Move One Fine Art Shipping was recently chosen by the Japanese Embassy in Croatia to assist the Japan Foundation with the presentation of their traveling exhibition Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in the 1990s in Croatia.

After receiving the art works from the Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum in Tehran, where they had previously been exhibited, Move One transported and installed the 30 Japanese art pieces for the 10 day long exhibition at the Vjekoslav Karas Gallery in Karlovac, around 50 Kilometers from Zagreb.

The exhibition has now returned to Zagreb and is visible at the Croatian Association of Artists (HDLU) until 11 February, before departing for Luxembourg.

Painting for Joy: New Japanese Painting in the 1990s features nine Japanese artists born in or around the 1960s, including internationally acclaimed artists Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara.

The exhibition shows how young Japanese artists used the medium of painting, one of the oldest and most highly refined art form in the Japanese tradition, to further develop artistic expression in a decade when information networks and communications technology were developing rapidly.

By portraying the realities around them, the artists tried to establish a communication between the audience, their works and themselves.

Works of the following artists are presented in this worldwide touring exhibition: Makoto Aida, Yoshitaka Echizenya, Miran Fukuda, Takanobu Kobayashi, Naofumi Maruyama, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Nobuhiko Nukata, Taro Chiezo.

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