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Keisuke Yamaguchi: Backing forward

2019.6.8(Sat) — 9.4(Wed)

Artist Keisuke Yamaguchi (1962- ) first attracted attention when he debuted his oversize copperplates of arks in the late 1980’s. Since then he has created works in different forms, including not only print art and engravings, but also paintings and three-dimensional works, with motifs ranging from flowers and seeds to the heart and the entire human body.
Meanwhile, the artist began keeping a daily journal on March 14, 2011, three days after the Great East Japan Earthquake. He later named the journal After the Quake: Notes, and has never missed a single day of keeping it ever since. In the journal, the artist painstakingly transcribes daily news articles with information about nuclear power generation, expressing his will to move forward on his feet against the steady stream of reality.
“Humans cannot see the future; we can only see the past or the present moment. So it is as if we are moving forward with our back first,” Yamaguchi once remarked. Recently, he has been committed to making large-size paintings with overlapping human faces, achieving ever-stronger imagery. The artist inspires us to search for a way to continue moving forward despite carrying the weight of the past and its memories, which have made it difficult just to move in a straight line.

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Exhibition Period
2019.6.8(Sat) — 9.4(Wed)
Opening Hours
10:00–17:00

*Admission until 30 minutes before closing

Closed
Mondays *unless Monday is a national holiday, in which case the museum will be closed on the next non-holiday.
Admission
Adults 1,000 (800) yen, University Students 700 (600) yen, High School Students and Seniors [65 and over] 500 (400) yen
*Price in parentheses is that of advance ticket and a group of 30 or more
Free for children under Junior High School age
Organized by
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, The Chugoku Shimbun
Under the auspices of
Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima Municipal Board of Education, Hiroshima FM Broadcasting Co., Ltd.,Onomichi FM Broadcasting Co., Ltd.

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