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NOW AND THEN
Don’t Follow the Wind, Leiko Ikemura, Rinko Kawauchi, Ken Kitano, Tatsuo Miyajima, Daido Moriyama, Asako Narahashi, Mika Ninagawa, Lieko Shiga, Issei Suda, Yutaka Takanashi, Shomei Tomatsu and others

Dezember 5th, 2015 – January 23rd, 2016

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“NOW AND THEN” is the second exhibition in the new rooms of | PRISKA PASQUER. It is devoted to Japanese photography and art.

The exhibition brings together a number of different eras and media. Classical positions of Japanese post-war photography rub shoulders with the studious shots of Rinko Kawauchi; the bright pop aesthetic of Mika Ninagawa collides with the raw imagery of “Provoke” protagonists Daido Moriyama and Yutaka Takanashi; Leiko Ikemura’s contemporary painting is juxtaposed with a digital LED installation by Tatsuo Miyajima. On a thematic level, “NOW AND THEN” casts an eye on Japanese society. Past, present and future, changes and threats, possibilities and defeats are viewed from a wide variety of perspectives. As different as the artistic positions are, they all share a peculiarly Japanese approach to dealing with reality: the artists do not attempt to pigeon-hole what they find, but rather approach reality with a high degree of openness. This approach gives rise to a unique aesthetic. An aesthetic that toys with the visible and invisible, always referencing more than can be seen in the picture.

At the same time, all artists deal with very specific themes – always rupture, transition and change. These are discerned, shown and channelled into the image. However, they are not evaluated, nor is any attempt made to present reality in an explicable format or pattern.

The curtain on “NOW AND THEN” is raised with the website for the project titled “Don’t Follow the Wind”. Initiated by artist group Chim↑Pom and with ten international artists in radioactively contaminated houses near the Fukushima nuclear power plant, the exhibition on the Tepco company site is not visible in any real sense. The contaminated site is out of bounds for the general public until such time as it is decontaminated. It is not known when and even whether this will ever be the case. Accordingly, the website is also “invisible”. A blank white screen with a soundtrack, but nothing to be seen.

Since 2000, | PRISKA PASQUER has shown many exhibitions featuring the leading names in Japanese photography – both in its own gallery rooms and in cooperation with institutions in Germany and abroad (e.g. FOAM in Amsterdam, Fondation Henri-Cartier-Bresson in Paris, FOMU in Antwerp and Hundertwasser Haus in Vienna).

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„NOW AND THEN“ ist die zweite Ausstellung in den neuen Räumen von | PRISKA PASQUER. Sie widmet sich der japanischen Fotografie und Kunst.

Die Ausstellung vereint verschiedene Zeiten und Medien. Klassische Positionen der japanischen  Nachkriegsfotografie stehen neben den achtsam- konzentrierten Aufnahmen von Rinko Kawauchi, die knallbunte Pop-Ästhetik von Mika Ninagawa kollidiert mit der rauen Bildsprache der “Provoke”- Protagonisten Daido Moriyama und Yutaka Takanashi, aktuelle Malerei von Leiko Ikemura trifft auf eine digitale LED-Installation von Tatsuo Miyajima.

Auf inhaltlicher Ebene richtet „NOW AND THEN“ den Blick auf die japanische Gesellschaft. Vergangenheit, Gegenwart, Zukunft, Veränderungen und Bedrohungen, Möglichkeiten und Niederlagen werden aus unterschiedlichsten Perspektiven fokussiert. So verschieden die künstlerischen Positionen auch sind, eint sie doch ein spezifisch japanischer Umgang mit der Wirklichkeit: Die Künstler versuchen nicht, das Vorhandene, Vorgefundene in feste Kategorien zu fassen, sondern begegnen der Wirklichkeit mit einer großen Offenheit. Aus diesem Ansatz heraus entwickelt sich eine besondere Ästhetik. Es ist ein Spiel mit dem Sichtbaren und dem Unsichtbaren, das immer auf mehr verweist, als im Bild konkret sichtbar ist.

Dabei sprechen alle Künstler ganz konkrete Themen an. Immer geht es um die Brüche, Veränderungen und den Wandel. Diese werden wahrgenommen, gezeigt und ins Bild übertragen. Sie werden jedoch weder bewertet, noch wird versucht, die Wirklichkeit in ein erklärbares Format und Raster zu bringen.

Den Auftakt zu „NOW AND THEN“ macht die Website des Projekts „Don’t Follow the Wind”. Die von der Künstlergruppe Chim↑Pom initiierte und mit zehn internationalen Künstlern in radioaktiv verstrahlten Häusern in der Nähe des Atomkraftwerkes Fukushima realisierte Ausstellung auf dem Gelände der Firma Tepco ist faktisch nicht sichtbar. Das verstrahlte Gelände ist für die Öffentlichkeit gesperrt und wird erst nach seiner Dekontaminierung wieder betreten werden können. Es ist vollkommen ungewiss, wann und ob dies jemals der Fall sein wird. Entsprechend „unsichtbar“ ist auch die Website: Ein leerer weißer Screen, auf dem nur ein Sound-Track läuft, aber nichts zu sehen ist.

Seit dem Jahr 2000 hat | PRISKA PASQUER eine Vielzahl von Ausstellungen mit den bedeutendsten Vertretern der japanischen Fotografie gezeigt – sowohl in den eigenen Räumen als auch in Zusammenarbeit mit Institutionen im In- und
Ausland (z. B. FOAM, Amsterdam, Fondation Henri-Cartier-Bresson, Paris, FOMU, Antwerpen, Hundertwasser Haus, Wien).

Daido Moriyama / Mika Ninagawa, Kasseler Kunstverein

Daido Moriyama / Mika Ninagawa
Kasseler Kunstverein

October 25th – November 6th 2013

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Ninagawas Arbeiten zeigen eine große Nähe zur Anime- und Mangakultur, die Teil der japanischen Populärkultur sind. Großformatig, bunt, zuweilen schrill, aber immer dicht am Motiv präsentiert sie mit ihrer Serie Noir die Licht- und Schattenseiten des Daseins. Schwarz ist bei ihr ein vielfarbiges Dunkel, das das Tempo drosselt, in dem die Bilder vorbei zu rauschen drohen.

Moriyamas Werk hingegen ist in der Tradition der Street Photography der 1970er Jahre verankert. Sein zentrales Anliegen ist die Beschreibung unmittelbarer Erfahrung, die er über die direkte Konfrontation mit dem Bildgegenstand erreicht. Intuitiv, flexibel und schnell nutzt er das Medium Fotografie, um die Facetten des urbanen Lebens möglichst authentisch zu zeigen. Reduziert auf das Schwarz und Weiß baut er mit harten Kontrasten auf den grafisch wirkungsvollen Charakter der Fotografie.
Gemeinsam ist beiden die direkte Nähe zum ausgewählten Motiv. Ninagawa und Moriyama verzichten auf eine ‚höfliche’ Distanz. Scheinbar ganz ohne Wertungen des Gezeigten liegt die Urteilsfindung beim Betrachter.

Eine Ausstellung des kasseler kunstvereins und des kasseler fotoforums
Kasseler Kunstverein | Fridericianum | Friedrichsplatz 18 | 34117 Kassel

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Ninagawas Arbeiten zeigen eine große Nähe zur Anime- und Mangakultur, die Teil der japanischen Populärkultur sind. Großformatig, bunt, zuweilen schrill, aber immer dicht am Motiv präsentiert sie mit ihrer Serie Noir die Licht- und Schattenseiten des Daseins. Schwarz ist bei ihr ein vielfarbiges Dunkel, das das Tempo drosselt, in dem die Bilder vorbei zu rauschen drohen.

Moriyamas Werk hingegen ist in der Tradition der Street Photography der 1970er Jahre verankert. Sein zentrales Anliegen ist die Beschreibung unmittelbarer Erfahrung, die er über die direkte Konfrontation mit dem Bildgegenstand erreicht. Intuitiv, flexibel und schnell nutzt er das Medium Fotografie, um die Facetten des urbanen Lebens möglichst authentisch zu zeigen. Reduziert auf das Schwarz und Weiß baut er mit harten Kontrasten auf den grafisch wirkungsvollen Charakter der Fotografie.
Gemeinsam ist beiden die direkte Nähe zum ausgewählten Motiv. Ninagawa und Moriyama verzichten auf eine ‚höfliche’ Distanz. Scheinbar ganz ohne Wertungen des Gezeigten liegt die Urteilsfindung beim Betrachter.

Eine Ausstellung des kasseler kunstvereins und des kasseler fotoforums
Kasseler Kunstverein | Fridericianum | Friedrichsplatz 18 | 34117 Kassel

MIKA NINAGAWA, Liquid Dreams

LIQUID DREAMS
Mika Ningawa

January 24th – March 4th, 2009

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Galerie Priska Pasquer is proud to present the work of Japanese artist Mika Ninagawa. The exhibition includes photographs from her ‘Liquid Dreams’ and ‘Acid Bloom’ series.

Since 1997, she has published 35 photo books and produced television advertisements, CD covers and a music video, as well as directing the feature-length film ‘Sakuran’, which was shown in the special programme of the Berlin International Film Festival 2007. A retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work opened recently in Tokyo and can be viewed in various Japanese museums up until 2010.

Mika Ninagawa began her career in the mid-1990s as a ‘girly photographer’, a term given to a whole generation of young female photographers between the tender ages of 18 and 20 who used the camera as a means of documenting their own lives and that of their generation. But after just a short time, Mika Ninagawa decided to focus on other topics outside of her direct environment and developed her own visual language.

Mika Ninagawa’s topics include flowers, goldfish, travel and portraits of stars from Japanese entertainment culture.
Her photography is characterised above all by the use of intense and exuberant colours, such as cobalt blue, pink and blood red which she uses to depict both the motifs and the backgrounds.

In her photography, Mika Ninagawa uses elements of Japanese and western pop culture, whether in the design of her motifs or in the extravagant colours of her photographs. For instance, she presents the actress Chiaki Kuriyama – known in the West as ‘Gogo Yubari’ from the film ‘Kill Bill: Vol. I’ – as a softly smiling young woman with a red hair slide and a satin green dress against a green background, surrounded by red butterflies and holding a deer – a shot that seems to owe a considerable debt to Disney films.
By contrast, in her ‘Liquid Dreams’ series (2004), Ninagawa devotes her photography to goldfish, a traditionally Japanese subject. The fish in the series are portrayed as grotesque individuals, as a shimmering mass or as elegantly floating aesthetic beings.

At first glance, Mika Ninagawa’s work places her in the ranks of Japanese neopop artists, a genre that has gained particular prominence thanks to Takashi Murakami.
Even if artists such as Murakami create products such as T-shirts or watches for the mass market, this mainly occurs within the discourse on art and (Japanese) pop culture and the images of these artists are produced as art for the art and exhibition market.
In contrast to this, Mika Ninagawa’s publications connect with a wider audience, although she is not afraid to cross the line and embrace kitsch. More than 200,000 copies of her books have been published.

However, Mika Ninagawa’s work differs from that of neopop artists in that there is no subtext in evidence that says ‘I use elements of pop culture, but it’s art, not pop!’
Mika Ninagawa’s work is pop and does not claim to be anything more and it is art because it goes beyond sheer consumability and a simple and direct satisfaction of the senses and emotions: the goldfish are goldfish, but they are also grotesque overbred beings, mutants in a world of images dominated by pop culture – and the flowers are like the title of the book ‘Acid Bloom’ already suggests, intoxicated by their overwhelming presence and colours.
Mika Ninagawa, born 1972, graduated from Tama Art University, Tokyo in 1997. She lives and works in Tokyo.

In Nov – Dec 2008, the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery presented the retrospective ‘Mika Ninagawa. Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors’, which can be viewed 2009/2010 in museums in Iwate, Kirishima, Nishinomiya and Kochi.

AWARDS
1996 Grand prix ‘Hitotsuboten’

1996 Excellent Prize ‘Canon New Cosmos of Photography’

1998 ‘Konica Photo Encouragement Award’
2001 ‘Kimura Ihei Award’, mit Hiromix und Yurie Nagashima
2006 ‘Ohara Museum of Art Award’ VOCA 2006 Exhibition, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
’17 9 ’97’ Tokyo, 1998
‘Baby Blue Sky’ Tokyo, 1999
‘Sugar and Spice’, Tokyo, 2000
‘Pink Rose Suite’, Tokyo, 2001
‘A Piece of Heaven’, Tokyo, 2002
‘Like a Peach’, Tokyo, 2002
‘Acid Bloom’, Tokyo, 2003, Portland 2004
‘Liquid Dreams’, Tokyo, 2003
‘Over the Rainbow’, Tokyo, 2004
‘Mika’, Tokyo, 2004
‘Floating Yesterday’ Tokyo, 2005
‘Girls’, Tokyo, 2005
‘Everlasting Flower’, Tokyo, 2006
‘Anna: Anna Tsuchiya x Mika Ninagawa’ Tokyo, 2007
‘Sakuran’ Tokyo, 2007
‘Girls’ Holiday!’ Tokyo, 2007
‘Mika’s Daydreaming Theater’, Tokyo, 2008
‘Erotic Teacher XXX Yuca by Mika Ningawa’, Tokyo, 2008
‘Ninagawa Woman’, Tokyo, 2008
‘Mika Ninagawa. Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors. 1995 – 2008’ Tokyo, 2008

Feature Film
‘Sakuran’, Japan 2006

Director: Mika Ninagawa
Camera: Takuro Ishizaka
Actors: Anna Tsuchiya, Hiroki Narimiya, Miho Kanno, Kippei Shiia, Yoshino Kimura, Miho Ninagawa

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Galerie Priska Pasquer is proud to present the work of Japanese artist Mika Ninagawa. The exhibition includes photographs from her ‘Liquid Dreams’ and ‘Acid Bloom’ series.

Since 1997, she has published 35 photo books and produced television advertisements, CD covers and a music video, as well as directing the feature-length film ‘Sakuran’, which was shown in the special programme of the Berlin International Film Festival 2007. A retrospective exhibition of the artist’s work opened recently in Tokyo and can be viewed in various Japanese museums up until 2010.

Mika Ninagawa began her career in the mid-1990s as a ‘girly photographer’, a term given to a whole generation of young female photographers between the tender ages of 18 and 20 who used the camera as a means of documenting their own lives and that of their generation. But after just a short time, Mika Ninagawa decided to focus on other topics outside of her direct environment and developed her own visual language.

Mika Ninagawa’s topics include flowers, goldfish, travel and portraits of stars from Japanese entertainment culture.
Her photography is characterised above all by the use of intense and exuberant colours, such as cobalt blue, pink and blood red which she uses to depict both the motifs and the backgrounds.

In her photography, Mika Ninagawa uses elements of Japanese and western pop culture, whether in the design of her motifs or in the extravagant colours of her photographs. For instance, she presents the actress Chiaki Kuriyama – known in the West as ‘Gogo Yubari’ from the film ‘Kill Bill: Vol. I’ – as a softly smiling young woman with a red hair slide and a satin green dress against a green background, surrounded by red butterflies and holding a deer – a shot that seems to owe a considerable debt to Disney films.
By contrast, in her ‘Liquid Dreams’ series (2004), Ninagawa devotes her photography to goldfish, a traditionally Japanese subject. The fish in the series are portrayed as grotesque individuals, as a shimmering mass or as elegantly floating aesthetic beings.

At first glance, Mika Ninagawa’s work places her in the ranks of Japanese neopop artists, a genre that has gained particular prominence thanks to Takashi Murakami.
Even if artists such as Murakami create products such as T-shirts or watches for the mass market, this mainly occurs within the discourse on art and (Japanese) pop culture and the images of these artists are produced as art for the art and exhibition market.
In contrast to this, Mika Ninagawa’s publications connect with a wider audience, although she is not afraid to cross the line and embrace kitsch. More than 200,000 copies of her books have been published.

However, Mika Ninagawa’s work differs from that of neopop artists in that there is no subtext in evidence that says ‘I use elements of pop culture, but it’s art, not pop!’
Mika Ninagawa’s work is pop and does not claim to be anything more and it is art because it goes beyond sheer consumability and a simple and direct satisfaction of the senses and emotions: the goldfish are goldfish, but they are also grotesque overbred beings, mutants in a world of images dominated by pop culture – and the flowers are like the title of the book ‘Acid Bloom’ already suggests, intoxicated by their overwhelming presence and colours.
Mika Ninagawa, born 1972, graduated from Tama Art University, Tokyo in 1997. She lives and works in Tokyo.

In Nov – Dec 2008, the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery presented the retrospective ‘Mika Ninagawa. Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors’, which can be viewed 2009/2010 in museums in Iwate, Kirishima, Nishinomiya and Kochi.

AWARDS
1996 Grand prix ‘Hitotsuboten’

1996 Excellent Prize ‘Canon New Cosmos of Photography’

1998 ‘Konica Photo Encouragement Award’
2001 ‘Kimura Ihei Award’, mit Hiromix und Yurie Nagashima
2006 ‘Ohara Museum of Art Award’ VOCA 2006 Exhibition, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
’17 9 ’97’ Tokyo, 1998
‘Baby Blue Sky’ Tokyo, 1999
‘Sugar and Spice’, Tokyo, 2000
‘Pink Rose Suite’, Tokyo, 2001
‘A Piece of Heaven’, Tokyo, 2002
‘Like a Peach’, Tokyo, 2002
‘Acid Bloom’, Tokyo, 2003, Portland 2004
‘Liquid Dreams’, Tokyo, 2003
‘Over the Rainbow’, Tokyo, 2004
‘Mika’, Tokyo, 2004
‘Floating Yesterday’ Tokyo, 2005
‘Girls’, Tokyo, 2005
‘Everlasting Flower’, Tokyo, 2006
‘Anna: Anna Tsuchiya x Mika Ninagawa’ Tokyo, 2007
‘Sakuran’ Tokyo, 2007
‘Girls’ Holiday!’ Tokyo, 2007
‘Mika’s Daydreaming Theater’, Tokyo, 2008
‘Erotic Teacher XXX Yuca by Mika Ningawa’, Tokyo, 2008
‘Ninagawa Woman’, Tokyo, 2008
‘Mika Ninagawa. Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors. 1995 – 2008’ Tokyo, 2008

Feature Film
‘Sakuran’, Japan 2006

Director: Mika Ninagawa
Camera: Takuro Ishizaka
Actors: Anna Tsuchiya, Hiroki Narimiya, Miho Kanno, Kippei Shiia, Yoshino Kimura, Miho Ninagawa

Osamu Shiihara, Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Issei Suda, Asako Narahashi, Rinko Kawauchi, Mika Ninagawa, REVIEW / PREVIEW – JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHS

REVIEW / PREVIEW – JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHS

Osamu Shiihara, Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama, Nobuyoshi Araki, Issei Suda, Asako Narahashi, Rinko Kawauchi, Mika Ninagawa

June 24th – September 6th, 2008

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Press Release

With the group exhibition ‘Review / Preview’, we have the pleasure of giving an initial overview of the programme of Japanese photography at Galerie Priska Pasquer.
Since its earliest days, Galerie Priska Pasquer has regularly played host to individual exhibitions on Japanese photography – including the works of Daido Moriyama, Eikoh Hosoe and Rinko Kawauchi – with further exhibitions in a similar vein currently being prepared for the coming season.
The works that make up the exhibition are drawn from a total of seven decades. The earliest photograph in the exhibition is an experimental oeuvre by avant-garde photographer Osamu Shiihara.

From the 1960s there are two key photographs by Shomei Tomatsu, whose series on the current condition and traditions of Japanese society established him as the most influential photographer since the war.

The 1970s are represented by Issei Suda and his outstanding ‘Fushi Kaden’ series. An exhibition dedicated exclusively to Issei Suda’s work will be held at Galerie Priska Pasquer next November, the first event of its kind to be held in the West.
The exhibition will also include works by Daido Moriyama from the 1980s and 1990s – as the representative of the ‘Provoke Era’, he has had a key influence on Japanese photography since the late 1960s.

Also from the 1980s are a number of works by Nobuyoshi Araki, who holds a singular position in modern photography, primarily owing to his obsessive preoccupation with Eros and Thanatos, juxtaposed with descriptions of his own life.

Contemporary photography is represented in this exhibition by three women photographers. The first of these is Rinko Kawauchi, whose poetic and sensitive works have twice been exhibited by Galerie Priska Pasquer (in Cologne and recently in Paris): namely the series of colour photographs ‘Utatane’ and ‘Aila’.
The second is Mika Ninagawa, whose goldfish series ‘Liquid Dreams’ walks a delicate line between art and pop culture.
And the third is Asako Narahashi, whose work reached a wider audience for the very first time with her series ‘half awake and half asleep in the water’, published last autumn. Following ‘Review / Preview – Japanese Photography’, Galerie Priska Pasquer will present the series ‘half awake and half asleep in the water’ in an individual exhibition (Vernissage 12 Sept.: attended by Asako Narahashi).

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Press Release

With the group exhibition ‘Review / Preview’, we have the pleasure of giving an initial overview of the programme of Japanese photography at Galerie Priska Pasquer.
Since its earliest days, Galerie Priska Pasquer has regularly played host to individual exhibitions on Japanese photography – including the works of Daido Moriyama, Eikoh Hosoe and Rinko Kawauchi – with further exhibitions in a similar vein currently being prepared for the coming season.
The works that make up the exhibition are drawn from a total of seven decades. The earliest photograph in the exhibition is an experimental oeuvre by avant-garde photographer Osamu Shiihara.

From the 1960s there are two key photographs by Shomei Tomatsu, whose series on the current condition and traditions of Japanese society established him as the most influential photographer since the war.

The 1970s are represented by Issei Suda and his outstanding ‘Fushi Kaden’ series. An exhibition dedicated exclusively to Issei Suda’s work will be held at Galerie Priska Pasquer next November, the first event of its kind to be held in the West.
The exhibition will also include works by Daido Moriyama from the 1980s and 1990s – as the representative of the ‘Provoke Era’, he has had a key influence on Japanese photography since the late 1960s.

Also from the 1980s are a number of works by Nobuyoshi Araki, who holds a singular position in modern photography, primarily owing to his obsessive preoccupation with Eros and Thanatos, juxtaposed with descriptions of his own life.

Contemporary photography is represented in this exhibition by three women photographers. The first of these is Rinko Kawauchi, whose poetic and sensitive works have twice been exhibited by Galerie Priska Pasquer (in Cologne and recently in Paris): namely the series of colour photographs ‘Utatane’ and ‘Aila’.
The second is Mika Ninagawa, whose goldfish series ‘Liquid Dreams’ walks a delicate line between art and pop culture.
And the third is Asako Narahashi, whose work reached a wider audience for the very first time with her series ‘half awake and half asleep in the water’, published last autumn. Following ‘Review / Preview – Japanese Photography’, Galerie Priska Pasquer will present the series ‘half awake and half asleep in the water’ in an individual exhibition (Vernissage 12 Sept.: attended by Asako Narahashi).