Takuma Nakahira, a leading Japanese photographer, was born in 1938, the same year as Daido Moriyama, and shortly after the publication of "Dueling Photography," co-authored with Kishin Shinoyama in 1977, he fell ill and was on the verge of death, losing most of his memory, but resumed photography the following year.
."CASE TOKYOwill host Takuma Nakahira's exhibition "Flooding" from Saturday, March 10 to Saturday, April 14.
Flood" is a 6-meter wide by 1.6-meter long installation of 48 color photographs that Nakahira created and exhibited for the "15 Photographers" exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo in 1974. Ivy crawling on the wall, manholes on the street, tires of large trucks, sharks in an aquarium seen through glass, inside a subway yard... The photographs in "Flood" are fragments of the city that the photographer encounters and captures on a daily basis. They can be seen as eerie rifts in an urban space inundated with information, commodities, and things.
In conjunction with the publication of the book of the same title, "Flooding" (CASE Publishing), the exhibition will feature an installation of the finished photo book, disassembled and reassembled, reproduced on the walls of the space.
On Saturday, March 24, a crosstalk show will be held between Shino Kuraishi (poet and critic) and Satohito Hakkaku (critic). It is said that Nakahira, who initially worked as an editor by profession, tried to choose between poetry or photography when he moved onto the path of expression. Of course, the result was the latter, but he also published a book of mainly words. Isn't this a very ambitious selection by the gallery?
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The beauty of an artist is that even if he or she is deceased, he or she can communicate with people in later years through his or her works. Please come and see for yourself what you can sense in Nakahira's work from more than 40 years ago.
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Takuma Nakahira "Flooding
Dates: Saturday, March 10 - Saturday, April 14, 2018
Venue: CASE TOKYO
Address: B1 Shibuya Ibis Building, 2-17-3 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Opening hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11:00-19:00
Closed: Mondays, Sundays and national holidays
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Shino Kuraishi (Poet, Critic) x Satohito Hakkaku (Critic)
Held: Saturday, March 24, 17:00-18:30
Participation fee: 1,000 yen
*Please make reservations in advance at the URL below.
https://www.shashasha.co/jp/ticket/case0324
*Please note that no refunds will be made in the event of cancellation.
*We will accept the tickets on the day of the event, but if the seats are full, the audience will be required to attend standing room only.
Takuma Nakahira｜Profile
Born in Tokyo (1938-2015). After graduating from the Spanish Department of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and working as an editor of the magazine "Contemporary Eyes," he began taking photographs in the mid-1960s and started writing about photography, film, and media for magazines in the same period. In 1977, shortly after publishing "Dueling Photographs," co-authored with Kishin Shinoyama, he fell ill and lost most of his memory, but resumed photography the following year. In 2003, he held an exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art of 800 works from his early years to 2003. In 2003, "Return to the Origin - Yokohama," a group of 800 works from his early years to 2003, was held at the Yokohama Museum of Art, attracting much attention. Since then, he has continued to photograph and present his work with vigor. In 2017, after his death, "Circulation" will be held at the Art Institute of Chicago and "Takuma Nakahira" in Taipei, and a critical review book is being translated and published.
