Yesterday I went together with my husband and baby to the National Museum of Art here in Osaka. I had for a long wanted to see the exhibition of Miwa Yanagi (her thoughts about the role of young girls in the Japanese society gave me the inspiration for my fieldwork…).
When we came, we discovered that we were not the only ones who had chosen to see some art on a Sunday afternoon. Instead we found a lot of people inside the museum. However, they didn’t come for the Miwa Yanagi exhibition. The museum was (and is still) showing another exhibition about children in the art and all the things were borrowed from Louvre in Paris (the Japanese really love anything from Europe…)We decided to see both exhibitions, since the line was the same and we had to wait anyway.
Too many museum guests destroyed the whole experience of the exhibition from Louvre, so maybe if you come on a weekday with lesser people, you would be able to enjoy it.
About the display from Miwa Yanagi I only like the first part which is from a previous exhibition (the grandmother series). It shows how young women image their life as a grandmother and the freedom they feel by not being young anymore...
The second part of the display is her newest one with beautiful black/white photos and paintings but the weird motives left me cold…
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