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]
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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.
Getty publication on August Sander (2000):
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
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