Nagoya City Art Museum
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The museum building itself was constructed by Kisho Kurokawa, one of the leading Japanese architects, from 1983-1987.
Works by the surrealist Kansuke Yamamoto
Kansuke Yamamoto (Surrealist)
Kansuke Yamamoto was a photographer and poet.He was a prominent Japanese surrealist born in Nagoya, Japan.-Birth:...
, Sean Scully
Sean Scully
Sean Scully is an Irish-born American painter and printmaker who has twice been named a Turner Prize nominee. His work is collected in major museums worldwide.-Life and work:...
, and Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing mobile sculptures. In addition to mobile and stable sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry, jewelry and household objects.-Childhood:Alexander "Sandy" Calder was born in Lawnton,...
belong to its permanent collection. Artists such as Hakuyō Fuchikami
Hakuyo Fuchikami
-Biography:Fuchikami was born in Kumamoto Prefecture and studied in Saga and Nagasaki.In 1922 Fuchikami organized Nihon Kōga Geijutsu Kyōkai and published the first issue of the photography magazine Hakuyō and continued the publication of this magazine until 1926.In 1928 he moved to Manchuria and...
, Nakaji Yasui
Nakaji Yasui
-Life:Yasui was born in Osaka and became a member of the Naniwa Photography Club in 1920s and also became a member of the Tampei Photography Club in 1930.His photographs cover a wide range from pictorialism to straight photography, including photomontages...
and Jean-Michel Othoniel
Jean-Michel Othoniel
Jean-Michel Othoniel is a contemporary artist born in 1964 in Saint-Etienne . He lives and works in Paris.-Biography:An artist who has a passion for all sorts of metamorphoses, sublimations and transmutations, Jean-Michel Othoniel has a predilection for materials with reversible properties...
have exhibited their works there.