Paris, Tokyo, and Osaka: collections from three museums in these cities, each of which has nurtured its own unique culture, will come together. The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris on the banks of the Seine River, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo near the Imperial Palace, and the Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka in the center of Osaka City, have all built rich collections of modern art as museums in major cities. This exhibition is an unprecedented and unique experiment in which works from the collections of the three museums that have something in common are selected to form a number of trios. The commonalities among the works included in each of the freely conceived trios are various, including subject matters, motifs, colors and shapes, materials, and the context in which the works were created, regardless of the era, school, or Eastern/Western backgrounds. The exhibition consists of 34 trios of more than 150 works, including paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, designs, and videos by 110 artists, presented in seven chapters according to themes and concepts to propose a new way of viewing modern art from the early 20th century to the present day and to highlight its appeal.
As an example of the trio's composition, the exhibition website and posters show three paintings with the motif of a lying woman lying, Henri Matisse's "Odalisque with a Turkish Chair" (Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris), Tetsugoro Yorozu's "Nude Beauty" (Important Cultural Property) (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo), and Amedeo Modigliani's "Reclining Nude with Hair Taken Down" (Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka). The theme "Garden of Imagination" includes Raoul Dufy's "House and Garden" (Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris), Hisashi Tsuji's "Camellia and Cub" (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo), and Andre Bauchant's "Fruit Shelf" (Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka), as another example of the trio featuring landscapes.
Artists: Ryuichi Amano / Karel Appel / Toshio Arimoto / Arman (Armand Fernandez) / Jean (Hans) Arp / Jean-Michel Basquiat / Andre Bauchant / Maria Blanchard / Umberto Boccioni / Pierre Bonnard / Constantin Brancusi / Brassaï / Victor Brauner / Henri Cartier-Bresson / Alexander Calder / Marc Chagall / Giorgio de Chirico / Salvador Dali / Henry Darger / Felix Del Marle / Robert Delaunay / Sonia Delaunay / Julien Discri / Shunji Dodo / Robert Doisneau / Raymond Duchamp-Villon / François Dufrêne / Raoul Dufy / Jean Fortrier / Takeji Fujishima / Tsuguharu Fujita / Pablo Gargarillo / Katsushiro Hara / Toshiyuki Hasegawa / Naoya Hatakeyama / Yoshio Hayakawa / Mako Idemitsu / Yoson Ikeda / Leiko Ikemura / Miyako Ishiuchi / Seiko Kanno / Shinzo Kawai / Kametaro Kawakami / Ryoka Kawakami / Mokuma Kikuhata / Ryusei Kishida / Shozo Kitadai / Tsunetomi Kitano / Noboru Kitawaki / Paul Klee / Yves Klein / Harue Koga / Narashige Koide / Kishio Koizumi / Shiro Kuramata / Yayoi Kusama / Marie Laurencin / Fernand Léger / El Lissitzky / Toshiro Maeda / René Magritte / Albert Marquet / Toshi Maruki (Toshiko Akamatsu) / Henri Matisse / Shunsuke Matsumoto / Fausto Melotti / Jean Metzinger / Henri Michaux / Kotaro Migishi / Amedeo Modigliani / Aya Momose / Yasumasa Morimura / Jean-Luc Moulène / Tomoyoshi Murayama / Natsuyuki Nakanishi / Yoshitomo Nara / Ikko Narahara / Yuki Ogura / Koen Okamoto / Taro Okamoto / Koshiro Onchi / Pablo Picasso / Serge Poliakoff / Marc Riboud / Germaine Ricier / Marc Rothko / Yuzo Saeki / Gyokai Sahoyama / Masaharu Sato / Mieko Shiomi / Chaim Soutine / Kumi Sugai / Hisui Sugiura / Yutaka Takanashi / Atsuko Tanaka / Toeko Tatsuno / Seiji Togo / Shomei Tomatsu / Motohiro Tomii / Haruo Tomiyama / Yoho Tsuda / Hisashi Tsuji / Maurice Utrillo / Suzanne Valadon / Xavier Veilhan / Sabine Weiss / Yoshitatsu Yanagihara / Sotaro Yasui / Tetsugoro Yorozu / Jiro Yoshihara
Sources: TRIO Official Website, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Nakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, niewmedia.com
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