Month: August 2019

Takenodai Plaza of Ueno Onshi Park (Fountain plaza)

Last year, the popular “Edomachi-Taito Entertainment Festival Geirakusai” was held again this year.
It is a cultural event full of emotion that allows young and old people to feel the various arts and art culture that have been protected and nurtured by their predecessors, such as smart, rich humanity, and enterprising spirit.

Honorary advisor is Beat Takeshi, the same as last time.

Starting from the opening event on August 18, the summer team will be held from August 18 to October 26, 2019, and the winter team will be held from January to February 15, 2020.
So, this time, we interviewed the opening event.

Mahha speed gousokkyu & Monrose

The event's frontier was Mach Speed's fast-paced ball that won the championship at the “Beat Takeshi Cup Mansai Nippon No. 1” held in January 2019. The short contest was performed for 10 seconds, 30 seconds and 1 minute. Tasteful tongues, fast-paced bokeh and tsukkomi with masochism about their name recognition at important points, and a talk invite a pleasant laugh from the venue.

Next up is the runner-up Monrose, who competed with them in the Beat Takeshi Cup. Two contrasting men, who have a modern weakness and a full-blown heat, show off the teppanya “Director of Weak Baseball Club” and attract their own laughter.

In this way, two young entertainers who got on the wave this year excited the venue, and the spark of “Edomachi-Taito Entertainment Festival Geirakusai ~ Summer Team ~” was started.

Shakuhachi performance (Mr. Kinohachi)

Kinohachi, who has inherited the shakuhachi school of “Kinko-ryu” that has continued since the Edo period, is from Negishi, Taito-ku. He started blowing shakuhachi instead of toys at the age of 4 and later studied under Takahisa Mitsuhashi.
After his solo debut in 2003, his talents have been demonstrated in composition activities such as stage, Kabuki, and movies, and it seems that his life work includes performing votive performances at temples and shrines throughout the country.
Looking abroad, he has been active in overseas performances such as London, Moscow, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Crimea, New Zealand, Beijing and Shanghai, and is one of the Japanese culture senders.
This time, I will make it sound in my hometown Taito-ku.

With the violin performance of Jun Takeuchi-san, the venue will be surrounded by a godly and mysterious mood. Not only adults, but also the tone had the power to stop the feet of small children who were just eager. While respecting tradition and formality, it was such an attractive performance that does not forget modern playfulness.

Dance performance from New York (Global Art and Culture Exchange Mai)

“Global Art and Culture Exchange Mai” is centered on Miho Imoto, a stage actress who is also active in Broadway in the United States, and is also active in interactive workshops and international cultural exchanges through entertainment called dance. Is a performance group.

I am particularly good at theater dance, and this time I tried to incorporate sign language into the dance. After all, the main feature of this dance is the dance performance on the song of the rock band QUEEN, which is named after the movie “Bohemian Rhapsody”. Everyone is enthusiastic about a powerful and dynamic dance. Along with the tune, clapping also begins, and the venue is exciting.

ROLLY & Kaori Muraji (Talk show)

ROLLY, a musician who loves QUEEN, and Kaori Muraharu, a classical guitarist who is also active as a tourism ambassador, talked about the movies “Bohemian Rhapsody” and QUEEN.

The most impressive episode was when Brian May played the guitar using a coin instead of a pick when playing the guitar.
A number of songs were born from the combination of British picks and coins, which is a 1-yen coin in Japan.
Your QUEEN love talk will not end.
And this time, they also performed a session of the QUEEN medley of their selection.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" movie screening

Last year, the movie “Bohemian Rhapsody” was the biggest movement in the world, not just in Japan, and won the 91st Academy Awards in 4 categories.
This work was screened on a large outdoor screen set up in Ueno Onshi Park with the highest quality sound equipment.
Along with the screening, the eyes of many visitors gathered at the venue were poured onto the light projected from the truck loaded with screening equipment.

The sun set, and the heat should have only left the heat accumulated in the concrete ground, but as the scene progressed at the venue where the cheering screening was OK, the enthusiasm again filled with hot cheering and singing by QUEEN fans It was.
It looks more like a live venue than a movie theater.
Ueno on this day became hotter than usual.

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The 2nd Edomachi-Taito Entertainment Festival Geirakusai, which started in this way, will be followed by a variety of cultural events such as movies, performing arts, and theater.
Why don't you visit the venue to see, listen to, laugh, and see the popular performing arts that have been nurtured in the region and the sophisticated styles and traditions that have been nurtured in the community, by inviting everyone around you? Uka.
For details, please visit the official website below.

Outline of Edomachi-Taito Entertainment Festival Geirakusai

Session	August 18, 2019 (Sun)-February 15, 2020 (Sat)
Venue	○ Ueno area Takenodai Plaza of Ueno Onshi Park (Fountain plaza), Okachimachi south exit station square etc. ○ Yanaka District Disaster Prevention Plaza Hatsune Forest ○ Northern area Yamatanibori Square and others ○ Southern Area Kuramae Elementary School ○ Asakusa district Higashi Honganji Temple, Taito Ward Asakusa Public Hall etc.
Official website	http://www.taitogeirakusai.com/

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The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts

From Saturday, August 3, 2019, at the University of Tokyo Art Museum in Ueno, Tokyo,
“LEGENDARY KYOTO PAINTING FROM MARUYAMA OKYO TO THE MODERN ERA” is held.
(Until Sunday, September 29)

The other day, this exhibition’s news preview was held, and this time we will deliver the report.

 

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About Okyo Maruyama

Maruyama Okyo was born in 1733 (Kyoho 18) as a peasant child in the vicinity of Kameoka, Kyoto (Aita Village, Tamba Kuwana-gun).
However, life is difficult because of the poor family environment, and he was said to have been sent to the ministry from an early age.

One of the company’s customers, Owariya Kanbei, was a toy dealer that handled floats, telescopes, peep glasses, and dolls.
With the opportunity to draw eyeglasses there, Orai studied under Yui Ishida, who was cultivating the flow of the Kano school, and learned the perspective method of Western painting through eyeglasses. I refined the technique of painting.

The name will be called “Orai” from 1766 (Maywa 3).
And while meeting Yuten, the master of Mitsui-ji Enman-in Temple, and receiving various orders, he produces a number of masterpieces and continues his career as a painter.

A sketch (drawn sketch), which is created during this period and reflects the raw life.
In the era when the basics of painting at that time were only Yamato or Chinese paintings, Orai’s live-action paintings were simple and easy to understand, and would spread the paintings as familiar to the common people.

Fascinated by such a friendly and free-spirited painting style that is not bound by old traditions, there are many introductory students from all over the country, and in the 1780s, a leading school called the Maruyama school was formed and it became a school that can organize workshops I will continue.

What are Maruyama and Shijo factions?

Along with the Maruyama school, there is the “Shijo school” in the school centered on Kureharu, who studied at Yosyo-an village and later studied under special circumstances.

The Shijo school is a painting school named after , Goshun and his disciples who lived around Shijo-dori in Kyoto.
Because the artistic style of Goshun is influenced by Okyo, the two schools of Maruyama and Shijo are called “Maruyama / Shijo” as the two major schools, and the mainstream of Kyoto since the early days. It has a great influence on modern Kyoto art and has been handed down to the present day.

The highlight of the exhibition

By following the genealogy from Okyo, Goshun to modern times, this exhibition approaches the full picture of the Maruyama and Shijo factions, and reveals part of the Kyoto picture platform, which is an important part of Japanese art history. There are roughly 4 chapters.
The number of exhibitions is about 100, including 8 important cultural properties and 2 important works of art, making it the largest exhibition ever.

The most noticeable thing is the three-dimensional display of Daijoji Rie, which is called the last masterpiece of Okyo Maruyama.

“Daijoji Lacquer painting” has a breathtaking scale. The light changes the density of the ink. Please see from various angles.

 

In addition, we will also introduce 32 paintings by painters who follow the “Maruyama / Shijo school” system, which is followed by Goshun, Syurei Yamamoto and Kameoka Kirei.

 

 

One of the highlights is that only the first part of the Tokyo exhibition will have an important art piece “Eguchi Kimitzu” on display.

Maruyama Okyo’s “Eguchi Kimitzu” is one of the few beautiful Oijo pictures.
A special feature is that the renowned figure is drawn with a solid human body composition.
The way the hair falls off from the top of the hair is reproduced naturally.

 

Only the Tokyo exhibition is also on display for the newly discovered work, “Fish Seafood”.

“Seafood” is on the left of the photo. A total of 28 painters, who occupy most of the Maruyama and Shijo factions, draw seafood on one screen. Although it is drawn by 28 people, at first glance it is interesting that it is harmonious as if one painter is drawing.
In the center of the photo, “Matsutora” is a work depicting a representative tiger from the Kishi group that steps on the Maruyama system.

 

OTHER　PRODUCT

Obun Kunii / Gyokusen Mochizuki “Flower / Beast / Beast Illustration”

A painting drawn by the Maruyama school’s fifth generation, Obun and Mochizuki school’s fourth generation, Gyokusen. The pale blue, dark blue, and greenish colors of the peacock feathers painted in glossy paint are vivid. I feel.

Seihou Takeuchi “Spring Warm”
Rosetsu Nagasawa “Rose Butterfly Lion Figure”
Two painters who were influenced by Ojo, Tsubaki and Yukiyuki. Both dogs are unique and cute.

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Summary

The Maruyama / Shijo faction is vague in its definition of which is the Maruyama faction and which is the Shijo faction, and experts cannot judge.
There is no change in the Maruyama and Shijo faction, so there is no expression that makes Maruyama Okyo’s sketchy or strange, and it is gentle.
Therefore, it is important to appreciate the gentle changes and differences in the styles of each piece without thinking about difficult things.

The Maruyama-Shijo school has nurtured Kyoto’s unique culture against the Edo culture that evolved with rapid changes.
Why don’t you touch the works of Maruyama and Shijo at the University of Tokyo Art Museum?

 

Outline

Exhibition name	LEGENDARY KYOTO PAINTING FROM MARUYAMA OKYO TO THE MODERN ERA
Session	Previous period: August 3 (Sat)-September 1 (Sun), 2019 Late: September 3 (Tue)-September 29 (Sun), 2019 Large exhibition changes in the second half of the previous period! * However, Daijoji Rie is displayed throughout the year 10:00 am-5:00 pm (Last entry 30 minutes before closing)
closing day	Monday * However, if Monday is a public holiday or a transfer holiday, it will be opened and closed the next day
Venue	Tokyo University of the Arts Museum of Art (Ueno Park) Main Building Room 1, 2, 3, 4
Admission fee	General 1,500 yen (1,200 yen) High school / university students 1,000 yen (700 yen) * Free for junior high school students and younger * (　) Is a group fee for 20 or more people * One group leader per 20 group visitors is free * Free for disabled people and one caregiver. Present a handicapped person’s handbook when entering the museum. Advantageous ticket information * Please check the official website for details.
Official site	https://okyokindai2019.exhibit.jp/

 

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Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum

From July 20, 2019 (Saturday) at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Ueno, the “Iba Yasuko Exhibition” will be held. [Until October 9 (Wed)]
The press preview of this exhibition was held the other day, so this time we will deliver the report.

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About Iba Yasuko Exhibition

Yasuko Iba is fascinated by the world with her own eyes and motifs as a painter, and continues to express the scenery of itself by drawing texture motifs and light that it would like to touch Yes.
The creative style is based on photographs taken by myself, and in the 2000s , the motif was mainly bedding and dishes.
Also in recent years, the style of production has not changed, but the distance to the motif that was approaching has gradually increased.
The interest in the landscape gradually increases, and by expanding the perspective to the surrounding space, the Iba work shows new developments.
At this exhibition, video works have been presented as prints and new attempts, including paintings drawn from photographs taken at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.

Since the solo exhibition in 2009, "Iba Yasuko-The Place of the Wonder of the Day-" (Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Modern Art), the exhibition for the first time in a museum for the first time in 10 years "Aiko Iba Exhibition"
This exhibition brings to the core of unchanging interest along with the 10-year change of Iiwa Reiko, by displaying works in front of new development, focusing on recent works and new works.

Highlights of the exhibition

The highlight of the exhibition is three.

The first solo exhibition for the first time in 110 years at a museum in Tokyo

This is a large collection of works at major museums in Japan and abroad.
Its popularity is loved by many collectors as well as museums.
In this exhibition, we will display works from 2004, which will lead to recent works and new works, with the help of many holders who are carefully kept in private residences.
Usually, the collector's favorite work that can not be seen in the middle is a pleasure.

2 New exhibition center

The exhibition will be held for around three years from the spring of 2016, which was decided to be held, and will be exhibited focusing on new works such as paintings, prints and videos.
The paintings I drew from the photographs taken at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum were reborn through the lenses and hands of Iba, and brought new life to the architecture of Kunio Maekawa who designed the museum.

First Challenge for 3 Video Works

With a focus on painting and broadening her production activities, Iba is challenging the first video work this time.
Developed from paintings that draw a quiet space filled with light, it is an image work that makes it possible to be aware of various things that exist between human eyes such as the atmosphere, light, and atmosphere, and objects of things to be seen.

Introduction of exhibited works

This work is drawn from photographs taken at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
Produced by putting a motif in an acrylic box.
The ambient light reflected from the transparent acrylic box and the light of the objects overlap in layers, creating a unique world.

The texture of the wrinkles that can be created after holding the cushion tight with both hands.
It seems that you can also feel the warmth of the people living there.
It is strange that when you look in front of the work, you will have the illusion that the work will come to light with light.

The transparency of the glass, the gloss, and the shadows extending from the bowl are delicately expressed.
The pale cherry-colored background highlights the object.

One of Iniwa's new video works.
When using the left and right eye parallax to look at the screen using a three-dimensional object viewing method, an image appears.
It is interesting because the way people look at it also changes depending on the day.
Please take a look and feel with your eyes.

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Summary

Yasuko Iba says, "I want to look at each work with eyes, feel even with the body, and have me wake up to my own past memories."

It senses the presence of invisible things from visible objects.
That is how I admire the Iniwa works.

Reiko Iiwa continues to challenge not only paintings but also new visual expressions such as images, while taking an object and a style that draws the light that it creates.
How about visiting this exhibition by all means?

Outline of the event

Exhibition name	"Iba Yasuko Exhibition"
Session	Saturday, July 20, 2019-Wednesday, October 9
Venue	Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Gallery A, B, C
Closed day	Monday, August 13 (Tuesday), September 17 (Tuesday), September 24 (Tuesday) ※ However, the room will be opened on August 12th (Mon. and holidays), September 16th (Mon. and holidays) and September 23rd (Mon. and holidays)
Opening time	9:30 to 17:30, 9:30 to 20:00 on Fridays (all are 30 minutes before closing) ※ However, July 26 (Fri), August 2 (Fri), 9 (Fri), 16 (Fri), 23 (Fri), and 30 (Fri): 9:30 to 21:00
Fee for viewing	Tickets for the day | General 800 yen / undergraduate / vocational school student 400 yen / 65 years old or older 500 yen Group ticket | General 600 yen ※ Target of group discount is more than 20 people ※ Free for students below high school ※ Person with disability certificate, love notebook, nursing notebook, mental patient health welfare notebook, A-bomb survivors health notebook and person (the one up to one person) are free ※ August 21 (Wed), September 18 (Wed) by "Silver Day", September 16 (Mon. / Congratulations) by "Senior Day" ※ August 17 (Sat), 18 (Sun), 18 (Saturday), September 21 (Sat), 22 (Sun) by "Family Contact Day", parents who accompany children under 18 (resident in Tokyo) , Up to 2 people, half of the general charge ※ Please bring what you can prove ※ October 1 (Tuesday) is free for everyone according to "Tomin's Day" [Summer Night Museum Discount] From 17:00 to 21:00 on July 26 (Fri), August 2 (Fri), 9 (Fri), 16 (Fri), 23 (Fri), and 30 (Fri) 600 yen, free for college students / professional school students [Mutual discount] Those who present a ticket for the following exhibition (sift accepted) at the entrance of the main exhibition hall will receive a discount on the day of the general day (each one per person, other discounts only) Can not be used with) ・ Special exhibition " Cartourde Museum Exhibition Fascinating Impressionism " We discount 300 yen from general rate on the day. If you are presenting a ticket for the exhibition (snift accepted) at the ticket counter in our hall, you can get a discount of ¥ 100 on the day ticket for the “Cultordo Museum of Art Exhibition: Fascinating Impressionism” ・ Tokyo Metropolitan Gakugei Museum of Art " Interior decoration of 1933. Building materials and people for Asaka Palace House " We discount 200 yen from general rate on the day. If you are presenting a ticket for the exhibition (snift accepted) at the ticket office next to the gate of the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the general price of “Building Materials and People Over Asaka Palace House in 1933” is ¥ 180. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Contemporary Art " Asobi Nojikan " Exhibition We discount 200 yen from general rate on the day. If you are presenting a ticket for the exhibition (snift accepted) at the ticket counter of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, the general rate for the “Asobi no Jikan” exhibition is discounted by ¥ 120. Family contact day ( https://www.tobikan.jp/en/guide/hospitality.html ) Silver day ( https://www.tobikan.jp/en/guide/hospitality.html ) Tokyo educational institution admission fee exemption application ( https://www.tobikan.jp/en/learn/exemption.html ) Daddy mommy day ( https://www.tobikan.jp/guide/nurseryservice.html )
Special WEB site	https://www.tobikan.jp/en/exhibition/2019_yasukoiba.html ※ You can check other event information on the special website.

Article Provided by: Kokosil Ueno

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