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SUMMARY:120th Anniversary of His Birth: Hasegawa Saburo and the National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo
DESCRIPTION:The National Museum of Modern Art (renamed the National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo in 1967\; hereafter “the museum”) opened in 1952 as Japan’s first national art museum. With finances still strained in the early postwar years\, it began not in a newly constructed building but in a renovated former Nikkatsu film studio headquarters in Kyobashi\, Tokyo. The term “modern” was included in its name to signal the expectation that it would function as a “dynamic museum\,” engaging with contemporary art and helping to lead the cultural recovery of the postwar period. Hasegawa Saburo (1906–1957)\, recognized as a pioneer of abstract art in Japan\, played a key role in the Abstraction and Surrealism exhibition (1953) and Abstract Art Exhibition: Japan and U.S.A. (1955)\, both organized in keeping with the museum’s guiding principles.\n\nHasegawa has long been regarded as an artist whose practice encompass...
LOCATION:The National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo 3-1 Kitanomaru Koen\, Chiyoda-ku\, Tokyo 102-8322
URL:https://www.momat.go.jp/en/exhibitions/r8-1-g4
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