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A Peaceful 2010

Priska Pasquer
Ferdinand Brueggemann

The British Journal of Photography has published a list of top ten books of the decade. Among the top ten is Rinko Kawauchi’s book “Utatane” (Siesta). Rinko Kawauchi had published the book in 2001 and she received for “Utatane” and a second book “Hanabi” (Fireworks) in the following year the Kimura Ihei Award, a leading photography in award in Japan.

The top ten list was compiled by Gerry Badger, who co-authored the two volumes of “The Photobook: A History” with Martin Parr. In the first volume of the photobook anthology Gerry Badger wrote about “Utatane”:

Just when it seems that everything has been photographed, in every possible way, along comes a photographer, whose work is so original that the medium is renewed. Such a photographer is Rinko Kawauchi, who makes simple, lyrical pictures, so fresh and unusual that they are difficult to describe or classify.

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The German art magazine “Art” has in its current December issue  an article about four German gallerists who are specialized in photography and about collecting photographs. The article starts with a portrait of Priska Pasquer:

LICHTBILDER UND LEIDENSCHAFT

Fotografie gilt auf dem Kunstmarkt immer noch als zweitklassiges Medium – trotz der Erfolge von Demand, Gursky und Co. Doch einige Experten arbeiten leidenschaftlich daran, dieses Image zu verändern. Zu Besuch bei Deutschlands wichtigsten Fotogaleristen.
// Stefan Koldehoff

Die Spezialistin: Priska Pasquer, Köln
Am Anfang stand eigentlich nur der Wunsch, Menschen zu beraten, die sich ernsthaft für Fotografie interessieren: ihnen Sammlungskonzepte vorzuschlagen, Betrachtern die Möglichkeit eröffnen, auch Besitzer zu werden. Kunstgeschichte hatte die Kölner Galeristin Priska Pasquer ursprünglich studiert und währenddessen in der Galerie von Rudolf Kicken gearbeitet.

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Andrei Molodkin whose work we will show from April 17 at our gallery as well at our booth at the upcoming Art Cologne fair will represent Russia at the forthcoming 53rd Biennale di Venezia.

Mika Ninagawa – with whom we are preparing a solo exhibition at our gallery which will open at January 23, 2009 – has a major exhibition in Tokyo:

Mika Ninagawa: Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors
at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery from November 1 to December 28.

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This summer Asako Narahashi received the 24th Higashikawa Domestic Photographer Prize. The artist won the prize for her recent series “half awake and half asleep in the water”, which we will exhibit at our gallery from September 12.

Higashikawa is a small town in Hokkaido, located at the north end of Japan.
The photo festival has been organized for over twenty years since 1985 and it is an important festival for Japanese contemporary photography. The following photographers have been awarded with the Domestic Photographery Prize until now:

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The summer edition of ARTnews magazine¹  has a review of the Rinko Kawauchi exhibition “Utatane” our partner Antoine de Vilmorin organized in Paris this spring.

Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi records the ephemeral scenes that pass by each day barely noticed, searching for the sublime in the banal. The 40 photographs here came from her 2001 series “Utatane”, which means “catnap” and refers to a state of half sleep. The idea of letting go of conscious thought and giving oneself over to intimate moments tied together these breathtaking and occasionally melancholy still lifes, landscapes and portraits.

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1. ARTnews, summer 2008, no. 7, p. 180 [↩]

Rinko Kawauchi has currently a solo exhibition:
Rinko Kawauchi “Cui Cui”
at the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan (until Sept 9).

Since her debut, Rinko Kawauchi has surely established her career both in Japan and overseas. Her works captures ephemeral beauty in everyday life, from life to death, and its circulation, and it has been stimulating our, not only our sight, but also all the other senses.
“Cui Cui”- warble of sparrows in French- is a series of her family’s stories in 13 years Rinko Kawauchi had photographed from 1992 to 2005. Including the newly taken works after 2005, Rinko Kawauchi solo exhibition “Cui Cui” at The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum will show this series of the artist for the first time at a Museum in Japan.
[Quote: Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum]

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Heinz Hajek-Halke has a major retrospective in Munich at the Versicherungs Kammer, Bayern (until Nov. 2):
“Heinz Hajek-Halke. Form aus Licht und Schatten. Retrospektive”
With 150 photographs and glass negatives the exhibition gives a comprehensive overview about the oeuvre of Heinz Hajek-Halke with his early nude photographs and works for magazines, his experimental montages as well as his light graphics of the the 1950s and 1960s.

Galerie Priska Pasquer had exhibited his experimental photographs at the gallery in 2002 and we were also involved in the organization of a solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2002 and in publishing the first comprehensive monograph about the artist in 2006. (See book details and a preview at Steidl Publisher.)

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Our current summer exhibition: “Review / Preview: Japanese photographs by Osamu Shiihara, Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Issei Suda, Asako Narahashi, Rinko Kawauchi and Mika Ninagawa.” is reviewed in the localnews paper Koelner Stadtanzeiger:

Mond, Meer und Sterne
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Andere Sichtweisen präsentiert auch die Galerie Priska Pasquer mit ihrer Gruppenausstellung japanischer Fotografen wie Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Issei Suda, Asako Narahashi und dem Shootingstar Rinko Kawauchi. Damit gibt die Galerie einen ersten wirklichen Überblick über das eigene Programm zur japanischen Fotografie, die Priska Pasquer bereits seit der Gründung in regelmäßigen Einzelausstellungen zeigt – und mit denen sie ihr gutes Gespür beweist. Zu erwähnen sei allein die Ausstellung von Rinko Kawauchi vor zwei Jahren, deren Rückansicht eines Kindes den Katalog der Internationalen Photoszene Köln zierte und das gleichzeitig Titelbild der diesjährigen Messe Paris Photo sein wird.
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Damian Zimmermann, 13.8.08, Ksta.de