For more information regarding related events, please refer to the Japanese page.
● Symposium: “100 years after the decease of Watanabe Seitei and his period – The daybreak of Japanese-French Modern Art.”
Date：2017/3/10 (Friday) 5PM－8:30PM
Venue：La maison franco-japonaise (Ebisu)
Exhibition: La maison franco-japonaise Gallery (from March 9, to March 11)
Sponsor：The Executive Committee of the exhibition on Watanabe Seitei, The Japan-France Meeting Hall
Backing support：The Society for the Study on Japonisme, The Society on Art from Japan and France, The Fenollosa Society
【Program】
17:00－17:05 Greetings from the Chair of the French office
【First Session: The Foundational Research on Watanabe Seitei】
Chair: Ueda Sayoko (植田彩芳子, Curator of the Museum of Kyoto Prefecture)
17:05－17:20 「Watanabe Teisei’s Life and Works」
17:20－17:55 「Watanabe Teisei and the Daybreak of Japanese-French Art」 Okabe Masayuki (岡部昌幸, Teikyo University Professor)
17:55－18:05 Break
18:05－18:40 「Watanabe Teisei and Meiji Art（Tentative）」 Sioya Jun (塩谷純) (Chair of the Tokyo Culture Research Institute on Modern and Contemporary Visual Art)
18:40－19:00 Coffee Break
【Second Session: Panel Discussion ”Towards the Re-evaluation of Watanabe Teisei”】
19:00－20:30 Moderator: Okabe Masayuki (岡部昌幸)
Panellists： Sato Doshin (佐藤道信, Professor at the Tokyo University of Art)、Yamashita Yuji (山下裕二, Consultant of the Yamatane Museum, and professor at Meiji University)、Noji Koichiro (野地耕一郎, Chief of the Sen-oku Museum)、Sioya Jun (塩谷純)
Commentators： Arashiki Toru (荒屋鋪透, Previous Head of the Pola Museum of Art)、Miura Atsushi(三浦篤, Professor at Tokyo University and Chair of the Japan-France Meeting Hall)、Iwakiri Shinichiro (岩切信一郎, Art Historian)、Furuta Ryo (古田亮(Associate Professor at the Museum of Tokyo University of Arts)
☆ For those wishing to participate, please apply through La maison franco-japonais or the Japonisme Society. Details on the exhibition on Watanabe Teisei are as followed:
「SEITEI 〜 Watanabe Seitei: To be resurrected! The Painter God of Loneliness 」
Period: 2017/3/18 (Saturday) ~ 2017/4/9 (Sunday)
Opening Hours: 10:00AM~6:00PM
Venue: Kashima Museum 1st and 2nd floor（Tokyo, Chuo, Kyobashi, 3-3-2）
For more details, consult: http://www.watanabeseitei.org/