[Repost] The Chihiro Art Museum’s picture book exhibition and series of events have been rescheduled…

The fol­low­ing is a detailed dia­gram of the exhi­bi­tion loca­tion:
Tick­ets for the Cen­tral Acad­e­my of Fine Arts Exhi­bi­tion Hall are 10 yuan (exhi­bi­tion peri­od: Sep­tem­ber 25–30)

The “Japan­ese Pic­ture Book Cen­tu­ry Exhi­bi­tion: Chi­hi­ro Iwasa­ki and the Devel­op­ment of Japan­ese Pic­ture Books” opens on Sep­tem­ber 24th

   Pic­ture books, also known as huiben (a term orig­i­nat­ing from Japan), refer to books that speak through pic­tures. In recent years, a large num­ber of world-class pic­ture books have been intro­duced to Chi­na, and the domes­tic orig­i­nal pic­ture book mar­ket has also flour­ished. Although pic­ture books are cur­rent­ly pri­mar­i­ly intend­ed for infants and young chil­dren, read to them by adults, this does not mean that these works are child­ish or of low val­ue. On the con­trary, a good pic­ture book reflects the cre­ator’s accu­mu­lat­ed life expe­ri­ence and cul­tur­al cul­ti­va­tion. It will accom­pa­ny chil­dren through­out their lives, bring­ing joy and inspir­ing curios­i­ty, touch­ing their hearts and cul­ti­vat­ing a sense of respon­si­bil­i­ty and a love for life and nature. In our neigh­bor­ing coun­try, Japan, many out­stand­ing artists cre­ate pic­ture books for chil­dren, mak­ing pic­ture books col­or­ful and rich in both illus­tra­tions and text. Japan not only has spe­cial­ized pic­ture book stores, but also the world’s first pic­ture book muse­um, the Chi­hi­ro Muse­um, which was estab­lished there.

   This pic­ture book muse­um is named after Iwasa­ki Chi­hi­ro. Iwasa­ki Chi­hi­ro is a Japan­ese pic­ture book writer known both at home and abroad for her abil­i­ty to “gaze into the hearts of chil­dren.” She hopes that chil­dren around the world can live hap­py lives. Through­out her life, she used chil­dren, ani­mals, and flow­ers as themes to advo­cate for peace. She cre­at­ed a large num­ber of excel­lent pic­ture books that are deeply loved by chil­dren and have won many inter­na­tion­al awards. (Note: Chi­nese read­ers haveThis artist is actu­al­ly not unfa­mil­iar to me at all. The beau­ti­ful illus­tra­tions in “Lit­tle Girl at the Win­dow” are her mas­ter­pieces!

   The “Japan­ese Pic­ture Book Cen­tu­ry Exhi­bi­tion” is spon­sored by the Cen­tral Acad­e­my of Fine Arts and the Iwasa­ki Chi­hi­ro Memo­r­i­al Foun­da­tion of Japan, co-orga­nized by the Bei­jing Japan Cul­tur­al Exchange Cen­ter of the Japan Foun­da­tion and the Bei­jing Poplar Pic­ture Book Muse­um, and host­ed by the School of Urban Design of the Cen­tral Acad­e­my of Fine Arts. They spe­cial­ly invit­ed the rep­re­sen­ta­tive works of mod­ern and con­tem­po­rary Japan­ese pic­ture books, rep­re­sent­ed by the works of Chi­hi­ro Iwasa­ki, from the col­lec­tion of the Chi­hi­ro Art Muse­um in Japan to be exhib­it­ed in the under­ground exhi­bi­tion hall of the Cen­tral Acad­e­my of Fine Arts.The exhi­bi­tion will be held
The exhi­bi­tion will open at 2:00 PM on Sep­tem­ber 24, 2010, and will run at the Cen­tral Acad­e­my of Fine Arts until Sep­tem­ber 30. It will then be tem­porar­i­ly closed for a month before mov­ing to the Japan Cul­tur­al Exchange Cen­ter, where it will open for about a month start­ing on Octo­ber 30.Anoth­er impor­tant point that makes this exhi­bi­tion dif­fer­ent from ordi­nary exhi­bi­tions is that it is aimed at chil­dren. All the works are based on chil­dren’s per­spec­tives. We hope that more chil­dren can be influ­enced by art from an ear­ly age, tru­ly get close to pic­ture books, and tru­ly give chil­dren the oppor­tu­ni­ty to get close to works of art.

   This exhi­bi­tion not only includes most of the rep­re­sen­ta­tive works of mod­ern Japan­ese pic­ture books, but also sorts out the his­to­ry of Japan­ese pic­ture books. Whether it is ordi­nary audi­ences and chil­dren, or artists from var­i­ous fields, they can use this to under­stand the his­to­ry and cur­rent sit­u­a­tion of Japan­ese pic­ture books, learn from and reflect on the devel­op­ment sta­tus and prob­lems of orig­i­nal Chi­nese pic­ture books, and look for­ward to our future.