TAB Event - Hiroshi Okutani Exhibition

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At Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki
Media: Painting, Drawing, Art Talk

This is a retrospective exhibition of representative Yo-ga painter Hiroshi Okutani. Okutani was born in Shukumo City in Kochi prefecture in 1934. He studied oil painting at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music, exploring representational painting while the trend of the time was abstract painting. After graduating, he began working as an assistant at the school, creating fresco painting. While doing this, he began to incorporate the technique of using thin layers of paint. His work began to be known in public in 1967, and Okutani took a chance to go to France with government sponsorship. After absorbing various expressions found in western painting, Okutani returned to Japan, but decided to go back to France in 1971. Living there for three years, he expanded his interest and established his original style of vividly composing images and colors.
Okutani has received a number of awards, including the "Person of Cultural Merits" award last year. This exhibition showcases 57 paintings as well as drawings he created since the age of 20, introducing his career, which spans half a century.

Related Events
(1) Hiroshi Okutani x Museum Director Ichikawa Gallery Talk
Dates: June 18th (Wed) & July 5th (Sat) 13:30-14:30
Exhibition ticket required.
(2) Gallery Talk
Date: July 19th (Sat) 13:30-14:30
Exhibition ticket required.
(3) Night Time Gallery Talk by Museum Curators
Dates: June 13th (Fri), June 20th (Fri), June 27th (Fri), July 4th (Fri), July 11th (Fri), July 18th (Fri) 18:00-18:20
Exhibition ticket required.

[Image: "Budda's Head" (1998) Private collection]

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