Hitoshi Nakazato “Hiroshima Revisited － Black Rain”
NY Coo Gallery
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The works entitled “Black Rain” came about from the profound and intense emotion that Mr. Nakazato experienced on his second visit to Hiroshima, which also triggered the prospect of exploring unchartered territories in modernist vocabulary resulting in the 60 black and white works.
This series was first shown in “Hiroshima Revisited: An Exploration in Transcending Modernism” this past summer at the Pageant Gallery in Philadelphia receiving favorable reviews. It was a show originally intended to open on the evening of the August 6th Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony at a gallery near the epicenter. The show was cancelled by the sponsor of the gallery, a real estate developer, due to the sub-prime loan debacle in the U.S. affecting the world financial situation. Fortunately, the show was held in Philadelphia with its opening on July 3, the day before Independence Day, proved meaningful.
Mr. Nakazato is a graduate of Tama Art University in Tokyo in oil painting, worked as an art reporter for the Hokkaido Times, received his MS from the University of Wisconsin, and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, recipient of the John D. Rockefeller III Foundation Grant, has continuing his art work in New York and Tokyo since 1966.
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from October 01, 2009 to October 16, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-10-02 from 17:00 to 19:30