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2022 Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum New Collection Commemoration Gyoji Nomiyama
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Gyoji Nomiyama
This year, the Nagasaki Prefectural Museum of Art added a new work by the painter Gyoji Nomiyama, who turned 101 years old last December, to its collection. This exhibition commemorates this event by presenting a selection of work from the new collection.
Gyoji Nomiyama was born in 1920 in the coal mining town of Iizuka, Fukuoka. From childhood, he loved to draw pictures, and despite his father's opposition, he gradually became interested in becoming a painter. At the age of 17, he entered the oil painting preparatory course at the Tokyo Fine Arts School, and the following year he entered the main course. However, as the war gradually intensified, Nomiyama was forced to graduate early and enlist in the army, which sent him to Manchuria. However, he was soon repatriated to Japan due to lung disease and ended the war at the Fukuoka Sanatorium for Wounded Warriors.
From 1952 to 1964, he studied painting in France. While acquiring a Western sense of form, he also awakened to the Orient that had been lurking within him during the latter half of his stay in France. Since his return to Japan, Nomiyama has distanced himself from domestic art movements and organizations and has developed his own unique style of painting.
In Nomiyama's works, familiar objects, such as his own eyes and memories, appear in his paintings in freely changing colors and forms, and are even stripped of their meaning. These objects are then brought to the viewer in a tension that is maintained as they struggle within the picture plane. Sometimes light, sometimes heavy, Nomiyama's figurative power that supports the world of his paintings remains undiminished even after he has passed the age of 100.
This exhibition introduces a wide range of Nomiyama's art, including 12 oil paintings from his stay in Spain (1963) to 2010, as well as watercolors and drawings.
[Events]
1. Artist Talk
Date: Wednesday, August 10, 15:00-16:00 (doors open 14:30)
Venue: Hall
Lecturer: Gyoji Nomiyama
Capacity: 40 people (if there are too many applicants, the number will be determined by lottery)
Fee: Free (admission ticket to the collection exhibition required)
2. Lecture "Gyoji Nomiyama's History as a Painter" (Collection in Focus No.4)
Date: September 11 (Sun) 11:00 - 11:40 (doors open at 10:30)
Venue: Hall
Lecturer: Atsushi Morizono (Curator, Nagasaki Prefectural Museum of Art)
Capacity: 30 people on a first-come, first-served basis
Admission: Free
3. Gallery Talk by the Curator in Charge
Date: September 3 (Sat) and October 1 (Sat), each time from 14:00
Venue: Permanent Exhibition Room 1
Admission: Free (collection exhibition ticket required)
Please check the official website for event details and how to register.
Gyoji Nomiyama was born in 1920 in the coal mining town of Iizuka, Fukuoka. From childhood, he loved to draw pictures, and despite his father's opposition, he gradually became interested in becoming a painter. At the age of 17, he entered the oil painting preparatory course at the Tokyo Fine Arts School, and the following year he entered the main course. However, as the war gradually intensified, Nomiyama was forced to graduate early and enlist in the army, which sent him to Manchuria. However, he was soon repatriated to Japan due to lung disease and ended the war at the Fukuoka Sanatorium for Wounded Warriors.
From 1952 to 1964, he studied painting in France. While acquiring a Western sense of form, he also awakened to the Orient that had been lurking within him during the latter half of his stay in France. Since his return to Japan, Nomiyama has distanced himself from domestic art movements and organizations and has developed his own unique style of painting.
In Nomiyama's works, familiar objects, such as his own eyes and memories, appear in his paintings in freely changing colors and forms, and are even stripped of their meaning. These objects are then brought to the viewer in a tension that is maintained as they struggle within the picture plane. Sometimes light, sometimes heavy, Nomiyama's figurative power that supports the world of his paintings remains undiminished even after he has passed the age of 100.
This exhibition introduces a wide range of Nomiyama's art, including 12 oil paintings from his stay in Spain (1963) to 2010, as well as watercolors and drawings.
[Events]
1. Artist Talk
Date: Wednesday, August 10, 15:00-16:00 (doors open 14:30)
Venue: Hall
Lecturer: Gyoji Nomiyama
Capacity: 40 people (if there are too many applicants, the number will be determined by lottery)
Fee: Free (admission ticket to the collection exhibition required)
2. Lecture "Gyoji Nomiyama's History as a Painter" (Collection in Focus No.4)
Date: September 11 (Sun) 11:00 - 11:40 (doors open at 10:30)
Venue: Hall
Lecturer: Atsushi Morizono (Curator, Nagasaki Prefectural Museum of Art)
Capacity: 30 people on a first-come, first-served basis
Admission: Free
3. Gallery Talk by the Curator in Charge
Date: September 3 (Sat) and October 1 (Sat), each time from 14:00
Venue: Permanent Exhibition Room 1
Admission: Free (collection exhibition ticket required)
Please check the official website for event details and how to register.
Schedule | Aug 10 (Wed) 2022-Oct 10 (Mon) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥420; University Students, Seniors 70 & Over ¥310; High School, Junior High and Elementary School Students ¥210; Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free. | ||||
| Website | http://www.nagasaki-museum.jp/permanent/archives/787 | ||||
| Venue | Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum http://www.nagasaki-museum.jp/english/ | ||||
| Location | 2-1 Dejimamachi, Nagasaki-shi, Nagasaki 850-0862 | ||||
| Access | 5 minute walk from Medical Center Station on the Nagasaki Electric Tramway Oura Branch line, 17 minute walk from Nagasaki Station on the JR Nagasaki Main line. | ||||
| Phone | 095-833-2110 | ||||
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