YAMAGUCHI Akira is participating as the main artist in ” ‘City Strollers in Dogo Onsen’: YAMAGUCHI Akira x DOGO ART 2016″ held at Dogo Onsen and the surrounding areas in Matsuyama city, Ehime prefecture, opening on Friday 29th April (a national holiday).
2016 marks the third year of the DOGO ART festival, and is also 100 years since the death of the literary master Natsume Soseki, and 110 years since the first publication of his novel ‘Botchan’. Just as Soseki came from elsewhere to live briefly in Matsuyama, which he made the setting for the ironic and humorous ‘Botchan’, so too Yamaguchi has depicted Dogo from the perspective of an “outsider”.
＜Date＞ 29th April 2016 – 28th February 2017
*The works will be on public display until August 2017
First opening: 19th April 2016
Second opening: July 2016 (TBC)
Third opening: September 2016 (TBC)
*The number of works exhibited will gradually increase throughout the exhibition period
＜Venue＞ Dogo Onsen and the neighboring areas, Ehime
Related Event
Opening reception and talk event
＜Date / time＞ 29th April 13:00-15:00
＜Venue＞ The Shiki Museum, 4F lecture hall
(1-30 Dogo Koen, Matsuyama, Ehime 〒790-0857)
＜Content＞
1. Ceremony
2. YAMAGUCHI Akira talk event (Places given to the first 300 applicants)
*reservation is not needed.?Reception opens from 12:30.
＜Inquiry＞ Dogo Art executive committee: tel. ?089-921-6464
