European Eyes on Japan
dal 12/7/2009 al 15/8/2009
Segnalato da
12/7/2009
European Eyes on Japan
Contemporary Art Centre - CAC, Vilnius
Japan Today vol.11. In the last ten years, 45 European photographers have visited 30 prefectures of Japan and depicted it in its myriad guises. The project is scheduled to continue every year and to take photographers to Japan's 47 prefectures.
curated by Mikiko Kikuta
Artists: Arturas Valiauga (LT), Andrew Phelps (AT), Hans-Christian Schink (DE)
The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, has the pleasure of inviting you to the
opening of the photography exhibition European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today vol.11
Launched in 1999, the European Eyes on Japan/Japan Today takes European
photographers to Japan to discover and document aspects of Japanese contemporary
life that local photographers are inured to. In the last ten years, 45 European
photographers have visited 30 prefectures of Japan and depicted it in its myriad
guises. The project is scheduled to continue every year and to take photographers to
Japan's 47 prefectures.
This is the eleventh project in the series and is a group exhibition of three
photographers who visited Niigata prefecture. Arturas Valiauga (from Lithuania)
focuses on everyday food shot in an expressionistic manner using specialised lenses,
Andrew Phelps (from Austria) documented people, landscapes, and dwellings, and
Hans-Christian Schink (from Germany) took large-format silver gelatine images to
create ghostly landscapes.
Image: Andrew Phelps
Monday 13 July: Artist talk: 16:30, Opening ceremony: 17:00
Contemporary Art Centre - CAC
Vokieciu 2 - Vilnius