Journey to New Hope ニューホープへ

2026年、近代の日本建築に多大な影響を与えた建築家・アントニン・レーモンドが亡くなり50年を迎えます。本展では、レーモンドの軽井沢での仕事を中心に、美しき遺産となる代表作を、写真を通して紹介すると共に、アントニン・レーモンドと彼の妻、ノエミ・レーモンドが制作した絵画やドローイング、彫刻等も展示し、芸術を愛した夫妻の精神に触れつつ、戦後の日米芸術交流の軌跡を振り返りながら、ニューホープと軽井沢を結ぶ交流の記憶を、今に受け継がれる創造の真価を多角的に紹介していきます。

Journey to New Hope
Antonin Raymond, George Nakashima, and Junzo Yoshimura: An Artistic Legacy

Period: Oct 1st (Thu) 2026 to November 24th (Tue)

The year 2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Antonin Raymond, an architect who had a profound influence on modern Japanese architecture. This exhibition focuses on Raymond's work in Karuizawa, presenting his representative works, which is a beautiful legacy, through photographs. At the same time, we will also introduce paintings, drawings, sculptures, etc. created by Antonin Raymond and his wife Noemi Raymond, and while touching on the spirit of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond who loved art, we will look back on the history of postwar art exchange between Japan and the United States. We present from a multifaceted perspective the memories of the exchange that connected New Hope and Karuizawa, and the true value of creativity that has been passed down to this day.

アントニン・レーモンドは避暑地・軽井沢に最初の住居兼スタジオとなる「夏の家」(1933年)やジョージ・ナカシマらと「聖パウロ教会(」1935年)や多くの個人の別邸を手掛けていきます。その後、戦局の影響でアメリカに拠点を移した後、1939年にNY郊外のニューホープに広大な農場を得てクエーカー教徒が建てた古い石造りの農家を改築し建築の仕事を始めます。ニューホープでは、日本から所員だった吉村順三や、吉村と同僚でアイダホの強制収容所にいたジョージ・ナカシマらが、農場での生活を共にしながら仕事に従事しました。戦後、レーモンドは東京で事務所を再開し、軽井沢にも新しいスタジオを完成させます。彼の晩年1973年に療養の為にニューホープに戻るまで、家族や親しい仲間や所員たちと過ごした日々、戦前戦後と、レーモンド夫妻にとって、大自然に囲まれた軽井沢で過ごした時間は、特別な忘れ得ぬものであったと思われます。

戦後の日本では芸術家の支援と日米文化交流を目的とした展覧会が開かれるようになり、猪熊弦一郎や脇田和らをはじめ多くの画家たちが参加していきます。戦後の日米の文化交流の中で、その時代の潮流を生み出していくリーダーらの輪の中には、アントニン、ノエミ・レーモンドも名を連ねておりました。
1956年に日米文化交流と視察を目的とした米国国務省による招聘を受けて脇田和はアメリカに滞在し、訪米を機に画家のベン・シャーンや、ジョージ・ナカシマらに出会います。1955年には猪熊弦一郎がニューヨークに制作の場を移しており、ニューヨークを拠点とした約20年に及ぶ猪熊の活動は、多くの芸術家らとの交流へと繋がっていきます。ニューホープに想いをよせる時、遥か1950年代から始まる芸術の志を共にした仲間たち、彼らと過ごした親密な時間、その懐かしい記憶が、彼らの脳裏にも鮮明に蘇ったことでしょう。

◎本展では、レーモンド夫妻を祖父母とする写真家シャーロット・レーモンドの写真、今と過去を繋ぐ経過する「時間」と「空間」―その儚さと美しさを写す「wabi-sabi」展も同時に開催いたします。

Antonin Raymond designed his first residence and studio, "Summer House" (1933), and "St. Paul's Church" (1935) in the summer resort town of Karuizawa, in working with George Nakashima, etc., as well as many other private residences. Later, due to the war situation, he moved his base to the United States, and in 1939, he acquired a vast farm in New Hope, a suburb of New York, and began his architectural work by renovating an old stone farmhouse built by Quakers. At New Hope, Junzo Yoshimura, Raymond’s Office staff member from Japan, and George Nakashima, who was also a colleague of Yoshimura and held in an internment camp in Idaho, lived and worked together. After the war, Raymond reopened his office in Tokyo and also completed a new studio in Karuizawa. In his later years, until he returned to New Hope for medical treatment in 1973, the days spent with his family, close friends, and staff members in Karuizawa, surrounded by nature, both before and after the war, must have been special and unforgettable for Raymond and his wife.

In postwar Japan, exhibitions aimed at supporting artists and promoting cultural exchange between Japan and the United States began to be held, and many painters, including Genichiro Inokuma and Kazu Wakita, started to participate in such exhibitions. In the postwar cultural exchange between Japan and the United States, Antonin and Noemi Raymond were among the leaders who created the trends of the time.
In 1956, Kazu Wakita was invited by the U.S. Department of State for the purpose of cultural exchange and observation between the United States and Japan, and stayed in the United States, where he met painters Ben Shahn, George Nakashima, and others. In 1955, Genichiro Inokuma moved his studio to New York, and his approximately 20 years of activity based in New York led to interactions with many artists.
When they thought about New Hope, the nostalgic memories of the friends who shared their artistic ambitions that began in the 1950s, and the intimate times they spent together, must have come back vividly in their minds.

◎This exhibition will also present the “wabi-sabi” exhibition, which depicts the transience and beauty of the passing “time” and “space” that connect the present and the past, with photographs by photographer Charlotte Raymond, whose grandparents are the Raymonds.