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Nobuya Hitsuda "Scenes Passed By"
The University Art Museum - Tokyo University of the Arts
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Nobuya Hitsuda
Nobuya Hitsuda is an artist who makes singular landscape paintings. Taking the empty lots and open fields of postwar Japan as sources for his work, Hitsuda's landscapes have the feel of a passing scene glimpsed from the carriage of a train, and have themselves shifted and transformed dramatically in concert with the passage of time.
During his early career, Hitsuda's signatures were solid lines and colors, which he worked to repeatedly dismantle and reconstruct on his canvas as if dealing with puzzles, while recent years have seen Hitsuda work with mountain, waterside and house motifs, as well as a gradual transformation towards a more imaginary and ethereal type of landscape. His paintings have both a flatness and an incredible depth and floating feeling to them, a manifestation of contemporary sensibilities in relation to landscape painting. They also conjure up childhood memories of playing by the river or in empty lots, inviting viewers to become drawn into a nostalgic mood.
Hitsuda is professor at Aichi University of the Arts and also teaches in the oil painting department of Tokyo University of the Arts, training and nurturing the next generation of young artists. This exhibition commemorates his retirement as a teacher and educator, featuring around 30 representative works that demonstrate the shifts in his unique oeuvre.
During his early career, Hitsuda's signatures were solid lines and colors, which he worked to repeatedly dismantle and reconstruct on his canvas as if dealing with puzzles, while recent years have seen Hitsuda work with mountain, waterside and house motifs, as well as a gradual transformation towards a more imaginary and ethereal type of landscape. His paintings have both a flatness and an incredible depth and floating feeling to them, a manifestation of contemporary sensibilities in relation to landscape painting. They also conjure up childhood memories of playing by the river or in empty lots, inviting viewers to become drawn into a nostalgic mood.
Hitsuda is professor at Aichi University of the Arts and also teaches in the oil painting department of Tokyo University of the Arts, training and nurturing the next generation of young artists. This exhibition commemorates his retirement as a teacher and educator, featuring around 30 representative works that demonstrate the shifts in his unique oeuvre.
Schedule | Nov 11 (Tue) 2008-Nov 24 (Mon) 2008 Opening Hours Information
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| Venue | The University Art Museum - Tokyo University of the Arts https://museum.geidai.ac.jp/en/  | ||
| Location | 12-8 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-8714 | ||
| Access | 10 minute walk from exit 1 at Nezu Station on the Chiyoda line, 10 minute walk from the Koen exit of JR Ueno Station, 15 minute walk from the Main exit of Keisei Ueno Station on the Keisei line. | ||
| Phone | 050-5541-8600 (Hello Dial) | ||
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