Beyond trompe l’oeil – how Shunsuke Kano learns from the past Inspired by the “1968 – Japanese Photography” exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, it seems I devoted a few too many columns in the second half ofView More >
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A love parade under the guise of a demo – Ellie (Chim↑Pom)’s “LOVE IS OVER” Invitaion to LOVE IS OVER (2014), postcard, stamp, horse blood, seal. Design: Hidenori Yoshioka. Photo: Kenji Morita. News that Ellie, the sole female member ofView More >
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A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 16) Kota Takeuchi and Fukushima I: The demolition and rebirth of Mihako Theater Kota Takeuchi – Demolition of Mihako Theater (2013), two-channel video projection, movie screen, camera, benches. Late last year IView More >
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Provoke and Con-pora VI Shigeo Gocho reconsidered: Familiar Street Scenes In Self and Others, the relationship conveyed via the photographs is limited to that between the self and others standing face to face, and the stage for the absorption inView More >
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A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 15) The decontamination of land and art II Shuji Akagi – 20130106 Fukushima City Concert Hall (2013) Shuji Akagi is a former painter. Actually, he is still an artist, although he noView More >
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Provoke and Con-pora V: Shigeo Gocho Self and Others Reconsidered In my opinion only one individual, Shigeo Gocho, strikes me as standing out in this period as a representative of the theatrical first-generation post-modernist type. It would be impossible toView More >
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Provoke and Con-pora IV: Post Con-pora Expression The Con-pora photography of Japan has a characteristic that the original Con-pora photography could never have had. That is, an American flavor that was somewhat liberated from the prevailing sense of Japan atView More >
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A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 14) The decontamination of land and art I Shuji Akagi – 20120220 Fukushima Prefectural Library 2 (2012), lightjet print, 31.5 x 42cm. Courtesy Arataniurano and Yamamoto Gendai. Previously in this series, IView More >
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Provoke and Con-pora: In the blank space of ‘1968 – Japanese Photography’ (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography) III Every aspect of society has been turned into image, into media. The utopian “exterior” of the world is gone, and the worldView More >
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Provoke and Con-pora: In the blank space of ‘1968 – Japanese Photography’ (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography) II Awareness of the fact that, as a result of the inundation of image information, the real world itself is being turned intoView More >