Dr. Toshio Shimizu, Intersections Visiting Scholar--lecture + reception

February 5, 5:45pm - 7:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Art Auditorium, Art Building

DR. TOSHIO SHIMIZU Speaks at UH Mānoa

Director of Toshio Shimizu Art Office, Toshio Shimizu is an art critic, independent curator, and a professor at Gakushuin Women's College in Japan. He also holds the position of art director of public art at Tokyo Midtown, a new, expansive, mixed-use development that has transformed the urban environment. In addition, Dr. Shimizu serves as a curator at Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, and as an artistic director at Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito. His recent focus is on the cultivation of exhibitions and public art. He completed his studies at the Tokyo Metropolitan University and École du Louvre, Paris.

Dr. Toshio Shimizu presents a public lecture entitled History of Japanese Art Since the 1950s at the Department of Art + Art History, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) through the Intersections Visiting Artist and Scholar Program. The lecture highlights the important artists and collectives and includes Gutai, Neo Dada, High Red Center, and Mono-ha.

PUBLIC LECTURE + RECEPTION:

Dr. Toshio Shimizu, Intersections Visiting Scholar

Thursday, February 5, 2015

5:45 – 6:20 pm Reception

6:30 – 7:30 pm "History of Japanese Art Since the 1950s"

Art Auditorium, Art Building, UH Mānoa

All events are free and open to the public. Parking fees may apply.

TOKYO MIDTOWN

Tokyo Midtown, a contemporary urban development that opened in 2007 in the center of Tokyo’s Roppongi district, is a unique city within a city. This complex includes the Midtown Tower, the tallest building in Tokyo, and consists of offices, residential spaces, shopping, restaurants, entertainment, recreational facilities, gardens, the Ritz-Carlton Tokyo hotel, the Suntory Museum of Art, as well as spaces for public art, the design museum 21_21 Design Sight, the Tokyo Midtown Design Hub, and more. The prestigious and much-anticipated Tokyo Midtown Awards for art and design have been held annually since 2008. A selection of these award-winning works will be presented in an exhibition at the Waikiki Parc Promenade Gallery this summer. Details will be announced soon.


Ticket Information
Admission is free. Parking fees may apply.

Event Sponsor
Art + Art History , Mānoa Campus

More Information
Sharon Tasaka, 956-6888, gallery@hawaii.edu, http://www.hawaii.edu/art/exhibitions+events/intersections/?p=223

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