Two exhibitions
dal 7/3/2007 al 14/4/2007
Segnalato da
7/3/2007
Two exhibitions
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
The photographs in Yasumura's series, Domestic Scandals, were taken in his parents' middle- class home in Japan over the course of seven years. Ms. Serpytyte's series was inspired by the mysterious death of the artist's father, who had been a minister in the Lithuanian government.
Takashi Yasumura
Domestic Scandals
Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to announce Domestic Scandals, an exhibition of color photographs by Takashi Yasumura. The exhibition will open on March 8, and close on April 14, 2007, with a reception for the artist on Thursday, March 8, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States.
The photographs in Yasumura’s series, Domestic Scandals, were taken in his parents’ middle- class home in Japan over the course of seven years. Using a four-by-five-inch camera, the artist focuses on objects as found in the home’s interior, where traditional Japanese decorations and objects have been replaced by or are juxtaposed with modern, plastic and mass-produced goods. The color-saturated photographs of everyday items and backgrounds— a hot pink stapler against cool tiled walls, a boom box placed near sliding doors, and a pair of Spiderman slippers on a linoleum-covered floor—are void of the sentimentality thought to exist within the domestic realm.
With humor and irony, Mr. Yasumura documents the paradoxical beauty found in the meeting of traditional and modern objects. Yasumura’s sleek 37 x 48-inch C-prints reflect the increasing shift within Japanese society from long-standing cultural values and practices to an imagined Westernized ideal of progress and modernity.
Takashi Yasumura’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Parco Museum, Tokyo in 2005; and the Real Jardín Botánico as part of PHotoEspaña 2006; as well as in group exhibitions at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo (in a show that toured to Osaka and Sendai); and at the Pingyao International Photography Show in China. He graduated from Nihon University’s College of Art in 1995 and was the recipient of Cannon’s 8th “New Cosmos of Photography” Grand Prize in 1999. Mr. Yasumura was born in Shiga Prefecture, Japan in 1972. He currently lives and works in Tokyo.
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Indre Serpytyte
A State of Silence
Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of an additional ground-floor gallery space. Located steps away from the existing gallery (525 West 25th Street), the new gallery is at 531 West 25th Street (in the space formerly occupied by ClampArt) and will be called Yossi Milo Gallery North. The new gallery space will function as both a public exhibition space, with three or four shows each year, and private viewing room.
Yossi Milo Gallery will inaugurate the North Gallery with an exhibition of color photographs by Indre Serpytyte entitled “A State of Silence”. The opening of Ms. Serpytyte’s show in the North Gallery will coincide with the opening of an exhibition of Takashi Yasumura’s photographs in the existing gallery. All of the photographs in Takashi Yasumura’s series Domestic Scandals were taken in his middle-class parents’ Japanese home over the course of seven years. Images of simple interiors and common domestic objects, such as rolls of toilet paper, a stapler or a plastic bowl of oranges, juxtapose traditional Japanese sensibility with modern, often manufactured Western elements, making the everyday appear alien, hyperreal and humorous.
Ms. Serpytyte’s series was inspired by the mysterious death of the artist’s father, who had been a minister in the Lithuanian government. The family was informed that he died in a car accident and was given few details about the circumstances surrounding his sudden death. Faced with a lack of information, Ms. Serpytyte began what she refers to as “indefatigable investigations” into what happened to her father and to begin this series of still-life photographs. The artist transforms what might otherwise be seen as mundane items of daily life – an officer’s cap, an old-fashioned typewriter, a telephone wrapped by its cord – into signifiers of loss. The 20 x 24-inch glossy C-prints depict single objects against ambiguous, dark backgrounds.
Ms. Serpytyte was the recipient of a Jerwood Photography Award in 2006. The artist was born in Lithuania in 1983, received her BA from the University of Brighton in 2006, and currently lives and works in London.
Yossi Milo Gallery
525 West 25th Street 212 - New York
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