Exhibition」カテゴリーアーカイブ

EXHIBITION: Modern Love: 20th-Century Japanese Erotic Art, in Honolulu

スクリーンショット(2014-11-08 18.58.53)
EXHIBITION: Modern Love: 20th-Century Japanese Erotic Art
At Honolulu Museum of Art
November 20, 2014 – March 15, 2015
My comic book 髭と肉体 Flesh + Beard is exhibited on the show.

Sexual revolution.

After opening its ports to international trade, the leaders and citizens of late 19th-century Japan were consumed by an identity crisis of unparalleled proportions. To what degree should they embrace the values and aspirations of the Western world to which they were newly exposed, and to what degree should they pride themselves upon unique aspects of their culture? In order to garner the respect of Americans and Europeans, many felt that the sexually explicit paintings, woodblock prints, and woodblock-printed books (shunga; literally, “spring pictures”), which had been produced by Japanese artists for the past three hundred years, were embarrassingly outdated expressions of sexual hedonism. By the beginning of the 20th century, production of shunga as a popular art genre had dramatically declined, and until the 1990s, reproductions of shunga were strictly censored.

At the same time, despite attempts by government officials to sanitize the nation’s public image at the beginning of the 20th century, sexuality remained popular as a topic in Japanese art, although the ways in which it manifested itself often were radically transformed. Modern Love: 20th-Century Japanese Erotic Art explores areas of modern and contemporary art in Japan that have drawn inspiration from the tradition of shunga. These include sketches by the woodblock print designer Hashiguchi Goyō (1880–1921), photographs by Araki Nobuyoshi (b. 1940) and Yonehara Yasumasa (b. 1959), manga (illustration art) by such artists as Anno Moyoco (b. 1971), and works by Japanese artists now based in Hawaiʻi, including Masami Teraoka (b. 1936) and Mayumi Oda (b. 1941).

Modern Love: 20th-Century Japanese Erotic Art is the third and last in the Honolulu Museum of Art’s exhibition series on the sexual culture of Japan. The series began in 2012 with Arts of the Bedchamber: Japanese Shunga, which featured works from the 17th and 18th centuries, and continued in 2013 with Tongue in Cheek: Erotic Art in 19th-Century Japan.

http://honolulumuseum.org/art/exhibitions/14518-modern_love_20th_century_japanese_erotic_art/
http://shunga.honolulumuseum.org/

EXHIBITION: The Art of Love in the Time of Geishas, in Paris

スクリーンショット(2014-11-06 2.55.08)
EXHIBITION: The Art of Love in the Time of Geishas (L’Art de l’amour au temps des Geishas)
At la Pinacothèque de Paris, from 06 November 2014 to 15 February 2015.
Some of my original drawings are exhibited on the show. If you are in Paris, please come to see! 😉
http://www.pinacotheque.com/no_cache/en/home/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/the-art-of-love-in-the-time-of-geishas.html
Many thanks for Paola and Carolina.
dissolve

Exhibition and signing events in Bologna

inverno-del-pescatore
From the end of May to early June, I’ll go to Bologna, Italy, to join the festival NipPop at Bologna University. I don’t get the detailed information about my schedule yet, but today, I got some about my exhibition and signing events, so announce them just a quick note.

EXHIBITION
Exhibition opening: 18:00- May 29, 2014
At ONO ARTE (gallery)
Address: via santa margherita 10 I 40123 bologna
Tel. +39 051 262465
Website: http://onoarte.com/
(I haven’t heard when the end date yet! LOL)

BOOK SIGNING & PUBLISHING EVENT
Book signing and presentation of my new Italian comic book, L’inverno del pescatore (Winter fisherman Lodge): 18:30- June 6, 2014
at IGOR Libreria (LGBT book store)
Address: Via San Petronio Vecchio 3 – 40125 Bologna, Italy
Tel. +39 051 229466
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/igor.thegaybookshop

SIGNING EVENT
Signing: 23:00 – 01:00, June 6, 2014
on Feed the bears (monthly bear event in Bologna)
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FeedTheBearsBologna

MANGA WORKSHOP
Japanese manga workshop (not concerned about gay and erotic, maybe) with Keiko Ichiguchi: 10:00- June 7, 2014
on NipPop (Japanese cultural event on Bologna University)
Website: http://www.nippop.it/

About my new Italian comic book, L’inverno del pescatore, please refer the announcement of Renbooks.
Website: http://www.renbooks.it/
Page: L’inverno del pescatore – Limited Edition
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Renbooks

There are all I know now. More information, please check my Twitter or Facebook. I’m going to announce on there from Italy, as possible as I can.
Then, I’m looking forward to joining these events and seeing many fans!

I’ll join the group exhibition in Paris, from May to October 2014

VanillaParisEroticMusee
I’ll join the group exhibition in Paris, France.
Vanilla Gallery in Tokyo will do the group exhibition Japon Erotica: La Nouvelle Generation Vol.2 (2014) at Musee de l’Erotisme in Paris. The current Japanese erotic art by 32 artists will be shown on there, and some of my works will be included.

The exhibition will be running from May 22 to October 30, 2014.
More detail, please see the museum’s website.

VanillaEroticCatalog
I got the catalog of the exhibition yesterday. You may be able to get same one at the museum. Unfortunately, it was printed in Japan, so images of genitals are censored or trimmed, but the catalog itself is very beautiful, and you can enjoy many unique Japanese erotic art from various points of views.

If you live in Paris, or if you have a plan to go to there during the exhibition, please visit to Musee de l’Erotisme in Paris!