Upcomming / Current Exhibition

Upcomming / Current Exhibition

Taro’s Dance

March 15(Fri.)2024-July 7(Sun.)2024

In 1952 Taro Okamoto created a tile mosaic entitled, ‘Dance.’  Unlike unique works of art, like oil paintings, it is possible to create numerous copies of mosaics and furthermore, these can be displayed outdoors. This allows art to become more accessible to society, that is what he thought. They represent the true the embodiment of Taro Okamoto’s philosophy of art. 

Past Exhibition

‘Toshiko Okamoto’s Sixty Years’

July 9, 2005 - October 3, 2005

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.’

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‘Transparent Reality’

April 6, 2005 - July 4, 2005

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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‘Myth of Tomorrow’

January 5, 2005 - April 4, 2005

‘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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‘Melancholy’

October 6, 2004 - December 27, 2004

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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‘Polar Opposites’

July 7, 2004 - October 4, 2004

There are many people who believe premonitions to be vague, formless emotions. However, Taro Okamoto’s premonitions possessed a clear shape. They were lyrically colored, but the drama they contain is described in a language belonging to a different dimension that has never emerged.

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‘Premonition’

April 7, 2004 - July 5, 2004

There are many people who believe premonitions to be vague, formless emotions. However, Taro Okamoto’s premonitions possessed a clear shape. They were lyrically colored, but the drama they contain is described in a language belonging to a different dimension that has never emerged.

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Photographic Exhibition: ‘Mysterious’

January 5, 2004 - April 5, 2004

Taro Okamoto’s photographs do not merely capture subjects that can be seen with the eye. They penetrate the true essence of phenomena to the deep origins of existence.
He possessed a shamanistic nature.

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‘Sad Animals’

October 1, 2003 - December 27, 2003

Why do the eyes of animals appear so sad? They are strong but innocent, their sharp eyes the same as Taro Okamoto’s. Sorrowful. Lonely.

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‘Couples’

July 2, 2003 - September 29, 2003

Taro Okamoto once said, ‘The world perceived by women differs to that of men’. They both look at the world from completely different viewpoints. It is this difference that attracts them to each other and makes them as one.

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