Sezon Museum of Modern Art Collection: Art belongs to everyone　September 3 − November 23, 2022

Last year, the Sezon Museum of Modern Art, which opened in August of 1981 with an exhibition featuring works by Marcel Duchamp, celebrated its 40th anniversary. The current exhibition titled “Art belongs to everyone” introduces a variety of high-quality, richly unique works from the museum’s collection created by artists from Japan and around the world since the start of the 20th century.

Maki Ohkojima "Soil⇔Person"

"Continuous Contours" April 29- August 28, 2022

"Continuous Contours" 4 Artist's work description

"Continuous Contours" April 29- August 28, 2022

"Continuous Contours" Installation view

"Continuous Contours" April 29- August 28, 2022

Scene4 Artist: Maki Ohkojima "Continuous Contours" April 29- August 28, 2022

Here are four artists using different media and techniques to investigate relationships between people and the environment. Maki Ohkojima echoes nature with the theme forest = body, painting images on various physical supports. Hideo Takashima explored the materiality of fantastical forms derived from daily-use earthenware pots with traditional ceramic paintwork. Yohei Fusegi multiplies fields of threads in needlework, seeming to form the territories and smells of human life. Masuko Hiroko traveled around Tohoku making line drawings on canvas to evoke natural forms growing in vessels.

Scene3 Artist: Hideo Takashima "Continuous Contours" April 29- August 28, 2022

Here are four artists using different media and techniques to investigate relationships between people and the environment. Maki Ohkojima echoes nature with the theme forest = body, painting images on various physical supports. Hideo Takashima explored the materiality of fantastical forms derived from daily-use earthenware pots with traditional ceramic paintwork. Yohei Fusegi multiplies fields of threads in needlework, seeming to form the territories and smells of human life. Masuko Hiroko traveled around Tohoku making line drawings on canvas to evoke natural forms growing in vessels.

Scene2 Artist: Hiroko Masuko "Continuous Contours" April 29- August 28, 2022

Here are four artists using different media and techniques to investigate relationships between people and the environment. Maki Ohkojima echoes nature with the theme forest = body, painting images on various physical supports. Hideo Takashima explored the materiality of fantastical forms derived from daily-use earthenware pots with traditional ceramic paintwork. Yohei Fusegi multiplies fields of threads in needlework, seeming to form the territories and smells of human life. Masuko Hiroko traveled around Tohoku making line drawings on canvas to evoke natural forms growing in vessels.

Scene1 Artist: Yohei Fusegi "Continuous Contours" April 29- August 28, 2022

Here are four artists using different media and techniques to investigate relationships between people and the environment. Maki Ohkojima echoes nature with the theme forest = body, painting images on various physical supports. Hideo Takashima explored the materiality of fantastical forms derived from daily-use earthenware pots with traditional ceramic paintwork. Yohei Fusegi multiplies fields of threads in needlework, seeming to form the territories and smells of human life. Masuko Hiroko traveled around Tohoku making line drawings on canvas to evoke natural forms growing in vessels.

Continuous Contours：Maki Ohkojima,Hideo Takashima,Yohei Fusegi,Hiroko Masuko April 29- August 28, 2022

Here are four artists using different media and techniques to investigate relationships between people and the environment. Maki Ohkojima echoes nature with the theme forest = body, painting images on various physical supports. Hideo Takashima explored the materiality of fantastical forms derived from daily-use earthenware pots with traditional ceramic paintwork. Yohei Fusegi multiplies fields of threads in needlework, seeming to form the territories and smells of human life. Masuko Hiroko traveled around Tohoku making line drawings on canvas to evoke natural forms growing in vessels.

Kanzen Hentai (Complete Metamorphosis) A Joint Project of the Sezon Museum of Modern Art & UGO Artist : Karu Miyoshi （UGO） November 13,2021

The dramatic growth process of insects, from larva to pupa to adult, is called a “complete metamorphosis.” It is a wonderful process, a successful survival tactic for recreating a brand-new self and embarking on the quest for a new place. This joint project with UGO is a complete metamorphosis of preconceived ideas into new and invaluable experiences.

Kanzen Hentai (Complete Metamorphosis) A Joint Project of the Sezon Museum of Modern Art & UGO Artist : Ippei Nakao（UGO） October 10,2021

The dramatic growth process of insects, from larva to pupa to adult, is called a “complete metamorphosis.” It is a wonderful process, a successful survival tactic for recreating a brand-new self and embarking on the quest for a new place. This joint project with UGO is a complete metamorphosis of preconceived ideas into new and invaluable experiences.

Kanzen Hentai (Complete Metamorphosis) A Joint Project of the Sezon Museum of Modern Art & UGO Artist: Unno Rintaro（UGO） September 19,2021

The dramatic growth process of insects, from larva to pupa to adult, is called a “complete metamorphosis.” It is a wonderful process, a successful survival tactic for recreating a brand-new self and embarking on the quest for a new place. This joint project with UGO is a complete metamorphosis of preconceived ideas into new and invaluable experiences.

Garden Tour "Sculptor Isamu Wakabayashi and The Garden of the Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa, Karuizawa" Navigator: Shogo Yamamoto

Isamu Wakabayashi (1936-2003) is a sculptor representing post war Japan, known for making steel its medium in his works. Wakabayashi’s creations were about how we humans are in a relationship with nature. Craving symbiosis of nature and human, while continuing to creating works, his garden productions tackled from the 1980s to his closing years are a form of expression suitable of turning his thoughts into an artwork.

Sezon Museum of Modern Art

Sezon Museum of Modern Art, through the concept of being the museum coexists with nature, is made to blend in the nature of Karuizawa resembling a low-rise tea-ceremony arbor. The layout of the museum was done by Kiyonori Kikutake, who is one of the leading architects of Japan. The garden is a circuit style garden with the idea by Isamu Wakabayashi, made possible to walk around listening to the murmur of the river inside the forest.