"Flowers," featuring Yayoi Kusama, Yoshitomo Nara, Mika Ninagawa, teamLab, and others, will be held at the Towada Art Center from April 27th.

Apr 11, 2013

To celebrate its fifth anniversary, the Towada Art Center will be holding a flower-themed exhibition, "Flowers," from the 27th. New artists will be joining the artists whose works are on permanent display at the museum, and they will be exhibiting flower-themed works.

The works will be displayed not only at the museum but also throughout the city. Internationally acclaimed artists, including leading Japanese artists Yayoi Kusama and Yoshitomo Nara, photographer Mika Ninagawa, light installation artist Kyota Takahashi, leading Korean creator Choi Jeong-hwa, and the technologist group TeamLab, will be participating, expressing a variety of flowers.


[Event Information]
"Flowers"
Place: Towada Art Center
Address: 10-9 Nishinibancho, Towada City, Aomori Prefecture
Period: April 27th to September 8th
Hours: 9:00 to 17:00 (last admission 30 minutes before closing, except April 28th, May 3rd to 5th, and August 9th and 10th)
Closed: Mondays (if Monday is a public holiday, the following day will be closed, except April 30th, May 1st, August 5th and 12th)
Price: Special exhibition + permanent exhibition combination ticket 1,000 yen, special exhibition only 600 yen, free for high school students and younger
くまがいなお
  • "Flowers Blooming at Midnight" by Yayoi Kusama at the Aichi Triennale 2010
  • Mika Ninagawa
  • Makiko Kudo "I thought there was no one here" 2012 181.5 x 227.0 cm oil on canvas
  • Yoshihiro Suda "Tulip" 2007, painted wood
  • Ohmaki Shinji "Echoes –crystallization" 2011 "Children's Garden" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo/Tokyo
  • Choi Jeong-hwa "Flower Horse" 2008 Towada Art Center
  • Yoshitomo Nara Flower head vase (first generation) 2007
  • Shuji Yamamoto "Fog" 2012
  • Satoru Aoyama "Roses 6/6" 2011 Embroidered with metallic and black thread on polyester, red spotlight 42 x 32cm
  • Kyota Takahashi (collaboration with architect Akihisa Hirata) "Prism Liquid" 2010
  • TeamLab "Life Lives on the Power of Life" 2011 Calligraphy: Sisyu
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