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EXHIBITIONS - SHOWS - CONCERTS / SEASON 2008 - 2009  
Last update: 01/09/2009
 
1858 / 2008 - the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Japan
1858 / 2008 - the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Japan
1858 / 2008 - the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and Japan
 
From September 19th till November 08th, 2008
SPLENDEUR DES COURTISANES - paintings ukiyo-e of the museum Idemitsu ( Japan ) - 1st time
  MUSEE CERNUSCHI
Poster: Splendeur des Courtisanes - Paris 2008
  7, avenue Vélasquez - 75008 - Paris - France  
( 00 33 (0) 1 53 96 21 50  
Subway: Lines 2 & 3 - Villiers  
   
Every day from 10:00 am till 06:00 pm except Sunday and the holidays
 

The Idemitsu museum, to Tôkyô, possesses one of the richest and the most beautiful collections of Japan in the field of the ukiyo-e painting. The exhibition will present a choice of 112 paintings (suspended rollers or kakemono, folding screens, and rollers in length or e-maki) realized by the biggest artists of this school. It will redraw in particular the story of this paint since the paint of customs or fuzokuga, in the 17th century, up to the great masters of the 18th and 19th century. For reasons of preservation, the works will be presented by movement in two times on duration of three months.

Appeared to the end of the 17th century, the school of Ukiyo-e or “paint of the floating world” bloomed until the environment of the 19th century. This school is bound to the development of the big Japanese metropolises, Kyôto, Osaka and especially Edo (Tôkyô), city of the Shogun. It knew from the end of the 19th century an international glory, in reason notably of the fashion and the distribution of the Japanese prints in West, or still illustrated books. But the paints of these artists are known often much less.
Press Release (in French)
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From September 20th till November 22nd, 2008
L'INSTANT ET L'ETERNITE
  ESPACE MITSUKOSHI ETOILE - PARIS
Affiche : L'Instant et L'Eternité - Espace Mitsukoshi
  3, rue Tilsitt - 75008 - Paris - France  
( 00 33 (0) 1 44 09 11 11  

Subway: Line 1 - Charles-de-Gaulle-Etoile
RER (Regional Express Network): Line A - Charles-de-Gaulle-Etoile

  
 
All days from 10:00 am to 06:00 pm except Sundays and public holidays
 
For the first time outside Japan, an exhibition completely dedicated in the 40 years of career of the Japanese painter TABUCHI Toshio. By grouping together about sixty his works, this retrospective a door on the universe of one of the most original virtuoso contemporaries of the Nihon-ga, the Japanese traditional painting.
Press Release (in French)
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From September 30th, 2008 till January 11th, 2009
L’ESPRIT MINGEI AU JAPON : de l’artisanat populaire au design
 

MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY
Poster: L’ESPRIT MINGEI AU JAPON : de l’artisanat populaire au design
  37, quai Branly - 75007 - Paris - France www.quaibranly.fr
( 00 33 (0) 1 56 61 70 00  

Subway: Line 9 - Alma-Marceau
RER (Regional Express Network): Line C - Pont de l’Alma
Bus: Line 42 - Tour-Eiffel / Lines 63, 80 & 92 - Bosquet-Rapp
River shuttle: Tour-Eiffel (batobus, bateaux parisiens & vedettes de Paris)

  
 
On Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday: from 11:00 am till 07:00 pm - Night-on Thursday, on Friday and Saturday: till 09:00 pm
 
The word “Mingei” is an abbreviation for “minshuteki kogeï”, which means “folk art,” or “popular art, created by the people, for the people”.
A thinker and man of action, YANAGI Soetsu campaigned his entire life for the promotion of folk art. He did this through writings, most notably in the monthly publication, “Kogeï” (which means “folk art”), teaching and with exhibits. As a reflection of the spirit and traditional Mingei techniques, he constructed the “Nihon Mingeikan” in Tokyo, during 1936.
 
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From October 15th till December 08th, 2008
KONPIRA-SAN - SANCTUAIRE DE LA MER - Trésors de la peinture japonaise
  MUSEE NATIONAL DES ARTS ASIATIQUES GUIMET
Konpira-San - Musée Guimet - Paris - Octobre 2008
  6, place d’Iéna - 75116 - Paris - France www.guimet.fr
( 00 33 (0) 1 56 52 53 00  
Subway: Line 9 - Iéna or Trocadéro / Line 6 - Boissière or Trocadéro Virtual Visit
 
Opened every day except Tuesday, from 10:00 am till 06:00 pm
 
From the period Heian ( 794-1185 ), this temple was a point of convergence of faiths mountain dwellers and maritime. It thus became a famous place of pilgrimage but also a home of fertile artistic creation. It is these artistic jewels, classified for the greater part, that the exhibition suggests discovering. Set away from Japan for the first time, these works are often large scale since the walls and sliding screens.
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From October 16th till December 14th, 2008
ZEN ET ART A KYÔTO - SHÔKOKU JI - PAVILLON D'OR - PAVILLON D'ARGENT
 

PETIT PALAIS - Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
Affiche : Zen et Art à Kyôto - Paris - Octobre 2008
  avenue Winston-Churchill - 75008 - Paris - France www.petitpalais.fr
( 00 33 (0) 1 53 43 40 00  

Subway: Lines 1 & 13 - Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau
RER (Regional Express Network): Line A - Charles-de-Gaulle-Etoile / Line C - Invalides
Bus: 28, 42, 72, 73, 83 & 93
 
Open daily from 10:00 am to 06:00 pm, except Mondays and holidays - Nocturne on Thursday until 08:00 pm
 
Relive the essence of Zen, beyond the simplistic images conveyed in the West. Paintings, calligraphy and objects of art presented for the first time in France as part of an exhibition to demonstrate the spiritual life Zen temples in three of the most famous Kyoto (two of which are World Heritage of humanity).
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From October 16th till January 11th, 2009
Akira KUROSAWA - DESSINS
 

PETIT PALAIS - Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
Affiche : Akira KUROSAWA - Dessins - Paris - Octobre 2008
  avenue Winston-Churchill - 75008 - Paris - France www.petitpalais.fr
( 00 33 (0) 1 53 43 40 00  

Subway: Lines 1 & 13 - Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau
RER (Regional Express Network): Line A - Charles-de-Gaulle-Etoile / Line C - Invalides
Bus: 28, 42,72, 73, 83 & 93
 
Open daily from 10:00 am to 06:00 pm, except Mondays and holidays - Nocturne on Thursday until 08:00 pm
 

KUROSAWA Akira, (1910-1998) is universally known as one of the most prominent filmmakers of the second half of the twentieth century. But do you know the designer KUROSAWA Akira?
With an unprecedented retrospective in France, with 87 drawings, designed for his latest film, the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, wishes to reveal publicly that the fabulous designer it was also.
Press Release (in French)
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From October 22nd, 2008 till January 31st, 2009
WA : l’harmonie au quotidien - Design japonais d’aujourd’hui
 

MAISON DE LA CULTURE DU JAPON

  
  101bis, quai Branly - 75016 - Paris - France www.mcjp.asso.fr
( 00 33 (0) 1 44 37 95 01  

Subway: Line 6 - Bir-Hakeim
RER (Regional Express Network): Line C - Champs-de-Mars-Tour-Eiffel

  
 
From Tuesday till Saturday from 12:00 am till 07:00 pm - Night-on Thursdays till 8:00 pm - Closed the holidays - Annual closure from December 21st, 2008 till January 05th, 2009 included.
 
The design of the Japanese products, very influenced from the end of the Second World War by the United States, seems to have lost most of its appropriate characteristics because of the globalization of the industrial structures. Nevertheless, the appearance of an object made in Japan always keeps a young “something eminently Japanese”. Delicious precision was brought to the finish, the attention supported towards the slightest details of function and shape; all this carries the imprint of practices which characterize the decorative arts of formerly.
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From November 18th, 2008 till January 04th, 2009
SPLENDEUR DES COURTISANES - paintings ukiyo-e of the museum Idemitsu ( Japan ) - 2nd time
 

MUSEE CERNUSCHI
Poster: Splendeur des Courtisanes - Paris 2008
  7, avenue Vélasquez - 75008 - Paris - France  
( 00 33 (0) 1 53 96 21 50  
Subway: Lines 2 & 3 - Villiers  
 
Every day from 10:00 am till 6:00 pm except Sunday and the holidays
 
The Ukiyo-e school counted some of the biggest artists of the Japanese painting, among which one Kaigetsudô Ando ( ?-1743 ), Suzuki Harunobu ( on 1724 - 1770 ), and naturally Kitagawa Utamaro ( 1753-1806 ), Katsushika Hokusai ( 1760-1849 ) and Andô Hiroshige ( 1797-1858 ). Their subjects are the modern life, Edo, its Kabuki theatres and its districts of pleasure where mix noble persons and fortunate middle-class persons. Ukiyo-e takes for subject of preference the attractive women, notably the courtesans of Shin-Yoshiwara, the district of the pleasures to Edo. Presented under an idealized day, the “beauties” of the green houses embody the taste of the luxury and the splendour which characterizes the easy urban population of the period of Edo ( 1615-1867 ).
Press release (in French)  
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From November 28th till December 24th, 2008
SAMOURAI - Objets d'exception
 

Galerie
Poster: SAMOURAI - Objets d'exception
  41, rue de Verneuil - 75007 - Paris - France  
( 00 33 (0) 6 62 18 02 99 @: jcc@artdujapon.com

Subway: Line 8 - Solferino or rue du bac
RER (Regional Express Network): Line C - Musée d'Orsay

  
 
From Monday till Saturday from 02:00 pm till 07:00 pm
 
An exhibition of objects of exception prepared by Jean-Christophe CHARBONNIER.
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From April 22nd till July 05th, 2009
L'ESPRIT DU BUDÔ - Histoire des arts martiaux au Japon
 

MAISON DE LA CULTURE DU JAPON
Exhibition: L'ESPRIT DU BUDÔ - Histoire des arts martiaux au Japon
  101bis, quai Branly - 75016 - Paris - France www.mcjp.asso.fr
( 00 33 (0) 1 44 37 95 01  

Subway: Line 6 - Bir-Hakeim
RER (Regional Express Network): Line C - Champs-de-Mars-Tour-Eiffel

  
 
Open daily from 12:00 am to 07:00 pm, except Mondays and holidays - Nocturne on Thursday until 08:00 pm
 
The history of the martial arts in Japan has more thousand years. This exhibition presents the evolution of the techniques of fight of the samurais during the centuries. It shows their recent transformation in sports, sometimes even in Olympic sports, and the way mangas them appropriated. Vast survey which underlines the fact that for the budo, that is all the martial arts, it is essential to develop the body but also the spirit.
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From May 19th till July 18th, 2009
BEAUTES DIVINES - Peintures traditionnelles japonaises Nihon-ga de MORITA Rieko
  ESPACE MITSUKOSHI ETOILE - PARIS
Exposition : Espaces Misukoshi - Paris - 19/05 - 18/07/2009
  3, rue Tilsitt - 75008 - Paris - France  
( 00 33 (0) 1 44 09 11 11  

Subway: Line 1 - Charles-de-Gaulle-Etoile
RER (Regional Express Network): Line A - Charles-de-Gaulle-Etoile

  
 
All days from 10:00 am to 06:00 pm except Sundays and public holidays
 
The work of MORITA Rieko joins in the continuity of two very classic currents of the Nihon-ga: women's paintings and paintings of flowers. Her portraits, of a moving grace, try to drill the mystery of the universal femininity, and her vegetable frescoes in the brilliant colours celebrate eternal renewal of the seasons, so expensive to Japanese hearts. The Parisian public can so admire, for the first and unique time outside Japan, the invaluable floral decorations decorating the wooden sliding doors of cypress of the residential detached house of the Golden temple of Kyôto, summit of the Japanese traditional decorative art.
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June 13th and 14th, 2009
NISHIJIN DE KYÔTO - Un monde de grâce
 

ESPACE HATTORI / French-Japanese Cultural center
Exposition : NISHIJIN DE KYÔTO - Un monde de grâce
  8, passage Turquetil - 75011 - Paris - France www.ccfj-paris.org
( 00 33 (0) 1 43 48 83 64  

Subway: Lines 1, 2, 6 & 9 - Nation
RER (Regional Express Network): Line A - Nation

  
 
On Saturday from 12:00 am till 07:00 pm and Sunday from 12:00 am till 04:00 pm with parade of kimono: 02:00 pm - 03:00 pm
 
Stemming from a craft tradition of weaving millennium, Nishijin takes its roots in the city of Kyôto at the end of the XVth century. Forts of a big dexterity, his craftsmen produced luxurious pieces of tissue on threads base of gold and silver fates in shogun, to the noble persons of the Court and to the warriors of superior rank.
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