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Moonscape of the Mind: Japanese American Design after Internment
In May 1942, Isamu Noguchi voluntarily entered Poston, one of ten euphemistically-named ‘Internment Centers’ authorized by Executive Order 9066. Not long after, the sculptor made My Arizona (1943), one of a series of abstract lunar landscapes created in response to his experiences in the desert. The sculpture features a hot pink Plexiglass plane hovering over a white desert landscape, its fluorescent cast glowing hotly over the abstracted forms of conical mounds and valleys below.
Noguchi’s work speaks to the powerful connections between material objects and their creators’ lived experiences of trauma––including the physical places and broader cultural landscapes in which they occurred. Likewise, the artist’s evocative description of his “memory of Arizona”––which he later described as a “moonscape of the mind”––speaks to the problem of remembering when one is denied “the actual space of freedom” in which to
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At Optima®, we relish the opportunity to immerse our residents in experiences enriched by cultural discovery and aesthetic delight…which is exactly what you can expect when you wander through a captivating wonder nestled in the heart of Chicago – the Garden of the Phoenix.
Situated within the lush expanses of Jackson Park, the Garden of the Phoenix, once known as the Osaka Garden, gracefully expresses the timeless allure of traditional Japanese aesthetics. With a history that dates back to the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, it stands as a picturesque landscape on its own, while also serving as the canvas for cross-cultural dialogue between Japan and the United States.
As global nations joined the utställning, Japan, in particular, sought to cast an enduring impression in Chicago. And with the inception of the Phoenix Pavillion between 1891-93, the U.S. received its first glimpse of the refined nature of Japanese architecture and landscape design. It even drew the at
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LIVING Modernity: Experiments in the Exceptional and Everyday 1920s–1970s
Beginning in the 1920s, architects including Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe explored new residential designs with function and comfort in mind. Their experimental visions and innovative ideas eventually intersected with everyday life, greatly reshaping people’s lifestyles.
This exhibition focuses on seven dimensions of modern houses: hygiene, materials, windows, kitchen, furnishings, media, and landscape. Approximately 14 masterworks of residential architecture spanning the world will be presented in detail through photographs and drawings, sketches, models, furniture, textiles, tableware, magazines, graphics, and films.
The modernity of this residential architecture in this exhibition continues to resonate today, offering an opportunity to reflect on our own living spaces and ways of living.
Exhibition highlights
The house: an exhibition emerging from our everyday lives
A house