Collection Highlights

실시 기간	2023년6월22일（목）〜2024년4월30일（화）
개관 시간	오전9시30분 - 오후5시30분 last admission at 5:00 p.m.
휴관일	Mondays (or the following weekday if Monday falls on a national holiday) Dec. 28–Jan. 4
회장	Modern and Contemporary Art A･C

Modern and Contemporary Art A
Collection Highlights 1: The Jewels of the Fukuoka Art Museum
The Fukuoka Art Museum has collected outstanding works that illustrate various art movements of the 20th century. Among them, a selection of artwork, the so-called highlights from the museum’s collection, is displayed in this gallery.

Modern and Contemporary Art C
Collection Highlights 2: Let’s Take a Stroll through the World of Art
In this gallery, works from the Fukuoka Art Museum’s modern and contemporary art collection are exhibited by theme in four sections, which are designed to represent different places.

　　　　The four sections consist of: 1. The Forest of Reality and Fantasy, 2. The Sea of Materials and Sensitivity, 3. The Universe of Color and Shape, and 4. The City of History and Memory – Toward the Future. In these sections, the artworks are arranged roughly chronologically, allowing viewers to trace the history of art since the 20th century.
　　　　Why don’t you take a look around these various places with a light heart, as if taking a stroll, and find your favorite work of art?

 

Image: Joan MIRO, Dancer Hearing an Organ in a Gothic Cathedral, 1945
©Successió Miró /ADAGP, Paris & JASPER, Tokyo, 2023 G3105

Tanaka Chisato: Living Mural

실시 기간	2023년1월5일（목）〜2025년12월27일（토）
개관 시간	오전9시30분 - 오후5시30분 last admission at 5:00 p.m.
휴관일	Mondays (or the following weekday if Monday falls on a national holiday) Dec. 28–Jan. 4
회장	The Mural

This mural was painted by Fukuoka-based artist Tanaka Chisato as part of the special exhibition Tanaka Chisato: Horizon and Road (5 January – 21 March 2023). The first phase of this mural painting was completed at the end of January 2023. Subsequently, the artist will retouch it in January 2024 and January 2025, making alterations to the painting each time. Thereafter, the mural will be on view until the end of December 2025.

About the artist
Tanaka Chisato (born in 1980)
After graduating from the Oil Painting Course at the Tama Art University, Tokyo in 2005, Tanaka started her career as an artist in Fukuoka the following year. She has established her own style using acrylic paints to create smooth black backgrounds in which subjects in front are brilliantly painted with oil paints. Tanaka’s paintings give viewers a vivid impression and stimulate their imagination through combining contrasting elements, such as figures who look smiling and angry at the same time, or glittering landscapes in the pitch-black darkness. Nowadays, she has become one of the leading artists in Fukuoka through a wide range of creative activities, including many solo and group exhibitions, book-cover design, and a large-scale mural on the new building of SHOGAKUKAN Inc., a publishing company.