Eugène Ionesco Exhibition

Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu

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Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco was a Romania-born playwright and the representative of post-war French "Dramas of the Absurd". Since his debut in 1950 with "Bald Female Singer", his other works such as "Class", "Chair", "Rhino" and "the Dying King" have all enjoyed long runs at the Theater Huchette in Paris, while many of his works came to Japan, greatly influencing its contemporary theater world. Ionesco depicted ordinary lives of people with his grotesque sense of humor, while questioning fundamental tragic nature of humans to finally materialize "meaningless existence". The abstrusity of his work was so extreme that the phrase "it's beyond comprehension just like Ionesco's play" became popular in France. In the late 1970s, Ionesco started suffering from neurosis, and painting became one of his therapeutic methods. Unlike his "incomprehensive" plays, paintings he created after turing 60 are full of free-wheeling touch and colors reminiscent of children's scribbles. Please enjoy 10 lithography works by this litterateur.

Schedule

May 14 (Wed) 2008-May 31 (Sat) 2008