"Mirage and Insomnia. The Imagination of Day-Night Reversal"

Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan

16. 05. 2015 - 28. 06. 2015

Artists: Shizuo FUJIMORI, Heihachi HASHIMOTO, Leiko IKEMURA, Odilon REDON a. o.

Exhibition Overview

"More heavenly than those glittering stars we hold the eternal eyes which the Night hath opened within us".

Novalis, Hymns to the Night

When the day and the night is reversed, or merges into each other, our imagination can have an　astonishing leap.

As in the phrases of Novalis above, the darkness of the night have attracted countless poets or storytellers. Even for us, experiencing the rise in efficiency around the midnight, while cramming or writing, is not a rare case. Such mysterious power of imagination triggered by the night could have surely influenced the visual artists, too.

On the other hand, we can easily find the images in visual arts which we can compare with daydreams. In this exhibition, among such numerous works of art, we focus on two concepts: vision and mirage. It might show peculiar images as those dreamed during the daytime.

We usually stay active during the daytime, and close our eyes to rest during the night. The inspiration that comes when one gets out of such ordinary cycle can have interesting influence on artworks. In the exhibition Mirage and Insomnia, we examine such mysterious power of the day-night reversed situation through our museum collection.

Mie Prefectural Art Museum

11 Otani-cho, Tsu-shi,

Mie-ken

514-0007, JAPAN

Sources: www.bunka.pref.mie.lg.jp/art-museum/en/Exhibitions/Mirage_and_Insomnia.htm