‘Not human. Not animal
Living things that can only be said to belong to a wonderworld.
This strange ‘life’ draws close to us in a vivid manner.
Is this Taro Okamoto? Or is it something from another world that he is observing?
―Whichever it may be, it is alive!’

This is something that Toshiko Okamoto once said.
All the various ‘living things’ that appear in Taro’s work.
These may well be Taro Okamoto’s self-portraits.

This exhibition gathers together all these ‘living things’ in one place. It becomes a space in which goggling eyes appear to float, allowing you to experience the dynamism of the ‘life’ that Taro creates.

Simultaneously, we will present, for the first time, a ‘rare’ symbol mark that Taro designed for the Kintetsu Buffalos baseball team but which was lost for a long time. With its humorous expression, it is a quite different design to the well-known version that was ultimately adopted. It has been locked away for fifty years, but is now finally making its debut.

During this exhibition, works by Kurumi Wakaki, who won the ‘Taro Okamoto Prize’, and Yukie Osa, who won the ‘Toshiko Okamoto Prize’, in the 12th Okamoto Taro Memorial Award for Contemporary Art will also be shown. We hope that you will look forward to seeing these too.