Russian Avant-garde Opens at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo

Written by Jonathan Hand Thursday, 19 April 2012 22:46

TOKYO, JAPAN - The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Government of Moscow, Moscow Department of Culture, Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Embassy of the Russian Federation in Japan and Art Impression Inc. present The Spring-Time of Russian Avant-garde - Works from the collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in an unprecedented show at four Japanese museums. The Moscow Museum of Modern Art opened in 1999 owns a rich collection of works by the leading painters of the "Russian Avant-Garde," which flourished in the first decades of the 20th century.

For the first time ever, Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents works from the permanent collection in a large-scale exhibition in Japan. The Spring-Time of Russian Avant-garde project brings together 70 paintings and sculptures by the leading artists of the first decades of the 20th century. Among these masters are Kazimir Malevich, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Alexander Archipenko, Pavel Filonov, Marc Chagall, Niko Pirosmani, and many others. The show investigates key issues in the evolution of the avant-garde in the 1910s-1020s, such as Western influences, abstraction, and neo-primitivism.

The traveling exhibition opens first today at the Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo and will be on view through August 17. It will then travel to the Suntory Museum, Osaka (September 25 – November 3, 2008); The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu (November 11 – December 25, 2008); The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama (February 7 – March 22, 2009).

Bunkamura is the embodiment of three principles: expression, production and encounter.
Expression is represented by the full scale concert hall, the theatre and the cinemas, all of which epitomize “quality” in the arts.

In the area of production, we are committed to nurturing and supporting the arts in all their myriad aspects. Equally intristic to Bunkamura is the element of encounter. All Bunkamura’s diverse events and media activities are designed to promote an interchange of people, art, and things. The above concepts gave birth to Bunkamura in Shibuya. It is a cross-cultural, multi-media facility on the boldest scale.

Shibuya is the home of the Tokyu Group. It is one of the dynamic cultural centers of modern Japan. As part of its contribution to the development of Shibuya, the Tokyu Group has implemented a vigorous programme of renovation along Bunkamura-dori (formerly Tokyu Honten-dori). A major landmark in this ongoing effort was the completion, in September 1989, of Bunkamura. A multi-cultural facility without parallel, Bunkamura represents the Tokyu Group’s answer to the challenge we all face in an age of changing values, where the emphasis is shifting from material affluence to greater spiritual and intellectual fulfillment.

Through the dynamism of culture we hope to make Shibuya an artistic mecca, not just for Japan, but for the whole world. That is the true goal of Bunkamura. Visit : www.bunkamura.co.jp/english/index.html

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