Tomio Koyama Gallery Tokyo - Kyoto | TKG Ceramics | TKG Editions Kyoto

2010. 10. 28th（thu.） - 11. 5th（fri.）

“Fashionable Theater”, Rome's Museum of Contemporary Art、Rome, Itary

It was immediately clear that Mika Ninagawa's art is in syntony with the transversality of this year's Focus section since in this edition the International Rome Film Festival wants to offer to its audiences significant fragments of the Japanese culture. Mika Ninagawa's photography is aimed at fixing on camera irreal fragments of life in their exceptionality. Her ephemeral universe is made of flowers, fish, and portraits which, owing to their extreme chromatism, give a unique view of the world as only photography can. Her fish, flowers and portraits become part of a colored universe that does not belong to this world, and which art critic Midori Matsui defines as made of “terrestrial flowers and heavenly colors”. Mika Ninagawa takes analog photographs none of which are retouched.
She has also achieved success as a director, and not surprisingly: her film “Sakuran”, selected in the Focus section, highlights how her art has the ability of putting together images and audiovisual language, setting audiences off-guard with her vision of contemporaneity mingled with the canons of Japanese tradition to which she always remains faithful.
The exhibition will be located in the Auditorium Arte area and it will be realized in collaboration with the Koyama Gallery in Tokyo. It is composed of 50 photographs of various dimensions disposed on the walls according to a precise thematic order. The colored walls in the background add contrast among the various colours highlighting the artist's distinctive and original chromatic research.

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