A special exhibition of works by Japanese artists who have continued their creative activities in the United States on the theme of nuclear weapons on the theme of war and the issue of nuclear weapons will be held at a museum in Saitama Prefecture from the 23rd.
Raku Tsutaya, an artist living in New York, has been working on the theme of nuclear weapons since around 2017, and from the 23rd, the first exhibition in Japan will be held at the "Maruki Gallery for the Atomic Bomb" in Higashimatsuyama City, Saitama Prefecture. ..
At the venue, animation images were projected on the camps of Japanese Americans built in various parts of the United States during the Pacific War and the buildings that reproduced the barrack huts built immediately after the bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and it happened in the war. You can feel the event in the whole space.
There are also 19 paintings on display that are realistically drawn in detail using ink and pencils on the theme of the history of nuclear weapons.
Some of the works were set in a nuclear facility where the plutonium used in the atomic bomb was refined, and the people there were depicted as animals and insects so as not to be aware of the difference in nationality, and the atomic bomb was dropped. Immediately afterwards, there are works depicting people wandering around in Hiroshima and hands with broken eyes, trying to convey the horror of the damage caused by nuclear weapons.
Mr. Tsutaya says, "By making full use of images and sounds, we have packed in what we want people who are not interested in the issue of nuclear weapons to know now, so I want many people to see it."
This special exhibition is open from the 23rd to the 2nd of October.