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Collection Exhibition 2024-Ⅲ
Highlights + Relations [Guest Artist: Nishijima Daisuke

2024.12.21(Sat) — 2025.4.6(Sun)

Nishijima Daisuke, Mudai-san, 2020

This exhibition aims to familiarize visitors with the qualities of the museum's collection and introduce them to related themes. Rooms 1 through 3 are “Highlights,” where visitors can view works from the collection through the keywords attached to each room. In Room 4, entitled “Relations,” the exhibition positioned as an extension of the collection exhibition is being implemented. This exhibition features Daisuke Nishijima, a cartoonist and artist, as guest artist, and presents an exhibition titled “The Development of Characters” that explores the world of characters created by Nishijima.

List of Works

Highlights

◯Representation and Body

The body has often been used as a familiar motif in painting and sculpture. In the field of contemporary art, the body is not merely imitated as a “human form,” but is also used as a representation of various times and social backgrounds. Yves Klein's Venus Bleue in particular, is known for its use of a conventional plaster figure sprayed with a bright blue pigment developed by Klein himself, evoking a modern, conceptual image of Venus. The exhibition also introduces various representations of the body from the museum's collection, including Sawada Tomoko, who uses self-portrait techniques to disguise herself in various forms of makeup and costumes, and Francis Bacon, who has established his own style with works depicting strangely distorted human figures.

◯Artists and Styles

Through their explorations, artists create their own worlds, and in doing so, they develop their own unique styles of expression. The characteristics of each individual artist’s style vary, and there are examples of artists who have transformed their styles in various ways. Some artists have arrived at a style that is recognizable at first glance, with its own distinctive appearance, its own methods of production, or its own system for creating artwork.
In this section, we will be showing works in which the artist's style is particularly evident.

◯Hiroshima / HIROSHIMA

Hiroshima is a city that suffered from the atomic bombing. When the historical characteristics are considered and discussed, the name of the city is often written in katakana as “ヒロシマ.” One of the museum’s collection policies is “Works indicating the link between contemporary art and HIROSHIMA”（ヒロシマ）, and the museum has been collecting artworks on commission with “HIROSHIMA” as a theme,
In this section introduces works created in relation to the regional characteristics of Hiroshima / HIROSHIMA.
　
　
Artist *In order of appearance in the gallery

Funakoshi Katsura, Sawada Tomoko, Takahashi Shu, Ay-O, Sugai Kumi, Robert Longo, Toneyama Kojin, Onchi Koshiro, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Yves Klein, Charles Worthen, Okada Hiroko, Takano Ryudai, Kawakubo Yoi, Lee Ufan, Kuwayama Tadaaki, Kobayashi Takanobu, Suzuki Seizo, Alexander Calder, Miyake Issey, Ono Yoko, Tsubaki Noboru, Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Yanobe Kenji, Murakami Yoshio, Matsutani Takesada, Alan Green, Tonoshiki Tadashi, Nomiyama Gyoji, Takamine Tadasu, Kitatsuji Yoshihisa, Wakabayashi Isamu

Relations

Guest Artist: Nishijima Daisuke

Character Development

The characters drawn by Nishijima Daisuke, including “Mudai-san”, a character active during the museum's extended closure, are often portrayed in an adorable, childlike manner. On the other hand, despite their heartwarming appearance, he also depicts war, cruel scenes, and people's conflicts in Dien Bien Phu, which is based on the Vietnam War. He uses the words “designing” and “developing” to describe the creation of his characters. As he says, “In order to land on a manga, the concept, story, character quips, and tendencies are automatically generated,” which is exactly the kind of existence developed based on a blueprint invisible to the viewer.
In this section, visitors will see the world of Nishijima's characters, which have been developed in various ways, including paintings, three-dimensional works, music distribution, and indie games, along with a “Character Development Chart,” a bird's-eye view of the characters he has created over the past 20 years.

Yves Klein, Venus Bleue, 1970

Kobayashi Takanobu, Gate, 1997-1998

Takamine Tadasu, Rainbow of Greater East Asia, 2006

Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Vegetable Weapon Special-oyster pot,runny simmered tofu,sake pot / Hiroshima, 2005

Daisuke Nishijima, Mudai-san, 2020

Daisuke Nishijima, Shinoby & Ninmaru, 2018　©ytv

Daisuke Nishijima, Dien Bien Phu, 2007

Nishijima Daisuke, From "Musai-san Adventure" ©️simasima

Information

Exhibition Period
2024.12.21(Sat) — 2025.4.6(Sun)
Opening Hours
10:00–17:00

*Admission until 30 minutes before closing

Venue
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery A
Access
Closed
Mondays (except January 13, February24), December 27—January 1, 2025, January14 and February 25
Admission
Adult 350 (250) yen, University Student 250 (150) yen, High School Student & Senior (65 and over) 150 (100) yen
*Price in parentheses is that of a group of 30 or more
*Free for children under Junior High School Age
Discount
[Hello! Collection Day]
The Collection Exhibition is free on the 3rd Sunday of the month.

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Nishijima Daisuke

Born in Tokyo in 1974. Manga artist and artist. He made his debut as a manga artist in 2004 with O-son Sensou (The Universal), and won the Third Hiroshima Book Award in 2012 for Subetega-Chotto-Zutsu-Yasashii-Sekai (A Kindly World). His representative works include Dien Bien Phu, a feature-length work depicting the Vietnam War (Jury Recommended Work at the 21st and 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival in the Manga category), and Sekai-No-Owari-No-Mahoutsukai(The Witch at the End of the World). As a artist, he has participated in exhibitions in Japan and abroad, and has performed music under several names, including DJ Mahotsukai (Mahoutsukai means Wizard). In recent years, he has worked on a number of public characters, including Mudai-san for the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Buffet-kun for the Bernard Buffet Museum and Sinoby & Ninmaru for ytv. In 2020, he established the label shimashima, which independently distributes manga, music and games.

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