Gallery SIACCA Ginza 2-9-16-BF, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061 Hours: Mon–Fri 12–7pm • Sat 12–5pm
December 22, 2024
KUNIO IZUKA SERIES OF LINOCUTS quoted from fairy tales by Kenji Miyazawa
January 2 – 26, 2025
After searching the most effective way to appeal for peace to the world, Kunio Izuka (1939-2020) finally achieved his solo exhibition WHERE ARE WE GOING? (1995) at the United Nations on the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombings. But holding the exhibition at United Nations was indeed a difficult journey. While fretting about his ambitious plan and wondering how human beings can get along and maintain peace, the poem Izuka had learned in elementary school and the name of poet Kenji Miyazawa suddenly came to mind. He read Miyazawa’s books again with fascination, selected 10 of his wonderful fairy tales, and made them into prints, which saved him from setbacks and confusion, and impelled him to continue to appeal for peace to people on the planet.
Akiko SIACCA focuses on the various natural phenomena that occur on the beautiful Earth, and depicts the infinite time and space spreading out in the sky from one of the small planets in the universe.
TOKYO GADAN was formed in 2020 by painters who “dedicate themselves to painting in pursuit of pure painterly expression” (Representative: Sonosuke Yukichika). Since then, as the leading figures in the Japanese and Western painting worlds, they have held such as two large-scale exhibitions at the Maruzen Marunouchi gallery, pursuing the creation of beauty. At this New York exhibition, six artists at the helm of the times exhibit approximately 35 works in an effort to spread this momentum even further around the world.
JAA Hall, Japanese American Association of New York 49 W 45th St, 5th Fl, New York, NY 10036 Hours: Mon–Fri 9am to 5pm • 212-840-6942 / info@jaany.org
Orchard Street, in the modern era, was a shopping district full of enthusiasm, being supported by the specialty stores selling clothing, fabrics, hats, bags, toys, etc. competed for low prices and product selection. This series of black-and-white photographs taken in 2003 is the situation in an attempt to capture the changing times when the vibrant 20th century prosperity turned into decline, representing the original scenery of a downtown shopping district.
Ayako Bando • Vassilina Dikidjieva • Ayakoh Furukawa-Leonart • Kana Handel • Miho Hiranouchi • Kumi Hirose • Kazuko Hyakuda • Kunio Izuka • Heena Kim • Chris Kozel • Tokoha Matsuda • Mieko Mitachi • Elisabeth Page Purcell • Nobuko Saji • Akiko SIACCA • Akemi Takeda • Izu Watanabe • Yayoi Yokoyama
Anti-war Anti-nuke Art: PEACE Project is an August exhibition to remember the 1945 two atomic bombings on Hiroshima, August 6, and on Nagasaki, August 9, so that people may think about peace and hand this beautiful planet over to next generations.
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