【Panasonic Shiodome Museum】 “Georges · Black Exhibition” Exhibition Report

At the Panasonic Shiodome Museum “Georges Black Exhibition” is held from Saturday, April 28, 2018 until Sunday, June 24, 2018. Since the press exhibition was held on April 27th, I will tell you how it is.

Founder of Cubism, Georges Black (1882-1963). In the beginning of the 20th century, Black, together with Picasso, brought innovation to painting with this method of expressing the three-dimensional nature of the object on the plane through decomposition and reconstruction.

The challenge to beautification of all the shapes of black started with paintings and sculptures, and works of various forms ranging from jewelry, ceramics, decorative arts such as stained and glasses were produced. Especially, many of the jewelry pieces are acclaimed as “the best masterpiece of black” and the pursuit of painter’s insatiable beauty is fruitful in its sublime and shine.

In this exhibition, the first full-scale introduction in Japan of “Metamorphosis” series that Black worked on in his last years. In addition, through the work of about 90 points including the early paintings, we can trace the transition of black’s paintings and be able to learn about the change in modeling aimed at by the painter.

■ Exhibit composition

Let me introduce some of the venue landscape and some of the exhibited works.

Chapter 1 Planar

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Venue landscape

Gouache with black (painting with opaque watercolor paint). There is a writing of an autograph that permits copying

Lithograph work. The size can also be enlarged from the Gouache Picture and enjoy the vibrant colors

Like “Pereas and Nereus” (left) “Hecate” (right), Black’s work has a motif repeated from the beginning

In the first chapter, planar works that are the basis of the work of “Metamorphosis” which Black worked from 1961 to 1963 are introduced. A series of Gouache pictures (technique and painting using opaque watercolor paintings) lining up here turned into a printmaking and it became a drawing of various three dimensional works to be produced later.

Chapter 2 Ceramics

The work is from plane to solid. Along with that, the atmosphere of the venue also changed and changed

“Hecate” also goes from flat to three-dimensional. Greek gods are the theme

The theme is ceramics, but pure sculptures apart from practical use are also exhibited

Chapter 2 where china ceramics with fruitful fruit of black space and intolerable inquiry into solid are exhibited. Major motifs of “Metamorphosis” such as “Pelius and Nereus” and “Hecate” that were displayed in Chapter 1 will appear as a dish, a pitcher, a pot, and other pottery works.

Chapter 3 Jewelry

A number of jewelry works called “the highest peak of black art” shine brightly

In chapter 3, works of jewelry created by collaboration with Jewelry creator Eger de Lurenfeld are exhibited. It is an exhibit that women can not miss.

Looking at these works that black paintings transformed into precision by precious metals, Andre Malraux of the French Culture Minister celebrated “the highest peak of black art” and sent the greatest compliment.

Chapter 4 Sculpture

A sculpture of a fish in which a purple amethyst is carefully fitted one by one grain “Glaucus”

“Liquid carriage of media” which a flowing and powerful form is impressive. The black sign is marked on the pedestal

Glass sculpture by the dome workshop which produced many Art Nouveau masterpieces. It is very beautiful that the backlight is applied and the way the light is transmitted

In the fourth chapter is displayed a series of black sculptures. Black uses motifs found in ceramics and jewelry for sculpture as much as we can, changing the combination of material and form, giving us eternal life.

Chapter 5 Interior decoration

Indoor panels of black hands line up. Black was born in a decorative painter’s house and had worn that skill since he was young

A mosaic of a cubism-like screen composition in which the profile and the front were drawn at the same time

Stained-glass works created with the technique “Gemayle” which stacks various shapes of glass pieces

In the final chapter, the interior decoration that Black handled, tapestry, the work of later years such as mosaic, and the work of the workshop that inherited Black’s will are gathered together. Black continued his family business and was training as a decorative painter, so he was energetically working on decorative art as well as pure art.

The word “metamorphosis” meaning “transformation” and “transformation” in French. Black tells us that we will “transform” while changing the material from flat to solid, with the motifs of the gods appearing in Ovid’s “Transformation storyline” of the poet Ovidius.
“Georges Black Exhibition” is a very valuable opportunity to exhibit the “Metamorphic Forces Series”, which has been rarely introduced in Japan, with approximately 90 works.

The exhibition is from Saturday, April 28, 2018 until Sunday, June 24,.
Why do not you visit this opportunity.

Summary

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