“Ueno Artist Project 2023 Picturing and Touching the Lives of Others — Fungi, Plants, Animals and Humans” will be held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum in Ueno, Tokyo, from Thursday, November 16 through Monday, January 8, 2024 (national holiday).
The exhibition will feature the works of artists who have been working on “depicting” non-human creatures of the natural world for decades.
The exhibiting artists include Michiko Kobayashi, who has been searching for and drawing mushrooms living in various places; Hisashi Tsuji, who was active in the art world from the end of the Meiji period to the Showa period and has been drawing and recording the appearance of plants and flowers since he was a boy; Haruo Uchiyama, who has been creating bird carvings with the hand skills he has trained as a wood inlay craftsman; and Hisae Imai, who has been active in a wide range of fields including fashion and advertising photography while also working as an artist, and has mainly photographed racehorses since 1970; Miho Tomita, who was fascinated by cows she met on a dairy farm while attending university, and has been working at the farm while making woodblock prints of the animals’ existence and presenting her work; and Chisato Abe, who has been following gorillas in zoos around the world and in the wild in Africa, and has been working as a photographer for the past several years.
Also on display will be about 40 works that can be appreciated by touching, such as “touch carving” bird sculptures.
