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Theatre of memory

Head On Photo Festival 2011
Eikoh Hosoe
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Eikoh Hosoe
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Location: Art Gallery NSW Art Gallery Rd, The Domain Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
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Entry Fee: Free, donations welcome

This exhibition brings together four seminal series by Eikoh Hosoe, a leading figure in modern Japanese photography.

Taken over five decades, The butterfly dream 1960-2005, Kamaitachi 1965-68 and Ukiyo-e projections 2002-03 are driven by Hosoe’s longstanding fascination for the revolutionary dance movement butoh and for its charismatic founders, Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno.

Together these series epitomise his unique style, which combines photography with elements of theatre, dance, film and traditional Japanese art.

Using the latest digital technology, Hosoe prints his photographs on washi paper, mounting them in the traditional Japanese manner as scrolls and folding screens, thereby suggesting a new way of ‘reading’ his series as a continuous narrative.

Hosoe’s interest in examining the beauty and strength of the human body is best seen in his acclaimed series Embrace 1969-70, for which Hijikata was one of the models.

This event has concluded
Dates: -
Location: Art Gallery NSW Art Gallery Rd, The Domain Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
Hours:
Entry Fee: Free, donations welcome

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