While Galerie Priska Pasquer is currently having the first solo show in West since two decades with photographs by Yutaka Takanashi, in Japan the artist is highly regarded since many years. Last year the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo showed a major retrospective of the artist. A review at Tokyo Art Beat on occasion (…)
The German news paper FAZ has reviewed our exhibition “Yutaka Takanashi – Photography 1965 – 1974″. Are, bure boke: Radical aethetics in Japanese “… Cologne gallery Priska Pasquer is showing in a gorgeous exhibition some historic prints by Yutaka Takanashi from “Toshi-e”. Taken out of context of the narrative especially some of the dark prints (…)
Yutaka Takanashi, Photography 1965 – 74 Editors: Roland Angst, Ferdinand Brueggemann, Priska Pasquer Published by Only Photography, Berlin 116 pages, 41 images, Triplex, hardcover Text: German, English, Japanese Yutaka Takanashi belonged to the small group of photographers who launched the magazine Provoke in 1968. The magazine had considerable influence on Japanese photography of that period. (…)