Capturing the world, peering into secrets, transcending dimensions, or being fooled?
Or lenses and mirrors, and technological innovation and new vision.
　
We live in an age of vast amounts of visual information. The essential device for "seeing" this information is the "spectacle. As well as being a device that compensates for vision, lenses are also "spectacles" in the broad sense of the word, visualizing the micro and macro worlds, and presenting us with a new worldview in the form of photographs and images. In addition, the word "glasses" sometimes has the meaning of a filter for viewing things, as in the words "iro megane"(meaning "look from a biased viewpoint") and "omegane ni kanau" (meaning "be well accepted").
　
This exhibition traces the history of visual expression, beginning with the Western-derived perspective and lens-based "karakuri," which revolutionized the visual sense in Japan in the late Edo period, through the new vision brought by modern transportation systems such as trains and airplanes, to the remarkable developments in science and technology from the postwar period to the present day. The exhibition will also trace the transformation of visual expression in line with the remarkable development of science and technology from postwar to the present day. The exhibition also examines the universal human desire to "see the hidden" and "see the invisible.
　
This exhibition is the third and final chapter of the "Trimega Institute" project, following "Robots and Art" (2010) and "Art History of Beautiful Girls" (2014), and is a history of visual culture that traces people's insatiable pursuit of "seeing" from the Edo period to the present day, with "glasses" as the keyword.
　
・Aomori Museum of Art
July 20, 2008 (Fri) - September 2, 2008 (Sun)
・Iwami Art Museum, Shimane
September 15, 2008 (Sat) - November 12, 2008 (Mon)
・Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Friday, November 23, 2008 - Sunday, January 27, 2019