Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection x Tomoko Konoike​ ​ Tomoko Konoike: FLIP

Jam Sessions are joint showings of works from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection and works by con- temporary artists. For our first Jam Session, we are pleased to welcome Tomoko Konoike. Konoike sees human beings as creatures undergoing repeated transformations. She carefully rethinks the types and categories represented by museums the modern period created and is trying to recast them in ways that suit our lives today. Her perspective is far from the conventional artist-centric point of view. She borrows the words and hands of people she meets when traveling and employs a host of natural phenomena, methods of the earth, as her media: the sun, typhoons, plants, insects, bacteria, thus literally bringing life to her work, creating her work, to keep on living.​ ​

As animals, each human being grasps the world with totally different perceptions. We see the world through our own umwelts. None are the same. No words are identical. No light is identical. If the arts prepare themselves for that and address it honestly, then in time a new ecosystem, filled with the senses, for a small organism, will begin to function. Instead of substituting illusions for words, let us feel our way to the small things we encounter daily, play, and quietly do our work. (Konoike)

The Ishibashi Foundation Collection
The Ishibashi Foundation Collection began as the personal collection of Ishibashi Shojiro, its founder, and is now owned by the Ishibashi Foundation, which continues those collecting activities. Presently consisting of about 2,800 works, the collection spans Western paintings, modern Japanese-style paintings, sculpture and ceramics from East and West, and Chinese and Japanese calligraphy and paintings, as well twentieth century and contemporary art.

Jam Sessions
The Jam Sessions embody “Experiencing Creativity,” the concept guiding the Artizon Museum, which reopened in a new form in January 2020. For Jam Sessions, artists and curators working together organize exhibitions with new works inspired by specific works in the Ishibashi Foundation Collection and sessions in which the collection and the artist’s works interact to create new points of view. Our goal is a project that will be a bridge past and present and lead on to the future. The museum plans to hold a Jam Session every year.

* You can also see the other exhibitions held at the same time.
*On-line tickets must be purchased up to 10 minutes before the end of each time slot.
*Same day tickets on sale at museum are available only for time slots that have not reached full capacity.