KYOTOGRAPHIE
"KYOTOGRAPHIE", which started in 2012 with the idea of photographer Lucille Reybose and illuminator Yusuke Nakanishi, will be held for the 10th time in 2022. This year, under the theme of "ONE", 20 unique exhibitions by 20 artists from all over the world and one group will be held. Among them, I picked up 4 exhibitions that I want to keep in mind.
Guy Bourdin
"The Absurd and The Sublime"
@ Kyoto Prefectural Museum of Kyoto Annex
Guy Bourdin's "The Absurd and The Sublime" was toured at CHANEL NEXUS HALL in Ginza, Tokyo in September 2021. In this exhibition, curator India Dalgarkar has scaled up by adding works using Sayoko Yamaguchi as a model, Polaroid photographs that can trace his creative process, and archives of magazines. One of the highlights is the maze-like venue structure specially set up in the annex of the Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture. Valuable documentary footage is shown on the 2nd floor.
Prince Gyasi
"Makoto Iro"
＠ASPHODEL / ＠Demachi Masugata Shopping Street
Born in 1995, Prince Gyasi attracted attention for his work shot on his iPhone when he was in high school, and experienced collaborations with Apple and fashion magazines. He is now known as one of the leading visual artists in African contemporary art in his mid-20s. The work created by museing the landscape and community of Accra, the capital of Ghana, which is my hometown, visualizes invisible problems and issues in Africa by combining colors and colors, patterns and patterns with a unique sense. At Demachi Masugata Shopping Street, which jumps out of the venue, the vivid colors illuminate and envelop the place where people live in the market.
Irving Penn
"Irving Penn: Works 1939–2007. Masterpieces from the MEP Collection"
@ Kyoto City Museum of Art Annex
At the exhibition of American photographer Irving Penn, a master of studio portraits supported by Dior,Exhibits 80 of his 100+ vintage prints from the MEP (European Museum of Photography) in Paris. You can see a wide range of works such as portrait photographs, fashion photographs, landscape photographs, still life photographs, etc. of Picasso, Le Corbusier, Christian Dior and others. It is the first time that a work printed by Pen himself has been exhibited on this scale in Japan. This is a valuable opportunity to get a glimpse of his amazing technology as a print maker (development engineer). At the end of the exhibition, there is also a booth where you can store Irving Penn works.
Ikko Narahara
Japanesque <Zen>
@ Ryosokuin
LOEWE FOUNDATION supports the exhibition of Ikko Narahara, one of the representative photographers who passed away in 2020. After the war, when Japanese culture was denied, Narahara returned to Japan to deepen the charm he encountered during his stay in Europe, and started producing "Japanesque", which faced Japanese traditions. Of the eight-chapter series, this exhibition will showcase Zen monks and monasteries taken at Sojiji Soinji Temple in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Sojiji Soinji Temple in Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture. A box-shaped photo exhibition transforms a tatami room overlooking the garden into a unique atmosphere, creating a quiet and creative space where the monochrome Zen taken by Narahara and Kyoto's oldest Zen temple Ryosokuin are linked. increase.
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