Naked Photography: Takuma Nakahira’s ‘Documentary’ Left to right: Images of “tactile surface layers” (2007), (2009), (2007). In photography, every common noun becomes a proper noun, every being becomes “this,” and in this thisness, or haecceity, everything becomes equivalent. If “thisView More >
Moving Photographs: Taiji Matsue’s ‘survey of time’ (Part II) ANF 100465 (2010), Single channel HD digital video, 28 min 50 sec. All images: © Taiji Matsue, courtesy Taro Nasu. At a time when, due to the virtual integration of digitalView More >
Moving Photographs: Taiji Matsue’s ‘survey of time’ (Part I) JP-22 08 (2005), type C print, 50.2 x 61.1 cm. All images: © Taiji Matsue, courtesy Taro Nasu. Digital photography has routinely been discussed as a pair-concept alongside analog photography, whichView More >
Seiichi Furuya: The Disclosed Mémoires (Part II) Christine Furuya-Gössler Mémoires 1978-1985 (1997) presents in chronological order from the time Furuya met her until her death photographs of “Christine” – who by then had become a categorical point of singularity –View More >
Seiichi Furuya: The Disclosed Mémoires (Part I) East Berlin, 1985. Published intermittently since 1989, Seiichi Furuya’s series of photobooks entitled “Mémoires” was concluded this year with the appearance of volume five. Furuya’s 25-year “journey” began in the fall of 1985View More >
Not Identical, but the Same: Yuuki Matsumura’s ‘Almost-Dead Sculpture’ Yuuki Matsumura – Untitled (2009), set of three aluminum sheets, 30 x 65 x 45 cm, each. Let’s begin with the dualism of “things that can be reproduced any number ofView More >
New developments in ‘double-line painting’ In the essay I wrote for the monograph nobuya HOKI drawings, published in 2004 (1), I indicated that there is a problem at once ancient and new at the root of Kyoto-based artist Nobuya Hoki’sView More >
Shape the paint, collage the shapes and make them form a painting Masahiro Sekiguchi’s ‘Plane B’ at Kodama Gallery Tokyo In Clyfford Still’s readymade, layered and collaged paintings (see my previous column), which call to mind walls upon which layersView More >
Collage, Pop Art, Clyfford Still: Teppei Kaneuji’s ‘Post-Something’ at ShugoArts White paintings, cloisonnism, coffee staining, and clippings of brushstrokes and touches of paint… or in other words painterliness; and seals, figures, driftwood, pipes, and wrapping paper… or in other wordsView More >
For ‘Shomei Tomatsu: Hues and Textures of Nagasaki’ Part 3: Darkness and Colors Between the “ethic of presenting things as they are” and the artificial space-time of “occupation,” the black and white photographs that serve as an expression of theView More >
