WOODONE MUSEUM OF ART

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Etsu Egami, Obsession and Question,
New Horizons of Modern Painting

1st October, 2022 – 4th December 2022
Open Hours | 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 a.m. (Please enter by 4:30 a.m.)
Closing days | Monday

Etsu Egami (born in 1994 in Chiba) is a young artist who has attracted a great deal of international attention, from Japan and China to the US and Europe.
Using her experiences abroad, she produces work with the theme of communication, and in recent years has pursued the possibilities of painterly expression in the form of portraiture while questioning the core essence behind it.
Positioned in the present where issues have been revealed in various social and economic systems, Egami attempts to face the way Japan has modernized itself through her artistic expression.
This exhibition deals with modern Western-style painters that Egami respects, such as Takahashi Yuichi, Asai Chu, Kuroda Seiki, Fujishima Takeji, Kishida Ryusei, Koide Narashige, Umehara Ryuzaburo, Yasui Sotaro, and Fujita Tsuguharu, and also the artists who significantly influenced modern Western painting in Japan, like van Gogh and Renoir.
After the many transcendental conversations between Egami and the modern painters, what kind of painterly horizons will she show us? The collaboration exhibition will reveal them through 55 pieces of her latest work and 11 pieces from the museum collection.

江上　越　Etsu Egami

2022

Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University
Obtained PhD at the Central Academy of Fine Arts

2021

Featured in the Forbes 30 UNDER 30 ASIA

2020

Stayed in the US through the “Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists” by the Agency for Cultural Affairs
Featured in the Forbes 30 UNDER 30 China

2019

Graduated with a Master’ s degree from the Central Academy of Fine Arts

2017

Studied Media Art at the State University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, Germany

2016

Graduated with a BFA degree from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, School of Fine Arts, Oil
Painting Department

Exhibition catalogue

Exhitibion catalogue is now on sale.
Total 200 pages.
Language: Japanese / English
Famous critics and curators contributed to the exhibition catalog!

Tatehata Akira(President of Tama Art University, Director of The museum of modern Art, Saitama)
Hijikata Meiji (Director of Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki)
Jean-Baptiste CLAIS (Curator of Louvre Museum)
Manuela Moscatiello (Curator of Cernuschi Museum)

55 new works by Etsu Egami and 11 modern western-style paintings from Woodone museum of Art collection in this catalogue.
In addition, there are many photos of the artist at work and drawing.

Talk event

1st October 2022 11:00 a.m.
Etsu Egami
Hijikata Meiji (Director of Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki)

2nd October 2022 1:00 p.m.
Etsu Egami
Tatehata Akira(President of Tama Art University, Director of The museum of modern Art, Saitama)

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Adults ￥1,400
Students (high-school students and university students) ￥700
Children (elementary school students or younger) Free

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■ マイセン磁器(約70点展示)
ヨーロッパで最初の硬質磁器として誕生して以来、約300年以上の長い歴史と伝統を有するマイセン磁器。初期の東洋趣味から、華麗で優雅なロココ主義、歴史主義の作品までマイセンの歴史をたどることができます。

■ アール・ヌーヴォーのガラス作品(約60点展示)
19世紀末、アール・ヌーヴォーの装飾様式によって花開いたガラス芸術。ガラスの新しい技法開発に寄与し、芸術的表現を追求したエミール・ガレを中心に、ドームやミュレール兄弟など、ナンシー派の作家による作品を展覧。

■ 幕末・明治期の薩摩焼(約20点展示)
19世紀から20世紀初頭にかけて、金彩をふんだんに用いた装飾様式が好評を博し、特に海外で高い評価を得た薩摩焼。世界を風靡した、幕末・明治期の薩摩焼をご堪能いただけます。