Naha City
Bunyo Ishikawa and the Vietnam War
Museum Collection Exhibitions
- Art / Exhibition
- Real-life event
Venue
Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum 〒900-0006 3-1-1 Omoromachi, Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture
Charge
General 400 Yen
High school and university students 220 Yen
Elementary and junior high school students 100 Yen (Free for elementary and junior high school students and Preschool children)
Contents
* The exhibition period is extended from 7/13-12/5 to ~2022/1/23.
The museum's collection exhibition will be divided into three rooms to introduce Okinawan art and photography.
Collection Gallery 1 “Bunyo Ishikawa and the Vietnam War”
Bunyo Ishikawa (1938-) is a photographer born in Okinawa. In 1964, when Ishikawa, who quit the movie company every day and was on a “no-money trip”, stayed in Hong Kong, the “Gulf of Tonkin Incident” occurred, which led the United States to deepen full-scale intervention in the Vietnam War. From the following year, Ishikawa joined the United States Marine Corps as a military photographer, began shooting the Vietnam War, and even after returning to Japan, he continued to photograph the area. This exhibition focuses on photographs taken when Ishikawa was staying in Vietnam.
Collection Gallery 2 “Keizo Kawahira Exhibition”
Introducing paintings by Keizo Kabira, a local painter who draws on the theme of Okinawa. The Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, where you can see 21 works produced from 1976 to 2013, the “Now...” series with detailed depiction on the theme of the period and the “Summer” series with a masterful abstract expression That's my first solo exhibition.
Collection Gallery 3 “The Flow of Okinawan Art”
Okinawa has a unique culture born from its climate and history, and art has been cultivated while being greatly influenced by the times and circumstances in which it was placed. This exhibition introduces Okinawa's modern and contemporary art in chronological order by dividing chapters into prewar, post-war reconstruction, post-war reconstruction, immigration, and contemporary art as “The Flow of Okinawan Art”. The works collected in the previous year are also released for the first time, and the influence on Okinawan art by artists who came from outside the prefecture and engaged in art education are also considered.