The keyword of this exhibition is “iridescence”. There are two main features: Impressionism/Neo Impressionism and Aiko Tezuka.

From our collection, Irises and Water-Lilies by Claude Monet, and Venezia by Paul Signac are displayed at the gallery of the Annex Building. Another highlight is works by Aiko Tezuka, which include her newest pieces created in London. There are the works that reveal both sides of embroidery, show unstitched threads, and consist of re-composed motifs borrowed from several precedent productions.

The spring in Oyamazaki Villa is the best to see a shower of prismatic lights that the cut glasses of the windows create. This exhibition will bring wonder and joy through the “lag” of habitual way of view, as the prism makes a gap between rays and separates light into the colours of the rainbow.

Aiko TEZUKA(Born 1976 in Tokyo)
Learned oil painting in Musashino Art University, and Completed doctor of art in oil painting at Kyoto City University of Arts. Though she is originally trained as a painter, Tezuka chooses fabrics and threads as her primal material to uncover “invisible” structure, such as a process of creation and a pile of history. The vivid threads pulled from fabrics, which remind of primary colours of paints, imply the moment it had been woven. It is a consequence of her endeavour to deconstruct/reconstruct picture, as an accumulation of hidden layers by its nature.

* The text provided by Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art.

Period: March 17 - June 12, 2011
Closed: Monday, temporary opening: March 28, April 4, May 2
Venue: Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art