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11/10/2007

Rinko Kawauchi

Cohan and Leslie, New York

For our next exhibition we are pleased to debut 15 new photographs by Rinko Kawauchi, which are a preview of her upcoming publication Utatane II.

The first volume of Utatane was Kawauchi’s first publication (2001), and as something of an art publishing phenomenon, it has since sold 30,000 copies worldwide. The images in Utatane II continue to capture ephemeral and fleeting moments, whether found or staged by the artist. She has a particular interest in fragility and impermanence, communicated through images of short lived insects, transitory bubbles or an x-ray of her own broken ribs.

Kawauchi is often drawn to representations of nascent life, the show includes one photograph of a breast feeding infant, but also studies and bluntly portrays death. Recent publications have included unsentimental images of slaughtered animals, and an intimate record of her grandfather’s death, and her family’s mourning.

Rinko Kawauchi is concurrently the subject of a solo show at the Museum de Arte Moderna in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She has also recently had solo shows at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, The Hasselblad Center in Gotteborg, Sweden and The Photographer’sGallery, London.

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138 Tenth Avenue - New York

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