From the Scene of Creation ―Artists’ Archives in Films and Photographs

9 September [Sat] - 19 November [Sun], 2023

In 1953, a year after the Bridgestone Museum of Art opened, it established its Film Committee. By 1964, eleven years later, the committee had completed seventeen films documenting artists at work in their ateliers and their daily lives. In addition, the museum has recently collected documentary photographs of artists by Anzai Shigeo (1939-2020). Anzai was a photographer who continued to chronicle the contemporary art scene from the end of World War II on. Producing these films documenting artists and acquiring Anzai’s work are actions that can be seen as presenting the consistent approach of the Ishibashi Foundations towards archives of the arts. This exhibition presents Japanese contemporary art where it happens through the valuable art videos our Film Committee has produced, works by the artists in those films, and Anzai’s photographs.

Exhibition overview

Exhibition title: From the Scene of Creation ―Artists’ Archives in Films and Photographs

Exhibition period: 9 September [Sat] - 19 November [Sun], 2023

Opening hours: 10:00 – 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays except November 3) *Last entry 30 minutes before closing.

Closed: Mondays (except September 18, October 9), September 19, October 10

Organizer: Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Venue: 5F Gallery

Concurrent Exhibitions: Jam Session: The Ishibashi Foundation Collection x Yamaguchi Akira Drawn to the Irresistible Sensation （6F Gallery）
Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection Special Section Women Reading（4F Gallery）

Ticket prices (incl. tax)

	On-line ticket	Same day ticket
General	1,200 yen　*Credit card payments only	1,500 yen
University college high school students	Free entry　Advance booking required Students must present their student ID upon entrance to the museum.
Disabled visitors (plus one accompanying assistant)	Free entry　Advance booking required
Children through junior high school	Free entry　Advance booking required

*Online 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.
*Booking is not accepted when a time slot is full.
*This admission fee gives the visitor access to the concurrent exhibitions.