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The Rare Avant-Garde Photography of Shigeru Onishi

Galerie Omotesando
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Artists

Shigeru Onishi
Shigeru Onishi was a mathematics researcher who caught the attention of the photography world with a 1955 exhibition and became involved in the subjectivist photography movement. In the 1960s the prominent art critic and collector Michel Tapié praised him as an “avant-garde calligrapher of art informel”, and Onishi even published an art book in Italy. He gave up photography after only a few years however, vanishing from the scene. Using techniques including darkroom multiple exposures, special development methods, and artificial coloring, Onishi’s photographs were visions of unique and fantastical worlds, which art critic Shuzo Takiguchi described as “curiously clouded dissolved states of time and space”. This exhibition presents a selection of some twenty original prints with a focus on Onishi’s photography from the late 1950s, retracing some of the steps of a photographer who has been lost to the present day.

Schedule

May 26 (Mon) 2014-Jun 7 (Sat) 2014 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
12:00-19:00
Closed
Sunday
Until 17:00 on the last day.
FeeFree
VenueGalerie Omotesando
LocationB02 Arch Atrium, 4-17-3 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001
Access5 minute walk from exit A2 at Omotesando Station on the Chiyoda, Hanzomon and Ginza lines. 8 minute walk from exit 5 at Meiji-jinumae Station on the Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines.
Phone03-5775-2469