[Commemorating the ICOM Kyoto General Conference] "Collected! Japanese Avant-Garde — Through the Eyes of Tokutaro Yamamura: The Yamamura Collection" at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Collected! Japanese Avant-Garde — Through the Eyes of Tokutaro Yamamura: The Yamamura Collection
I visited the special exhibition “Collected! Japanese Avant-Garde — Through the Eyes of Tokutaro Yamamura: The Yamamura Collection,” which brings together 140 works collected by the businessman Tokutaro Yamamura (1926–1986), a resident of Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture. The venue is the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
The collecting philosophy of the Yamamura Collection is said to lie “in the space between abstraction and a more human-scented avant-garde.”
This collection exhibition is the first in about twenty years, and reportedly the largest in scale to date.
Collected! Japanese Avant-Garde — Through the Eyes of Tokutaro Yamamura: The Yamamura CollectionYoshishige Saito, “Bench,” 1967The exhibition also offered insights into the collector’s way of thinking.Installation viewInstallation viewInstallation viewLeft: Kumi Sugai, “Oni (Brown),” 1962. Right: Kumi Sugai, “Mouse Gray,” 1962Collection management notebookSadamasa Motonaga, “Heran Heran,” 1975Installation viewAs a collector, he seems to have been strongly influenced by Peggy Guggenheim.Kazuo Shiraga, “Tenisei Sekihakki,” 1959Kazuo Shiraga, “Ultra-Modern Sanbaso,” 1957/2003Installation viewJiro Takamatsu, “Shadow (#394),” 1974–75Left: Atsuko Tanaka, “Work,” 1958. Right: Atsuko Tanaka, “Work,” 1961Atsuko Tanaka, “Work,” 1958Ushio Shinohara, “Motorcycle Mama,” 1971Kenjiro Okazaki, “Zinc,” 1985. Polypropylene, lead, FRP. 190×160×190 cmInstallation viewMasunobu Yoshimura, “Pig Lib;,” 1971
It was a large-scale collection exhibition.
With many abstract works and large-format pieces lined up throughout the venue, the space was truly spectacular.
I thoroughly enjoyed this outstanding array of works!
