17 July 2010 - I did not only visit the Peace Memorial Park area in Hiroshima, but also visited the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), which had an exhibition of Kyoichi Tsuzuki on display. Tsusuki is modern Japanese artist who casts a fresh eye over the state of Japan today, and shows what is on display in Japan's streets around us. The stars of the exhibition are the anonymous Japanese street people and - and that's another point - people who are not in the cultural spotlights. I copied the following quote from Tsuzuki which explains what his work is about : "What is it about the creative purity of these individuals, who would never in a million years imagine themselves to be artists, that we find so much more uplifting, both visually and spiritually, than the "artworks" hanging in galleries? Why is it things that ought not to be "art" appear infinitely more artistic?" I enjoyed the exhibition, because Japans' streets are indeed the cultural frontline, which is one of the reasons why it is so much fun being here.
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