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documentary
Mystic Flower life Yukio Nakagawa

Aug. 18—Aug. 31, 2018

• Contact： Image10：090-3802-2760
• Aug. 18—Aug. 31, 2018
• Closed Monday
• Running Time：18:30
• Admission：Adults ¥1,800／College Students and High School Students ¥1,500／Junior High School Students and over 60 ¥1,100

Is this “Ikebana” !?
A Mass of compressed bright red petals is thrown and piled on white porcelain object.
Piling up muddy tulip petals with a trowel…
Is this "Ikebana"? !
Or a mass of compressed red petals tied up in ropes. Tulips petals are decomposing like a deserted island. Is this “Ikebana”?

Physical handicap and rebellious spirit
Nakagawa suffered from spinal caries since his youth, developed a rebellious spirit together with his bent back. He doubted rules of Ikebana school and sought to expose life of flowers, so he slammed the withdrawal notification to the biggest school, Ikenobou. Sofu Teshigahara from Sogetsu School describes “a horrific man came to commit suicide with flowers”, when Nakagawa left his hometown, Marugame to come to Tokyo. Nakagawa, the lone Ikebana artist, denied schools and did not take disciples, lived in poverty and continued to face life and death of flower.

Arranging lives of flower
Pieces beyond imagination were born out of dialogue and fight with flowers and fear of flowers. “Hanabozu”, placing 900 carnations upside down in a glass wear, bright red flower liquid seeps into Japanese paper, “Blues”, using Chinese Cabbage in art and “Tulip Alien”, using decomposing pistil and stamen etc… Many of his shocking works express vitality of flower. The secrets to the birth of his creations are revealed through his diaries and words.

“Sky Sange” One million petals fall from the sky
“Sky Sange” was realized in 2002. As 1 million tulip petals fall from the sky, a 95 years old dancer, Kazuo Oono dances. Avant-garde artworks of Nakagawa will be passed on as “forever modernity”. They are prologue to Japan’s avant-garde works since the time of Sen Rikyu.

「天空散華」

Events

Guest Talk (in Japanese)

Aug. 18 (Sat) 登壇者：東信氏（フラワーアーティスト）
Aug. 19 (Sun) 登壇者：大野慶人氏（舞踏家）
Aug. 21 (Tue) 登壇者：神泉薫氏（中原中也賞受賞の詩人）
Aug. 24 (Fri) 登壇者：実川暢宏氏（元自由が丘画廊オーナー）
Aug. 25 (Sat) 登壇者：酒井忠康氏（美術評論家、世田谷美術館館長）

Guest Talk (in Japanese)

Aug. 26 (Sun) , after the 18:30 screening ～Guest (Tentative): Akiko Moriyama(Design Journalist, Professor at Musashino Art University)
Aug. 31 (Fri) , after the 18:30 screening ～Guest (Tentative): Taijin Tendo(Poet, Recitant and Calligrapher)