Life of Magatama revived with the power of art opens up a different attractive world
 
    Magatama was something special which ancient people wore, were proud of, adored and prayed for for ages. Judging from its name with the sound of ‘tama’ included which leads to spirit and soul, it might be considered beautiful magic spells which moved ancient people as a mysterious symbol traveling between this world and the next one.

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      This exhibition started with the work of waking up Magatama, which has been dozing in the soil more than 1,600 years, into the year of Reiwa. We pulled out the powerful energy by taking a lit up photo using a light box. We’ve planned to design the installation of it flying through the air by transcribing it onto the sheet, stretching around 3 Magatamas in the air enlarged by at most 500 times.

As this art museum ‘Chikatsu Asuka Gallery’ has a huge stairwell from the basement to the ceiling, it should be filled with soft greenlight if penetrated in the light coming in through its skylight window. That’s what I thought. I’ve named this place with the mysterious atmosphere ‘Space-time covered with greenlight all over’

 

     That’s the sitespecific expression which cannot be realized without taking advantage of the design of the museum made by Mr. Tadao Andoh, and that’s that we’ve hoped to differentiate the possibility of being able to light up Magatama to revive from the usual exhibition in the museum with the theme ‘The nation of the next world / the Darkness”

In addition, we may say that we’ve tried to propose the new way of enjoying art museums: the way of ‘art and architecture being intermingled’.

 

     What story would you ‘weave’, appreciating various works through time, past, present and future, in the special situation of different world of dream or illusion, feeling as if you were thrown into Magatama made of jade?

It’s difficult to solve the mystery of Magatama, but, by giving thought to that, you could grasp the image of it in your own way.

 

     I get awesomely amazed, as I feel the endless power of imaginativeness out of it that manipulate the concept of life, death and eternity.

That is because it can cause creativity and power that light up the future.

 

     It may have a lot more value included, and, in this exhibition, I’d like you to find it, search for it, and besides, give deep consideration to what human being is all about.