Kishin Shinoyama, La Maison de rendez-vous
03 Sep 2016 - 09 Jan 2017
KISHIN SHINOYAMA, LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS
3 September 2016 – 9 January 2017
The Hara Museum isholdinga solo exhibition by Kishin Shinoyama, a photographer who has remained at the forefront of his field since the 1960s. Shinoyama currently has an ongoing exhibition,THE PEOPLE by KISHIN, touring museums throughout Japan since 2012. The exhibition at the Hara Museum, however, will be based on a completely different concept and will appear only at the Hara Museum.For its theme, Shinoyamawill use the power of his camera to transformthe museum, a former private residence completed in 1938, into "la maison de rendez-vous." All works will be createdspecifically for the show withsome 33differentnude models as their subject. All shooting will be done on location at the Hara Museum. The result will be a fantasy world of intoxicating beauty that arises from the melding of actual space with photographic space.
The Novelty of the "Here" as a Photo ExhibitionOnce thedecision was made to hold a solo exhibition at the Hara Museum, Kishin Shinoyama presented his plan to take and return (i.e., show) the photos "here" (=the Hara Museum). Generally speaking, photo exhibition display works that have been taken "elsewhere" (i.e., other than the exhibition venue). This exhibition would be different. All works would be shot "here" (i.e., the Hara Museum), with some laterhungon the wall which appears in the photos themselves.Viewers are thus invited to experience a fantasy-like (one might even say "perverted") mingling of images in the photos (i.e., the previous "here" where the image existed) with the actual spaceof the exhibition venue (i.e., the present "here" where the image is displayed).
A "Maison de rendez-vous" Created by Kishin ShinoyamaExamples of nude photography appeared so soon after the invention of the medium (during the first half of the 19thcentury) that the history of nude photography may as well be equated with the history of photography itself. It touches upon the very essence of the photo and is one of the reasons people find the medium so captivating. Since his graduation project for the College of Art at Nihon University,Kishin Shinoyama has continued to shoot great volumes of nude photography and to explore the expressive potential of "human nakedness." For the current exhibition, in order to create "la maison de rendez-vous" with the museum as a platform,Shinoyama made the nude the subject of every photo.
The photographer spoke of being int
The photographer spoke of being intrigued with the Hara Museum as a place that arouses the desire to shoot, as a place where one can become lost in the pleasure of shooting. He made bold use of the time the museum was closed between exhibits to photograph his models non-stop as they stood, sat, stretched out, leaped and danced at every imaginable place within the museum. These included galleries devoid of artwork; the stairwell, which looks as it did when the building was just completed (1938); the gardens piled high with fallen leaves; the normally closed-off rooftops; and the spaces inhabited by the museum's iconic permanent installations. In Shinoyama's "la maison de rendez-vous,"space serves not merely as background to the body, it constitutes a world of dense imagery spun off by the melding of body and space. By altering each of the museum's five galleries in different ways, Shinoyama has created a multi-layered world in which to experience "la maison de rendez-vous."
3 September 2016 – 9 January 2017
The Hara Museum isholdinga solo exhibition by Kishin Shinoyama, a photographer who has remained at the forefront of his field since the 1960s. Shinoyama currently has an ongoing exhibition,THE PEOPLE by KISHIN, touring museums throughout Japan since 2012. The exhibition at the Hara Museum, however, will be based on a completely different concept and will appear only at the Hara Museum.For its theme, Shinoyamawill use the power of his camera to transformthe museum, a former private residence completed in 1938, into "la maison de rendez-vous." All works will be createdspecifically for the show withsome 33differentnude models as their subject. All shooting will be done on location at the Hara Museum. The result will be a fantasy world of intoxicating beauty that arises from the melding of actual space with photographic space.
The Novelty of the "Here" as a Photo ExhibitionOnce thedecision was made to hold a solo exhibition at the Hara Museum, Kishin Shinoyama presented his plan to take and return (i.e., show) the photos "here" (=the Hara Museum). Generally speaking, photo exhibition display works that have been taken "elsewhere" (i.e., other than the exhibition venue). This exhibition would be different. All works would be shot "here" (i.e., the Hara Museum), with some laterhungon the wall which appears in the photos themselves.Viewers are thus invited to experience a fantasy-like (one might even say "perverted") mingling of images in the photos (i.e., the previous "here" where the image existed) with the actual spaceof the exhibition venue (i.e., the present "here" where the image is displayed).
A "Maison de rendez-vous" Created by Kishin ShinoyamaExamples of nude photography appeared so soon after the invention of the medium (during the first half of the 19thcentury) that the history of nude photography may as well be equated with the history of photography itself. It touches upon the very essence of the photo and is one of the reasons people find the medium so captivating. Since his graduation project for the College of Art at Nihon University,Kishin Shinoyama has continued to shoot great volumes of nude photography and to explore the expressive potential of "human nakedness." For the current exhibition, in order to create "la maison de rendez-vous" with the museum as a platform,Shinoyama made the nude the subject of every photo.
The photographer spoke of being int
The photographer spoke of being intrigued with the Hara Museum as a place that arouses the desire to shoot, as a place where one can become lost in the pleasure of shooting. He made bold use of the time the museum was closed between exhibits to photograph his models non-stop as they stood, sat, stretched out, leaped and danced at every imaginable place within the museum. These included galleries devoid of artwork; the stairwell, which looks as it did when the building was just completed (1938); the gardens piled high with fallen leaves; the normally closed-off rooftops; and the spaces inhabited by the museum's iconic permanent installations. In Shinoyama's "la maison de rendez-vous,"space serves not merely as background to the body, it constitutes a world of dense imagery spun off by the melding of body and space. By altering each of the museum's five galleries in different ways, Shinoyama has created a multi-layered world in which to experience "la maison de rendez-vous."