Happy New Year

 Dear Readers,

Season's Greetings and
Best Wishes for
The New Year!

The statue is poet Attila József

(photo: Inui Tsuyoshi)

Spring Exhibition in Mashiko

 Despite of pandemic Mashiko has remained relatively safe place. It made possible to organize the spring exhibition at Wagner Nándor Art Gallery this season as well. The main topic is the statue of Moses created by Nándor Wagner in 1993. His statue placed on the side of the road of his studio frequently grabs the eye of the visitors. 

The poster of the Spring Exhibition

The exhibition space in Pentagon Gallery was given to the works of Wakabayashi Takae tapestry artist. A few samples of the collection can be seen here (auto play).

The Spring Exhibition is open from 15th of April to 15th of May, 2021.

Visitors are welcomed from 10:00 to 15:00. Closed on all Mondays.

Spring Exhibition in Mashiko

This spring brings an exhibition of Nándor Wagner's stainless steel statues, remarkable Eternity which was created in Sweden. The Wagner Nándor Art Gallery will show his creative pieces, some of them for the first time.

Poster of Spring Exhibition

The exhibition space in Pentagon Gallery will be given to the statues of SHIMA Tsuyoshi (島剛) sculptor, professor at Ibaraki University's Faculty of Education and Art Major. His collection is titled Dunamis.

The Spring Exhibition is open from 15th of April to 15th of May, 2020. Closed on all Mondays.

Atumn Exhibition In Mashiko

The autumn exhibition will focus on the statues of Wagner Nandor. The accompanying exhibition in the Pentagon Gallery will show tapestry by Emiko WATANABE textile artist.

It will open on 16th of October and last day of the exhibition is 15th of November. Exhibition is closed for visitors on all Mondays.

The poster of the exhibition

Location: Mashiko, Mashiko, Haga District, Tochigi Prefecture 321-4217, Japán

Spring Exhibition in Mashiko

This year is the 20th anniversary of passing away of sculptor Nándor Wagner. All programs in 2017 will be devoted to his life and art. The Wagner Nándor Art Gallery will show his creating activity with quite a few items which were not on display so far.

 Poster of Spring Exhibition

The exhibition space in Pentagon Gallery will be given to Inui Tsuyoshi (乾 剛) photo artist`s new collection titled "Four seasons in the garden of Wagner Nándor". Here you can see some of his photos.

The Spring Exhibition is open from 15th of April to 15th of May, 2017 except all Mondays.

Atumn Exhibition In Mashiko

The autumn exhibition will focus on the statues of Wagner Nandor. The accompanying exhibition in the Pentagon Gallery will show the art pieces of Mr. Takehiko Kikuchi painter. He was born in Ashikaga, Tochigi-Prefecture and at present he is professor at Tama University of Arts. It will open on 15th of October and last day of the exhibition is 15th of November. On all Mondays are closed for visitors.

The poster of the exhibition

Location: Mashiko, Mashiko, Haga District, Tochigi Prefecture 321-4217, Japán

Spring Exhibition in Mashiko with Lotus Lectures

2016 spring exhibition combines Wagner Nandor's art pieces showing dancers and lotus the praised plant of East. It is a new initiative that art and history, taking care of lotus will be combined. The lotus expert of Utsunomiya Mr. Yōzō Innami will give a series of lectures. The exhibition will open from 15th of April and visitors can enjoy it until 15th of May.

Poster of the Exhibition with terracotta figurine of famous dancer Han Takehara 

The lotus which woke up after 460 years later.
A group of enthusiastic lotus lovers headed by Mr. Innami unearthed 80 seeds by research excavation from the old Lotus pond (hasuike) of Utsunomiya castle which was filled in centuries ago. Utsunomiya Castle Old Hasuike Revival Exploratory Committee made a fruitful harvest by picking the seeds from the enormous volume of old clay. It was possible to make bloom first flower by Mr. Innami who is passionate collector of lotus. He succeeded to germinate some seeds and brought them up to flowering plant after 3 years. It's revealed that the lotus which bloomed is 1550-1850 time actually by dating by radiation. The lotus was named after him as Inami lotus.

Mr. Innami posing with flowering lotus named after him.

The flower

The front page of Newsletter of Utsunomiya Lotus Club showing the genetic heritage of Innami lotus and poster of Mashiko spring exhibition

Mr. Innami presented a white lotus to Mr. Nandor Wagner many years ago. 
It brings flowers since then.

Happy New Year!

Dear Readers with
 Season's Best Greetings 

we wish you

good health, happiness and success 

for the New Year!

Autumn in Mashiko.

Entrance of Wagner Nandor Foundation.

Atumn Exhibition In Mashiko

The coming exhibition will focus on the storage of Wagner Nandor's models on display in the basement of his Art Gallery. The accompanying exhibition in the Pentagon Gallery will show the art pieces of Ms. Yoko Ugachi, who is a wooden sculptor. Her favorite theme is the motherhood.

Poster of the Atumn Exhibition  

Sculptor Ugachi in action

more about her in Japanese:

http://www16.plala.or.jp/ugati/

http://homepage2.nifty.com/welcome~/youko/

Tochigi Musicians played at Wagner Nandor Art Gallery

At the oepning concert more than 60 guests enjoyed the piano and cello concert.

Pianist Akuzawa Masayuki and Shirasa Takefumi cellist

Here are the photos of all musicians who showed their talent in Mashiko:

All photos by the courtesy of wagnernandor.jp

Spring Exhibition in Mashiko with Concerts

This spring exhibition combines Wagner Nandor's art pieces and music. Series of concerts will bring special atmosphere to his atelier and to the small Pentagon exhibition room. Pianist Akuzawa Masayuki who studied at Academy of Music in Budapest and his partner Shirasa Takefumi cellist will give the first concert in the atelier on 18th of April. The Tochigi musician students will play on various instruments at 14 more concerts between 19th of April and 15th of May.

For spring exhibition all statues were cleaned and shined. 

Happy New Year!

With Season's Best Greetings we wish our Readers good health, happiness and success for 2015!

Nandor Wagner: Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵, 1584 –1645) was outstanding Japanese ambidextrous swordsman.  He refined the two-sword technique. As rōnin he excelled in swordsmanship and was winner in numerous duels. He was the founder of the Niten-ryū style of swordsmanship after his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku.  After finishing fights in 1633 he started to paint and to write. Both calligraphies and classic ink paintings created by him are recognized masterpieces. His Book of Five Rings (五輪の書 Go Rin No Sho) on strategy, tactics, and philosophy has been studied even today. Nandor Wagner was found of his individual way and fights and he felt a resemblance with his own life. He studied Miyamoto Musashi's philosophy.

Spring Exhibition in Mashiko

The Spring Exhibition will focus on two main topics remembering a soldier and Nandor's horse works respectively. First topic: Hiroo Onoda died aged 91 this January. He was the wartime Japanese officer who surrendered only in 1974, having hunkered down in the jungles of Guam island. His faithfulness, loyalty and steadfastness was recognized by our foundation and he was presented the "Freeing the Crane" sculpted by Nandor Wagner.

  The poster of  Spring Exhibition showing the statue Freeing the Crane

Second topic: the art pieces which will be exhibited are selected from Nandor Wagner's horse related works. This year is the Year of the Horse - Uma Toshi - in Japan following the Asian Zodiac. The garden of the Wagner Nandor Art Gallery has been refurbished last autumn.

  Horses in the renewed garden

Pentagon Exhibition room will show the illustrations made by Ikuyo Nakada for the book of Yukio Narushima titled Konohana Sakuyamhime, which has been published in Hungary by Phyteas Book Manufactory last November.

 

Ikuyo Nakada the illustrator at the book presentation in Hungary.

Autumn Exhibition in Mashiko

This autumn the Mashiko Wagner Nandor Exhibition will be held from 15th of October to 15th of November. The topic is to show the Hungarian period of the sculptor. More or less parallel the Szekesfehervar Exhibition is going on and photos from that exhibition will be displayed as well. 

Autumn Exhibition in Mashiko 16th of October - 15th of November

This time the small statues of Nándor Wagner will be on display. Pieta is shown on the poster which was created in Sweden. In order to help visitors the homepage for mobile equipment was launched.

 Wagner Nándor Foundation's homepage for mobile gadgets (in Japanese)

Corpus Hungaricum Unveiling in Mashiko

The outstanding event of the Spring Exhibition was the unveiling ceremony of the Corpus Hungaricum in the studio of sculptor Nándor Wagner. The statue was unveiled by László Tőkés the member of the European Parliament who was the Bishop of Nagyvárad (Oradea, Romania), the hometown of Nándor Wagner.

Spring Exhibition in Mashiko, Japan - 15th April - 15th May

The theme in focus of the Spring Exhibition at Wagner Nándor Foundation was Corpus Hungaricum. The fate of this art piece is very special. Nándor Wagner created it during the early 50-ies as a self given task instead of committing suicide. After his emigration to Sweden in 1956, the model was saved by his friends and spent 50 years in the storage of Saint Steven Museum in Székesfehérvár. It was recovered and cast in bronze. Since 1999 the National Mourning Day of Hungary is remembered at Corpus Hungaricum. Now the copy of Corpus will return to his atelier soon.

Snowing in Mashiko

Dear Readers and Supporters we wish you a
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

Autumn Exhibition in Mashiko

The Spring Exhibition was cancelled because of the damages caused by the March 11 earthquake. All damages have been repaired by now. The Autumn Exhibition in Wagner Nándor Art Gallery will show works of the Nándor Wagner sculptor and the works of landscape architect Mr. Kazuno who designed the placement of the Garden of Philosophy in Nakano ku, Tokyo.

15th of October - 15th of November

1st of April - New Nameplate in Mashiko

According to the Japanese law the new economic year starts on 1st of April. The Wagner Nándor Foundation has begun her official operation in Mashiko. In spite of the earthquake damages the life should go on.