40 works of art, focusing on the theme of "Living with Nature," were displayed on the 4th floor of the Marunouchi Office.
As one of its new social contribution activities beginning in fiscal 2008, MC launched, in June 2008, the Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program ("MCAGP") to foster the development, and help the careers of talented young artists.
The MCAGP will purchase, by public invitation, as many as 200 works of contemporary art each year by artists with a promising future. MC will sell the works it purchases through auctions and the proceeds will be a scholarship for the artists.
MC launched this program because of the general lack of opportunities for students and recent graduates of art schools in Japan to display their works. The first public invitation (there are four invitation rounds each year), which was for works focusing on the theme of "Living with Nature," attracted 180 works. From these, MC ultimately purchased 40 works and displayed them at MC's Head Office. The new program is being joyfully commended by the young artists who are grateful to have received wider recognition of their works.
For the MCAGP's second and subsequent rounds of public invitations, MC aims to maintain a policy of purchasing about 50 works on each occasion so that this program can foster budding, talented artists and make a social contribution to the field of culture and art.
Examples of artists' works
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Crown starling from tropical islands has white wings and blue skins around eyes, contrast of which is quite beautiful.
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I painted this work with the image of flowers commonly seen in our daily lives.
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Depicted in this work is a quintessentially Japanese scene of people going to work, trying to avoid windy rain with an umbrella.
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Japanese salarymen are busy and never have holidays to spend with families.
