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
‘To the Unknown Taro Within Taro’
For the upcoming guest curator series of exhibitions we have chosen three people most suited to discussing Taro Okamoto to come and curate an exhibition, allowing them to play freely with Taro. The first curator in this series will be Noi Sawaragi, one of the country’s leading art critics.
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‘The Road to the Restoration of “Myth of Tomorrow”’
Through the enthusiastic support of numerous people, the restoration of the Myth of Tomorrow is finally complete. Taro Okamoto’s powerful message has surpassed time and space to come to us today.
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‘The Graphics of Taro Okamoto’
One facet of Taro Okamoto’s world of expression was graphic design. Posters, playing cards, long-sleeved kimono, clocks, neckties, tapestries…Taro gave life to every kind of object, no matter what, his designs ranging from airships to matchboxes.
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‘A Message from Toshiko Okamoto – 2’
In 1998 this place where Taro and Toshiko Okamoto lived and fought together, was opened to the general public by Toshiko Okamoto as the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum. While retaining the studio and salon as they were in Taro’s day, 30 exhibitions have been held in the special exhibition gallery over the last seven years.
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‘A Message from Toshiko Okamoto – 1’
In 1998 this place where Taro and Toshiko Okamoto lived and fought together, was opened to the general public by Toshiko Okamoto as the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum. While retaining the studio and salon as they were in Taro’s day, 30 exhibitions have been held in the special exhibition gallery over the last seven years.
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‘Toshiko Okamoto’s Sixty Years’
The former director of this museum, Toshiko Okamoto died on April 20 this year. It was sudden, but fitting end.
‘I ran with Taro Okamoto for fifty years. I never had time to wonder if I was being myself or question the purpose of my life. I lived fully and to the limit. To the extreme.’
‘Transparent Reality’
Not many people know that Taro Okamoto produced such lifelike work. During the fierce battle to survive as avant-garde artist during the postwar years, he did not have the chance to display this side of his character, and he does not appear to have felt any nostalgia for it.
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‘I name the mural I painted for the Hotel de Mexico “Myth of Tomorrow”. It is a picture with burning skeletons in the center. Everybody is moved by it.
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It is said that you can learn all there is to know about a person from their maiden work. Produced when he was 22 years old, Space can probably be described as being Taro Okamoto’s maiden work and in it we can perceive a condensing of the lyrical melancholy of youth.
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