Furukawa Museum of Art and the Tame Saburo Memorial Museum are holding the exhibition "In Memory of Toko Shinoda: 107 Years of Miracles"
Toko Shinoda (1913-2021), who has deep ties to the Tokai region, is an artist who has dedicated her 107-year-old life to creating art with ink, always striving for new expressions as if to carve out a new path in life. Her abstract art, created using ink and brush, is highly regarded worldwide. Her activities range from her creations as a calligrapher based on calligraphy, to abstract paintings as a painter, lithographs as a printmaker, and murals on large screens such as architectural spaces as a contemporary artist. She also has an aspect as an essayist who writes about her creations and daily outlook on life, and her way of life, which adheres to her own style, continues to fascinate many people.
In this exhibition, from The Tallman Collection, which has been watching over Toko Shinoda's creative activities for many years, precious hand-painted works that are rarely exhibited and prints that she has worked on over the course of about 50 years will be exhibited at both the Furukawa Museum of Art and the Tame Saburo Memorial Museum.
At the Furukawa Museum of Art, we will introduce the trajectory of Toko Shinoda, from when she traveled to the United States alone in 1956 at the age of 43 in search of her own style while attracting attention as an avant-garde calligrapher, to her later years. During her two-year stay in the United States, she deepened her friendships with the masters of Abstract Expressionism, which was at the forefront of the era, and after returning to Japan, Toko's own abstract and spatial expressions using ink were developed one after another. At the Furukawa Museum of Art, we will present masterpieces that make use of the momentum of ink lines and the spread of color that can only be achieved by hand, as well as the coincidence of the bleeding and shading of Japanese paper.
In addition, at the Tame Saburo Memorial Hall, a branch of the museum, which is a sukiya-style building founded in the early Showa period, we will exhibit Toko's lithographs, which she was passionate about as one of her expressive techniques and produced more than 1,000 pieces in her lifetime. In the production of lithographs, many of the printed prints are hand-colored one by one, resulting in works with different expressions such as decoration and a sense of rhythm. Please enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to face Toko Shinoda's works up close in the changing natural light.
Details
| Schedule | June 15th (Sat) - July 28th (Sun) 2024 |
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| Venue | 2-50 Ikeshita, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture |
