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| Period： |
September 10 ～ October 9, 1999
Opening reception: 10 September 18:00～20:00 |
| Venue： |
At ITOCHU Gallery 2-27-21 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
(3 minutes walk from Gaiem-mae Station, Ginza Line)
PHONE：03-3497-1261、8663FAX：03-3497-8665
URL：http://www.market.co.jp/itochugallery |
| Opening hours： |
Monday-Friday 10:00～18:00, Saturday 12:00～18:00
Closed on Sundays & national holidays |
| Works： |
| *Ralph Gibson, L'Histoire de France (1990) |
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(15 photographs selected from the portfolio of 51 color photographs) |
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| *Robert Mapplethorpe |
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Irises, Hyacinth & Orchid (1987, set of three)
Orchid in Vase (1987)
Calla Lily (1984, 5 works in total) |
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| *For more information, please contact Satomi Nakai, or Megumi Hayashi |
 The
photographs of Ralph Gibson entitled L'Histoire de France were first shown
at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, in 1991 and were published in the same
year. Although by this time Gibson was already well-known both within and
outside the U.S., it was for the monochrome, not the color photographs that
are the subject of the coming exhibition. When Ralph Gibson went to France
for the first time in 1971, he was greatly inspired by the atmosphere of
the towns, the delicate architectural ornaments, and smaller things like
everyday items in a cafe. Gibson took his photographs as if playing with
the atmosphere of France, something which Marguerite Duras later described
with admiration as "seeing things from a child's point of view". Gibson
once said he would like to become a "Surrealist photographer". Without being
trapped in the frame of conventional Surrealism category, Gibson created
his own style of expression, which has been highly evaluated.
 On the
other hand Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS at only 42, elevated his search
for aesthetics to art, and became a crucial figure in the history of American
photography and also contemporary art. Regardless of the subject, portraits
or flowers, his works are equally based on his unique aesthetic consciousness.
All his photographs are taken indoors where the environment can be controlled
almost perfectly and the  dramatic
lighting that can often be seen in his photographs serves to highlight subtle
features. Among others, flowers are one of the most fascinating subject
of Mapplethorpe's works. Flowers caught his interest as he was investigatng
photography as the media of expression and searching for his originality.
This exhibition displays the approaches of two different photographers to
the use of light and shadow in their work. We hope you enjoy it. |
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