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At Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA), the exhibition “The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows” is being held from October 13 (Tuesday), 2020 to January 11 (Monday, national holiday), 2021. Among exhibition participants is the Xijing Men, a project-based collaborative team of a Japanese, a Chinese, and a Korean. The MIMOCA magazine presents in two parts an interview with one of its members, Tsuyoshi Ozawa. In this second part, I ask him about the Xijing Men team’s work shown in the exhibition.Interviewer and text: Chisai Fujita, art writerPhotography: Shintaro Miyawaki

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At Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA), the exhibition “The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows” is being held from October 13 (Tuesday), 2020 to January 11 (Monday, national holiday), 2021. Among exhibition participants is the Xijing Men, a project-based collaborative team of a Japanese, a Chinese, and a Korean. The MIMOCA magazine presents in two parts an interview with one of its members, Tsuyoshi Ozawa. He talks about the Xijing Men team and its work shown in the exhibition.Interviewer and text: Chisai Fujita, art writerPhotography: Shintaro Miyawaki

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Why was the museum built in front of the station? Why contemporary art? The answers to these questions are found in Genichiro Inokuma’s message to people of contemporary society. To understand the distinguishing features of MIMOCA, let us look closely at some of the themes of his message.

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Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA) will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary in 2021. Under the concept of “an art museum as a health resort for the spirit,” it has been committed from its outset to exhibitions and other locally focused cultural activities. Artist Genichiro Inokuma (1902–1993) considered it important that the museum play a role that would offer healing and spiritual nurture to its visitors. Focusing on the story leading up to the museum’s founding as well as on its distinguishing features, we present a two-part report on the “health resort for the spirit” as Inokuma envisioned it.

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