"Sejima Kazuyo SANAA × HOKUSAI"

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"Sejima Kazuyo SANAA × HOKUSAI"

Tue, October 31, 2017 - Sun, November 12, 2017
Ultramodern architectural design is one of characters of the Sumida Hokusai Museum which dedicated to the works of Ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai.
The Sumida Hokusai Museum is the place creating the community where local people get together. The community creates the culture which will change Sumida city in the future.
The museum was designed by Sejima Kazuyo one of the leading architects in Japan today. The novel outside covered by walls made from aluminum panels that have a slightly mirrored surface.
Sejima’s modern architecture and Hokusai’s traditional Japanese art works seem conflict each other but have something in common because both draw great deal of global attention.
Hokusai had studied hard latest drawing method at same time he depicted comically warmheartable people. Sejima’s work is not only stylish as well as integrates community and people.
This exhibition introduces both innovative artists who attract world each in Edo period and today thought the Sumida Hokusai museum.
Period
Tue 31 October -Sun 12 November
Hours
9:30～17:30
Closed
Every Monday
Venue
Display architectural models etc. in the gallery on 4th floor, lecture room (MARUGEN100) on First floor, foyer on 3th and 4th floor
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Adults

High School / University Students

 65 and over

Junior High School Students

Disabled peoples

Individual

‎    ¥600

¥450

¥450

¥200

¥200

Group

 ¥480

¥360

¥360

¥160

¥160
 
Kazuyo Sejima
Sejima was born in the Prefecture of Ibaraki, Japan, in 1956 and set up Kazuyo Sejima & Associates in 1987. In 1995, Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa founded SANAA.  Sejima was a director for the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2012.  Her records of winning awards are the Prize of AIJ (Architectural Institute of Japan)*, the Golden Lion for the most significant work in the International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale*, the Pritzker Prize*, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) and the Medal with Purple Ribbon. Today she teaches as a Visiting Professor, Yokohama National University Y-GSA (Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture), Polytechnic University of Milan, the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Japan Women's University.Her main work includes a large number of successful buildings, such as House in a Plum Grove; Inujima "Art House Project"; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art* in Kanazawa,Japan; the New Museum of Contemporary Art* in New York, USA; the Serpentine Pavilion*; the Rolex Learning Center* in Lausanne, Switzerland; the Louvre-Lens Museum* in Lens, France; Grace Farms* in New Canaan, USA; the Sumida Hokusai Museum in Tokyo, Japan. Sogin TACT Tsuruoka (Tsuruoka culture center) 荘銀タクト鶴岡（鶴岡市文化会館）will open on March in 2018. (* means as SANAA’s work)
SANAA
 Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa founded SANAA, the Tokyo architecture studio. They design architecture as well as interior, museum exhibitions and furniture.