Naoya Hatakeyama
dal 26/7/2002 al 31/8/2002
Segnalato da
26/7/2002
Naoya Hatakeyama
L.A. Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt
Slow Glass. Hatakeyama photographed streets and landscapes through a glass plate covered with drops of water. The focus, however, is not on the scenery behind the glass, which dissolves into fuzzy colors and shapes like a watercolor painting, but on the water drops that rest on top of the picture similar to a relief and refract light. The landscapes behind the glass seem strangely unfamiliar and lost.
Slow Glass
Naoya Hatakeyama produced the Slow Glass series as artist in residence in
Milton Keynes/England in 2001, working outside of his native Japan for the first
time. This new oeuvre is readily discernible from his earlier works.
Hatakeyama
photographed streets and landscapes through a glass plate covered with drops
of water. The focus, however, is not on the scenery behind the glass, which
dissolves into fuzzy colors and shapes like a watercolor painting, but on the water
drops that rest on top of the picture similar to a relief and refract light.
The
landscapes behind the glass seem strangely unfamiliar and lost.
As in all of
Hatakeyama's works, the composition of the pictures is extremely precise.
The title of the series goes back to a science-fiction story by Bob Shaw. It
revolves around the invention of a special type of glass, which retrieves scenes
from the past.
Slow Glass, then, can be read as a reflection on the nature of
remembrance through the medium of photography.
The artist will be present at
the opening.
Tue-Fri 12.00 - 19.00 Sat 11.00 - 16.00
In the picture: Naoya Hatakeyama, From the Series "Slow Glass", 2001, C-Print mounted,
approx. 90 x 120 cm (35 x 47 inches)
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