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For the "River to River: An Art Festival by the River" exhibition at the Hirosegawa Art Museum (2nd floor), educator Kumiko Oda asked artist Sawako Kanai to create an exhibition that visitors could experience and participate in, and Kanai organized the exhibition. In addition, Oda collected keywords related to the exhibition and introduced them.
Let's find your inner scape!
1. Bring one stone from the pedestal.
Born in 1982 in Maebashi City, Kanai Sawako graduated from Musashino Art University in 2009 with a degree in sculpture, and is the representative of Maebashi Works. (The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma/Takasaki), etc. He creates a fictional world setting and expresses the life, culture, and beliefs that would take place in that world through stories and installations.
Born in Kagoshima, Japan. Graduated from Kagoshima University, Graduate School of Education, specializing in art education. She has been involved in educational promotion projects at NPOs and museums in Kagoshima and Gunma, and has been working freelance since 2018. She is interested in the place where the situation of learning through art in the community is generated. She coordinates and records artis workshops, and conducts workshops at museums. Her major exhibitions include "Sousureishi" (2019, former Honma Brewery).
Yoshio Kondo (1915 - 1979), a Western-style painter (a member of the Nika-kai) from Maebashi, built his home and studio in 1948 at the location of the current museum, and opened a children's painting class "La Bonne" and an art class for adults "Seikatsu Zokei Laboratory". After Kondo's death, the museum was repaired and reconstructed, and opened in 1997, receiving the "Maebashi Urban Landscape Award" in 1998 and being registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 1999.
River to River: An Art Festival by the River
The Hirose River and Baba River are located in the city of Maebashi. The Hirose River and the Baba River in the city of Maebashi bring us a lot of inspiration as well as moisture and rich scenery.
The "River to River Art Festival" will feature exhibitions and theatrical performances at art spaces, historical buildings, and other locations in the watershed of the two rivers.
Like the river that continues to flow there, we hope that through this art festival we will encounter the present and the past of Maebashi, and that this will lead to the future.
The eight islands of Japan sprang into existence through Divine Intervention.The first two gods who came into existence were Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto, the Exalted Male and Exalted Female. It was their job to make the land for people to live on.They went to the bridge between heaven and earth and, using a jewel-encrusted halberd, Izanagi and Izanami churned up the sea into a frothy foam. As salty drips of water fell from the tip of the halberd the first island was formed. Its name was Onogoro.So far, so good. But when Izanagi and Izanami first met on their island, Izanami spoke to Isanagi without being spoken to first. Since she was the female, and this was improper, their first union created badly-formed offspring who were sent off into the sea in boats.The next time they met, Izanagi was sure to speak first, ensuring the proper rules were followed, and this time they produced eight children, which became the islands of Japan.I'm sure you did not fail to miss the significance of this myth for the establishment of Japanese formal society.At present, Japan is the financial capital of Asia. It has the second largest economy in the world and the largest metropolitan area (Tokyo.)Technically there are three thousand islands making up the Japanese archipelago. Izanagi and Izanami must have been busy little devils with their jewelled halberd...Japan's culture is highly technical and organized. Everything sparkles and swooshes on silent, miniaturized mechanisms.They're a world leader in robotics, and the Japanese have the longest life-expectancy on earth.Text by Steve Smith.
