The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum displays the work of five contemporary Japanese artists who share an interest in the relationship between humans and nature in a world where they are increasingly detached from one another (20 July–9 October). Highlights include woodblock paintings by Haruka Furusaka, who paints on collected wood with pigments that have been made from sifted soil, fermented indigo leaves and crushed seeds. Also on display are delicate botanical watercolours by Mitsuko Kurashina, showing how the environment has recovered – and to what degree – after the earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku region in 2011, and Kiichi Kawamura’s contemplative photographs of animals roaming around in the wild.
Find out more from the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum’s website . Preview below | View Apollo’s Art Diary Hagakure (2014), Haruka Furusaka. Photo: courtesy Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori Public University; © the artist 40°12’15′′N 141°47’55′′E (2013–14), Mitsuko Kurashina.
© the artist Untitled (2018), Kiichi Kawamura. © the artist Subscribe to get unlimited and exclusive access to the top art stories, interviews and exhibition reviews. In its telling of the story of the Mingei movement, the William Morris Gallery takes a refreshingly international approach Works by the true masters of the Rinpa style are rare – which makes prices rather high It was the pioneering photogapher’s dedication to botany that made her determined to record.