2019
Bivalvia: Act I
installation view
PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine
At Shiseido Gallery, a solo exhibition by internationally active filmmaker Atsushi Araki, from April 3rd (Wed) to June 23rd (Thursday) of 2019, at the solo show "Akira Araki: LE SOUVENIR DU JAPON Nippon Miyage" "It will be held.
Atsushi Araki won the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival last year, and was a finalist for the Future Generation Art Prize at the Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev in 2019. Through stay productions in various parts of the world, we focus on the propagation and mistranslation of culture, differences and similarities that occur in the process, and create video works based on society and history.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Shiseido Gallery, and in 2022 we will celebrate the 150th anniversary of our founding. Shinzo Fukuhara, the first president of Shiseido, who founded Shiseido Gallery, was also a manager and photographer. After graduating from university, I stayed in the United States and Europe from 1908 to 1913 and integrated what I learned in the West with the sensibility of the East and used it to foster Shiseido's management and aesthetics. In addition, as a photographer, I have left a collection of photographs such as “Ari and Seinu”, “Saiko Lake Landscape”, and “Nunosu Landscape”, which shot foreign countries from a unique perspective.
Shortly before that, there was a French writer who visited Japan during the Meiji era, when Japan was rapidly modernizing and westernizing, and left a writing. Atsushi Araki focused on his writer, Pierre Roti, and selected his work "Autumn Japan" (Japoneries d'Automne, 1889) as one of the material of his work. Pierre Loti (Pierre Loti 1850-1923), a naval officer, has stayed in Polynesia, Africa, Asia, etc. and has written various writings and novels. Although they are drawn with a view from Europe that was in a dominant position in colonial policy, they show strong curiosity and adoration for other cultures, and “autumn Japan” shows beautiful Japanese nature and There are many expressions that admire Japanese aesthetics.
The main video work of this exhibition is based on the “Edo Dance” chapter in “Autumn Japan”. This is a memoir written by Roti who visited a dance event held at the Kanarukan in 1887, with the eyes of 35 years old. Based on this, Akutagawa Ryunosuke wrote the "Brush" in 1920, but it is a 17-year-old innocent Japanese woman who played Roti's dance partner in the ball. In the image, the two originals create a scene in which the East and Western "looks" intersect in the same space-time with the waltz as the axis. And another video work is Araki filming a place recorded by Roti in the chapters of “The Holy City, Kyoto”, “Nikko Reizan”, and “Edo” recorded in “Autumn Japan”, and it is over 100 years ago. I try to describe the "scenery" which is not reflected in the image from the gap with the present.
As a souvenir (souvenir) that transcends time and space that people who are 100 years from now can see this video created by putting different perspectives on a piece of history We aim for this exhibition to hold. Through this work, which brings about the cross-breeding of various differences such as the East and the West, gender, class, generation, and age, it became an opportunity to think about "others understanding" and "tolerance" in the modern society aiming for multicultural coexistence. I'm happy.
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Yu Araki Yu Araki (picture writer)
Born in Yamagata City in 1985. He lives in Tokyo. Graduated from the Department of Fine Arts and Sciences, Department of Visual Arts, University of Washington, Sam Fox, 2007. Graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Image and Media Studies, Master's Program in 2010. Participated in the 2013 Tasita Dean Workshop hosted by the Botine Foundation in Santander, Spain. Stayed in the National Asian Culture Hall of Fame in Gwangju, Korea, and the Ricks Academy in Amsterdam, The Netherlands as a guest resident for 2017-8.
Major exhibitions in recent years: National Museum of Art (Osaka), Desert Island Production (Tokyo), Okayama Art Exchange 2016 (Okayama), Yokohama Museum of Art Gallery 1 (Yokohama), Joan Miro Foundation Center for Contemporary Art Research (Barcelona), Dallas・ Contemporary (Dallas) and many others at home and abroad. The film has been screened at BFI London Film Festival, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Recontres Internationales Paris / Berlin, Ebisu Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival and many other film festivals. In 2018, two films of “Mountain Plain Mountain” co-directed with the short film “WRONG REVISION | Rimei Nihen” were officially invited to the 47th Rotterdam International Film Festival, and the latter won the Tiger Award. In 2019, she is elected as a finalist for the 5th Future Generation Art Prize sponsored by the Viktor Pinchuk Foundation in Kiev.
2018
LOST HIGHWAY (Sweded)
installation view
Volvo Studio Aoyama, Tokyo
2012
ALMOST DOWN
installation view
"Araki Akira Exhibition: LE SOUVENIR DU JAPON Nippon Nomiyage"
Organized by: Shiseido Co., Ltd. Period: April 3 (Wed)-June 23 (Sun), 2019
Venue: Shiseido Gallery 〒 104-0061
Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 8-8-3 Tokyo Ginza Shiseido Building B1F
Tel: 03-3752-3901 Fax: 03-3572-3951
Weekdays 11: 00-19: 00 Sundays and Public Holidays 11: 00-18: 00
Closed every Monday (even when Monday falls on a public holiday)
free entrance
