Exhibition Celebrating Mt.Fuji’s Registration as a World Heritage Site “Documentary Fuji”
This exhibition presents Ukiyo-e as a documentary of the Edo Period and features works from 2 series of the Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji made by the meisho (famous places) artist Utagawa Hiroshige in his late years, as well as 40 Views of Mt. Fuji by the Ukiyo-e enchanted English photographer Chris Steele-Perkins. As if he was using camerawork techniques with modern composition, Hiroshige sometimes presented Mount Fuji as the main subject of his work, but in fact he was realistically portraying its existence through the Edo residents’ lives. Perkins uses Mount Fuji as just a focal point in his works, but from them tries to present Japanese society. Through Ukiyo-e and photography – the media of their time – moments of everyday landscape are captured and preserved crossing time and countries. How has the role of Mount Fuji in the lives of the Japanese changed since the Edo Period to today? Without a doubt this change clearly reflects just how different modern-day Japan is since the Edo Period.
Term : 17 July – 16 September 2013 (Mon./Holiday)
[Part 1] 17 July – 11August 2013,Utagawa Hiroshige Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji ( 冨士三十六景 ) [ 31 pieces; inc. List of Works ] Famous Places in Japan, Fuji Yama viewed from Satta Pass [1 piece],Famous Places in Japan, Fujikawa River Ferry Boats [1 piece],Scenery of Seven-Mile Beach in Kamakura [1 piece] ,Children’s Daimyo Procession [3 serial pieces]
Total : 37 pieces
[Part 2] 13 August – 16 September 2013,Utagawa Hiroshige,hirty Six Views of Mount Fuji ( 不二三十六景 ) [ 28 pieces ],The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido – Tsutaya Edition – [6 pieces] Tokaido Kawazukushi Oigawa-no-zu [3 serial pieces]
Total : 37 pieces
[Part 1 / Part 2 ]Chris Steele-Perkins, “40 Views of Mt. Fuji”,Total: 40 pieces
Venue :
Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art
Organizer : Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum of Art (designated administrator NPO Hexaproject)
Cooperation : J400(Four Hundredth Anniversary of Japan-British Relations),The Adachi Foundation for the Preservation of Woodcut Printing , the center for creative communications (CCC)
Exhibition planning(Produce & curation) : Hexaproject Ltd.
Coordination : Hexaproject London Ltd.
Space design : Hexaproject Ltd.
Poster & flyer design : Hexaproject Ltd.
Web design : Hexaproject.Ltd.
Participating artist : Chris Steele-Perkins
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