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PERFORMANCE/
EXHIBITION
Nobuyoshi Araki "ARAKINEMA"
A
unique performance of the japanese icon Nobuyoshi Araki
>> Live performance, 8 October 2005
>>
Exhibition from 8 October to 1st November 2005
Live performance on Saturday, 8 October
2005
From
7.30 p.m. on
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Araki
in Paris :
He hasn't been to Paris in 25 years. This will be only the
second time and it's at the Palais de Tokyo that the internationally renowned
artist Nobuyoshi Araki will present his first performance in France.
While important shows have been devoted to him at the Cartier Foundation and the National Center for Photography, never has Araki done a performance strictly speaking in Paris. Now the Palais de Tokyo is opening its doors to the artist, who only very rarely leaves his native Japan, for a live performance that is certain to be intensely visual and highly sensual: ARAKINEMA.
ARAKINEMA-Paris is a unique project that has been especially created for the Palais de Tokyo. The piece will be a firework of images. Araki makes his own brand of cinema -his ARAKINEMA- by incorporating music and movement into his work in photography. The piece as a whole moves to a rhythm that displays a range of accelerations and culminates in an apotheosis of scathing and sensually raw emotions.
Projected directly on screen, the images of ARAKINEMA play with a feeling that is both esthetic and dizzying, a sentiment that combines the intimate and the provocative. The colors are bright, the attraction strong, and the feeling of unease appealing: ARAKINEMA sows confusion in the inner reaches of beauty.
This project will run concurrently with an important show on the artist at
the Barbican Arts Centre in London, which will be on display from 6th
October 2005 to 22nd January 2006.
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Araki, the icon
Internationally renowned as one of the leading practitioners of contemporary
Japanese photography, Nobuyoshi Araki is also a media personality and an icon
for fans of photography shot live in red light districts. Mysterious, controversial,
and charismatic, Araki occupies an original position that goes
well beyond photography.
Born in 1940
in a traditional quarter of Tokyo, Araki shot his first photos around the
age of 12, when he started learning photography from his father. After working
as a cameraman for an advertising agency, he brought out in 1971 "A
Sentimental Journey", a compilation of photos he had shot with his
wife Yoko during their honeymoon.
To date, the photographer has published over 300 books. A tireless photographer,
Araki has explored new techniques, worked with a range of cameras, and experimented
with various ways of presenting his images.
Fascinated by
the inevitable trilogy of sex, life, and death, Araki has proved an
insatiable photographer, obsessed by the women, who is often shown
naked and tied up. His teeming, extraordinarily rich body of work has
also treated a range of subjects, including representations of urban landscapes
(especially those around Tokyo), portraits of men, his cat Chiro,
even flowers, which he captures up close, almost within their colorful
folds.
In 1986 Araki began to work on his series ARAKINEMA. Introducing an element of time into the presentation of his photographic work, ARAKINEMA functions for the photographer as a sexual relationship between images, life, and death. For the Palais de Tokyo, Araki is designing a specific piece that boasts a wealth of mostly new photographs.
With ARAKINEMA, Araki transcends the objective coolness of photography to infuse the medium with a rhythm and a sensual potential that it often lacks.
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Technical File of the Project
ARAKINEMA is midway between photography and film. A hundred or so photographs
by Araki will be shown in a giant format on a screen using two high-power
projectors located above the floor on a scaffold. The projections are
also closely linked with the music chosen for the show. For each live presentation,
the artist selects and arranges in advance his photos according
to a theme decided on by him. The rhythm, on the other hand, is improvised
at the time of performance in keeping with the atmosphere and his mood. A
projection of ARAKINEMA will be featured in the Palais de Tokyo's salon.
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Phaidon Press is publishing
a 800-page study of Araki's work for the occasion. The book will include
a significant number of new critical texts as well as texts by Araki
himself dating from the 1960s on and now translated for the first time
in English.
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Courtesy Galerie Kamel Mennour, Galerie Almine Rech et Yoshiko Isshiki Office.
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General
Curators :
Nicolas Bourriaud, Jérôme Sans
Curator
:
Akiko Miki
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At
the same period:
“Robert
Malaval,
kamikaze”
14 sept > 08 janv 05
Saâdane
Afif
“Lyrics”
08 oct > 20 nov 05
Rebecca Bournigault
“La
chambre
interdite”
08 oct > 20 nov 05
Sarah
Morris
“Endeavor
[Los
Angeles]”
08 oct > 08 janv 05
Valéry Grancher
“Shiwiars”
sept-oct 05
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Media partnership for the exhibition
Permanent
partnership
With the
support of Porter Novelli,
Public-Relations Consultants
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Communications Manager
Sofianne Le Bourhis
assistée de Mylène Ferrand
Tél : + 33 1 47 23 54 57
sofianne@palaisdetokyo.com
Press Contact
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presse@palaisdetokyo.com
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