KYNE, Untitled, 2020

KYNE, that is pronounced as ki-ne, draws attention these years with his style of art. His thought and the museum’s policy coincided to challenge new things even in the coronavirus pandemic. A large mural painting, 3.14 x 13.00 meters, is on view open to pubic at the corridor just before the exit of the Collection Galleries on the second floor.

About the Piece
A woman who is lying and looking out the window is depicted on the whole white wall. KYNE had a theme of “publicness and freedom” to work on this mural painting. The art museum and the Ohori Park are both public facilities. What is publicness? What is being free? This woman might be thinking such things.

Artist’s Profile
KYNE is a Fukuoka-born artist, who lives and works in Fukuoka. He majored in Japanese-style painting at university, and started his activity as an artist from around 2006. He established the current style of painting portraying woman with a cool look around 2010, and now gets attention in and out of the country with his unique art inspired by 80’s popular culture.

Paintings of Moriyama Yasuhide: From "Ode to Alumina" to the Hiroshima Series

After performing with Group “Kumo” in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Moriyama Yasuhide (1936-) started to paint in earnest in 1987. The exhibition is an in-depth exploration of Moriyama’s paintings, introducing works from the 1980s to the present.

Image: MORIYAMA Yasuhide, Window-51, 2017-21

Children’s Art Museum during Summer Vacation 2022: The Rhythm of Water

We take the water around us for granted, but water is a shape-shifter that makes all sorts of sounds. We introduce various artworks on the theme of the sound of water and host workshops during the course of the exhibition.

Image: UEDA Usaburo, Landscape, 1954

Collection Highlights

■Modern and Contemporary Art A

Collection Highlights I: Two Highlights

The collection of modern and contemporary art at Fukuoka Art Museum highlights two areas: local art that has developed in Kyushu and Western Japan, and trends of Western art. The principal works in the collection shed light on the similarities and differences between trends of these two areas.

■Modern and Contemporary Art C

Collection Highlights II: Art for Sharing, Art for Understanding

This display of works from the collection looks at the relationships between ourselves and art in the contemporary world through the works of Kusama Yayoi, Anish Kapoor, and other artists from Japan and abroad.

          The works gathered here address social issues or use diverse expressions to delve into familiar themes and sensations. Putting the imagination to work by looking at artwork that is sometimes appealing, sometimes crude, may be the first step to understanding others.

Image: Jean-Michel BASQUIAT, Untitled, 1984
©The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat / ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2022  
 G2777

Transformation of Paintings: Art Informel, Gutai and Kyushu-ha

After World War II, painting underwent a major transformation. Young Japanese painters were strongly influenced by the fierce brushstrokes, shapes without shape, and bright colors that emerged in European painting. This exhibition presents paintings that were created under the influence of Art Informel.

Image: Jean DUBUFFET, Beat the Wing, 1961
© ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2022 
G2777

For the Sake of a Single Line

Trembling lines. Unwavering lines. Gashes. Scrawls… No line is the same as another. Lines tell the story of the physical movement and the creative activity of the one who did the drawing. This exhibition decodes artwork by focusing on lines.

Image: Jean FAUTRIER, Parallelepiped Rectangles, 1959

Narahara Ikko: "Stateless Land"/ "Human Land"

A leading photographer in postwar Japan, Narahara Ikko (1931-2020) grew up in Omuta, Fukuoka. The exhibition introduces each series of his works starting with his realistic debut work Stateless Land (1954-57) and its prologue Human Land (1954).

Image: NARAHARA Ikko, Island Without Green—Gunkanjima: The tunnel：Human Land, 1954-57（print 2016）

ⒸNARAHARA IKKO ARCHIVES

Looking at Fukuoka

The exhibition introduces the region of Fukuoka as captured in works by artists in our collection. Maps and aerial photographs identify some of the places where the works were created, allowing us to explore undiscovered aspects of the artwork.

Image: MATSUNAGA Kanzan, Landscape of Itoshima, Date unknown

Women Painters in Kyushu

This exhibition of works from our collection of modern and contemporary art reflects on the work and activities of female artists with a connection to Kyushu.

Works by the following artists are on display:

Yoshida Fujio, Inoue Masako, Takamiya Kazue, Kinoshita Kuniko, Aoyagi Sumika, Shimauchi Kimi, Akaboshi Nobuko, Takeoka Yoko, Oniki Miyoko, Tabe Mitsuko, Yamada Yoriko

Image: AKABOSHI Nobuko, Woman in a Rubashka, 1939