Kansai Scene Magazine :: Arts & events

Sept 2003
#040

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Aloha!

Until 9/15

American artist Judith L. Ritter presents her thrid annual silk painting show at Ikeda's VEGA Gallery, featuring exotic flowers and women from the Land of Aloha Spirit, Hawaii. Birds of Paradise, Hibiscus, and Spider Lillies float around island ladies on silver blue backgrounds. While each year's theme differs, as seen by the range of the 2001 "Women of Asia" and the 2002 "In the Garden" shows, her style continues to mature into a self-described "stylized realism." While strongly influenced by traditional Japanese scrolls and woodblock prints, her desire to capture moments of everyday life makes her silk paintings uniquely contemporary. This "Stylized Realism" is also making its debut in this show of two paintings in the Yuzen kimono painting style.

VEGA Gallery
Hankyu Ikeda Station 2F
September 10-15, 2003
10am-7pm (last day 10am-4pm) Admission Free
Tel: 0727-50-3333
www.azaleanet.or.jp

FREE GIVEAWAY
Herb Ritz Exhibition

9/18 - 9/29

An exhibition of American photogra-pher Herb Ritts (1952-2002) whose images glorified the well known helping to mythologise celebrity in the 1980's and '90s, will be held at the Daimaru Museum (Shinsaibashi). Ritz relied on clean, graphic compositions that often portrayed models and celebrities in the visual language of classical Greek sculpture.

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Daimaru Museum–Shinsaibashi
Open 10am-7:30pm.
On 22nd (Mon) open until 5:30pm.
¥800 (students ¥600)
Tel: 06-4968-5701

September Art Listings

Sept.3-23
Pablo Picasso Exhibition
Daimaru Museum Umeda
Picasso's work made in his later years
Admission: ¥800/¥600/children free
Open: 10am-7:30pm (5:30pm on last day)
Tel: 06-6343-1231

Until Sept.23
Installations by Kenji Yanobe
Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan
Inside Expo Park, Banpaku Kinen
Admission : ¥420/¥130/¥70/free
Open: 10am-4:30pm, closed Wed.
Tel: 06-6876-2481

Thru Nov.25
West Africa Exhibition
Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Haku-butsukan (Museum of Ethnology) Inside Expo Park, Banpaku Kinen
Open 10am-4:30pm, closed Wed.
Tel: 06-6876-2481

Thru Sept.28
Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics
Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
Yodoyabashi stn. Keihan/subway line
Tel: 06-6223-0055

Sept.13-Oct.19
Women Surrealists in Mexico
Suntory Museum, Tempozan
Frida Kahlo and other 4 artisits exhibit over 80 works
Admission: ¥1,000/¥700/¥500
Open 10:30am-7pm, closed Mon.
Tel: 06-6577-0001

Thru Oct.13
Kamisaka Sekka Retrospective
Kyoto Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan Okazaki Park
An Heir to the Rinpa School — A Pioneer of Modern Design Kamisaka Sekka's frist retrospective exhibition after his death.
Admission: ¥1,200/¥800/¥600
Open: 9:30am-4:30pm
Closed Mon.
Tel: 075-761-4111

Thru Sept.15
Informal Artists Exhibition from the 60's
Nara Kenritsu Bijutsukan
Admission: ¥400/¥250/¥150
Open: 9am-4:30pm, closed Mon.
Tel: 0742-48-1167

Thru Sept.28
Bologna Fiera del Libero per Ragazzi
Nishinomiya Otani Kinen Bijutsukan, Hanshin Koroen stn.
Admission: ¥800/¥600/¥400
Open: 10am-4:30pm Closed Wed.
Tel: 0798-33-0164

Thru Sept.15
Japan Glass Art Society
Itami Shiritsu Kogei Center, Jr/Hankyu Itami stn.
Group Exhibition
Admission: free
Open: 10am-5:30pm
Tel: 0727-72-5557

Thru Sept.15
Miyamoto Musashi Exhibition
Hyogo Kenritsu Rekishi Hakubutsuskan
Jr/Sanyo Dentetsu Himeji stn.
Admission : ¥200/¥150
Open: 10am-4:30pm, closed Mon.
Tel: 0792-22-2288

Thru Sept.8
Performance Party: Noda Tomoyuki Exhibition
Itami Hall, Hankyu/Jr Itami stn.
Admission: free
Open 9am-10pm, closed Tue.
Tel: 0727-78-8788

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