by Ferdinand on November 1, 2008
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.
by Ferdinand on September 5, 2008
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:
by Ferdinand on September 3, 2008
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.
by Ferdinand on August 24, 2008
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]
by Ferdinand on August 21, 2008
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.)
by Ferdinand on August 15, 2008
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
[...]
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.
[...]
Damian Zimmermann, 13.8.08, Ksta.de
by Ferdinand on July 27, 2008
Rinko Kawauchi, Mika Ninagawa and Asako Narahashi have been featured in recent publications on photography and art.
Rinko Kawauchi and Mika Ninagawa are included in two new books:
Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century
Uta Grosenick, Thomas Seelig (editors)
Aperture, New York 2008
As digital technologies and the homogenization of trends continue to impact photography, there are those artists who rise above the fray, producing compelling work that causes a commotion. Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century features the latest, greatest, and newly up-and-coming artists responsible for this furor.
[Quote: Aperture]
Tokyolife: Art and Design
Ina Luna, Lauren A. Gould, Tom Mes, Jasper Sharp, Yoshida Mika, David G. Imber
Rizzoli, New York 2008
by Ferdinand on June 12, 2008
We just returned from the Art Basel 39 and three of the artists we exhibited at the fair are currently on show in US and Japanese museums:
August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century
The Getty Center, Los Angeles
May 6 – September 14, 2008
The exhibition shows a selection of 130 portraits from the the Getty’s remarkable collection of 1,200-plus works by August Sander.
People of the Twentieth Century, the collective portrait of German society made by German photographer August Sander, has fascinated viewers from its earliest presentation in a 1927 exhibition and the controversial publication of a selection of 60 images in the book Face of the Time published two years later. Despite Sander’s dedication over five decades to the idea and compilation of this portrait atlas of the German people, the project remained unfinished. Nonetheless, his photographs remain compelling, in part because he chose to categorize his subjects by profession or social class. The images are thus representations of types, as he intended them to be, rather than portraits of individuals.
[Quote: Getty Center]
The Los Angeles Times had a positive review of the August Sander exhibition.
Daido Moriyama “I. Retrospective 1965-2005″ & “II. Hawaii”
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
May 13 – June 29
by Ferdinand on May 15, 2008
A short note on AIPAD Photography Show New York, which was held from April 10 through Sunday, April 13 at the Park Avenue Armory. This year AIPAD organized a Gala Benefit Preview at the opening night of the fair. It was held to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art. The Benefit Preview as well as the whole fair was well attended.
by Ferdinand on April 6, 2008
Last Thursday, April 3, our partner Antoine de Vilmorin opened the Rinko Kawauchi exhibition “Utatane” (Siesta”) in Paris. The opening which took place in an art space in the Marais was well attended.
