Nagoya City Art Museum

Nagoya City Art Museum (Japanese名古屋 市 美术馆, Nagoya- shi Bijutsukan ) is the English name for a founded in 1983, Modern Art Museum in Nagoya. The collection includes works by regional artists, the École de Paris, the modern Mexican and contemporary art.

Building

The Nagoya City Art Museum is located in Shirakawa Park in central Nagoya. The two-story building with an additional basement was designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa. It is oriented from north to south and has a north-western side entrance. In the basement there are premises for the permanent exhibition, business premises, as well as a lobby with an open ceiling and a sunken garden. On the first and second floor are rooms for temporary exhibitions. There are panels to stop light entirely or to reduce the Lichtintensitität. Thus a wide variety of lighting moods can be created.

Collection

The museum's collection includes about 1,200 works and has an emphasis on the modern Japanese art. Thus, works by artists such Tamiji Kitagawa, Setsuko Migishi, Shusaku Arakawa, On Kawara and Tadaaki Kuwayama were purchased in chronological order, so that a larger overview of their oeuvre is possible. In addition, plants are originated between 1910 and 1930 in Paris and Japanese artists such as Takanori Ogisu influenced in the collection. You are the Members of Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, Jules Pascin, Moise Kisling and Tsuguharu Fujita.

The collection also includes art from Mexico after the Revolution of 1910, which had an establishment of an independent culture result. This art is important for the museum because they had great influence on the Japanese artist Kitagawa Tamiji. Artists whose works are part of the collection are, among others, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Frida Kahlo. In addition to this branch of the collection also includes modern and contemporary American art that has been influenced by these artists to convey a comprehensive picture of their art. In addition to these works can be found in the collection of works by contemporary artists that provide an overview of the current art scene.

The museum pursues build the collection three objectives:

Special

Besides its own museum collection museum are shown several exhibitions annually in Nagoya City, dealing with the modern art at different times, as well as contemporary art. For example, in 1988 a Pierre -Auguste Renoir retrospective and Barbizon School, Impressionist, early Modern Paintings from the Hermitage Museum. 1994, for example, the exhibition Toulouse- Lautrec and the Japonisme was shown. In addition, there were other exhibitions such as Surrealism in Japan, 1925-1945 (1990 ), The Depicted Utopia - Another facet of Japanese Modern Photography in Manchoukuo (1994 ), Masterpieces from the Museum Folkwang Essen (1996) and Man Ray (1991).