Musée Hamaguchi Yozo – Yamasa Collection : 2022 Early Summer Exhibition Invitation to Color Yozo Hamaguchi (1909-2000) is one of the leading print artists of the 20th century. In the 1950s in France, he contrived a new copper-plate engraving technique called “color mezzotint” and was active worldwide. The copper engraving technique “color mezzotint” pioneered by…

Yozo Hamaguchi (1909-2000) pioneered a new technique of copper-plate engraving in France and he was active as a leading copper-plate artist in the latter half of the 20th century. In Hamaguchi’s works, there is one with only a part of the vessel is transparent, or fruits float in the air like the moon, and it…

Yozo Hamaguchi (1909-2000) pioneered a new technique of copper-plate engraving in France and he was active as a leading copper-plate artist in the latter half of the 20th century. In Hamaguchi’s works, there is one with only a part of the vessel is transparent, or fruits float in the air like the moon, and it…

This is an exhibition introducing Yozo Hamaguchi’s young days in Paris, who is a leading copper-plate artist of the 20th century. In 1930, Hamaguchi withdrew from the Department of Sculpture of Tokyo Fine Arts School in two years and headed to France.  At one time, he exhibited oil paintings at salons in Paris, but he…

An exhibition commemorating the 110th anniversary of the birth of Keiko Minami (1911-2004), a copper-plate painter who created lyric works in France in the latter half of the 20th century is held.   Keiko Minami was born in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture, and was familiar with painting and poetry since the time in girls’ high…

Yozo Hamaguchi is one of the leading copper-plate artists of the 20th century. He revived mezzotint, which was once a printing technology, and further established a unique artistic expression by incorporating colors. The tranquil works with clear colors and faint light still fascinate people all over the world today. In this exhibition, we introduce Yuji…

Yozo Hamaguchi came into sudden prominence in the art world of Paris in the 1950sand attracted people with his new style. Filled with clear colors and faint light, hiscopper-plate prints are still evoking mysterious attraction now as if performingeverlasting time

Keiko Minami  Exhibition – Beyond the Tree – 17 March 2020 (Tue.) – 26 July 2020 (Sun.) Lines of Keiko Minami’s copper-plate prints recall stories to us. Soft colors are gathered out from some emotions lying in her mind and filling the lines, thus producing her unique pictures filled with various feelings. In her world…

Lines of Keiko Minami’s copper-plate prints recall stories to us. Soft colors are gathered out from some emotions lying in her mind and filling the lines, thus producing her unique pictures filled with various feelings. In her world of works created in such a way, the motif of small bird and fish, wrapped in gentleness,…

“What is essential is invisible to the eye” is a passage from the novel The Little Prince. In this exhibition, three Japanese contemporary artists are introduced who explore ways to present important things which do not have a clear shape, representing them in a way of unevenness using hand-made technique. Kouseki Ono uses screen printing…