This exhibition has been rescheduled. Dates: June 11 (Thu) – June 29 (Mon), 2020
The Hyperrealism Invasion: Selected Works from the Hoki Museum
Realist painting — the art of rendering its subject with utter fidelity — is now enjoying what can only be called a boom.
Each artist may complete only a handful of works per year, spending months in patient dialogue with the canvas. The finished pieces are freighted with each painter’s own vision, and beyond their minute detail they carry a presence that no photograph or film could ever match.
This exhibition brings together seventy select highlights from the collection of the Hoki Museum — the institution known as “the temple of realist painting” — presenting the finest works by today’s leading realist painters under one roof. Through this rich variety of works by singularly gifted artists, visitors will be able to savour the full pleasures of realist painting.
Hoki Museum, exterior
What is the Hoki Museum?
The Hoki Museum opened on November 3, 2010 in Midori Ward, Chiba City, as one of the few museums in the world dedicated exclusively to realist painting.
Its holdings comprise approximately 480 realist paintings assembled by Masao Hoki.
Fronting the lush greenery of Showa no Mori, Chiba City’s largest park, the museum’s corridor-style gallery — one floor above ground and two below, running some 500 metres in total — offers year-round viewing of about 140 masterworks of realism by roughly forty contemporary painters, including Sosuke Morimoto, Hiroshi Noda, and Tadahiko Nakayama. Part of the structure is cantilevered on a steel frame so that it floats in mid-air, with galleries that open onto sweeping views of the forest. On the second basement level, the museum presents “My Signature Works,” a display of paintings of size 100 or larger — many created specifically for the Hoki Museum.
Hoki Museum, interior
Selected Works on View
Sosuke Morimoto, “The Future,” 2011, oil on canvasHiroshi Noda, “The Sacred THE-Ⅳ,” 2013, oil on panel and canvasHiroshi Ikushima, “5:55,” 2007–2010, oil on canvasFumihiko Gomi, “The Ancient King Speaks,” 2018, oil on panelKenichiro Ishiguro, “The Whereabouts of Being,” 2001–2011, oil on panel and cotton clothNobuyuki Shimamura, “Rattan Chaise Longue,” 2007, oil on canvasNobuyuki Shimamura, “Fantasy Lobster,” 2013, oil on canvasNobuyuki Shimamura, “Giant Leaf Insect – Mimicry –,” 2014, oil on canvasToshiro Aoki, “Lemon Confiture, Peonies, and Blue-and-White and White Porcelain,” 2013, oil on canvasMasayuki Hara, “The Doyle Family Mailbox,” 2012, oil on panel
“The Hyperrealism Invasion: Selected Works from the Hoki Museum” promises an encounter with the sheer power of realist painting — an experience no reproduction can convey.
We look forward to it with great anticipation.
Overview
The Hyperrealism Invasion: Selected Works from the Hoki Museum
Venue: Bunkamura The Museum
Dates: March 18 (Wed) – May 11 (Mon), 2020, closed on April 14 (Tue) only * Closed from April 7 due to COVID-19, ending the run early. Rescheduled dates: June 11 (Thu) – June 29 (Mon), 2020 Hours: 10:00–18:00 (last admission 17:30); every Friday and Saturday until 21:00 (last admission 20:30)
Admission: General 1,600 (1,400) yen / University and high-school students 900 (700) yen / Junior-high and elementary students 600 (400) yen
* Prices in parentheses are for advance tickets and groups of 20 or more.
Featured artists (tentative): Hiroshi Noda, Sosuke Morimoto, Tadahiko Nakayama, Toshiro Aoki, Nobuyuki Shimamura, Osamu Obi, Fumihiko Gomi, Toshihiro Ohata, Hiroshi Ikushima, Tsuyoshi Isoe, Masayuki Hara, Kenichiro Ishiguro, Ryo Shiotani, and others
지금, 그야말로 붐이라 할 만큼 뜨거운 열기를 얻고 있는 사실회화. 대상을 있는 그대로 그려내는 이 장르는 오늘날 새로운 주목을 받고 있습니다.
1년에 몇 점밖에 그리지 못할 정도로 작가가 시간을 들여 화폭과 마주하며 정성껏 그려낸 작품에는 각 화가가 표현하고자 하는 마음이 담겨 있고, 단순히 세밀하게 그려졌을 뿐만 아니라 사진이나 영상과는 다른 존재감을 자아냅니다.
본 전시에서는 “사실회화의 전당”이라 불리는 Hoki Museum이 소장한, 오늘날 사실회화를 대표하는 작가들의 엄선된 인기작 70점을 한자리에 모아 소개합니다. 개성 넘치는 뛰어난 작가들의 다채로운 작품을 통해 사실회화의 진수를 마음껏 만끽하실 수 있을 것입니다.
Hoki Museum 외관
Hoki Museum이란……?
Hoki Museum은 세계에서도 드문 사실회화 전문 미술관으로서 2010년 11월 3일 지바시 미도리구에 개관했습니다.
그 컬렉션은 Masao Hoki가 수집한 사실회화 작품 약 480점으로 구성되어 있습니다.
지바시 최대의 공원인 푸르른 쇼와노모리에 면한, 지상 1층·지하 2층의 3층 규모, 총 500미터에 이르는 회랑형 갤러리에서는 Sosuke Morimoto를 비롯해 Hiroshi Noda, Tadahiko Nakayama 등 약 40명의 현대 작가에 의한 사실 명작 약 140점을 상시 관람할 수 있습니다. 일부는 철골 구조로 공중에 띄워져 있어 창문을 통해 숲을 조망할 수 있는 갤러리도 있습니다. 또한 지하 2층에서는 Hoki Museum을 위해 새로 그려진 100호 이상의 대작 “나의 대표작” 시리즈를 중심으로 전시하고 있습니다.
