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Yuki Onodera "Portrait of Secondhand Clothes"
Gallery Kido Press
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Yuki Onodera
Yuki Onodera is an internationally active artist based in Paris. Her works are part of the collections of not only museums in Japan but also many in other countries around the world, including the Pompidou Center in Paris, Shanghai Art Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
In May of this year, the Pompidou Center is going to include some of her works in the theme-based exhibit entitled "Elle" to follow its "Big Bang" exhibit that made such a splash. The "Elle" exhibit will contain many works in the "Portrait of Second-hand Clothes" series that is also featured in this publication. And in 2010, Onodera is scheduled to have three mutually different solo exhibits at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Museum of Photography, Seoul (Korea), and the Niepce Museum (France). As this suggests, there is keen interest in her future activities.
For this publication, Onodera newly produced works in the "Portrait of Second-hand Clothes" series, her hallmark opus that is also part of the Pompidou Center collection, by photogravure, an intaglio technique. With an abiding interest in silver-chloride photography and large baryta prints, in photogravure she discovered directions differing from the hard depictions of ordinary photography. Photogravure offers the intensity and presence of paintings along with material offering a substantive feel while retaining the traces of nuance left by intricate manual touches.
She became convinced that here was a technique of particularly precious value and appeal today, when digital prints have become the standard.
For these photogravure works, Onodera produced a distinctively warm and delicate material by printing two shades of ink on fine blue-gray gampi-tissue paper with a glossy look, to better bring out the pictorial content hidden in them.
"Portrait of Second-hand Clothes" was Onodera's first work after she moved to France in 1993. In the same year, Christian Boltanski, one of the leading artists in France today, staged a solo show entitled "Dispersion" in a huge warehouse. Essentially, Onodera reused = photographed the second-hand clothes from his installation. While Boltanski built a gigantic pyramid of discarded apparel to express the death of mass, she viewed each article as an independent personality and turned each into art as a portrait.
From the history of a people to the memory of an individual...the drift of critique toward existentiality is clearly the undercurrent of the "Portrait of Second-hand Clothes" series. Cutting a stark figure against the constantly changing skies of Montmartre, it gives the viewer a genuine feel of both the beauty of works of art and their factual existence as items. Onodera's unique collaboration of images and photogravure is bound to open up new vistas in the imagination of all art lovers who see them.
In May of this year, the Pompidou Center is going to include some of her works in the theme-based exhibit entitled "Elle" to follow its "Big Bang" exhibit that made such a splash. The "Elle" exhibit will contain many works in the "Portrait of Second-hand Clothes" series that is also featured in this publication. And in 2010, Onodera is scheduled to have three mutually different solo exhibits at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Museum of Photography, Seoul (Korea), and the Niepce Museum (France). As this suggests, there is keen interest in her future activities.
For this publication, Onodera newly produced works in the "Portrait of Second-hand Clothes" series, her hallmark opus that is also part of the Pompidou Center collection, by photogravure, an intaglio technique. With an abiding interest in silver-chloride photography and large baryta prints, in photogravure she discovered directions differing from the hard depictions of ordinary photography. Photogravure offers the intensity and presence of paintings along with material offering a substantive feel while retaining the traces of nuance left by intricate manual touches.
She became convinced that here was a technique of particularly precious value and appeal today, when digital prints have become the standard.
For these photogravure works, Onodera produced a distinctively warm and delicate material by printing two shades of ink on fine blue-gray gampi-tissue paper with a glossy look, to better bring out the pictorial content hidden in them.
"Portrait of Second-hand Clothes" was Onodera's first work after she moved to France in 1993. In the same year, Christian Boltanski, one of the leading artists in France today, staged a solo show entitled "Dispersion" in a huge warehouse. Essentially, Onodera reused = photographed the second-hand clothes from his installation. While Boltanski built a gigantic pyramid of discarded apparel to express the death of mass, she viewed each article as an independent personality and turned each into art as a portrait.
From the history of a people to the memory of an individual...the drift of critique toward existentiality is clearly the undercurrent of the "Portrait of Second-hand Clothes" series. Cutting a stark figure against the constantly changing skies of Montmartre, it gives the viewer a genuine feel of both the beauty of works of art and their factual existence as items. Onodera's unique collaboration of images and photogravure is bound to open up new vistas in the imagination of all art lovers who see them.
Schedule | Sep 5 (Sat) 2009-Oct 3 (Sat) 2009 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Sep 5 (Sat) 2009 17:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Gallery Kido Press | ||||
| Location | 1F Yokoyama Bldg., 3-3-3 Kudan Minami, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0074 | ||||
| Access | 6 minute walk from exit A4 at Ichigaya Station on the Namboku and Yurakucho lines or Toei Shinjuku line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5817-8988 | ||||
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