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Ota Art vol.1 - 90 years since Jo Shoda’s birth. Art is the culmination of play.
Art Museum & Library, Ota
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Jo Shoda, Jiro Shoda, Kaoru Yamaguchi et al.
Born in Ota, painter Jo Shoda (1928-2016) depicted people, insects, animals, and so on in a unique form and matière, creating a world full of wonder and stories. 2018 marks 90 years since the birth of Shoda and to commemorate this event Ota City Art Museum & Library will hold a retrospective exhibition comprised of around 50 works. It will feature several of his masterpieces, along with early experimental works executed before he established his signature style, and sketches made on a daily basis. 17 original drawings produced for the picture book “A red-faced girl is peeping out the window” (edited by Hikaru Konomi, and published by Fukuinkan, 1973) will also be exhibited. Furthermore, works by Jiro Shoda, Tentaro Fukuda, Tadayoshi Matsumoto, and Kaoru Yamaguchi will be shown in the same exhibition. Enjoy the works Shoda himself described as having “no nationality and no gender,” works full of energy that Shoda created “expecting the people who look at them to weave their own stories.”
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Gallery Talk
The curator will guide participants round the exhibition and point out highlights.
Dates: Feb. 10 (Sat), Mar. 10 (Sat), Apr. 7 (Sat), 14:00-15:00
Venue: Exhibition space
*Event in Japanese.
*Please see the official website for further details and information on other events.
[Related Events]
Gallery Talk
The curator will guide participants round the exhibition and point out highlights.
Dates: Feb. 10 (Sat), Mar. 10 (Sat), Apr. 7 (Sat), 14:00-15:00
Venue: Exhibition space
*Event in Japanese.
*Please see the official website for further details and information on other events.
Schedule | Feb 2 (Fri) 2018-Apr 8 (Sun) 2018 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults: ¥300, High School Students and Under, Seniors Over 65, Persons with a Disability Certificate + 1 Companion: Free. | ||||
| Website | http://www.artmuseumlibraryota.jp/post_artmuseumeng/1707.html | ||||
| Venue | Art Museum & Library, Ota http://www.artmuseumlibraryota.jp/eng/ | ||||
| Location | 16-30 Higashi Honcho, Ota-shi, Gumma 373-0026 | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from the North exit of Ota Station on the Tobu Isesaki line; From the South exit of Kumagaya Station on the JR Takasaki line, take the bus for 50 minutes and get off at the South exit of Ota Station. The venue is 8 minute walk from there. | ||||
| Phone | 0276-55-3036 | ||||
| Related images | Click on the image to enlarge it |
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