Adam & Eve was the name of a major international exhibition of contemporary art held at the Saitama Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan (Museum of Modern Art), Saitama, Japan
October 10 1992 - December 6 1992

This exhibition consists of four parts: MYTH, LOVE, DESIRE and DISTANCE; which show the process of expressions of "Adam and Eve" in Western Culture and Japan about one hundred years from the latter half of nineteenth century to the present. And it tries to search for live and love or being and relation of men and women through various formative works.

It included works by:

Nobuya Abe Nobuyoshi Araki Nobuyoshi Araki is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. He is also known by the nickname .-Life and career:Araki was born in Tokyo, studied photography during his college years and then went to work at the advertising agency Dentsu, where he met his future wife, the essayist Yōko Araki... AY-O Ay-O is a Japanese artist, who has been associated with Fluxus since its international beginnings in the 1960s.-From Democrato to Fluxus:Probably, the best reference to understand the early years of Ay-O is the autobiographical retrospective book in the references "Ay-O, Over the Rainbow, Ay-O... Mercedes Barros Thomas Hart Benton Thomas Hart Benton (painter) Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. His fluid, almost sculpted paintings showed everyday scenes of life in the United States... Anna and Bernhard Blume Anna and Bernhard Blume Anna and Bernhard Blume refers to the German art photographers Anna Blume and Bernhard Johannes Blume . They created sequences of large black-and-white photos of staged scenes in which they appeared themselves, with objects taking on a "life" of their own... Fernando Botero Fernando Botero Fernando Botero Angulo is a Colombian figurative artist. His works feature a figurative style, called by some "Boterismo", which gives them an unmistakable identity... Geneviève Cadieux Geneviève Cadieux -Teaching:* Concordia University, 1991 – present;* Guest professor, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, 1994;* École nationale des beaux-arts in Grenoble, 1996;... Marc Chagall Marc Chagall Marc Chagall Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."According to art historian Michael J... Giorgio de Chirico Giorgio de Chirico Giorgio de Chirico was a pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father. He founded the scuola metafisica art movement... Franceso Clemente Raphaël Collin Raphaël Collin Raphaël Collin was born and raised in Paris, where he became a prominent academic painter and in later life a professor at the Académie des Beaux-Arts... Salvador Dali Salvador Dalí Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain.... Edgar Degas Edgar Degas Edgar Degas[p] , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist... Paul Delvaux Paul Delvaux Paul Delvaux was a Belgian painter, associated with Surrealism, famous for his paintings of female nudes.-Biography:... Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duchamp Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art... Ei-Kyu M. C. Escher M. C. Escher Maurits Cornelis Escher , usually referred to as M. C. Escher , was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints...  (Maurice Cornelis) Ichiro Fukuzawa Jårg Geismar Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax.-Life:Jean-Léon Gérôme was born... Sawako Goda Anthony Green Anthony Green Anthony Green may refer to:*Anthony Green , current lead vocalist of Circa Survive and ex-vocalist for Saosin*Anthony Green *Anthony Green *Anthony Green *Antony Green, election commentator... George Grosz George Grosz Georg Ehrenfried Groß was a German artist known especially for his savagely caricatural drawings of Berlin life in the 1920s...  (Georg Ehrenfried) Kei Hiraga Eiko Hosoe Masuo Ikeda Masuo Ikeda was a Japanese painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, ceramist, novelist, and film director from Nagano Prefecture.-Awards:*Ikeda won the Akutagawa Prize for Offering In The Aegean .-External links:*...

Leiko Ikemura Leiko Ikemura is a Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor.-Biography:Leiko Ikemura left her country to study in Spain from 1973 to 1978 at the Academia de Bellas Artes in Granada and Seville. In 1979, Ikemura moved to Zurich to live and worked there for 4 years. The first of her mature paintings developed around 1980... Kuniyoshi Kaneko Alex Katz Alex Katz Alex Katz is an American figurative artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.-Life and work:... Koji Kinutani Jürgen Klauke Max Klinger Max Klinger Max Klinger was a German Symbolist painter, sculptor, printmaker, and writer.Klinger was born in Leipzig and studied in Karlsruhe. An admirer of the etchings of Menzel and Goya, he shortly became a skilled and imaginative engraver in his own right. He began creating sculptures in the early 1880s... Oskar Kokoschka Oskar Kokoschka Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.-Biography:... Jeff Koons Jeff Koons Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces.... Yasuo Kuniyoshi Yasuo Kuniyoshi was an American painter, photographer and printmaker born in Okayama, Japan.He migrated to America in 1906, a year later began studying at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. In 1935 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship. He taught at the Art Students League of New York in New York City... Yayoi Kusama Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist whose paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation... Tamara de Lempicka Tamara de Lempicka Tamara de Lempicka , born Maria Górska in Moscow, in the Russian Empire, was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star."- Early life :... Robert Longo Robert Longo Robert Longo is an American painter and sculptor. Longo became famous in the 1980s for his "Men in the Cities" series, which depicted sharply dressed businessmen writhing in contorted emotion.-Early life and education:... Shoko Meamoto Ryoichi Majima André Masson André Masson André-Aimé-René Masson was a French artist.-Biography:Masson was born in Balagny-sur-Thérain, Oise, but was brought up in Belgium. He began his study of art at the age of eleven in Brussels, at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts under the guidance of Constant Montald, and later he studied in Paris... Roberto Matta Roberto Matta Roberto Sebastián Antonio Matta Echaurren , better known as Roberto Matta, was one of Chile's best-known painters and a seminal figure in 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist art.... Jean Francois Millet Kozo Mio Joan Miró Joan Miró Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride... Saburo Miyamoto László Moholy-Nagy László Moholy-Nagy László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.-Early life:... Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau was a French Symbolist painter whose main emphasis was the illustration of biblical and mythological figures. As a painter of literary ideas, Moreau appealed to the imaginations of some Symbolist writers and artists.- Biography :Moreau was born in Paris. His father, Louis Jean Marie... Yasumasa Morimura Yasumasa Morimura Yasumasa Morimura is a Japanese appropriation artist. He was born in Osaka and graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1978... Edvard Munch Edvard Munch Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.- Childhood :Edvard Munch... Kodai Nakahara Minoru Nakahara Kotaro Nakamura

Alice Neel Alice Neel Alice Neel was an American artist known for her oil on canvas portraits of friends, family, lovers, poets, artists and strangers... Shigeru Nishina Tamie Okuyama Hiroyuki Omori Philip Pearlstein Philip Pearlstein Philip Pearlstein is an American painter, and part of the contemporary Realist school.-Biography:Pearlstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and received his Masters in art history at New York University. He was a friend of Andy Warhol from... Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the... Sigmar Polke Sigmar Polke Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer.Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matter and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint... Franz Radziwill Man Ray Man Ray Man Ray , born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal... Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to... Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has simultaneously produced abstract and photorealistic painted works, as well as photographs and glass pieces, thus undermining the concept of the artist’s obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.- Biography :Gerhard Richter was born in... Francois Auguste René Rodin Niki de Saint-Phalle Shinichi Saito Cindy Sherman Cindy Sherman Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman currently lives and works in New York City. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by Sprüth Magers Berlin London in and Metro Pictures gallery in... Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern Kumi Sugai Maro Sumi Jiro Takamatsu Kunitaro Teramatsu Ulay / Marina Abramovic Moto-o-Uota Junzo Watanabe Yoko Yamamoto Haruo Yamanaka Tadanori Yokoo Tadanori Yokoo is a Japanese graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker and painter.Tadanori Yokoo, born in Nishiwaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, in 1936, is one of Japan's most successful and internationally recognized graphic designers and artists. He began his career as a stage designer for avant garde theatre in... Shimon Yotsuya

Subjects

This exhibition presented works by 83 artists from the dawn of the "ottocento" (eigthteenth century in art history) to the present.