Exhibition Features
Presenting over 1,750 of the Awazu works gifted to the Museum Some 2,600 works in the artist's collection have been gifted to 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. This exhibition presents the 1,750 works of chief importance. Through paintings, prints, original pictures, posters, bound books, sculptures, and film works, the exhibition presents the world of Kiyoshi Awazu, an artist whose activities have cut across wide-ranging genres. By presenting the cosmos of lush imagery that has been gifted to the Museum, just as it is, and sharing it broadly with the general public, the exhibition will make the Museum itself a place of creative exploration and information. Itemization of the Awazu Works in the Museum's Collection 201 paintings; 862 sketches, original pictures, illustrations, handwritten items, and block copy; 277 posters; 85 prints; 120 pamphlets, calendars, and handbills; 693 books and magazines; 266 photographs; 12 films; 22 3D objects; 27 pieces of documentation. An installation based on Awazu's 1977 Sao Paulo Biennial work, "Graphism Trilogy" At the 1977 Sao Paulo Biennale exhibition venue, Awazu, using red, black, and white ink, silk-screened images of his exhibited works and covered nearly the entire floor and walls with them. Based on photographic documentation, an installation enabling a "vicarious experience" of the 1977 Sao Paulo Biennial installation has been created. "Observe, gaze, and study" -A showing of Awazu's experimental films "Abe Sada" (1969) /"Invader" (1969) /"Furyu" (1972) "Piano on Fire" (1974) /"Genso Genya" (1974) / "Shunkashuto" (1974) /"Composition" (1974) / "WHITE SPACE" (1982) Workshop Room for viewer participation, with live music and talks Direction: Awazu Design Room / Cooperation: Goji Hamada, Yoshio Kamitani, Taketoshi Terai, Silk no Kai, and Kanazawa College of Art students One gallery of the Museum will be devoted to participatory workshops. Participants, both children and adults, will be able to create works using actual Awazu silkscreen stencils and have their works displayed. Workshops will look fundamentally at the principle of the printing plate and concepts of the original and the reproduction, and consider the meaning of collaboration and creative expression. Performances, talks, seminars, and live music will be offered continuously in this space, in a casual manner. For the exhibition's duration, the Workshop Room will be a place where things continually happen, often unpredictably, with opportunities to be witness to the birth of Awazu works, as it happens. Book publication: "Kiyoshi Awazu: Graphism in the Wilderness", Filmart Book design: Shin Sobue. Article contribution: Ichiro Hariu, Shinichi Nakazawa, and others. B5 size, 277 pages (4C=200 pages).
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