Venue:
National Pavilion
in the Biennial area
Giardini di Castello
Artists:
Masao Okabe
* 1942 Hokkaido, Japan. Lives in Kitahiroshima, works in Sapporo, Japan.
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Commissioner: Chihiro Minato
Okabe displays 1.400 frottages from the port of Ujina in Hiroshima, as well as a 16 meters long row of frottages from the platform of the Ujina railway station with traces of the atomic bomb explosion.
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Concept, biography, contact, etc.
Organizer:
The Japan Foundation
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