[Report] "Tate Art Museum Turner Exhibition: Sublime Painting, Dialogue with Contemporary Art" at the National Museum of Western Art until February 21, 2027: Turner's Brilliance That Vividly Conveys the Physical Sensation of Nature
The Turner exhibition at the National Museum of Western Art places over 80 Tate works alongside contemporary art to evoke embodied sensations of nature.Summary
The exhibition "Tate Art Museum Turner Exhibition: Sublime Painting, Dialogue with Contemporary Art" is on view at the National Museum of Western Art in Ueno Park, Tokyo, until February 21, 2027. More than 80 works from London's Tate, home to the world's largest Turner collection, have traveled to Japan. Curator Jun Shindo framed the display around two ideas: showing Turner by theme rather than chronology and juxtaposing contemporary works to shortcut distances of time and place, and highlighting that Turner, often cast as a forerunner of Impressionism or Abstract Expressionism, was in fact attempting something entirely different. "Avalanche in the Grisons" conveys the raw physical terror of nature's danger, while Olafur Eliasson's "Melting Glacier Series" beside it evokes the human threat of climate change. In the seascapes, "A Stormy Sea with a Burning Wreck" gains immediacy, supported by the study "Figures Struggling in Water," and Wolfgang Tillmans's immense seascape photograph resonates with late Turner. Late works appear visually abstract yet carry concrete titles, revealing Turner's embodied unity with nature. The show runs October 24, 2026 to February 21, 2027, then travels to the Osaka Nakanoshima Museum of Art from March 13 to June 27, 2027.
(Source：美術展ナビ)