left¡ËMaurice TABARD, Title Unknown, 1930-35
right¡ËUEDA Shoji, Composition, 1937
¢£Period¡§March 15¢ª May 6,2008
¢£Closed Day¡§Monday (Tuesday if Monday is a national holiday)
¢£Venue¡§Exhibition Gallery, 3F
¢£Admission¡§Adults ¡ï700¡Ê560¡Ë¡¿College Students ¡ï600¡Ê480¡Ë¡¿High School and Junior Hight School Students, Over 65 ¡ï500¡Ê400¡Ë
¢¨ The figure in parentheses refers to a group discount rate applicable to groups of 20 people or more and a discount rate applicable to members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. ¢¨Admission is free of charge for primary school students & younger children, disabled persons and their caretakers.¢¨Admission is free of charge for persons aged 65 or older on the third Wednesday of each month.
The largest art movement of the twentieth century, Surrealism, began with the ¡ÆSurrealism Manifesto¡Ç that was drawn up by Andre Breton and published in ¡ÆLa Révolution Surréaliste¡Ç in 1924. After its birth in Paris, it quickly developed to produce a diverse world of expression, spreading to the United Kingdom, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and other European countries, while its influence was also felt in the U.S.A. and Mexico. Japan was no exception to this trend and from the prewar years until the fifties, it was a prominent theme in every branch of avant-garde photography from pure visual expressions to advertising or fashion.
left¡ËBill Brandt, East Sussex Coast, 1930
right¡ËMan Ray, Séanse de Rêve éveille, 1924
Surrealism achieved great popularity, particularly through painting, but in this exhibition we will look at its relationship with photography, making new approaches to the subject from a variety of angles. Recent years have seen numerous large-scale exhibitions on the subject of Surrealism being held around the world, but in our forthcoming exhibition we will look at its entire range of expression to ask the basic question of ¡ÆWhat is Surrealism?¡Ç, while simultaneously questioning ¡ÆWhat is photography?¡Ç and introducing the unique visual world produced by this twentieth-century artistic revolution through a large variety of works. (Proposed number of works: approx. 200)
left¡ËUMBO,Slippers, 1928-29
right¡ËJean Eugene Auguste Atget, Merry-go-round, 1923
--- Floor Lecture by Exhibition Curator ---
A floor lecture will be given by the curator of this exhibition at 2:00 pm. on the second and fourth Fridays during the exhibition period.
¢¨Anybody with an entrance ticket may attend.
¢¨spoken in Japanese
--- Related Symposium ¡ÆThe Surrealist Universe¡Ç ---
Date: April 20 (Sun)
Part One from 2:00 pm / Part Two from 4:00 pm.
Venue: 1st Floor Hall
Moderator: JIMBO Kyoko (Curator, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography)
Panelists: SUZUKI Masao (Professor, Waseda University)
HAYASHI Michio (Professor, Sophia University)
TSUKAHARA Fumi (Professor, Waseda University)
CHIBA Fumio ((Professor, Waseda University)
¢¨ Entry in order of arrival (limited seating, numbered tickets to be issued onthe day: 10am).
¢¨spoken in Japanese
--- Commemorative Lecture Series ¡ÆPhotography and Surrealism¡Ç ---
Date: April 26 (Sat)
Part One from 2:00 pm / Part Two from 4:00 pm.
Date: April 27 (Sun)
Part Three from 2:00 pm / Part Four from 4:00 pm.
Venue: 1st Floor Atelier
Lecturer: IWAYA Kunio (Professor, Meiji Gakuin University)
¢¨Entry is in order of arrival (limited seating, numbered tickets to be issued on the day: 10am).
¢¨spoken in Japanese
