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Special Exhibitions
2D Printers
| Exhibition period | July 15 – September 18, 2017 |
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Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts tried to show the relationship and difference between scientific thoughts and fine art, through exhibitions such as “Pictorial Evolution of Pictures”(2011) and”Thermodynamics of the Sun”(2014).
This exhibition “2D Printers” tries to focus on “utility”. Since seventeenth century when the terminology “fine art” was born scientists looked up art, because art was able to display the gloriousness of the kings and government. Art used to have “utility”.
But from nineteenth century art wanted to abandon such utility to let art itself look autonomous. People in modern world believe in the myth which tells us art has no utility. On the other hand science displaying utility developed hand in hand with technics, and became technology.
The art has criticism. It used to point criticism toward art itself. Technology never has criticism. Some contemporary artists point criticism not art itself but society including monstrous technology. We would like to try to call this criticism of art “utility”, comparing the handworks with mechanical works.
| Organized by : | Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts |
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| Assisted by : | Japan Arts Fund  , The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences |
| Supported by : | Asahi Shimbun Utsunomiya Bureau, Utsunomiya Broadcasting Station, NHK, F.M.Tochigi Broadcasting Co., Ltd., The Sankei Shimbun Utsunomiya Bureau, Shimotsuke Shimbun, The Tokyo Shimbun Utsunomiya Bureau, Tochigi Television, Company Radio Tochigi (CRT), Nikkei Inc. Utsunomiya Bureau, The Mainichi Newspapers Utsunomiya Branch Office, The Yomiuri Shimbun Utsunomiya Bureau |
| Hours : | 9:30−17:00 ( last admission 16:30 ) |
| Closed : | on Mondays (except Jul. 18, Sep. 19), Jul. 19 |
| Admission fee : | ¥800 (¥700) Adult ¥500 (¥400) University and high-school students Free under junior high-school students *Amounts shown in parentheses are group rate (over 20 people) |
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| Miran Fukuda Renoir “Nude in Sunlight” 1996 oil on canvas, flames 35×29cm (5 pieces in set) Sanbi-shosha collection collection of Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts,Japan |
Hanako Murakami “El Fin del Mundo No Liego” 2014 Woodcut 70×50cm private collection |
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| Tatsumi Orimoto [mail-art] performance I make up and become ART-MAMA [TOKYO] 2016 Offset 99.5×70cm private collection |
Kimiyo Mishima COPY-NEWS PAPER-F ceramics,silkscreen 36×26×10cm collection of Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts,Japan |
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| Satoshi Hashimoto Fw: The Successive Presidents of The United States 2014 Offset 51.5×72.5cm private collection |
Kwak Duck-jum Reagan and Kwak 1981 silkscreen 53×36.8cm collection of Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts,Japan |
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| Arinori Ichihara ZON 1004 1981 Monotype 100×200cm collection of Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts,Japan |
Honoré-Victorin Daumier Les représentans représentés,no.31, “ Lagrange” 1849 Lithograph 27×19.4cm collection of Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts,Japan |
