| Venue: | PARCO FACTORY Parco Factory Shibuya Parco Part 1/6F |
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| Period |
December 31, 2008 (Wednesday) - January 5, 2009 (Monday) ※Open during the exhibition period 10:00am - 9:00pm ※Admission until 30 minutes before closing ※Closed at 7:00pm on December 31 (Thursday) ※January 1 (New Year's Day) 11:00am-6:00pm ※The last day ends at 6:00pm |
| Admission fee: | 300 yen for general, 200 yen for students, free for elementary school students and younger |
| Contact | 03-3477-5873 (Palco Factory) |
From the '60s to the mid-1980s, the troupe called 'Angra', such as Situation Theater, Ceiling House, Black Tent, Free Theater, etc., created a unique world that was different from so-called commercial theaters. And the performance posters were created by top artists such as Tadanori Yokoo and Akira Uno, and are full of hot messages.
These are currently highly artistically evaluated, and only a limited number of them were produced for performances at that time, so the number of them still exists is small, and it is a valuable opportunity to release such masterpiece posters of such angle theater together.
The whole picture of the masterpiece poster is released!
This exhibition features approximately 100 masterpiece posters of a small theater drama called Angra, which played a part in the counterculture of the 1960s, carefully selected from the "Contemporary Theater Poster Collection", which has more than 20,000 Poster Harris Company's collection. These posters are currently highly artistically evaluated, and only a limited number of them were produced for performances at that time, so the existing number is small and are now valuable works of art. This is an attempt to get a bird's-eye view of the times and culture with posters.
From the 1960s to the 1970s, in theatrical world, the small theater movement (so-called angra theater) aimed at creating a world that is entirely different from the old-fashioned new drama, gained momentum, and Juro Kara, Shuji Terayama, Tadashi Suzuki, Noboru Sato, Kazumi Kushida, and others performed an experimental stage that was never before.
At this time, the poster that appeared as the flag of the Angra Theater Company had a synergistic effect with the stage. In a sense, this poster plays a leading role in the angle theater, provoking the times, and now exists as a symbol of it.
The casters of this angra drama include Tadanori Yokoo, Kiyoshi Awazu, Genpei Akasegawa, Akira Uno, Kuniyoshi Kaneko, Katsuyuki Shinohara, Katsuto Obe, Koga Hirano, Yosuke Inoue, Masamichi Oikawa, Ryoichi Enomoto, Kazuko Sawaichi Hanawa, Shizukazu Hayashi, and others. The posters made by their hands transcend the boundaries of merely posters of performance announcements, cutting out the hot 1960s and 1970s in Japan, and the messages emitted by the posters themselves continue to shine throughout the times.
It can be said that it is truly Japan Avant-garde, a masterpiece of Japanese posters reminiscent of the poster of "Russian Avant-garde" in the 1920s.
It is a valuable opportunity to release all of these masterpiece posters of Angra plays. By all means, I would like to see this angra drama poster, which is also a memory device of the times, not only in the theater world, but also young people interested in the art world and graphics, and many people who lived in the age of adventure in the 1960s and 1970s.
Contents of exhibition and sales
● More than 100 posters of masterpieces of small theater plays from the 1960s to the mid-1980s were exhibited.
● We sell Shuji Terayama-related goods and Angra Theater Company-related products that are deeply involved in these posters.
Shuji Terayama Experimental Film Special Screening
- ●"Butterfly Hattori"
- 1974 Color: 12 minutes
Shooting = Tatsuo Suzuki Music = Edited by Michi Tanaka = Tomoyo Oshima Production = Masahide Ukai
Appearance = Keiko Shintaka Ranyoko Iida Kyoko Tainaka Namiko Sasada Kiji Saito Shoji
◆A blindfolded movie that "blocks" between the projector and the screen. Cannes Film Festival Director Week Invitation - ●"Laura,"
- 1974 Color: 9 minutes
Shooting = Tatsuo Suzuki Music = Michi Tanaka costume = Assistant Director Yoko Ran = Shiriku Morisaki
Appearance = Masako Ono Ran Yoko Arisugawa Shisuko (Morizaki Shiriku)
◆"A movie that can enter and enter the screen from the movie theater's audience." Special screening at the Berlin Film Festival, etc. - ●"The referee,"
- 1975 Color: 34 minutes
Shooting = Bunichi Fukumoto Music = Edited by J.A. Caesar = Tomoyo Oshima Production = Eiko Kujo
Appearance = Keiko Niitaka Ono Susumu Ran Yoko Pancho Meguro Yaguchi Momomorizaki Shirikunemoto Yutaka
◆Daizen of nails with images covered with nails. Depending on the audience, the screen turns into a nail wall. Special screening at the Berlin Film Festival, etc.
Examples of posters on display
Theatrical company situation theater 1974
"Juro Kara version of the style of Mata Saburo,"
Katsuyuki Shinohara
Theatrical Company Jiyu Theater 1966
"Ismene Subway"
Mitsuhiro Kushida / Silk Screen
Drama Laboratory, Ceiling Room 1968
"Shinjuku Version 1,100 Night Story"
Akira Uno / Silk Screen
Theater Center 68/71 1971
"Koi no Utaruta Rat, Jirokichi,"
Koga Hirano / Silk Screen
Theatrical company situation theater 1975
"Itohime,"
Katsuyuki Shinohara
Drama Laboratory, Ceiling Room 1969
"Inujin Frankfurt Performance Version"
Kiyoshi Awazu / Silk Screen
Drama Laboratory, Ceiling Room 1969
"Dr. Galigari's Crime"
Masamichi Oikawa / Silk Screen
Theatrical company situation theater 1966
"Koshimaki Osen-Blessing Hen"
Tadanori Yokoo / Silk Screen