Gymnasium building open from summer! 7/29-11/5 "Permanent Exhibition 2023"

Paintings by representative artists of the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, including Isobe Yukihisa, Moriyama Daido, Kawamata Tadashi, Nakagawa Yukio, Tashima Seizo, Kawaguchi Tatsuo, and Jean-Michel Alberola, are currently on view at the Isobe Yukihisa Memorial: Echigo-Tsumari Kiyotsu SoKo Museum of Art［SoKo］. Unlike the three-dimensional works and installations at Art Field that use regional characteristics as motifs, these works have a unique two-dimensional appeal.

In addition to the above exhibition in the school building, Isobe Yukihisa, Kawamata Tadashi, Kawaguchi Tatsuo, and Tanaka Kaori will exhibit their dynamic and detailed works in the gymnasium building from July 29.

[Participating artists]
Estelle Albardane, Jean-Michel Alberola, Isobe Yukihisa, Kawaguchi Tatsuo, Kawamata Tadashi, José de Guimarães, Tashima Seizo, Tanaka Kaori, Tanaka Shintaro, Nakagawa Yukio, Moriyama Daido (in alphabetical order)

Yukihisa Isobe Memorial Echigo-Tsumari Kiyotsu Warehouse Museum [SoKo] holds a rare special exhibition, featuring a collection of paintings by the participating artists of the ETAT. The exhibition is renewed to trace the path of Isobe Yukihisa, who has dynamically developed works that visualize the changing land of Echigo-Tsumari and its people’s lives and their relationship with nature from the first exhibition to the 8th exhibition in 2022. The documents of three projects in 2022 is shown at the same time.

Paintings by representative artists of the ETAT, including Moriyama Daido, Kawamata Tadashi,  Kawaguchi Tatsuo, and Jean-Michel Alberola, are gathered at the SoKo.  Unlike the three-dimensional works and installations at the ETAT that use regional characteristics as motifs, these works exude an appeal unique to two-dimensional art. We hope you will enjoy exploring the differences and similarities between the works and those exhibited at the ETAT, which are displayed in abandoned schools and outdoors.

[Participating artists]
Estelle Albardane, Jean-Michel Alberola, Isobe Yukihisa, Kawaguchi Tatsuo, Kawamata Tadashi, José de Guimarães, Tashima Seizo, Tanaka Kaori, Tanaka Shintaro, Nakagawa Yukio, Moriyama Daido (in alphabetical order)

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Yukihisa Isobe "Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2022 -Project Documentation-"

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In the permanent exhibition room and the 1F hall, plan drawings, photographs, installed signboards, pillars, letters from former villagers, letters from visitors, and other documents of the three projects developed during “ETAT 2022” will be exhibited, as well as a message from Isobe Yukihisa, “To the people of Tsumari”. The project in 2022 will be to consider the history of the two closed KOTSUNAGI villages from a geographical perspective and to reveal the history to close and process of peaceful village life. Also, in Sanga, Tsunan Town, we exhibited panels documenting past large-scale works using the Toyazawa erosion control dam and a culvert for hydroelectric power generation as motifs. We are pleased to introduce these three project works. Please take a look at the trajectory of Isobe Yukihisa and the ETAT.