STEPS AHEAD: Recent Acquisitions

13 February [Sat] - 5 September [Sun], 2021

STEPS AHEAD introduces the Artizon Museum’s latest additions to the collection. In recent years, the Ishibashi Foundation has worked to develop its core collection of Impressionist and modern Japanese paintings more fully while expanding the collection’s breadth to include works from the early twentieth century to contemporary art especially Abstract paintings, and early modern Japanese art. Since opening, we have been gradually introducing our new acquisitions, but others remain yet to be displayed: works by the Cubist painters, drawings by Henri Matisse, From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy [Box in a Valise] by Marcel Duchamp, women of Abstract Expressionism, Takiguchi Shuzo and Experimental Workshop, contemporary Australian paintings, and much more. This exhibition of 193 works, including 90 new acquisitions being exhibited for the first time, and 87 works from the collection of portrait photographs of artists provides a view of the Artizon Museum’s continuing progress in expanding the horizons of its collection.

Exhibition scenery

Photo by Keizo Kioku

Exhibition overview

Exhibition title: STEPS AHEAD: Recent Acquisitions

Exhibition period: 13 February [Sat] - 5 September [Sun], 2021

Opening hours: 10:00 – 18:00 (20:00 on Fridays/ suspended until further notice) ＊last admission 30 minutes before closing

Closed: Mondays (open May 3 and August 9), May 11-14, August 10

Organizer: Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Venue: 6・5・4F Galleries

Concurrent Exhibitions: 15 May [Sat] - 5 September [Sun], 2021
Special Section Sculptures and Prints by Marino Marini（4F Gallery）

Artizon Museum Book Collection Exhibit: From Albert Gleizes’s Paintings and Its Laws to Illustrated Books (Info Room, 4F)
In 2015, the Artizon Museum acquired Woman with a Glove by Albert Gleizes (1881-1953), a French artist who was one of the most important Cubists. That painting is being shown for the first time in the Steps Ahead exhibition, Section 2, Cubism (6F). Produced in about 1922, Woman with a Glove is a puzzling picture in which a human being is represented as a combination of geometrical forms. What was Gleizes’s intention in painting it? This exhibit introduces materials from the museum’s rare books collection that touch on aspects of his thinking.

Ticket prices (incl. tax)

	On-line ticket	In-Person ticket (purchase at museum)
General	JPY 1,200	JPY 1,500
University college high school students	Free entry　Advance booking required
Disabled visitors (plus one accompanying assistant)	Free entry　Advance booking required
Children through junior high school	Free entry　Advance booking not 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.