南魚沼市トミオカホワイト美術館
Minamiuonuma City Tomioka White Art Museum
当館は、新潟県高田市(現上越市)生まれの富岡惣一郎(1922~94)の油彩画「白の世界シリーズ」や
墨絵、リトグラフなど約570点を収蔵、常時約40点展示しております。
富岡惣一郎は、自ら開発した黄変、亀裂、剥落しない白油絵の具「トミオカホワイト」と、刀鍛冶に
特注した長大ペインティングナイフで一貫して国内外の雪国を取材。
死の前年まで大作を描き続けました。
油絵とは思えない平滑、清澄、魅力的な輝きを秘めた独特の白と黒の絵に、殊にアメリカ人は
「東洋の白」あるいは「俳句そのもの」などと共感し、「トミオカホワイト」と呼んで親しみました。
「雪国に生まれた作品は雪国に還す」という画家の願いと地元の協力をえて、1990年11月に八海山麓の
この地に開館しました。
管理運営について
1990年~2011年3月 財団法人 八海山「白の世界」文化村が運営
2011年4月~ 南魚沼市へ引き継がれる
2011年10月~ 指定管理者:公益財団法人南魚沼市文化スポーツ振興公社が受託、現在に至る。
※ English notation is after Japanese.
展示室
収蔵作品の大半が60号~150号という大作であるため、壁面高を5メートル、天井を8メートルとり、
展示作品全体を把握できるように床面50m×10mのシンプルな、大空間一室構造に設計されています。
ラウンジからの眺望
大窓の外は四季折々の風景が広がり、冬は見渡す限り「トミオカホワイトの世界」となって
館内の富岡作品と響きあいます。
窓正面に屹立する霊峰八海山は、一年を通じその風貌を変え、静かに語りかけてきます。
また、絶好のスケッチポイントとしても多くの方に親しまれています。
東(八海山側)から美術館を眺めると特徴的な形の屋根と大きな窓が
見えます。
その建物の形と地面に雪が積もった様子をシンボルマークにデザイン
しました。
皆様により親しんでいただけるよう、シンボルマークを使用し発信し
て行きますので、よろしくお願いいたします。
Tomioka White Art Museum
The museum holds a permanent exhibition of over 500 masterpieces by Japanese oil painter Soichiro Tomioka from his White World series.
Tomioka was born in 1922 in snowy Takada City (now a part of Joetsu City), Niigata Prefecture.
He is known for his work on the motif of the Snow Country, depicted in his own unique style. Tomioka expressed winter landscapes of snow and ice, using only the two colours, black and white. But white painting had the problem of cracking and yellowing.
“My first challenge was to create an exceptional paint which would neither turn yellow, crack nor foliate.” he told in “A World of White”.
The paint developed was named TOMIOKA WHITE. He painted his works with this TOMIOKA WHITE and with long palette knives that were especially produced.
His unique aesthetic was influenced by Zen monks, Dogen, Ryokan and Zeami.
His goal was not to depict in realistic forms, but rather capture the essence of nature itself.
In addition, it able to think that the way of balancing asymmetric composition, drawing shaping that refines and expresses objects to be drawn takes over the method seen in traditional Japanese paintings.
Also, the point that is said to resemble haiku is convergence only in necessary words.
That was what Tomioka himself admitted, too.
In the early winter of 1990, the long-stated wishes of "returning to the snow country the work born in the snow country" has come true, the Tomioka White Museum of Art opened in this area of the foot of Mt. Hakkai.
Exhibition room
Because the majority of the collections are major works of No. 60 to 150, we took wall height 5 meters, ceiling 8 meters, so that we can grasp the entire exhibition work, we have a simple, large space of 50 meters by 10 meters on the floor. It is designed in a room structure.
View from the lounge
You can see four seasons of the landscape of the snow country from a lounge of the museum.
In winter, As far as you can see, the "white world" resonates with Tomioka's works.
Mt.Hakkai outside the lounge's window tells something quietly, changing the appearance of the four seasons.
The place has been familiar to many people as a great sketch point.
Symbol mark
Looking at the museum from the east (Mt.Hakkai side) a characteristic shaped roof and large windows you can see.
We designed on the shape of the building and the appearance of snow piling on the ground as a symbol mark did.
To be familiar to everyone, we will send messages with the symbol mark.
Thanking you in advance.