Parco Museum WEB limited! A special campaign is underway! Talk event decision! Click here for more information Venue PARCO MUSEUM Parco Museum Shibuya Parco Part 3/7F Period 2003.08.23 (sat) - 09.15 (mon) 10:00am - 8:30pm (Entry until 8:00pm) Prices General 700 yen / Student 500 yen Free for elementary school students and younger Special rates During the exhibition period, if you tell us that you have seen this website at the time of admission, the following special discount fee will be applied. ● 200 yen discount for both general and students ● Half the entrance fee on Wednesday ● Museum Membership Annual Membership Discount Free Pass Member: Half the annual membership fee of 3,000 yen ※ Please note that discount campaigns cannot be used together. Contact 03-3477-5873 (Parko Museum) Organizer PARCO Special cooperation Taro Okamoto Memorial Hall / Okinawa Prefectural Education Bureau Cultural Facility Construction Office / Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki / Sendai mediatake Supervision Kotaro Iizawa Coordination Asami Hirose (Asano Research Institute) Technical cooperation Canon / Nihon Hasshoku Talk event TALK EVENT 01 2003.09.06 (sat) 3:00am - 4:30pm "Talking about Taro Okamoto, a Japanese art cheering party! Mr. Harahei Akasegawa × Mr. Yuji Yamashita TALK EVENT 02 2003.09.14 (sun) 3:00am - 4:30pm "Taro Okamoto in 'Toshiko's Eyes'" Toshiko Okamoto x Kotaro Iizawa Venue Parco Museum Prices 700 yen Capacity 150 people each Contact 03-3477-5873 Currently, numbered tickets are being distributed at the reception. Contents of the exhibition Before and after the opening of the Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki in 1999, there is a situation that can be said to be the "Taro Okamoto boom" for the past five or six years. Not only the generations who actually went to the Expo 2070, but also young people who were not born at that time met a huge artist called Taro Okamoto, and received a hot response. It is surprisingly only recently that the photos taken by Taro Okamoto from the 1950s to the 1960s have attracted attention. It is said that my encounter with photography was in the 1930s when I was studying abroad in Paris. Influenced by exchanges with famous photographers such as Man Ray and Brassai, as well as lectures on anthropology, will lead to later photographic expressions. After the war, Taro Okamoto, who began to re-start as an artist, made a huge amount of work through the practice of "the discovery of Jomon" and "antagonism", and on a journey to look at the innocence of human beings who are not convinced of modern Japanese rationalism. I will go. Eventually, the memories of the trip came to fruition as "Japan Rediscovery-Art Fudoki" and "Mystery Japan". In the meantime, the trip to Okinawa before returning to Japan was compiled into "Okinawa Culture Theory = Forgotten Japan", which led to a high evaluation of receiving the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award. This exhibition is composed of the concept of "opposalism" as a keyword. "antagonism" was first proposed by Taro Okamoto around 1947, and it is a claim that the basic attitude of an artist is to coexist the two opposite elements as it is. The exhibition of works from two regions of Tohoku and Okinawa, which are completely different in terms of climate, history and culture, will provide an opportunity to reaffirm his "antagonism" eye. Approximately 170 photos carefully selected by photo critic Kotaro Iizawa will be exhibited from more than 20,000 photos taken from Okinawa and Tohoku, all over Japan, as well as from Korea, India, Mexico, etc. From the Parco Museum in Shibuya, the center of youth culture, this exhibition will provide many people with the opportunity to learn more about Taro Okamoto, not just this boom. It was like a love for me. To the ripe yet crude, delicate and intense soul of this nation. I am uttered infinitely.