1st restored "Hiroshima Panels" artwork of A-bomb horrors unveiled

The first completed restoration among the "Hiroshima Panels" series of paintings that depict the horrors of the atomic bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II was unveiled to the media on Wednesday at a gallery dedicated to the powerful artworks.The piece "Ghosts" is one of 15 works in the series by the late Nobel Peace Prize-nominated artists Iri and Toshi Maruki. It features a procession of otherworldly figures, many with charred and blackened skin, in the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.The work's return to the Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panel…READ FULL ARTICLE