Venue
venue
＜Expo'70 Commemoration Park＞
National Museum of Ethnology
The National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) was founded in 1974 as an inter-university institute for cultural anthropology, ethnology and related fields, and opened in 1977 on the site of the 1970 World Expo in Senri, Osaka. The architectural design was by Kisho Kurokawa.
The event will mark its 50th anniversary in 2024, and the main venue in Expo Commemoration Park, home to Taro Okamoto's Tower of the Sun, will become a symbolic place that connects the 1970 Osaka Expo with this art festival and the Osaka-Kansai Expo in 2025, transcending the ages.
Venue Information
Address:
10-1 Senri Expo Park, Suita City, Osaka Prefecture
How to get there:
https://www.minpaku.ac.jp/information/access/expopark
curator
NAKANO Yasuo
Born in Tokyo in 1955. Graduated from Yokohama National University Graduate School (Art Education) in 1981. The theme of his master's thesis was "Education through Art." After working in the preparatory office for the Kawasaki Taro Okamoto Museum of Art in 1994, he became a curator at the Kawasaki Taro Okamoto Museum of Art in 1999. After serving as head of the planning and information department at the Kawasaki City Museum (2005, 2006), he became the chief curator of the Kawasaki Taro Okamoto Museum of Art in 2007. He retired from the museum in March 2016. He organized the "Photographer Michiko Kon" exhibition at the University of Veracruz in Mexico. Since April 2017, he has been the chairman of the Kyoto Nijo International Cultural Arts Exchange Association.
■Major projects and developments He has planned many exhibitions, including the commemorative "Polyhedron: Taro Okamoto - Laughing Dynamism" exhibition (1999), "Taro Okamoto and the Jomon" exhibition (2001), "Taro Okamoto and Mexico - A Passionate Gaze" exhibition (2002), "Taro Okamoto the Man" exhibition (2011) to mark his 100th birthday, "Island of Memory - Japan Photographed by Taro Okamoto and Tsuneichi Miyamoto" exhibition (2012), "Taro Okamoto and Art Brut - Towards the Horizon of Raw Art" exhibition (2014), and "Shinzaburo Takeda - The Bridge of Art Built to Mexico, the Painter Who Supported Taro Okamoto's "Myth of Tomorrow"" exhibition (2015). He was deeply influenced by Taro Okamoto's ideas and way of life.
Major works: Edited and authored "Art Appreciation Manifesto" (2003, Nippon Bunkyo Publishing)
Co-author of "Art Education Thinking" (Academic Research Publishing, 2016)
Co-author of "What Museums Can Do Now" (Academic Research Publishing, 2019)
"New Theory of Taro Okamoto: Proposals from a Former Curator of the Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki" (Academic Research Publishing, 2024) and many others
