About Yozo Hamaguchi 浜口陽三について

浜口陽三は、1909年にヤマサ醤油株式会社の先々代の社長、濱口儀兵衛の三男として和歌山県に生まれました。生家は、1645年以来お醤油造りを続けてきましたが、陽三は家業を離れて東京美術学校(現東京藝術大学)の彫塑科に入学しました。1930年には大学を中退してパリに渡り、油彩、水彩、銅版画など幅広い創作活動を行います。第二次世界大戦により帰国し、戦後の1948年頃から本格的に銅版画の制作を始めます。

続き(浜口陽三の生涯と作品)

2024.03.08 Musee Hamaguchi Yozo : Yamasa Collection 2024 COLLECTION EXHIBITION Minami Keiko Copper-plate Print Exhibition – Spring 2024 9 March 2024 (Sat.) – 19 May 2024 (Sun.)

Copper-plate engraver Keiko Minami (1911-2004) was born in Toyama Prefecture and tried painting and poetry from her girls’ high school days.

After meeting Yozo Hamaguchi, who later became one of the leading copper-plate print artists of the 20th century, she was motivated and moved to France in 1953 and continued to create works in the world of copper-plate engraving.

Keiko Minami’s works are filled with full of transparent colors.

For example, the green color used in her works, one can feel her careful attention to the details, such as the green of the trees full of vitality and the warm green of the background.

During this trees and plants budding season, approximately 50 works are exhibited in this exhibition, mainly the works in gentle colors. Please take your time to appreciate the colors that remain unchanged in the shifting world.

 

2023.11.25 Musee Hamaguchi Yozo : Yamasa Collection 2023 WINTER COLLECTION EXHIBITION Yozo Hamaguchi Exhibition – Mezzotint Came Across in Three Novels25 November 2023 (Sat.) – 25 February 2024 (Sun.)

Yozo Hamaguchi (1909-2000) is an artist active in the latter half of the 20th century. He pioneered a new technique called color mezzotint, and produced color expressions with soft depth and tranquility.

Among copper-plate engravings, mezzotint in particular, is one of the unfamiliar techniques in Japan, but it has a unique texture that one will never forget once seeing it.

In this exhibition, together with Yozo Hamaguchi’s works, novels about print works by mezzotint are introduced. They are a ghost story by British author Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), a science fiction novel about time by Kaoru Kitamura (1949-), and a brilliant short story by Kunio Tsukamoto (1920-2005) who is also a poet.

The print works in these novels carry the atmosphere of their respective eras and each work have an irreplaceable sense of presence within the novel. Please appreciate the feeling of mezzotint in literature along with approximately 50 copper-plate engravings by Yozo Hamaguchi.

Holidays 休館日のお知らせ
March

1-8、11、18、25

April

18、15、22、30

May

7、13、20-31


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