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Ryuhei Yokoyama "Holes and Scars"
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Ryuhei Yokoyama
Kana Kawanishi Gallery is pleased to present "Holes and Scars", a solo exhibition by Ryuhei Yokoyama, starting June 10th, 2022.
Yokoyama is a Japanese photographer who questions “What is a city?” by capturing Tokyo with monochrome film. In the "Wall" series, which has been exhibited since 2020, he created a new style of urban landscape photography, inspired by his lifework of thousands of archival photographs of graffiti in Shibuya and the changing nature of the urban landscape.
In this exhibition, Yokoyama will present a further sterical view of the city by combining his new series, with his representative series, "Wall". These photographs of various objects lying on the street are printed out and then, like the trash in the city that is left out in the open, undergo a condensed process of weathering to completion. To recoil from the concept of mass production and mass consumption in contemporary society, which places value only on brand new objects, the artist takes great care in each step of the process, from the selection of the subject matter to the printing process, suggesting that the actual value lies in the passage of time and the appearance of weathering, and thus concentrates these images as a new perception of the city.
Yokoyama is a Japanese photographer who questions “What is a city?” by capturing Tokyo with monochrome film. In the "Wall" series, which has been exhibited since 2020, he created a new style of urban landscape photography, inspired by his lifework of thousands of archival photographs of graffiti in Shibuya and the changing nature of the urban landscape.
In this exhibition, Yokoyama will present a further sterical view of the city by combining his new series, with his representative series, "Wall". These photographs of various objects lying on the street are printed out and then, like the trash in the city that is left out in the open, undergo a condensed process of weathering to completion. To recoil from the concept of mass production and mass consumption in contemporary society, which places value only on brand new objects, the artist takes great care in each step of the process, from the selection of the subject matter to the printing process, suggesting that the actual value lies in the passage of time and the appearance of weathering, and thus concentrates these images as a new perception of the city.
Schedule | Jun 10 (Fri) 2022-Jul 16 (Sat) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.kanakawanishi.com/exhibition-034-yokoyama-holesandscars-en | ||||
| Venue | Kana Kawanishi Gallery http://www.kanakawanishi.com/ | ||||
| Location | 1F 4-7-6 Shirakawa, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0021 | ||||
| Access | 9 minute walk from exit B2 at Kiyosumi Shirakawa Station on the Hanzomon line. 9 minute walk from exit A4 at Kikukawa Station on the Toei Shinjuku line. 14 minute walk from exit A3 at Kiyosumi Shirakawa Station on the Toei Oedo line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5843-9128 | ||||
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