02/11/2022
This exhibition is part of Birds, Bombs, and Beauty: An Interdisciplinary Study of Nature, Politics, and Culture Linking the Seto Inland Sea Region of Japan with Southern California, a years-long collaboration between Pomona College and HCU that focuses on climate justice, politics, and the visual arts and emphasizes scholarly engagement between students, faculty, and staff from Pomona and HCU. Birds, Bombs, and Beauty began as a research undertaking that was supported by EnviroLab Asia and the Henry Luce Foundation.
The Benton is thrilled to announce the opening of “Each Day Begins with the Sun Rising: Four Artists from Hiroshima,” the fist US exhibition for four Japanese artists: Megumi Fukuda, Taro Furukata, Genki Isamaya, and Kana Kou.
Opening artist talks and reception is this SATURDAY, February 12th at 2pm. https://www.pomona.edu/museum/events/2022/02/artist-talks-and-reception
These artists present work that explores the ongoing environmental, cultural, and social impact of the United States’s fatal bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, particularly in light of Japan’s postwar industrialization and investment in nuclear power.
This exhibition is curated by Rebecca McGrew, senior curator, with assistant curator Salim Moore, Sam Yi Ying Chan ‘22, Vivian Kuo ‘23, Madeleine Mount-Cors ‘23, Max Podell ‘24, and Max Uehara ‘25.
Major support for this exhibition is provided by the Estate of Judith Ann Cion ‘65. The research was supported by EnviroLab Asia and the Henry Luce Foundation.
Image: Kana Kou, Beautiful Limit (detail), 2010, Crayon and pencil on paper, 40 panels, 24 x 36in. each. Courtesy of Hiroshi Tachiwana. Photo: Hiroshi Noguchi.
