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12/11/2012

Daido Moriyama

Polka Galerie, Paris

Daido Moriyama

Part. II : Paris

Form 1988 to 1990, Daido Moriyama lived in Paris first on rue Mouffetard, then on rue du Cherche-midi. In 1999, photographs from his stay were published, almost confidentially, in the “Visions of Japan” collection curated by Japanese editor Korinsha. Polka Galerie is proud to present a selection of thirty prints from this series never exhibited before.

Daido Moriyama harps on Modern occidental artists like Robert Doisneau’s famous photograph in front of the “Hôtel de ville” and Claude Monet’s “Gare Saint-Lazare”. But above all, it is Eugene Atget and his “Photographe de Paris”’s influence that looms over his work. On Moriyama’s images, one can find either narrow streets photographed day and night and cramped with often-empty shops, or beggars lost in the city’s architecture. “Paris” also shows Daido Moriyama’s almost obsessive love of graphic games and shop windows.

By the end of the seventies, Daido Moriyama had exchanged several conversations with Takuma Nakahira, co-founder of the “Provoke” magazine and author of a visionary essay on Eugene Atget’s work “Looking at the city, or the Look from the City” (1973).

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Cycle Daido Moriyama
Part. III : Sérigraphies

The Daido Moriyama cycle, Part. III : Silkscreens

In 1967, Andy Warhol’s silkscreens were exhibited for the first time in Japan. 29-year-old Daido Moriyama showed an immediate interest for this crafty technique, which he saw as an obvious extension of photography.

Daido Moriyama’s first silkscreen dates back to 1969. It was made for the cover of the photo magazine “Asahi Camera”.

In 1974, he organized his first exhibition of silkscreens called “Harley Davidson”, showing six large-scale pieces in Tokyo. The same year, Daido Moriyama also convened his first “printing show” where contenders were invited to compose their own version of the book “Another Country in New-York”, printed on a Canon U-Bix printer. They then chose between two covers silk-screened on the spot by the photographer. In 1975, for the “Ouka” (Cherry flower) exhibition Daido Moriyama printed a paper silkscreen image of this flower.

Yet, it is only in 2007 that Daido Moriyama decided to use once again the silkscreen technique on canvas to produce exclusive editions of large masterpieces. Twenty of these silkscreens are exhibited for the first timeat Polka Galerie.

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