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Collection Exhibition 2018-Ⅱ
Collection Highlights & Special Feature1: The Century with Mushroom Clouds/Special Feature2: Prayer

2018.6.30(Sat) — 10.21(Sun)

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The exhibition is made up of three sections: “Collection Highlights,” and two special features, “The Century with Mushroom Clouds,” and “Prayer.”

In the first, we focus on artists who, as leaders in a number of important trends, are indispensable to any discussion of 20th century art. These include European artists from the first half of the century who, while associated with cutting-edge art movements, established their own unique styles; and Japanese artists who embraced Anti-art as a means of deviating from existing forms of artistic expression in order to create their own original art. There are also artists who were aligned with the Art Informel movement, known for its freeform and abstract approach, and avant-garde abstract paintings by members of the Gutai group and others, as well as some of the standard-bearers of Pop and Minimal Art, trends that began to flourish in the U.S. in the 1960s. All of these works are masterpieces produced by eminent figures who made their mark on the history of contemporary art.
The date August 6, the anniversary of the atomic bomb and a day that will never be forgotten in Hiroshima, will fall during the exhibition. To commemorate this fact, we present two special features focusing on art related to the bomb. The first, titled “The Century with Mushroom Clouds,” deals with the mushroom cloud as an image that has come to symbolize Hiroshima. In the second, “Prayer,” we introduce a selection of tranquil works connected to the act of praying, and imbued with memories of the tragedy and the theme of regeneration. The depiction of concrete subjects such as the mushroom cloud and the Atomic Bomb Dome, and expressions of abstract concepts related to the bombing function as visualizations of the event. Please take some time to view these works that have been entrusted with the mission of conveying memories of the atomic bomb to successive generations.

artists
●Collection Highlights
Jean Arp, Kurt Schwitters, Henry Moore, Albert Giacometti, Karel Appel, Leon Golub, Tomio Miki, Tetsumi Kudo, Jiro Takamatsu, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Shusaku Arakawa, Ushio Shinohara, Kazuo Shiraga, Sadamasa Motonaga, AY-O, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol
●Special Feature1: “The Century with Mushroom Clouds”
Chimei Hamada, Kakuzo Inoue, Osamu Tsukasa, Josaku Maeda, Toshimitsu Imai, Koji Kinutani, Taro Okamoto, Tadanori Yokoo, Tadashi Tonoshiki, Keiji Usami, Yoshitomo Nara, Fritz Eichenberg, Fred Troller, Malcolm Grear, Petis Valerie, Alan Lidji, Ikko Tanaka, Cai Guo-Qiang, Takashi Murakami, David Leverett, Akira Matsumoto, Henry Moore
●Special Feature2: “Prayer”
Koji Enokura, Masao Okabe, Hisashi Akutagawa, Isamu Noguchi, Goh Shigi, Kazuo Shiraga, Masamichi Yamamoto, Takako Araki, Tomoharu Murakami

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Exhibition Period

2018.6.30(Sat) — 10.21(Sun)

Opening Hours

10:00–17:00

No admittance 30 minutes before closing

Closed

Mondays *unless Monday is a national holiday and Aug 6, in which case the museum will be closed on the next non-holiday.

Admission

Adults 300 (250) yen, University Students 200 (150) yen, High School Students and Seniors [65 and over] 150 (100) yen
*Price in parentheses is a group of 30 or more
*Free for children under Junior High School age

Organized by

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art