Date: March 20, 2024 (Wednesday/Holiday) – July 7, 2024 (Sunday)
"Paris Pompidou Center Cubism Exhibition – Revolution of Beauty: From Picasso and Braque to Delaunay and Chagall", which is currently being held at the National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, Tokyo), will travel to the Kyocera Museum of Art, Kyoto [Date: March 20, 2024] Sunday (Wednesday/Holiday) to July 7th (Sunday)]. This is the first full-scale exhibition in Japan that focuses on Cubism head-on in about 50 years.
Cubism, created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the early 20th century, brought unprecedented changes to Western art. Its name comes from the fact that in 1908, Braque's landscape paintings were described as "cubes." Rather than expressing space through traditional perspective and shading methods, the attempt to compose the picture plane using geometrically flat shapes freed painters from the Renaissance-era common sense that paintings reproduce reality. did. Cubism, which shocked young artists in Paris, quickly spread around the world and had a decisive influence on the diverse development of art that followed.
This exhibition is the first large-scale exhibition of Cubism in Japan in about 50 years , with approximately 130 works mainly from the collection of the Center Pompidou in Paris, which boasts one of the world's leading collections of modern and contemporary art. Through paintings and sculptures, including more than 50 works by approximately 40 artists who visited Japan for the first time , we will introduce the complete picture of Cubism, which was the true starting point of 20th century art.
Event overview
◆Exhibition name: Paris Pompidou Center Cubism Exhibition – Revolution of Beauty From Picasso and Braque to Delaunay and Chagall
◆English name: The Cubist Revolution An Exhibition from the Collection of the Center Pompidou, Paris
◆Period: March 20, 2024 (Wednesday/Holiday) to July 7, 2024 (Sunday)
◆Opening hours: 10:00-18:00 (Admission until 17:30)
◆Closed: Every Monday *However, open on April 29th and May 6th
◆Venue: Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art (main building, north and south corridors, 1st floor)
◆Advance tickets and special tickets will go on sale from Friday, January 19, 2024. Details of the Kyoto venue will be announced on the exhibition official website in the future.
◆Sponsor: Center Pompidou, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, TV Osaka, Kyoto Shimbun, Kyoto City
◆Sponsor: Embassy of France in Japan/Institut Français Japan
◆Sponsor: Obayashi Corporation, DNP Dai Nippon Printing, Nippon Express, Boucheron Japan
◆ Cooperation: Sapporo Breweries, Japan Airlines, Paris Pompidou Center Japan Friendship Association
◆Inquiry: Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art TEL.075-771-4334
◆Exhibition site: https://cubisme.exhn.jp
