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Tectonic Shifts in Printing, Printmaking and Graphic Design 1957–1979

2024.05.30 thu. - 08.25 sun.

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With the advent of the mass communication era, postwar Japan saw dramatic advancements in printing technology and increasingly close ties between art and popular culture. This also led to a great deal of attention being focused on the relationship between printing and graphic design.
This exhibition centers on the International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, an event that was held 11 times between 1957 and 1979, providing emerging printmakers and designers of the day with valuable exposure. It also features works by artists associated with the biennial from the National Museum of Art Collection. The exhibition reexamines the possibilities opened up by printing technology and their significance for our current era through the intersection of printmaking and graphic design in diverse visual artworks of the era.
* Main Image: Kimura Hideki, Pencil 2-3, 1974 silkscreen print on section paper The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto



Exhibition dates 2024, 05. 30, thu. – 08. 25, sun

Hours 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
*Fridays: 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM (*Exception: May 31, June 7, August 23, 2024)
*Admission until 30 min before closing.

Closed Mondays (*Exception: July 15, August 12, 2024) July 16, August 13, 2024

Venue Collection Gallery (4F)

Admission Adults: 430 yen (220 yen)
University students: 130 yen (70 yen)
* (  ) admission for groups of 20 or more.
* Collection gallery exhibition is available with this ticket.
* High school students and younger, Seniors (65+), admission is free (with valid ID).
* Visitors with disability and one person accompanying them are admitted free of charge. (Please present certificate at the admission.)

Night Discount for Collection Gallery Adult: 220 yen
University student: 70 yen
*The Discounted admission is only available after 6 P.M. on Fridays
*Admission until 30 minutes before closing.


  • Ikeda Masuo Summer 1 1964
    Etching The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

  • Ida Shoichi The Spy Surrounds the Spy 1974
    lithograph on paper, acetate-film, zinc plates in wooden box The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

  • Kimura Hideki Pencil 2-3 1974
    silkscreen print on section paper The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

  • Yokoo Tadanori Poster for the 6th international biennial exhibition of prints in Tokyo 1968
    offset printing The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

  • Sugiura Kohei
    Poster for the 8th international biennial exhibition of prints in Tokyo (white version) 1972
    offset printing National Crafts Museum

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