Rinko Kawauchi: Book Signing and Reception
| When | 22 May 2013 |
| Where | Aperture Gallery and Bookstore 547 West 27th Street New York, NY 10001 United States |
Ametsuchi, Rinko Kawauchi. Courtesy of the artist
Wednesday, May 22, 6-8pm
Join Rinko Kawauchi for a book signing and reception at which the first copies of Ametsuchi will be available. In this new book from Aperture, Kawauchi shifts her attention from the micro to the macro, bringing together distant constellations and tiny figures lost within landscapes, as well as photographs of controlled-burn farming in which the cycles of cultivation and recovery span decades and generations.
Rinko Kawauchi has gained international recognition for her nuanced, lushly colored images that offer closely observed fragments of everyday life. In her latest work, she shifts her attention from the micro to the macro. The title, Ametsuchi, is comprised of two Japanese characters meaning “heaven and earth,” and is taken from the title of one of the oldest pangrams in Japanese—a chant in which each character of the Japanese syllabary is used. In Ametsuchi, Kawauchi brings together images of distant constellations and tiny figures lost within landscapes, as well as photographs of a traditional style of controlled-burn farming (yakihata) in which the cycles of cultivation and recovery span decades and generations. Punctuating the series are images of Buddhist rituals and other religious ceremonies—a suggestion of other means by which humankind has traditionally attempted to transcend time and memory.
Rinko Kawauchi (born in Shiga, Japan, 1972) studied graphic design and photography at Seian Junior college of Art and Design. Among her awards are the Kimura Ihei Photography Award (2002) and the International center of Photography Infinity Award in Art (2009). She has had solo exhibitions at Fondation cartier, Paris; Photographers’ Gallery, London; São Paulo Museum of Modern Art; and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, among other venues. She was one of four artists shortlisted for the 2012 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Kawauchi lives and works in Tokyo.
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