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Special Exhibition
Senzaki Chieo: Toward the Depths of the Gaze

2026.10.24(Sat) — 12.13(Sun)
Layer: Toward the Pink, 2013 (left) / Layer: Toward the White, 2012 (right)
Photo: Shiigi Shizune

Senzaki Chieo (b. 1953) is an artist from Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, who took the first significant step in his career in 1979 while studying at Tokyo University of the Arts. Throughout the 1980s, he pursued the theme of the natural and the artificial, at times creating large-scale installations that incorporated both interior and exterior architectural spaces. Around 1990, while living in Germany, his approach shifted, and he began exploring the same theme from a wider range of perspectives through series of discrete works or installations assembled from these works. This exhibition brings together approximately 100 works made since 1990, including his most recent.

Rather than separating the natural and the artificial and treating them as opposites, Senzaki sees them as a continuum and seeks to discern how human beings exist along this continuum. His gaze was gradually shaped by his awareness of the devastation wrought by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and by seeing the scars it left on the city. This was a reality of inexpressible gravity, brought about by human intervention that released the immense energy latent within all matter. The exhibition title, Toward the Depths of the Gaze, conveys the artist’s determination not merely to look at the surfaces of things, but to direct his gaze within them, and deeper still, to perceive the invisible universality they conceal. Amid the chaos of present-day society, where superficial differences in values readily cause polarization and antagonism is intensifying everywhere, Senzaki’s gaze will surely point the way beyond these divisions.

Flyer

Vector: Footprints, c.1990–91
Photo: Sakata Mineo

Arrangement, Cosmos, 2001
Photo: Sakata Mineo

Human Intervention, 2019 (left) / Human Intervention, 1992 (right)
Photo: Kato Ken

A Red in the Space, 2014
Photo: Shiigi Shizune

Installation view of the exhibition, Chieo Senzaki, Shiro Matsui, 2016, TOKYO GALLERY + BEIJIN TOKYO ART PROJECTS, Tokyo

Layer: Toward the Pink, 2013 (left) / Layer: Toward the White, 2012 (right)
Photo: Shiigi Shizune

Layer: Fragment of Time series
Photo: Shiigi Shizune

Flowing Time, 1994

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Exhibition Period
2026.10.24(Sat) — 12.13(Sun)
Opening Hours
10:00–17:00

※Admission until 30 minutes before closing

Venue
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, GalleryB-1 and Corridor
Access
Closed
Mondays (except November 23) and November 24
Admission
Adults 1,100 (850) yen, University students 800 (600) yen, High school students and seniors (65 and over) 550 (400) yen
*Price in parentheses is that of advance ticket and a group of 30 or more
*You can also see the concurrent collection exhibition with a ticket for this exhibition
*Free admission for holders of an atomic bomb survivor's certificate, physical disability certificate, etc., and for their caregivers (one person per certificate holder) For more information

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Organized by
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Under the auspices of
Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima Municipal Board of Education, The Chugoku Shimbun, The Asahi Shimbun, The Mainichi Newspapers, THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN, Chugoku Broadcasting Co.,Ltd., TSS-TV CO.,LTD., Hiroshima Television Corporation, Hiroshima Home Television Co.,Ltd., HIROSHIMA FM BROADCASTING CO.,LTD., Onomichi FM Broadcasting Co., Ltd.
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