Learning

Zebra World Workshop

Event Date:2017 / 1 / 29 (sun)

Open Time:January 1th (Sun) Morning session ① 29:10 ~ Afternoon session ② 30:14 ~

Place:Karuizawa New Art Museum 1st floor

Conduct:Curator

Instructor:Uehara Kiro

Target:From children to adults (infants must be accompanied by a guardian)

Application / Contact

Karuizawa New Art Museum
Tel. 0267-46-8691
Exhibition Section

We will welcome as a guest the central artist, Kiro Uehara, from the currently ongoing exhibition "Surrealism and its Development: Max Ernst, Kiro Uehara, Special Invitation: Jan Švankmajer". We will look at Kiro's zebra series "Zebra in Wonderland" together, and then we will actually create a striped collage work using a zebra.

Applications must be made by phone only. The maximum number of participants for both the morning and afternoon sessions is 15. Applications will close once this number is reached.
Application period: Friday, January 2017th to Wednesday, January 1th, 20, 25:10-00:17 (during museum opening hours)
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Zebra World Workshop


REPORT

A new species of dinosaur, the "Zebra Elephant"?
Sunday, January 1th is Zebra Day! We held a Zebra World Workshop. We welcomed Uehara Kiro as our guest and created a world of zebras and zebras that cut paper printed with various gray and black stripes. Children and their mothers who participated in "Konnyaku de Petan Petan" at the end of November last year, as well as a local artist who brought their children, enjoyed interacting with Kiro himself. Before starting the production, the workshop began with a picture book called "Zebra Walk". The picture book has some overlaps with Kiro's Zebra series, with the stripes of the zebra becoming musical instruments, eyes, rivers, and trees, and the children listened intently with their eyes wide open. Afterwards, we went to the museum on the second floor to view "Zebra in Wonderland," which is themed around Kiro's zebras. Let me tell you what it was like.
Stripes are so complex! Everyone seems to be crazy about them.
We took a commemorative photo with Kiro-san holding the finished piece!