Let's make a strange landscape! Workshop
Event Date:Saturday, November 21nd and Sunday, November 22rd, 2026
Open Time:both days
[Morning session] 10:30-12:30
[Afternoon session] 14:00-16:00 *Last admission 15:30*
Place:Karuizawa New Art Museum 1st floor plaza
Conduct:Curator
Entry fee:Free
Target:From children to adults (infants must be accompanied by a guardian)
Karuizawa New Art Museum
Tel. 0267-46-8691
Exhibition Section
Exhibition Room 5 displays the works of Alexandre Imai.
This is a slightly mysterious piece that adds a black bear motif to a landscape painting of the Alps and Tateshina.
Surrealism, placing things that shouldn't be there"Depaysement"By
The familiar, serene scenery seems to transform into a strange world.
In this workshop, we will combine landscape photography with your own drawings.
Born from an unlikely encounter"Strange Landscape"To make.
*A ticket to the 2nd floor exhibition is required to participate*
The workshop flyerCLICK HERE
About the current exhibitionCLICK HERE
REPORT
Thanks to you, we had many customers visit us on the first and second days of a three-day weekend.
First, I explained the key point of this article, "depaysement."
A sense of incongruity in location, time, size, and material.
Participants will learn by looking at images of works by De Chirico, Magritte, and Oppenheim that have been prepared in advance, including a bear piece by Imai Alexandre that is currently on display in the exhibition.
After that, they chose one of ten different backgrounds, cut out some images to place on top of it, and pasted them wherever they liked to create a piece of art. They were interested to hear about the different types of collages.
The event was a great success, with many people attending not only from within Japan but also from overseas (China, America, Australia).
The participants' works (copies) are currently on display in the museum. We hope that this will spark interest in the exhibition on the second floor.
