Curator. He focus on historical jewellery to try deciphering the mentality of the eras from 1994, and attempts to develop that approach from contemporary jewellery to design and contemporary art. At the reopening of the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum in 2014, he curated exhibitions include “Fantaisie merveilleus: Le classicism dans l’Art Deco français” (2015), and “EXOTIC x MODERN French Art Deco and inspiration from afar”(2018). Both were attempt to reinterpret French Art Deco from the perspective of French cultural policy in the interwar era. He also launched the performing arts program “TTM Ignition Box” (2014-2017) then. He received the Western Art Foundation Award and the Japan Association of Art Museums’ Excellent lucubration Award in 2019. Founder and Director of the non-profit organization Open Museum Project.
- 関 昭郎 SEKI Akio