The 11th Hiroshima Art Prize
Alfredo Jaar
《Music (Everything I know I learned the day my son was born)》2013/2023 Photo: Kenichi Hanada
Established in 1989 by the City of Hiroshima, site of the first atomic bombing in human history, the Hiroshima Art Prize aims to appeal to a wider world about the “Spirit of Hiroshima,” which seeks everlasting world peace through contemporary art. The prize is awarded every three years. This year we present an exhibition by Alfredo Jaar, winner of the 11th Hiroshima Art Prize, at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art.
After studying architecture and filmmaking, Jaar (born in 1956 in Santiago, Chile) moved to the U.S. in 1982, establishing a base in New York. In the early ’80s, Jaar gained international recognition for his artworks, which included photographs, lightboxes, and public projects. Since that time, Jaar has consistently adopted a journalistic perspective based on thorough investigations of historical events and tragedies, and social inequalities around the world. His work is distinguished by large scale, multisensorial installations which incorporate architecture, photography, film and special effects.
In 1995, the artist created a work related to Hiroshima for After Hiroshima: Special Exhibition for the 50th Anniversary of the Hiroshima A-bombing, which was held at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2013, he has also created works based on his research of the Great East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima. This exhibition, Jaar’s first full-fledged museum exhibition ever held in Japan, functions as a career-spanning survey which includes some of the most important works created by the artist as well as new works that approach Hiroshima as a contemporary issue.
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《Music (Everything I know I learned the day my son was born)》2013
For those who participated in the "Music" project
We have mailed the invitation of the exhibition to those who have participated the project, but some have been returned for unknown address. Please contact the museum if you are applicable.
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Price: 3,000yen+tax
Size: 290×230mm
Page: 184
Contents
Greetings
Message from the Mayor Kazumi Matsui
Foreword Akira Tatehata
Message from the artist Alfredo Jaar
Introduction Motoko Suhama
Hiroshima Installation
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve Yasufumi Nakamori
Selected Works 1976–2023
Biography
List of Works
Outline of the Hiroshima Art Prize
Credits
Ceremony
Installation View
A record of this exhibition can be viewed on the website of the exhibition archive project "ART 360°."
In cooperation with Nishieda Foundation
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