![]() ![]() The lack of color averts a stained glass effect and the insinuation of religious grandeur, creating instead the feeling of a private space for memories. This window is covered with photographic images printed on transparent film in monochrome. Staircase: Untitled (2015, ink-jet on colton film)Ī particularly distinctive feature of the Hara Museum is its stairwell window through which beautiful sunlight enters. Pet animals remain in their cages again todayĬontinuing to live towards death day by day Our food consists of every kind of dead body If we look closely, we see life and death overflow to a depressing degreeĬolor overflows within black, black lurks within color This exhibition includes many that are being shown to the public for the first time. Since starting the series, Ninagawa has continued to add new works. These previous works embodied the changes in her perception and interpretations amidst a shifting environment and society. When noir was published in 2010, it contained many never before shown photos, as well as those that appeared before in other books. Noir is a group of works that reveals the “unvarnished self” of the artist. Gallery II: noir (2010 -, ink-jet, C-print) (Equipment support:sonihouse/Editing by: ZUMI) Music, specially composed by Keiichiro Shibuya to accompany the video images, is presented within an acoustic environment created by sound artist evala as an infinite succession of sounds that are never repeated. Gallery I: Untitled (2015, video and sound installation) 8′ 38″ (loop)Ī video installation comprising three large projections on three walls of the gallery. In 2014, she was appointed as an executive board member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2020. Her second directorial effort, Helter Skelter, opened in 2012 and was awarded the Silver Kaneto Shindo Award 2012. The exhibition Mika Ninagawa: Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors (2008) was launched at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery and toured art museums throughout Japan, where it attracted some 180,000 viewers. Critically acclaimed in Japan and abroad, the film was a special entry at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival and the 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival. She directed her first feature-length film SAKURAN, which opened in 2007. To date, she has published about 90 books. Winner of many awards including the Grand Prize of the 7th Hitotsuboten, the Excellent Award of the 13th Canon New Cosmos of Photography Prize, the 9th Konica Photo Encouragement Award, the 26th Kimura Ihei Award and the Ohara Museum of Art Award (the 13th VOCA 2006 Exhibition). This exhibition features about 150 pieces centered on never-before-shown works (including a new video/sound installation).īorn in Tokyo, Japan. Together they present a “self-image” described by Ninagawa as being “close to her raw and unguarded self”. The vitality and splendor conveyed in her colors – dubbed “Ninagawa Color” – and images of teen idols and flowers stand in stark contrast to the sense of distortion, decline, stagnation and even death that she captures in other work.Īt the core of the exhibition are Ninagawa’s noir series, a study of darkness and shadows that broke new ground for the artist, her PLANT A TREE series of cherry blossoms scattered on the surface of rivers created during a period of intense focus, and her monochrome self-portraits which she began at the start of her career and has added intermittently since then. Known for her vivid and richly colorful photographs, Ninagawa is an artist who continually challenges herself, expanding in recent years into the areas of cinema, music videos and even collaborations with fashion designers, while maintaining a style that is uniquely her own. The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to announce a solo exhibition by the internationally active photographer Mika Ninagawa. Mika Ninagawa: Self-image Dates : January 24 (Saturday) – May 10 (Sunday), 2015 ![]()
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