The Design of SUGIURA Hisui
Retrospective, Modern, Fashionable
- October 27 -
February 25,2024
SUGIURA Hisui(1876-1965) was a pioneer of Japanese modern graphic design, and also known the first principal of Tama Imperial Art School (present Tama Art University) and the chief professor of the graphic design department. This exhibition shows his sophisticated design world.
Hisui was born in Matsuyama City, the prefectural capital of Ehime prefecture and studied Japanese traditional painting at Tokyo Fine Arts School (present Tokyo University of Arts) . He started his career as a graphic designer after his graduation. He designed many posters, book covers, magazine covers, wrapping materials and so on under the influence of Art Nouveau and Art Deco. His design was especialy famous for gorgeous posters and refined public relation magagines for long-well-established Mitsukoshi Department Store.
You could enjoy the wonderful creativity of Hisui with various kinds of item he designed, exquisite hundred-flower-image woodcut prints for which he painted the original sketch and Japanese traditional paintings in his later years.
| Organizer | THE YAMAZAKI MAZAK MUSEUM OF ART The Chunichi Shimbun |
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| Sponsorship | Aichi Prefectural Board of Education Gufu Prefectural Board of Education Mie Prefectural Board of Education Nagoya City Board of Education Nagoya City Cultural Promotion Agency |
| Cooperation | Cassette Museum |
| Special cooperation | The Museum of Art, Ehime |
Special Lecture ”The eyes and philosophy of Hisui"
Lecturer : Takeshi Nagai (Chief Curator of the Museum of Art, Ehime)
Date: 10:30-12:00 on the 2nd December (Doors open at 10:00)
Place: Conference hall on the 4th floor of Mazak Art Plaza (located next-door to the Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art)
Maximum number : 60 people
Fee: free (the exhibition ticket is needed)
Application: Please make a reservation in advance by phone (052-937-3737) from the 2nd November
Guide Tour by the curator
Date: 10:30-11:30 on the 28th October, the 11th November, the 25th November, the 9th December, the 23th December, the 13th January, the 27th January, the 10th February, the 24th February
Maximum number : 15 people for each time
Fee: free (The exhibition ticket on the day is needed)
Application: The reservation in advance is not needed. Please make an application at reception on the day.
Yamazaki Mazak Collection
- September 01 -
October 22,2023
The collection of The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Arts is composed of artworks from the Old Masters of the French Rococo period, Romanticism, Neo-Classicism , Realism, Impressionism, the Ecole de Paris, and others. Visitors are presented a timeline of French art which encompasses 300 years, from the 18th to the 20th century.
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YAHATA HARUMI -GARDEN-
- April 21 -
August 27,2023
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Yamazaki Mazak Collection
- March 02 -
April 16,2023
The collection of The Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Arts is composed of artworks from the Old Masters of the French Rococo period, Romanticism, Neo-Classicism , Realism, Impressionism, the Ecole de Paris, and others. Visitors are presented a timeline of French art which encompasses 300 years, from the 18th to the 20th century.
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