Tamami Hitsuda’s photographs illustrate a scene of a non-existing place by combining various images. In this series titled the “Fibbing,” a large red curtain hangs over the clear blue sky, and we the audience could have a glance of, as if to see the deep end of the theatrical stage before the thick drop curtain hides it, the expansive sky and the horizon. The photographed images on film are scanned into a computer, and then again exposed onto a photographic paper. She started this digital photography in 1997. It is a universal vision, created by images from the real world and from the artist’s memory, of flowers and fountains in otherworldly light and shade placed in a special transparent world.
In this exhibition titled “The Garden,” Hitsuda will show a series of landscape that could be said as her utopia. The new 5 pieces will be hang, including photographs of the flowers that seem to bloom forever, the sacred animals, and of the fountain motif that symbolizes affluence that seems to gush out endlessly. She calls this series as “holy days”, which collages the extraordinary scenes with the daily images. The tradition of landscape paintings had been depicting utopia in different times and places, but please see for yourself what is this artist’s view of an ideal world.
Tamami Hitsuda was born in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture in 1958. She graduated from Aichi Prefectural University of Arts and Music, majoring in painting, obtaining BFA in 1982 and MFA in 1984. Then obtained MA in Royal College of Art in England. The same year she won the BAVA Awards. In 1998 she won the “Photo Grand Prize” of Epson Color Imaging ’98. This is her fourth exhibition with Tomio Koyama Gallery, last one being five years ago in 2003; started in 1999, then in 2001.
Selected group shows include “Rosa!” at the Museum of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo in 2005.“ZINKOMU (artificial dream)” at Gallery Yada, Nagoya.
“On Flowering Images: Contemporary Japanese Photography” at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo in 2004. “Henshin Ganbou (wanting to be somebody else)” at the Fukui City Art Museum, Fukui in 2002. “Photo Active HITSUDA Tamami & YOSHIOKA Toshinao” at the Nagoya University of Arts, Nagoya in 2002.
Tomio Koyama Gallery
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