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The landscape 311
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Miriam Cahn, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Taishi Hirokawa, Mariko Matsushita, Tomoki Imai
Wako Works of Art will once again hold its annual exhibition exploring social issues this spring. Hirokawa Taishi’s 1991 photographic work documents nuclear power plants across Japan, including the Genkai Nuclear Power Plant, one of many destined for decommissioning after forty years. Capturing them along with their date of photography, his work preserves these structures as if they were specimens, highlighting their impermanence.
Meanwhile, Imai Tomoki, in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, walked within a 30km radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Regardless of whether the plant itself was visible, he consistently framed its direction at the center of his compositions, making our gaze and awareness the very subject of his work. Hirakawa Noritoshi, on the other hand, turned his focus away from the plant itself and toward its surroundings, documenting the everyday lives of people in Iwaki City and Hirono Town, as they continued beyond the disaster.Miriam Cahn, through her watercolor paintings of nuclear explosions, challenges our unconscious biases by portraying destruction in an ostensibly “beautiful” form. This disrupts the assumption that beauty is inherently comforting and that horror is necessarily ugly, prompting deeper reflection on the relationship between aesthetics and ethics.Additionally, this exhibition will feature a new oil painting by Matsushita Mariko, who held a solo exhibition titled Human Animal last year at the Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels.
Meanwhile, Imai Tomoki, in the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, walked within a 30km radius of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Regardless of whether the plant itself was visible, he consistently framed its direction at the center of his compositions, making our gaze and awareness the very subject of his work. Hirakawa Noritoshi, on the other hand, turned his focus away from the plant itself and toward its surroundings, documenting the everyday lives of people in Iwaki City and Hirono Town, as they continued beyond the disaster.Miriam Cahn, through her watercolor paintings of nuclear explosions, challenges our unconscious biases by portraying destruction in an ostensibly “beautiful” form. This disrupts the assumption that beauty is inherently comforting and that horror is necessarily ugly, prompting deeper reflection on the relationship between aesthetics and ethics.Additionally, this exhibition will feature a new oil painting by Matsushita Mariko, who held a solo exhibition titled Human Animal last year at the Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels.
Schedule | Feb 15 (Sat) 2025-Mar 29 (Sat) 2025 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.wako-art.jp/en/exhibitions/thelandscape311-2025/ | ||||
| Venue | Wako Works of Art https://www.wako-art.jp/en/ | ||||
| Location | 3F Piramide Bldg., 6-6-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from exit 1a or 1b at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya or Toei Oedo line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6447-1820 | ||||
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