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

‘Young Life’

January 5, 2002 - April 1, 2002

A baby as it reaches out its plump hand to try and grasp something, balancing its heavy-looking head as it takes dangerously wobbly steps on unbelievably small feet.
Puppies, kittens, lion cubs, baby elephants and chicks…young animals are all amazing.

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‘Face 1’

October 4, 2000 - December 27, 2000

The center of the face―the eyes. If you draw the eyes, they will create a face.
I think that there are many people who, when they think of Taro Okamoto’s work, conjure up an image of large eyeballs.

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Taro Okamoto’s ‘Wonderworld’

July 5, 2000 - October 2, 2000

It is not human. It is not animal.
These creatures can only be described as belonging to a ‘wonderworld’.
These curious ‘life forms’, these strange beings, the like of which you have never seen before, draw closer to us.

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‘Characters at Play’

April 5, 2000 - July 3, 2000

There is an art book entitled ‘Asobu Ji (Characters at Play). The contents consist entirely of pictographs that resemble paintings. The character for ‘raku’, meaning ‘happy’, seems to smile and really does look merry while the character for ‘e’ (painting) resembles a person holding a brush and painting a picture.

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‘Original Painting for the Mural’

January 5, 2000 - April 3, 2000

There are innumerable examples murals, monuments and public art that Taro Okamoto created to be displayed in public spaces. As he said, ‘Everybody should be free to praise or criticize them without paying a penny, as if they belonged to them.

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‘Taro’s Pieta’

October 6, 1999 - December 27, 1999

You may think it strange that Taro Okamoto would produce a Pieta, a picture of the body of Christ being held by his grieving mother after having been taken down from the cross. It is a common theme in European art, but I do not think I have seen many examples of one by a Japanese artist.

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‘Taro and Living Creatures’  

July 7, 1999 - October 4, 1999

‘I was born Tokyo’s Aoyama 6 Chome and lived there during my childhood. In those days there were no surfaced roads in Japan and the air was always filled with the smell of earth and numerous insects flew in front of my eyes.

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‘Taro’s Eroticism’  

April 7, 1999 - July 4, 1999

Taro’s eroticism is not a form of sweet, moody love. A woman bending backwards, a man approaching without restraint. The man himself is being ripped apart. There can be no joy without tension and pain. That is what it seems to say.

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‘TARO’s Mother and Child’

January 6, 1999 - April 4, 1999

Taro Okamoto―Mother, people immediately think of Kanoko Okamoto and it is a fact that his mother, Kanoko, was a big influence in the making of Taro Okamoto, the artist. Intense, pure, devoted. Mother and child resembled each other closely.

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