Hiroh Kikai
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Hiroh Kikai Asakusa Portraits
The Asakusa quarter of Tokyo was once home to the city’s historic pleasure palaces, and today embraces a stubbornly independent popular culture that encompasses traditional comedy theater and houses of erotic entertainment. Asakusa attracts outcasts from Japan’s modern consumer society and is also the home of the famous Senso-ji temple, which attracts floods of tourists from around the country. Over the past two decades, Hiroh Kikai has created an extensive and unforgettable series of street portraits from the enormous flow of people passing through
the district. Posed against the bare walls of the Senso-ji temple, these strong, severe, lonely studies radiate a shared sense of hard-won, idiosyncratic individuality. The photographs are accompanied by Kikai’s own pithy, sometimes humorous descriptions of... - Exposition
Exhibition : « The Order of Things » from The Walther Collection
The Walther Collection presents "The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection", a major exhibition exploring how the organization of photographs into systematic sequences or typologies has affected modern visual culture. The Order of Things investigates the production and uses of serial portraiture, conceptual structures, vernacular imagery, and time-based performance in photography from the 1880s to the present, bringing together works by artists from Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America. Curated by Brian Wallis, former Chief Curator at the International Center of Photography in New York, the exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Steidl/The Walther Collection.
Throughout the modern era, photography has been enlisted to classify the world and its people. Driven by a be... - Exposition
La in)(between gallery présente Hiroh Kikai
Hiroh Kikai est l’une des figures majeures de la scène photographique japonaise contemporaine.
Ses œuvres, exposées au Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, à l’International Center of Photography à New York ou encore à la Neue Nationalgalerie à Berlin, sont pour la première fois présentées à l’occasion d’une exposition personnelle en France.
Depuis plus de 35 ans, Hiroh Kikai arpente les rues du quartier d’Asakusa à Tokyo à la recherche de personnalités uniques, étranges ou atypiques.
Né au Japon, dans la préfecture de Yamagata, il étudie la philosophie à l’université d’Hosei à Tokyo et découvre alors le travail artistique de Diane Arbus. Frappé par la qualité de ses images et la justesse de son regard, il déci...
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The Asakusa quarter of Tokyo was once home to the city’s historic pleasure palaces, and today embraces a stubbornly independent popular culture that encompasses traditional comedy theater and houses of erotic entertainment. Asakusa attracts outcasts from Japan’s modern consumer society and is also the home of the famous Senso-ji temple, which attracts floods of tourists from around the country. Over the past two decades, Hiroh Kikai has created an extensive and unforgettable series of street portraits from the enormous flow of people passing through
the district. Posed against the bare walls of the Senso-ji temple, these strong, severe, lonely studies radiate a shared sense of hard-won, idiosyncratic individuality. The photographs are accompanied by Kikai’s own pithy, sometimes humorous descriptions of...
The Walther Collection presents "The Order of Things: Photography from The Walther Collection", a major exhibition exploring how the organization of photographs into systematic sequences or typologies has affected modern visual culture. The Order of Things investigates the production and uses of serial portraiture, conceptual structures, vernacular imagery, and time-based performance in photography from the 1880s to the present, bringing together works by artists from Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America. Curated by Brian Wallis, former Chief Curator at the International Center of Photography in New York, the exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Steidl/The Walther Collection.
Throughout the modern era, photography has been enlisted to classify the world and its people. Driven by a be...
Hiroh Kikai est l’une des figures majeures de la scène photographique japonaise contemporaine.
Ses œuvres, exposées au Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, à l’International Center of Photography à New York ou encore à la Neue Nationalgalerie à Berlin, sont pour la première fois présentées à l’occasion d’une exposition personnelle en France.
Depuis plus de 35 ans, Hiroh Kikai arpente les rues du quartier d’Asakusa à Tokyo à la recherche de personnalités uniques, étranges ou atypiques.
Né au Japon, dans la préfecture de Yamagata, il étudie la philosophie à l’université d’Hosei à Tokyo et découvre alors le travail artistique de Diane Arbus. Frappé par la qualité de ses images et la justesse de son regard, il déci...