohanapr.co.jp
Risona Kudan Bldg 5F, 1-5-6 Kudan Minami, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0074

For inquiries about the Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation:
Artizon Museum Public Relations Department
E-mail: publicity@artizon.jp
1-7-2 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031Risona Kudan Bldg 5F, 1-5-6 Kudan Minami, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 102-0074

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