Upcomming / Current Exhibition
Upcomming / Current Exhibition
Seventy Years in Aoyama
It was seventy years ago, in May 1954, that Taro Okamoto established his studio at this location.
It was an important place to him, the site of his parents’ home where he had lived from birth until he moved to Paris. However, when he returned after the war, he found the place covered in wheat fields—his house, his artwork, everything had been lost in the air raids. Taro had no choice but to make a fresh start from literally nothing, but he never lost heart and soon began to make inroads into the postwar Japanese art scene.
Past Exhibition
‘Taro’s Eroticism’
Taro’s eroticism is not a form of sweet, moody love. A woman bending backwards, a man approaching without restraint. The man himself is being ripped apart. There can be no joy without tension and pain. That is what it seems to say.
explore‘TARO’s Mother and Child’
Taro Okamoto―Mother, people immediately think of Kanoko Okamoto and it is a fact that his mother, Kanoko, was a big influence in the making of Taro Okamoto, the artist. Intense, pure, devoted. Mother and child resembled each other closely.
explore‘TARO’s Festival’
The original paintings of playing cards shown in this exhibition will probably come as a surprise to those of you for whom the name Taro Okamoto conjures up an image of large-scale, intense, dynamic works. In 1977 a specialist Belgian playing card company wanted to produce some original, artistic cards and Taro was commissioned to create hand-drawn designs for the kings, queens, jacks and aces for the four suites as well as two jokers, a total of eighteen cards in all.
explore‘Taro’s Sun 2’
The eleven ceramic wall designs that were produced to decorate the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in 1956 disappeared when the building was demolished.
In this exhibition we will present the original large-scale sketches for this work as well as the actual-size plaster molds.
‘Taro’s Sun’
The studio, guest room and garden all remain exactly as they were in Taro’s day, retaining so much of Taro Okamoto’s power that you almost expect him to appear at any moment.
explore‘Meeting Taro’
Care has been taken to preserve the studio, guest room and garden just as they were when Taro Okamoto was still alive. We hope that you will be able to meet Taro in this explosive space, filled with his energy, together with artistic furniture and a forest of molds for his sculptures and monuments.
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