The Exhibition ‘1968: Art in the Turbulent Age’ Opened

On September 19, the exhibition titled ‘1968: Art in the Turbulent Age’ opened at the Chiba City Museum of Art. Focusing on the period around 1968, when society was in uproar with the rise of mass protests of the All-Campus Joint Struggle Committee (known as Zenkyōtō) and the Vietnam anti-war movement, and radical and eccentric culture such as underground scene and counterculture flourished, the exhibition presented approximately 400 works and materials on the avant-garde art movement and social background of that period. It also attempted to convey the excitement of the time by recreating the light show at the go-go club MUGEN, which opened in Akasaka. The exhibition toured to the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Riverwalk Gallery (December 1 – January 27, 2019) and Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (February 10 – March 24, 2019). (Japanese)