Fuchu Art Museum - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Fuchu Art Museum. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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"Art Toward the Society: Realism of Korean Art 1945-2005" Exhibition
In 1970s Japan, monochrome painting was introduced as a mainstream form of Korean contemporary art, but in recent years, various forms of work by Korean contemporary artists have made an international (...)
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"Humorous Woodblock Prints and Their Gentle Smiles" Exhibition
In the late Meiji period, a new style of printmaking evolved, which was quite different from the previous Ukiyoe-style woodblock prints. It is called "Sosaku Hanga" (creative print). During this time, (...)
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Open Studio 42 Yoshiaki Kaihatsu "Funny-ture"
Yoshiaki Kaihatsu creates installations using everyday materials, transforming them into something completely unexpected. His humorous and ironic works include an outdoor food stand and tearoom made out (...)
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"Visions of Namban, Illusion of Koumou" Exhibition
The word "Namban" referred to Portugal and Spain during the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1603), when the Portugese and Spanish often made visits to Japan. The word "Koumou" was used to refer to the Dutch, (...)
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O Jun "In Front of the Eyes" Open Studio
The Fuchu Art Museum invites artists to work in a studio space inside the museum. Viewers can see how artists make art as well as talk with the artists. (Please note that artists will not be at the museum (...)
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"A Thousand Year of Fuchu: Shapes of the Heart" Exhibition
This exhibition presents archaeological artifacts, documents, and visual art from various time periods, focusing on the expressive dynamism which is commonly found in the history of human creativity. [Image: (...)
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Shinji Omaki "Echo - White Void" Open Studio
The Fuchu Art Museum invites artists to work in a studio space inside the museum. Viewers can see how artists make art, and talk about it. Please note that artists will not be at the museum everyday. Shinji (...)
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Kisling "Flower of Montparnasse"
Moise Kisling is known as one of the masters from the School of Paris, who lived a free life in Montparnasse. This exhibition introduces colorful and emotionally expressive works by Kisling. "Kisling (...)
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Yabuno Ken "Cities in Memory"
The brilliant sky, powerful land and magnificent architecture - Ken Yabuno (b.1943) creates paintings of cityscapes from his memory. Having studied in Spain and largely influenced by European architecture, (...)
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From the Permanent Collection "Time Traveling of Palletan"
"Time Traveling of Palletan" is an exhibition of works from different time periods introduced by a fairy character Palletan. From the Edo period to today, this exhibition presents the cultural background (...)
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Open Studio 39 Noe Aoki "Water of Sky"
Sculptor Noe Aoki creates works using simple shapes such as lines and circles that are cut out of metal plates. She completes the works by combining those pieces at a final exhibition space. Visitors can (...)
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Zenzaburo Kojima "Sparkling Suburbia"
In the 11th year of Showa, the Kojima arrived Izumi-cho, Kokubunji with a big hope in his mind. Born in Fukuoka, this painter used a delicate balance of color with bold and peculiar deformations to depict (...)
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Open Studio 38 - Yoshihiro Suda
Since the mid 1990s, Yoshihiro Suda (b. 1969) is known for his extremely realistic wooden sculptures of plants installed in unexpected places. These hyper-realistic plants are nothing but what they are: (...)
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"Exhibition Seen Through the Eyes of Children" Exhibition
Focusing on the "viewpoint of children", this exhibition has been put together from the museum collection, mainly featuring paintings and sculptures from the postwar period. Children respond to the uniqueness (...)
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"100 Years of Animal Pictures" Exhibition
Animals have been portrayed in the art of all ages. However, in the history of Japanese painting, one can say that the 100 years spanning the latter half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th (...)
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"Meetings Across the Ocean" Exhibition
Culture and art that we encounter for the first time always makes a big impression on us. The artists of the Edo era, during which direct exchange with the outside world was repressed, encountered art (...)
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Aiko Tezuka "Suture of hints - before the name"
Aiko Tezuka creates unique sculptures of craft-like structures, using fabric and embroidery. These works are based on paintings, but go further. She creates a strange world by removing specific threads (...)
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3rd Fuchu Biennale "Beauty and Value - 7 Artists of the Post-Bubble Generation"
The artists taking part in this biennale all began their artistic activities during the ten years following the bursting of the economic bubble Japan was in until 1990. The current age is one in which (...)
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"Chu Asai and the Kansai Bijutsuin" Exhibition
The exhibition will present 120 works that will retrace the history of the "Kansai Bijyutsu-in", now in its 100th year. Kansai Bijyutsu-in was set up by Chu Asai, a prominent figure in western style painting (...)
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Camille Claudel Exhibition
Sculptor Camille Claudel (1864-1943) occupies a special place in the history of 19th century sculpture. Known as the student and lover of the great Auguste Rodin, her works show a fascinating sense of (...)
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The Kotaro Terada Collection: "Together with Art"
This exhibition introduces viewers to the collection of Kotaro Terada, one of Japan's foremost collectors. Terada's activity as a collector was instigated by his establishing of West Shinjuku's Tokyo Opera (...)
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"The Era of Aodo Denzen" Exhibition
Along with Shiba Koukan, Aodo Denzen was known as one of the representative Western-style painters of the Edo Period. This exhibition will present 90 of his oil paintings and copperplate etchings, in addition (...)
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The Future of Painting - What is the Beauty of Modern Art?
This exhibition introduces 6 painters whose constant challenging of the boundaries of painting will give you an opportunity to think about the future of art painting.
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Masterpieces of Modern Belgian Art: The Simon Collection
52 oil paintings and 4 scupltures from the Simon Collection will be exhibited for the first time in Japan to introduce the history of modern art in Belgium.
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Picturing America - Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art is located in the center of Manhattan, New York and is renowned for its superb collection of American Art. The museum provides numerous special exhibitions such as the (...)
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Paintings by Masaaki Yamada: Still life - Work - Color
Masaaki Yamada (b.1930; lives in Kunitachi) has been exploring the possibilities of paintings in post-war Japan. On exhibit are his early "Still Life" series, the well-known "stripe" paintings, and his (...)
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Warmth of Japanese Wood Prints
After the Meiji era, Japanese wood prints evolved from the traditional Ukiyo-e into more abstract renditions through the efforts of Kiyochika Kobayashi and Kanae Yamamoto. Over the years, many artists (...)
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Flowers upon Flowers: Edo Period Paintings from the Fuchu Art Museum Collection and Related Works
Traditional flower paintings were all elegant and graceful. This changed in the latter Edo Period, however. Previously rendered in an almost dreamlike quality, the new artists expressed them in all their (...)
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The Second Fuchu Bienniale: For the Coming World
The aim of the Fuchu Bienniale is to find, nurture, and introduce emerging contemporary artists. The second bienniale " For the Coming World" presents works by eight Japanese artists who use communication (...)
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Ushijima Noriyuki and Early Showa Paintings: Between the abstract and the representational
In this exhibition displays Noriyuki Ushijima's work, especially focused on the strain relationships between concreteness and abstraction. It doesn`t question a clear distinction between Japanese and Western (...)





