Tokaido Highway – Portraits from Edo to the Present –
This exhibition presents works from the Edo period and present-day that capture the people of the Tokaido and features Utagawa Hiroshige’s Fifty-three Stations (Figure Tokaido) plus Fifty- three Pairings for the Tokaido Road series composed by the Utagawa-family of artists Hiroshige, Toyokuni III and Kuniyoshi. Also featured is Carl Randall’s Tokaido Highway, in which the artist retraces the steps of Hiroshige along the Tokaido and records the portraits of the people living there today expressing a timeless cross-section of Japanese society.
Term : 8 July – 11 September 2014
[Part 1] 8 July – 10 August 2014 Hiroshige Utagawa Fifty-three Stations (Figure Tokaido) [56 works]
[Part 2] 12 August – 11 September Hiroshige Utagawa, Fifty-three Pairings for the Tokaido Road [55 works]
[Part1/Part2] Carl Randall ,Tokaido Highway [14 works]
Venue :
Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art
Organizer : Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art (designated administrator NPO Hexaproject)
Support from The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
Cooperation : Shizuoka Railway Co., Ltd.
Exhibition planning (producing/curation) : Hexaproject Ltd.
Coordination : Hexa project London Limited
Poster & flyer design : Hexaproject Ltd.
Web design : Hexaproject.Ltd.
Admission fee:
Adults: 510 (410) yen / University / High School Students: 300 (240) yen / Junior high students and younger:120 (100) yen
* ( ) indicates prices for groups of 20 or more
* Persons with proof of disability and one accompanying person are admitted free of charge
* Shizuoka City residents Junior high students and younger as well as Shizuoka City residents over 70 are Admission admitted free of charge * The admission fee was changed from April 1, 2014
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