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Daisuke Takakura “Monodramatic / Loose Polyhedron”
Sony Imaging Gallery Ginza
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Daisuke Takakura
This exhibit features representative works from Takakura’s “Monodramatic” seriesand his newly released “Loose Polyhedron” series.
Takakura coined the title of his “Monodramatic” series from the words monodrama and dramatic. These works incorporate theatrical and design elements from hiscore profession into a “monodrama” motif.
Here, in order to recount and express the “multifaceted nature” and “potential” of an individual and that person’s ‘multidimensional self” that whirls around a crowd of others, Takakura principally borrows actors and physical expressionists as subjects and digitally synthesizes the movements and emotions they imagine and theatrically express while in character into a single photograph.
Takakura’s “Loose Polyhedron” is a series of works imagined as a “typology of emotions.” Here, he has had his subjects complete a polygonal emotional balance chart *, then visualized those results by synthesizing photos of their emotions into exceptionally unique images.
* This balance chart projects how the emotions of joy, anger, grief and pleasure one has balance out and manifest on a daily basis.
Takakura reflects the results of his research in the distance from his lens. When taking pictures, he positions the straightforward emotions that are shown often in the foreground and those that are suppressed or come out little farther away from the lens. Overlaid into a single photo, the variety of emotions one has, including those that are normally hidden, become readily visible.
Thanks to digital technology, Takakura can carefully build his works piece by piece into an intricately calculated composition, but what he expresses is very human and poses the “question of what it means to be human.”
This is what you will see at this exhibition.
Takakura coined the title of his “Monodramatic” series from the words monodrama and dramatic. These works incorporate theatrical and design elements from hiscore profession into a “monodrama” motif.
Here, in order to recount and express the “multifaceted nature” and “potential” of an individual and that person’s ‘multidimensional self” that whirls around a crowd of others, Takakura principally borrows actors and physical expressionists as subjects and digitally synthesizes the movements and emotions they imagine and theatrically express while in character into a single photograph.
Takakura’s “Loose Polyhedron” is a series of works imagined as a “typology of emotions.” Here, he has had his subjects complete a polygonal emotional balance chart *, then visualized those results by synthesizing photos of their emotions into exceptionally unique images.
* This balance chart projects how the emotions of joy, anger, grief and pleasure one has balance out and manifest on a daily basis.
Takakura reflects the results of his research in the distance from his lens. When taking pictures, he positions the straightforward emotions that are shown often in the foreground and those that are suppressed or come out little farther away from the lens. Overlaid into a single photo, the variety of emotions one has, including those that are normally hidden, become readily visible.
Thanks to digital technology, Takakura can carefully build his works piece by piece into an intricately calculated composition, but what he expresses is very human and poses the “question of what it means to be human.”
This is what you will see at this exhibition.
Schedule | Jul 29 (Fri) 2016-Aug 19 (Fri) 2016 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||
| Venue | Sony Imaging Gallery Ginza http://www.sony.co.jp/united/imaging/gallery/  | ||
| Location | 6F Ginza Place, 5-8-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061 | ||
| Access | Direct walk from exit A4 at Ginza Station on the Ginza, Hibiya and Marunouchi lines. 2 minute walk from exit A1 at Higashi-ginza Station on the Hibiya or Toei Asakusa line. 5 minute walk from exit 9 at Ginza-itchome Station on the Yurakucho line. | ||
| Phone | 03-3571-7606 | ||
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