Isamu Noguchi Art Exhibition in Tokyo Including Works newly introduced in Japan

An Exhibition “Isamu Noguchi: From Sculpture to Body and Garden” will be opened on July 14, 2018 at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Hatsudai, Tokyo.
The exhibition consists of the constructions of 4 chapters. (1st: dialogue with body, 2nd: revisit at Japan, 3rd: spatial sculpture– To Garden, 4th: discourse with Nature– Stone Sculpture) This is a large scale memorial exhibition.

Peking Drawing— human body drawing that Noguchi drew in Beijing (New introduction in Japan); Frontier— a set of Martha Graham, a creator of modern dance; Akari Light Sculpture—a lighting derived from Japanese traditional culture.
The exhibition covers wide range of works by Isamu Noguchi and reviews his life. Noguchi hoped to recover “the link between art and society” by combining Eastern and Western cultures while he travels around the world with his works of sculpture, garden and landscape.

Touching upon Sunken Garden for Chase Manhattan Bank Plaza (photo) in New York, Noguchi addressed in the 1986 Kyoto Prize Commemorative Lecture “the stones which I used for the Chase Manhattan Bank came from Kyoto. I got some of them along the Kamogawa; others I got over by the Ujigawa near Otsu. It was my version of Ryoanji.” [ PDF: Kyoto Prize Commemorative Lecture ]

A life of Isamu Noguchi is nothing but a travel of the world. His memorial exhibition will be held until September 24, 2018.