A musium memorial for the young painters victimized as soldiers during WWII, Mugonkan, that stands for a wordless musium. It is located in Ueda city in Nagano.
I have been there for 3 times since 2018. Three to four hours drive one way. Not an easy drive but still worth visiting it.
https://nuttycellist-unknown.blogspot.com/search?q=MUGONKAN
What does it attract me so much? One reason is that the works exhibited there all silently as well as strongly appeal how they had lived and what they would leave to us. As told in another post, they are overlapped with my father who spent young days as they did and had a hope to be a painter. I also consider of the young people in the wars in Ukraine, Gaza and so forth. Most of them are being killed before realizing their capabilities.
This is a video clip introducing the museum. It was founded in 1997 by Seiichiro Kubota who had collected the paintings for 20 years. Getting old, he has decided to have it succeeded by the educational institution of Ritsumeikan recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t43WA-O6fQI
I wonder if I could revisit there some day.
No comments:
Post a Comment