Find Duchamp's Masterpieces!
French artist Marcel Duchamp, who created works one after another using ready-made industrial products such as "Wheels of bicycles," which came last year and came to Japan and mounted bicycle wheels upside down on wooden pedestals. Above all, the work "Izumi" that just signed the men's urinal that was overturned redefined the concept of the art so far, and in 2004 "the most impacting 20th century selected by 500 art people in the world In the work of art, Picasso's "Avignon's daughters" and Andy Warhol's "Marilyn Monroe (20)" won first place. Dushan, also called the father of such contemporary art, will celebrate its 130th anniversary this year, the 100th anniversary of the birth of “Izumi”. Planning exhibitions have also been held in Japan since last year, and his interest in him seems to be growing.
Dushan had a deep relationship with Japan, especially with the art critic Shiki Takiguchi from Toyama Prefecture. This time, the Toyama Prefectural Art Museum to be introduced this time is "Self-Portrait of profile produced by Duchamp for" Marcel Dushan Dictionary "edited by Higuchi, besides" Box in Trunk [Special Edition] ". The original paintings of the In addition, “The bride, even naked” naked by her single people, held by the Art Museum of the University of Tokyo, is one of the most important works in talking about his painting work, so please go to see it once .
Discover at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto!
"Izumi"
Marcel Duchamp "Izumi" 1917/1964 Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto © Succession Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2017 G0805
The Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, which houses a large number of related works and materials of the movement "Dada", in which Dushan also participates and changes the concept of existing art. Above all, "Izumi" is the most important work to talk about Dada. In 1917, Dushan anonymously announces at the exhibition that "If you pay $ 6, anyone can exhibit." The judge refuses to display this work, only the sign R. MATTE is written on the lying men's urinal. However, after a while, a resonating person appeared, and "Izumi" became a monumental work in art history. ※ Permanently on display.
Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art
Address Okazaki Enshuji Teramachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
Opening hours 9:30 am-5:00 pm (up to 30 minutes before closing), display exchange period (August 8, October 24, 2017), New Year closing day Monday (except Monday is a holiday) (Opened on next Tuesday, closed on the following Tuesday)
Viewing fee (general) 1500 yen
Discover at the Toyama Prefectural Art Museum!
"Box of the Trunk (Special Edition)"
Marcel Duchamp "The Box of Trunks (Special Edition)" Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art Collection © Succession Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2017 G0843
This summer, the Toyama Museum of Modern Art relocated and opened as the Toyama Prefectural Art Museum. It contains many works of famous contemporary artists such as Picasso and Warhol. This work is a specially-designed version limited to 20 copies in which 69 copies of Dushan's main works were reproduced in miniature size and packed in the trunk. Also includes the original work "Fake Landscape". ※ It will be exhibited at the Opening Commemorative Exhibition from August 26.
Toyama Prefectural Art Museum
Address ︎ 3-20 Kibacho, Toyama Prefecture, Toyama Prefecture
Opening hours from 9:30 to 18:00 (30 minutes before closing)
Closed day Wednesday (but open for public holidays), the day after a public holiday, New Year's admission fee (general) Collection exhibition 300 yen * The planned exhibition varies depending on the exhibition.
Discovered at Komaba Museum, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo!
"Bride, even naked, by her dictators."
Marcel Duchamp, The Bride, Naked by Her Dictators, Komaba Museum, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo © Succession Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2017 G0843
The Museum of Art, The University of Tokyo Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which has been holding not only Oriental art materials, archeology materials of Latin America and Asia, but also contemporary art collection since the 1970s. The first work of the collection is "The bride naked by her single people, even", commonly known as "big glass". It is an unfinished work that abandoned production on the way of what spent 8 years, and the upper part of the glass means "bride" and the lower part means "single person".
※ Permanently on display.
Komaba Museum, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Address 3-8-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
Opening hours 10 o'clock to 18 o'clock (30 minutes before the closing)
Closed day Tuesday Entrance fee (Permanent Exhibition) Free
