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Taro Okamoto Memorial museum - Past Events

Below is a list of all past events for Taro Okamoto Memorial museum. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.

Kenji Yanobe "Sun Child, Child of Taro"
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- Media: Painting - Art Talk
- 2011-10-28 - 2012-02-26
The last in a series of events held to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of Taro Okamoto, this exhibition showcases the work of Kenji Yanobe, who grew up playing on the site of the 1970 Osaka World...More »
"Another Taro" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing - Art Talk
- 2011-06-29 - 2011-10-23
Exhibition of sketches and drawings of the people close to Taro Okamoto. The works are in the realist vein, surprising for Okamoto, revealing a new, up-till-now not known dimension to the artist. [Image:...More »
"Tree of Life" Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture
- 2011-02-23 - 2011-06-26
This exhibition showcases a 1:20 reproduction of a sculpture plastered over with 300 living creatures tracing the process of evolution that was first shown at the Osaka World Expo in 1970.More »
"Garbled Words" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Calligraphy
- 2010-11-03 - 2011-02-20
Works by talented calligrapher that tackle the subject of legendary Japanese artist Taro Okamoto and his noble pursuit of the truth through art, plus paintings by Okamoto himself. [Image: Koji Kakinuma...More »
"Taro in the City" Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Video installation
- 2010-06-30 - 2010-10-31
Showcases murals, videos, original sketches and models for public art monuments scattered all over Japan by artist who believed that art was for the masses. Gallery talk (reservation not required) 14:00-14:20 July...More »
"Taro Okamoto's Eyes" Exhibition
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- Media: Photography - Art Talk
- 2010-03-03 - 2010-06-27
This exhibition showcases a selection of photos taken by Taro Okamoto during his intensely focused travels through Japan in the 1950s and 60s, several cameras hanging from his neck. See website for...More »
Aoyama Gokaicho 2009
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- Media: Painting - Other - Other
- 2009-11-06 - 2009-11-15
Aoyama has been an area where the most progressive creators gathered to create new forms of expression. Even a casual visitor should be able to feel its creative energy. Aoyama Gokaicho 2009 is the final...More »
Taro Okamoto "Living Things"
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- Media: Painting
- 2009-10-28 - 2010-02-28
This exhibition showcases Okamoto's paintings on the theme of living things that exude a dynamic force of life. On view in conjunction with this exhibition are new works by Kurumi Wakaki and Yukie Osa,...More »
"Surging Image" Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing
- 2009-07-01 - 2009-10-25
What comes first is an impulse to express "this". Then comes the passion to materialize the impulse. I hastily start drawing a sketch, driven by an urge to let out whatever is inside me. This is Taro...More »
"Myth of Tomorrow -40 Years Since Its Completion" Exhibition
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- Media: Other
- 2009-02-25 - 2009-06-28
After 40 years since its completion in Mexico, Taro Okamoto's mural work "Myth of Tomorrow" reappeared in Shibuya in November 2008. It was five years ago when Taro's wife, Toshiko Okamoto, re-encountered...More »
"Taro Okamoto's Asobuji" Exhibition
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- Media: Other
- 2008-12-03 - 2009-02-22
Taro Okamoto left behind numerous works of calligraphy that bear imprints of his singular artistry . Categorized as neither calligraphy nor painting, this is one of the representative genres of this versatile...More »
"Hands of Taro Okamoto" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Furniture - Product
- 2008-09-03 - 2008-11-30
Taro Okamoto produced many works with hands as their motif. He repeatedly created images of hands through various media, such as painting, sculpture, furniture and other products. For Okamoto, the hand,...More »
"Tower of the Sun" Exhibition
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- Media: Sculpture - Art Talk
- 2008-04-23 - 2008-08-31
Commemorating the 10th anniversary of the museum, this exhibition sheds light on Taro Okamoto's "Tower of the Sun," a monument created for the Japan World Exposition held in 1970. The work symbolizes "the...More »
"Maya Maxx's Good Bye" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Performance Art
- 2008-01-17 - 2008-04-20
This is the last exhibition for painter Maya Maxx while being based in Japan, since she is soon moving to a foreign country. The first part of this exhibition is her live painting performance, scheduled...More »
"Transparent Anger" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2007-11-07 - 2008-01-14
Artist Taro Okamoto was known for his delightful and humorous character, but he also expressed his "anger" toward greedy human behaviors that cause injustice in society. Many of his paintings, including...More »
"'Electric Shock' and its History" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2007-08-01 - 2007-11-04
In November 2006, as museum staff were sorting out Okamoto's studio, the painting "Electric Shock" was found by chance. The painting was made in 1947, found with an old postcard hinting at the time. 1947...More »
"Katsuki Tanaka's Taro Beam!" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2007-04-26 - 2007-07-29
This memorial museum attempts to create new types of exhibition. The first stage is to have a series of guest curators organize exhibitions. After Noi Sawaragi and Koichi Watari, the 3rd and final exhibition...More »
"In Search of Invisible Horizons" Exhibition
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- Media: Painting
- 2007-01-27 - 2007-04-22
Following Noi Sawaragi's "To the Taro yet unknown", Koichi Watari of Watari Museum of Contemporary Art will try his hand at curating an Okamoto exihibition with artist Zon Ito. It is the first time that...More »
Taro Okamoto "To the Taro yet unknown"
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- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2006-10-18 - 2007-01-21
Toshiko Okamoto was the moving force behind the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum, where her will to tell Taro's story to the next generation has set the mood for everything. However, with Toshiko gone, the...More »
Tomorrow's Myth - The Road to Revival
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- Media: Painting
- 2006-07-06 - 2006-10-15
To complement the public display of 'Tomorrow's Myth' in Shiodome, Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum will give a detailed overview of the process they used to resurrect the painting, a project that his wife...More »
Taro Okamoto's Graphics
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- Media: Graphics
- 2006-04-05 - 2006-07-03
A new look at Taro Okamoto's world, this time through his graphic designs: posters, playing cards, clocks, neckties, tapestries, and much more. More »
Message from Toshiko Okamoto
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- Media: Illustration - Painting - Drawing
- 2005-10-05 - 2006-04-03
In 1998, Toshiko Okamoto opened the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum in memory of their life together. His atelier and salon are left unchanged, and more than thirty exhibitions have been held in the exhibition...More »
Toshiko Okamoto's 60 years Exhibition
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- Media: Other
- 2005-07-09 - 2005-10-03
On April 20, Toshiko Okamoto passed away. Her departure was too sudden. Her great personality will be missed. "My life was like a marathon with Taro Okamoto. There was no time for me to reflect on what...More »
Transparent Reality Exhibition
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- Media: Drawing
- 2005-04-06 - 2005-07-04
It is hardly known that Taro Okamoto could draw in such a realistic manner. During the fierce struggles of post-war avant-garde art, there was no room for exposing such art. However, when drawing people's...More »
Ashita No Shinwa Exhibiton
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- Media: Painting
- 2005-01-05 - 2005-04-04
"Ashita No Shinwa" means "mythology of tomorrow" in Japanese. It is also the title of a Taro Okamoto's painting done in Mexico.More »
Yuushuu - Taro Okamoto
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- Media: Illustration - Painting
- 2004-10-06 - 2004-12-27
It is said that there artists' everything in their first work. Okamoto's art when he was 22 years old - one of his first works "Kuukan" has his lyrical has the feel of "yuushuu", the melancholy.More »