Exhibition ‘AOKI Shigeru – Myth, Sea and Love’ Opened

On March 25, the exhibition titled ‘AOKI Shigeru – Myth, Sea and Love’ opened at the Ishibashi Museum of Art (until May 15). Commemorating the centenary of the death of painter AOKI Shigeru, who left a significant mark on Japanese Romanticism in Modern Japanese art and died in 1911, the exhibition traced the full scope of his work and the transition of its reception to the present day, featuring 224 artworks as well as 61 related materials. It represented a project that drew upon the accumulated research on AOKI Shigeru into a single presentation, which consisted of five chapters: Chapter 1 ‘His Debut’; Chapter 2 ‘The Fertile Sea’; Chapter 3 ‘Mythology Depicted’; Chapter 4 ‘Wandering in Kyushu and Death’; and Chapter 5 ‘The Posthumous Legend Forms’. It subsequently toured to the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (May 27 – July 10) and the Bridgestone Museum of Art (July 17 – September 4). (Japanese)