Toyama Glass Art Museum Collection Exhibition Collection Exhibition: Glass × Egaku

Toyama Glass Art Museum Collection Exhibition
Collection Exhibition: Glass × Egaku

The Japanese verb "egaku" encompasses a wide range of meanings. In addition to drawing pictures or diagrams, it refers to depicting or describing scenes, envisioning images, and conveying emotions. What kinds of expression emerge when an artist’s wish to capture an irreplaceable moment – an imagined world, a remembered landscape, or an unseen emotion – meets the medium of glass? This exhibition focuses on the intersection of "glass" and "egaku", presenting works in three distinct sections.

The first section presents works made by directly drawing or painting onto glass surfaces. The second features works that explore the expressive potential of glass itself, making use of its inherent material qualities. The third showcases works in which glass is physically manipulated and transformed through techniques such as carving and grinding.

We hope you enjoy this world of egaku made possible through the medium of glass.

Venue:

Exhibition Room 4 & Transparent Storage, Floor 4 Toyama Glass Art Museum

Dates:

2025.6.7. Sat. - 2025.11.30 Sun.

Hours:

9:30 - 18:00, [Fri. - Sat.] 9:30 - 20:00

(Admission ends 30 mins. before closing time)

Closed:

First and Third Wednesdays, September 10 (Except September 3rd)

Organizer:

Toyama Glass Art Museum

Artists

Václav MACHAČ, Ginny RUFFNER, Vladimír KOPECKÝ, Bohumil ELIÁŠ, Erwin EISCH, OHIRA Yoichi, Toots ZYNSKY, FUJITA Jun, ISHII Koji, WATANABE Chiemi, KOSHIBA Sotoichi, SAKUTA Michiko, Colin REID, GOTO Yohei, KAGAMI Kozo, Jaroslav ŠÁRA, Jiří HARCUBA, NAKAMURA Toshiyasu

Admission

General Public & College Student 200 yen (170 yen)

*Price in brackets for groups of 20 or more.

*Admission fee is free for high school students and younger.

*Tickets also allow admission to the Glass Art Garden at the 6 floor.

Vladimír KOPECKÝ , *Strange Table*, 1985-1988, Photo: SUEMASA Mareo

Erwin EISCH, *Meanwhile My Mask Has Dropped, from the portrait head series “Picasso”*, 1997, Photo: SUEMASA Mareo

ISHII Koji, *Wind*, 1988, Photo: SUEMASA Mareo

OHIRA Yoichi, *Laguna*, 1999, Photo: SUEMASA Mareo

KAGAMI Kozo, *Vase with Figure Design* , (unknown), Photo:TANAKA Yuki

*Reproduction of photos are prohibited.

All works in this exhibition are the collection of the Toyama Glass Art Museum

Access

[From Toyama Station]

○20-minute walk.

○Take the tram (Shinaidensha) for Minamitoyamaeki-mae. Get off at Nishicho. 1-minute walk.

○Take the Loop Line tram (Shinaidensha Kanjō-sen). Get off at Grand Plaza-mae. 2-minute walk. (Tram takes approx. 10 minutes from Toyama Sta. to Nishicho/Grand Plaza-mae.)

[From Toyama Airport]

○Take the Airport Bus to Toyama Station (Airport Express Bus/Local Bus (Route no.36)) and get off at Sogawa. 4-minute walk.

5-1 Nishicho, Toyama City, Toyama 930-0062, Japan

TEL 076-461-3100

FAX 076-461-3310

https://www.toyama-glass-art-museum.jp/en/