POLYPHONY OF COLORS

2015.01.24 - 2015.03.10

【Past Exhibition】

This exhibition focuses on works bursting with colors as if they want to appeal to both senses of sight and hearing. They have been selected among pieces belonging to the Maebashi City collection, but also among artworks from Takasaki City Museum, Okawa Museum of Art, and private collection in Gunma.

Starting from the second half of the 19th century, artworks have been gradually losing their role of giving a faithful representation of the reality and modern artists started to seek for a completely new form of pictorial expression. Some of these artists, like Klee and Kandinsky, melted motifs together by striving to match the sounds of music to the world of fine arts, and found their own way of expression in mere colors. The circulation of these paintings based on colors also strongly influenced some Japanese vanguard authors representing the 20th century, such as Ei-Q and ONOSATO Toshinobu. Through this collection of artworks coming from all over the prefecture, we would like to invite everybody to this rhythmical world of colors that shows the greatest power of imagination owned by the 20th century art.

With this exhibition, we would also like to present for the first time Nomura Makoto’s music work titled “Arts Maebashi: 9 Short Pieces for Piano”, born during the event “PAINTING × MUSIC” that was part of the “Pre-event Maebashi Collection Arts Exhibition: The Start of the Journey” held in 2013. We would like to suggest to all our visitors a new way of enjoying artworks that focuses on both visual and auditory sensations, leading you to admire paintings while listening to the music resounding from your headphones.

24 January 2015 – 10 March 2015  (2015.01.24 – 2015.03.10)
Venue : Arts Maebashi
Open hours : 11:00-19:00 (entry up to 30 minutes before closing)
Closed on Wednesdays.
Admission: Free
Organizer: Arts Maebashi

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Artists
Paul Klee
Sonia Delaunay
Joan Miro
EI-Q
OKANO Eugene
ONOSATO Toshinobu
KASAGI Minoru
KANEKO Hidehiko
KANO Mitsuo
KAWASUMI Michinosuke
KAWABATA Minoru
KURATA Kakuji
KONDO Yoshio
SATO Kei
SHIOBARA Tomoko
SHIMIZU Tone
TAKEZAWA Hisashi
TAMURA Kiyoo
NAKAMURA Setsuya
NANJO Kazuo
NAMBATA Tatsuoki
NAMBATA Fumio
NOMURA Makoto
FUKUZAWA Ichiro
FUKUDA Tentaro
YAMAGUCHI Kaoru

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Paul Klee（パウル・クレー）《ドイツ国旗のある朝食》1914年、水彩、公益財団法人大川美術館

EI-Q（瑛九）《作品》1959年、油彩、高崎市美術館

KANO Mitsuo（加納光於）《五線譜》1967年、レリーフプリント、公益財団法人大川美術館

SHIOBARA Tomoko（塩原友子）《風化》1998年、岩彩

YAMAGUCHI Kaoru（山口薫）《沼のある牧場》1964年、油彩