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Tatsuo Takahashi "Alphaville"
Gendai Heights Gallery Den
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Tatsuo Takahashi
The photographs on display form a direct link between the female body on the one hand and the city on the other. This perspective is not a new thing; it's been done before during 80s and 90s by people like Robert Longo and Eric Fischer. But here, Takahashi focused on Murakami Haruki's novel "After Dark" which was written as a response to the literary world of Kazushige Abe and the likes.
It seemed as if the 80s-like aesthetics of conspiracy and concealment was consumed and long gone as a genre and mentality, but Murakami used this vast potential in the form of archival resource, from which he could quote. What Murakami did was remix this 80s mentality, thus giving it a new meaning. Takahashi's working process is similar: he, too, uses long-consumed themes, rearranging them with a present-day attitude in order to re-acknowledge their potential. He portrays the nocturnal quarters of Shinjuku, Shimokitazawa and Kyodo as though they were cities where neither place nor time exist anymore. Women, too, are portrayed as beings without a name nor body. The vigorous eros that rules there is a symbol for what Takahashi calls the 'modern-day transparent world'. This exhibition is entitled after French director Godard's famous movie "Alphaville".
Related event:
Live Alphaville 11/30
featuring Dragon Castle, Tetsuro Yasunaga and Yuta Kawasaki.
Dragon Castle is a sound- and video-artist duo: Tattaka aka Tatsuo Takahashi and Kazuki Yanai mix reading and vocals with movie samples and adlib guitar.
Doors open at 7h30 pm, starts at 8 pm, finishes at 9 pm
Entrance fee: ¥1500 with free drink
It seemed as if the 80s-like aesthetics of conspiracy and concealment was consumed and long gone as a genre and mentality, but Murakami used this vast potential in the form of archival resource, from which he could quote. What Murakami did was remix this 80s mentality, thus giving it a new meaning. Takahashi's working process is similar: he, too, uses long-consumed themes, rearranging them with a present-day attitude in order to re-acknowledge their potential. He portrays the nocturnal quarters of Shinjuku, Shimokitazawa and Kyodo as though they were cities where neither place nor time exist anymore. Women, too, are portrayed as beings without a name nor body. The vigorous eros that rules there is a symbol for what Takahashi calls the 'modern-day transparent world'. This exhibition is entitled after French director Godard's famous movie "Alphaville".
Related event:
Live Alphaville 11/30
featuring Dragon Castle, Tetsuro Yasunaga and Yuta Kawasaki.
Dragon Castle is a sound- and video-artist duo: Tattaka aka Tatsuo Takahashi and Kazuki Yanai mix reading and vocals with movie samples and adlib guitar.
Doors open at 7h30 pm, starts at 8 pm, finishes at 9 pm
Entrance fee: ¥1500 with free drink
Schedule | Nov 24 (Thu) 2005-Dec 6 (Tue) 2005 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Gendai Heights Gallery Den | ||||
| Location | 1-45-36, Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 155-0031 | ||||
| Access | 4 minutes walk from Ikenoue Station on the Keio Inokashira Line, 10 minutes walk from Shimokitazawa Station on the Keio Inokashira Line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3469-1659 | ||||
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