Upcomming / Current Exhibition
Upcomming / Current Exhibition
TARO’s Space
Taro Okamoto considered the overall space to be his canvas. To put it another way, he was an artist who sought to create space through his work.
Past Exhibition
‘The Wellspring of Images’
First comes the impulse to express ‘something like this’. Next is the enthusiasm to put it into concrete form. It starts with a quick sketch, created to drag it out of the imagination and into the real world as quickly as possible.
This was the process employed by Taro Okamoto in his work.
‘Tracing 40 Years of “Myth of Tomorrow”’
In November, 2008, the Myth of Tomorrow was unveiled at its final resting place in Shibuya, forty years after it was first completed in Mexico.
It has been five years since the miraculous reunion of Toshiko Okamoto with this work, that had been abandoned in a pitiful state.
Long having been tossed by the vicissitudes of fortune, the Myth of Tomorrow has now finally been reborn through the combined efforts of numerous people and returned to its original colors.
‘Taro Okamoto’s “Characters at Play”’
‘Basically, writing and painting are the same thing. Even without tracing the origins and transformations of pictographs, unconscious play with writing will naturally result in the creation of a painting. The result is ‘characters at play’. The joy of life springs up within it. It is truly art.’ Taro Okamoto
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‘The Hands of Taro Okamoto’
‘I want to be able to comprehend the world through these eyes. To look with my eyes and touch with my hands.
I will penetrate everything violently and hurl myself into it.
I want to grasp a broad and positive image of humanity with my whole body.’
10th Anniversary of the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum ‘“Tower of the Sun” ― Gambling on the World Expo’
In order to celebrate its 10th Anniversary, the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum will present the Tower of the Sun ― Gambling on the World Expo’ exhibition. The Tower of the Sun, the monument which symbolized Japan’s 1970 World Expo, housed an exhibition on the theme of ‘Progress and Harmony for Mankind’ that was Taro Okamoto’s greatest sculpture.
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‘MAYA MAXX’s Sayonara’
At long last, MAYA MAXX has finally set out on an endless journey. She has discarded everything she achieved up until now and set out afresh on a world trip, taking with her only a single cardboard box.
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‘Transparent Anger’
Taro Okamoto was generally cheerful and humorous, but the moment he discovered some essential distortion in an object or the ugliness of the people who produce this, he lost his temper and expressing his anger in various ways, turned it on society.
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‘Katsuki Tanaka’s Taro Beam!’
As the final guest curator in this series, we have chosen the man who knows Taro and Toshiko the best, Yuji Yamashita. The leading art historian in Japan today and the author of Okamoto Taro sengen (Declaration of Becoming Taro Okamoto), which caused a sensation when it was first published; he presents a collaboration between, Katsuki Tanaka, an aloof artist and possessor of unique aesthetics that he utilizes to pioneer a new world of expression, and Taro. The result can truly be described as being a collaborative work between Taro and Katsuki.
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‘Searching for an Invisible Horizon’
For the second in our guest curator series, we have invited Koichi Watari, curator of the Watari-Um Museum, an institution that continuously introduces new trends in the contemporary art world. For this exhibition, he has selected a young artist named Zon Ito to challenge Taro.
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