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Noboru Owada Exhibition
Art Lab Tokyo
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Noboru Owada
Noboru Owada's landscape photos of Yokohama, suburban Yokosuka and Misaki feature neglected and dilapidated factories, pylons and mundane street corners, but each of these subjects has a strong sense of presence. His method of repeatedly shooting the same category of objects recalls the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher, but compared to the Bechers' impassive stance, Owada's work demonstrates a stronger sympathy towards his subjects, as well as a sternness associated with artists like Walker Evans or Edward Weston. There is also something of an anonymous, multicultural statelessness in these photos - much like Owada himself, who was raised in Yokohama.
Owada's photos, in fact, are not photos at all. They are stoic and static, and the influence of Lacan's Symbolic order is palpable. Perhaps there is something inherently and strikingly "artistic" about these works that distinguish them from much of recent contemporary photography, which evokes nothing except either an Imaginary or Realistic order. In fact, the extraordinary knowledge that pertains to Owada's art is something that was mass produced by these kinds of works without anyone suspecting a thing.
-Hidehiko Mizuno (art critic)
Owada's photos, in fact, are not photos at all. They are stoic and static, and the influence of Lacan's Symbolic order is palpable. Perhaps there is something inherently and strikingly "artistic" about these works that distinguish them from much of recent contemporary photography, which evokes nothing except either an Imaginary or Realistic order. In fact, the extraordinary knowledge that pertains to Owada's art is something that was mass produced by these kinds of works without anyone suspecting a thing.
-Hidehiko Mizuno (art critic)
Schedule | Nov 16 (Mon) 2009-Nov 28 (Sat) 2009 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Nov 21 (Sat) 2009 18:00 - 00:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Art Lab Tokyo | ||||
| Location | 202, 2-7-26 Kitaaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0061 | ||||
| Access | 2 minute walk from exit 2b at Gaienmae Station on the Ginza line. 11 minute walk from exit 1 at Aoyama-itchome Station on the Ginza and Hanzomon lines or Toei Oedo line. 11 minute walk from exit B4 at Omotesando Station on the Ginza, Hanzomon and Chiyoda lines. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6231-6768 | ||||
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