Voices Calling from the Unusual: Hirano Keiichiro's Selection of Western Art Masterpieces (The National Museum of Western Art)

(Translated by Google Translate)

The museum invited as a guest curator of the Keiichiro Hirano writer, from the collection of the National Museum of Western Art, to select the work of approximately 30 points in a unique perspective, plains exhibited by theme.

Some works from the usual, it was often seen in the museum, there is also work to be the eyes for the first time.

Pieces that mask by dry point of Khnopff. It's Khnopff painting fantastic, but it depicts only the woman's face. Again, I feel mysteriously somewhere.

By Teniers the Elder Lucas Cranach, The Temptation of St. Anthony. Theme Jacques Callot that was held at the same time also painted.

When you visually compare the work of three people, including Caro also, differences in approach and complete to represent the theme of the writer is a glimpse, it is interesting.

Munch, workers in the snow. An image of work, such as shouting, and works depicting the theme completely different. After he returned to Norway in 1909, Munch had painted many works on the theme of workers.

The room that there is a wife Ida playing the hammer Sukhoi, the piano. In the landscape casual indoor, and expressed a strange feeling, to hammer Sukhoi. Works like foreboding hidden quietly in the day-to-day, the entrance to the extraordinary.

It's using the one room that is used as a special exhibition room, typically, mini exhibition.

Perhaps, yet a print exhibition of Jacques Callot is, because the writer of the anonymous, for the sake of attracting customers, this project would have been born.

Than that, it felt using this room, and, I wanted to display it with the work of Jacques Caro, and I wonder if I was the only.