Gallery Exhibits: Atomic Cowboy & Take It Home - Artist Talk
4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Join us for an Artist Talk with Kei Ito
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the NJCU Visual Arts Gallery will host two interrelated exhibitions which will present the ramifications of atomic bombs from multiple perspectives.
Nobuho Nagasawa’s "The Atomic Cowboy: The Daze After," drew significant attention to an unusually high number of cancer deaths among the cast and crew members of “cowboy western” films, many of which were shot in Nevada deserts, not far from nuclear test sites.
Central to the exhibition was Nuke-Cuisine consisting of 835 “Cloud of Mushroom Soup” cans. 835 was the number of the announced nuclear tests in America from 1945 to 1992. 120 cans will be shown at NJCU with a wall installation of the atomic bombs’ data, portraits of the actors who suffered from radiation exposure, and other related works.
Simultaneously presented in the front half of the gallery is "Take it home, for (__) shall not repeat the error." Curated by Souya Handa, who was raised in Hiroshima, his exhibition was one of the open call winners and presented at Apexart earlier this spring.
Featuring the work by four artists – Souya Handa, Kei Ito, Sixte Kakinda, and Layla Yamamoto – from Japan, the United States, and Democratic Republic of Congo, the purpose of the exhibition is to connect the histories of the Manhattan Project with the subsequent nuclear weapons development in the U.S., to construct a linear narrative from the uranium mines used in the Hiroshima bomb, to post-WW2 nuclear tests, and even Fukushima.