KS Cover no. 123 2010 AUGUST

AUGUST 2010 :: 123

The World of Komura Settai — The Aesthetic Sense and Sensibility of an Unknown Virtuoso Painter

UNTIL Aug 29

Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum

A Saitama Prefecture-born Settai Komura (1887-1940) is an artist who worked on book design, illustration, prints and stage art from the Taisho (1912-1926) to the early Showa (1926-1989) periods. He was hired by an art magazine publisher from 1908 to 1910, and then by a well-known cosmetic company Shiseido from 1918 to 1923 where he worked on advertisements. Having learned nihonga (Japanese-style painting) at Tokyo School of Fine Arts (today’s Tokyo University of Art), he often used nihonga-like motifs in unique compositions using aerial views. His works ‘Willow Tree’ (c. 1924) and ‘Cherry Blossoms’ (1934) are good examples. This show offers a rare opportunity to enjoy around 80 works by Komura, who was quite prolific and popular in his time but is a rather unknown artist these days, including 50 hand-drawn paintings and illustrations. Lacquer ware, on which Komura’s illustrations are used, are also exhibited.

• Open: 10am-5pm, closed Mon, Tue • Admission: ¥500 • City bus from JR Kyoto stn • Tel: 075-532-4271 • www.sannenzaka-museum.co.jp

Tabaimo: Danmen

Jul 13-Sep 12

National Museum of Art, Osaka

Tabaimo (b. 1975) may be a unique name for an artist. It’s her nickname from childhood, which means “Tabata’s younger sister,” from her family name Tabata and the fact that she was the middle of three siblings. Born in Hyogo Prefecture, she studied at Kyoto University of Art and Design. Her graduation work, which took a form of video installation, already attracted attention. She also works in video installation today, for which she draws hundreds and thousands of paintings. Even though she scans these paintings into computers to produce moving images, her hand-drawn lines make viewers feel somewhat nostalgic. She is one of Japan’s most prominent young artists. Tabaimo’s solo exhibition, held in the Kansai region for the first time in seven years, brings together five new pieces and is a must-see.

• Open: 10am-5pm, (Fri till 7pm) closed Mon • Admission: ¥420 • Subway Higobashi stn • Tel: 06-6447-4680 • www.nmao.go.jp

Genealogy of the Figurine: from Dogu to Kaiyodo

Till Aug 29

Kyoto International Manga Museum

Figurines today, which are also referred to as figures in Japanese, are human body-shaped memorabilia, often made of plastic. Japanese figures are not just a part of anime culture anymore and they are now beginning to be valued in the world’s art scenes. In Japan, however, making figurines and adoring them didn’t start recently, and Kyoto International Manga Museum dates its roots back to dogu (clay dolls) in ancient Japan. The highlight of the show is an incredible collection of figurines by Kaiyodo, one of Japan’s leading figurine makers.

• Open: 10am–6pm, closed Wed • Admission: ¥1,000 • Subway Karasuma Oike stn • Tel: 075-254-7414 • www.kyotomm.jp

Kansai Art Listings

OSAKA

Yukari Miyagi ‘Akazukin–Nouveau’

Maison d’art. Until Aug 7. Illustrations
• Open: 1pm–7pm(–5pm on last day), closed Sun, Mon • Admission: free • Subway Honmachi stn (Yotsubashi line) • Tel: 06-6449-7773

Kawabata Yoshito

CAS. Aug 7. Contemporary art
• Open: 1pm–7pm, closed Mon–Wed • Admission: free • JR Namba stn • tel: 06-6647-5088

Miyake Saori ‘Image Castings 2’

Fukugan Gallery. Until Aug 7. Print/Painting
• Open: 1pm–8pm, closed Sun, Mon, Tue • Admission: free • Subway Yotsubashi stn • Tel: 06-6253-3266

Kosuna ‘The Dreaming City’

Port Gallery T. Aug 2–7. Photography
• Open: 12pm–7pm (–6pm on Sat), closed Sun • Admission: free • Subway Higobashi stn(Yotsubashi line), exit 7 • Tel:06-6185-3412

Satomi Sakuma「○△□」

Port Gallery T. Aug 9–14. Photography
• Open: 12pm–7pm (–6pm on Sat), closed Sun • Admission:free • Subway Hommachi stn (Yotsubashi line) • Tel:06-6185-3412

Group Illustration ‘Kininaru Ten’

SoHo Art Gallery. Aug 10–15. Illustration
• Open: 12pm–7pm, (–5pm on Sun), closed Mon • Admission: free • Subway Tanimachi 9–chome stn, exit 3 • Tel: 06-4394-7456

Group Illustration ‘Keyholes’

SoHo Art Gallery. Aug 17–22. Illustration
• Open: 12pm–7pm, (–5pm on Sun), closed Mon • Admission: free • Subway Tanimachi 9–chome stn, exit 3 • Tel: 06-4394-7456

Funiku Ookami ‘Hikari Cyudoku (Light Addiction)’

Gallery Maggot. Aug 24–Aug 29. Photography
• Open: 12pm–8pm, closed Mon • Admission: free • Subway Yotsubashi (Yotsubashi line) stn, exit 2 • Tel: 06-6949-7257

Konoike Collection

Osaka Museum of History. Until Aug 30. Kimono and wedding furnishing
•Open: 9:30am–5pm (–8pm on Fri), closed Tue • Admission: ¥600 • Subway Tanimachi 4–chome stn, exit 9 • Tel: 06-6946-5728

Shigeo Fukuda’s Visual Jumping

ddd Gallery. until Sep 4. Graphic design
Open: 11am–7pm (–6pm on Sat), closed Mon, Sun, holidays • Admission: free • Subway Namba stn (Yotsubashi line) •Tel: 06-6110-4635

Traditional Ghost Story Illustration

Osaka Municipal Museum of Art. Until Sep 5. Illustration
• Open: 9:30am–5pm, closed Mon • Admission: ¥300 • JR or Subway Tennoji stn • Tel: 06-6771-4874

Tadao Yokoo ‘The Complete Posters of Tadao Yokoo’

The National Museum of Art, Osaka. Until Sep 12. Illustration
• Open: 10am–5pm(–7pm on Fri), closed Mon • Admission: ¥1,100 • Keihan Watanabebashi stn (Nakanoshima line),exit 2/Subway Higobashi stn (Yotsubashi line), exit 3 • Tel: 06–6447–4680

Tabaimo: Danmen

The National Museum of Art, Osaka. Until Sep 12. Video Installation
• Open: 10am–5pm (–7pm on Fri), closed Mon • Admission: ¥420, free admission on Aug 7, Sep 4 • Keihan Watanabebashi stn • Tel:06–6447–4680

Impressionism and Modern Art

Art Court Gallery. Jul 10-Sep 20. Paintings
• Open: 10:30am-7:30pm, closed Jul 12&26, Sep 6&13 • Admission: ¥1,000 • Subway Osaka-ko stn • Tel: 06-6577-0001

Nature of Yodogawa River

Osaka Museum of Natural History. Until Sep 20. Habit survey
• Open: 9:30am–5pm, closed Mon • Admission: ¥500 • JR Nagai stn • Tel: 06–6697–9221

Mystery of Southern Song Guan Ware

The Museum of Oriental Ceramics. Osaka. Aug 7–Nov28. Archaeology (Pottery and Ceramics)
• Open: 9:30am–5pm, closed Mon • Admission: ¥600 • Subway/Keihan Yodoyabashi stn • Tel: 06–6223–0055

Tomoko Iwata

2 kw Gallery. Aug 30–Sep11. Painting
• Open: 12pm–7pm, (–5pm on Sat), closed Sun • Admission: free • Subway Hommachi stn (Yotsubashi line) • Tel: 06–6447–7886

KYOTO

Asagawa Noritaka

Koryo Museum of Art. Until Aug 15. Korean pottery
• Open: 10am–5pm, closed Mon • Admission: ¥800 • Subway Kitaoji stn or Kamogawa Chugakkomae bus stop • Tel: 075-491-1192

Komura Settai

Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum. Until Aug 22. Paintings
• Open: 10am–5pm, closed Mon, Tue • Admission: ¥500 • Kiyomizumichi bus stop • Tel: 075-532-4270

Shaping the Image — Creating a New Modeling

Domoto Insho Museum. Until Aug 22. Paintings
• Open: 9:30am-5pm, closed Mon • Admission: ¥500 • Ritsumeikan Univ bus stop • Tel: 075-463-0007

Trouble in Paradise / Medi(t)ation of Survival

The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Until Aug 22. Experimental art and human projects
• Open: 9:30am-5pm (-8pm on Fri), closed Mon • Admission: ¥850 • Subway Higashiyama stn • Tel: 075-761-4111

Hajime Emoto ‘Saltationism’

Kyoto Art Center. Until Aug 26. Paper Cryptozoology
• Open: 10am–8pm • Admission: free • Hankyu Karasuma stn or Subway Shijyo stn • Tel: 075-213-1000

Paramodel ‘The World According to P’

Mori Yu Gallery Until Aug 28 Painting and Installation
• Open: 12pm–7pm • closed Mon, Holidays • Admission: free • Keihan Jingumaruta–cho stn • tel: 075-950-5230

European Masterpieces from The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. Until Aug 29. Paintings
• Open: 9am–5pm, closed Mon • Admission: ¥1,500 • #5 or 100 bus from JR Kyoto, Kyoto Kaikan Bijutsukan–mae stop • Tel: 075-771-4107

Ueda Akinari: 200th Memorial Retrospective

Kyoto National Museum. Until Aug 29. Literary works
• Open: 9:30am–6pm (–8pm on Fri), closed Mon • Admission: ¥800 • Shichijo stn • Tel: 075-541-1151

The Genealogy of the Figurine: from Dogu to Kaiyodo

Kyoto Intn’l Manga Museum. Until Sep 26. Figure
• 10am–6pm (every day until Aug 31) • Admission:¥1,000 • Subway Karashuma Oike stn (Krasuma and Tozai line), north exit 2 • Tel: 075-254-7414

Olmeca — the most ancient civilization of the Americas, a Road to Maya

The Museum of Kyoto. Until Sep 26. Archeology
• Open: 10am–6pm (–7:30pm on Fri), closed on Mon • Admission: ¥1,300 • Subway Karasuma Oike stn, exit 5 •Tel: 075-222-0888

Art Campus 2010

Hosomi Museum. Jul 31–Sep 26. Painting
• Open: 10am–6pm, closed Mon • Admission: ¥1,000 • Subway Higashiyama stn • Tel: 075-752-5555

HYOGO

Pechu ‘All About Pechu’vol. 1

Paxrex. Until Aug 10 . Illustration
• Open: 11am–7pm, closed Wed • Admission: free • JR or Hanshin Motomachi stn, west exit • Tel: 078-392-8909

Group Exhibition of Artists from Paris

Gallery Yamaki Fine Art. Until Aug 14. Photography
• Open: 11am–1pm, 2pm–7pm, closed Mon, Sun • Admission: free • JR Motomachi stn • Tel: 078-391-16661

Yoko Imoto

Daimaru Museum, Motomachi. Aug 4–Aug 16. Illustration
• Open: 10am–8pm (–6pm on last day) • Admission: ¥800 • JR Motomachi stn • Tel: 078-331-8121

Carlos Jurado ‘Waves of Silence’

Tanto Tempo. Until Aug 22. Photography
• Open: 11:30am–7pm, closed Wed • Admission: free • JR Motomachi stn, east exit • Tel: 078-393-0810

Andre Bauchant

Itami City Museum of Art. Until Aug 29. Paintings
• Open: 10am–6pm, closed Mon • Admission: ¥700 • JR/Hankyu Itami stn • Tel: 078-331-8121

Lights of Flanders

Himeji City Museum of Art. Until Aug 29. Paintings
• Open: 10am-5pm, closed Mon, Jul 20 • Admission: ¥1,100 • JR Himeji stn • Tel: 079-222-2288

Moving!

Ashiya City Museum of Art. and History. Until Aug 29. Installations, Visual art
• Open: 10am–5pm, closed Mon • Admission: ¥300 • Hanshin Ashiya stn • Tel: 0797-38-5432

Iwao Matsushima ‘Habara Collection’

Kobe Lampwork Glass Museum. Until Aug 30. Core Glass
• Open: 10am–7pm • Admission: ¥400 • Sannomiya or Motomachi stn • Tel: 078-393-8500

Pechu ‘All About Pechu’vol. 2

Paxrex. Until Aug 19– Aug 31. Illustration
• Open: 11am–7pm, closed Wed • Admission: free • JR or Hanshin Motomachi stn, west exit • Tel: 078-392-8909

Ryusei Kishida

Kobe City Koiso Memorial Museum of Art. Until Sep 12. Painting
• Open: 10am–5pm(–6pm on Fri), closed Mon • Admission:¥80 • Rokko liner Island Kitaguchi stn • 078-857-5880

Ukiyo–e from The Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Kobe City Museum. Aug 1–Sep 26. Ukiyo-e
• Open: 9:30am–5pm (–7pm on Fri, Sat), closed Mon • Admission: ¥1,400 • JR Sannomiya stn • Tel: 078-391-0035

Bologna Picture Book Fair

Otani Memorial Art Museum Nishinomiya. Aug 21–Sep 26. Illustration
• Open: 10am–5pm(–7pm on Fri), closed Wed • Admission: ¥800 • Hanshin Koroen stn • Tel: 0798-33-0164

Mizuki Shigeru: Illustrations of Yokai

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art. Until Oct 3. Fantasy Illustration
• Open: 10am–6pm (–8pm on Fri & Sat), closed Mon • Admission: ¥1,300 • Hanshin Iwaya stn • Tel: 078-262-0901

Hiromi Ichida collection ‘The World Clothing’

Kobe Fashion Museum. Until Oct 5. Clothing
• Open: 10am–6pm, closed Wed • Admission: ¥500 (free if wearing Kimono) • Rokko liner Island center stn • Tel: 078-858-0050

Tanba Pottery

The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo. Until Oct 24. Local pottery
• Open: 10am–7pm, closed Mon • Admission: ¥200 • JR Aino stn • Tel: 079-597-3961

Kaneuji Teppei

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art. Until Nov 7. Installation
• Open: 10am–6pm (–8pm on Fri & Sat), closed Mon • Admission: ¥500 • Hanshin Iwaya stn • Tel: 078-262-0901

Ricardo Takeshi Akagawa Collection

Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art. Until Nov 7. Paintings
• Open: 10am–6pm (–8pm on Fri & Sat), closed Mon • Admission: ¥500 • Hanshin Iwaya stn • Tel: 078-262-0901

NARA

Yamato Sceneries

Nara Prefectural Museum of Art. Until Sep 12. Painting
• Open: 9am–5pm, closed Mon • Admission: ¥400 • Kintetsu Nara stn • Tel: 0742-23-3968

Manyo Art

Nara Prefecture Complex of Manyo Culture. Until Sep 14. Japanese traditional art
• Open: 10am–5:30pm, closed Wed • Admission: ¥600 • JR Sakurai stn • Tel: 0744-54-1850

Master works of Buddhist Sculpture

Nara National Museum. Until Sep 26. Buddhist Sculpture
• Open: 9:30am–6pm(–7pm on Fri), closed Mon • Admission: ¥1,000 • Kintetsu Nara stn • Tel: 050-5542-8600

SHIGA

Dynamic Decoration in Asia

Miho Museum. Until Aug 15. Art crafts
• Open: 10:00am–5pm (last admission 4pm), closed Mon, Jul 20 • Admission: ¥1,000 • JR Katada stn • Tel: 0748-82-3411

Kichizaemon Raku Best Selection

Sagawa Art Museum. Until Aug 29. Pottery
• Open: 9:30am–5pm, closed Mon • Admission: ¥1,000 • JR Katada stn • Tel: 077-585-7800

Aleksandr Rodchenko and Varvara Stepanova-Visions of Constructivism

The Museum of Modern Art Shiga. Until Aug 29. Posters, book cover design
• Open: 9:30am-5pm, closed Mon, July 20 • Admission: ¥950 • JR Seta stn • Tel: 077-543-2111

Satomi Ichikawa and Bernadette Watts

Sagawa Art Museum. Until Sep 29. Illustration
• Open: 9:30am–5pm, closed Mon • Admission: ¥1,000 • JR Katada stn • Tel: 077-585-7800

WAKAYAMA

Welcome to the Forest of Sculpture

The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama. Until Sep 5. Sculpture
• Open: 9:30am–5pm, closed Mon • Admission: ¥500 • Kencho – mae bus stop from JRWaka- yama stn • Tel: 073-436-1337

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