"illusion: Japanese Photography"
2001-08-17 until 2001-09-30
Kulturhauset Stolkholm
Stockholm, , SE

Eleven Japanese photographers shown for the first time in Sweden. Riksutställningar will open a new exhibition, illusion, at Kulturhuset in Stockholm. Some two hundred pictures by eleven Japanese photographers will be presented together for the first time. The exhibition will tour in Sweden and will also be shown in Finland and Denmark.

All the participating photographers play an important role in Japanese photography today and each represents his or her own unique style and period. The title of the exhibition, illusion, alludes to photography's dual identity as both a witness to the truth and a deceiver. Several of the artists have taken the theme of illusion as their starting point in presenting complete series of their works thus affording us a more penetrating insight into their art.

illusion contains a number of Shoji Ueda's legendary pictures from the fifties, Kikuji Kawada's famous series Car Maniac, works from Nobuyoshi Araki's Flowers and from Miwa Yanagi's new suite Grandmothers. The exhibition shows classic photographs such as Michiko Kon's surrealistic series Fish and Masao Mochizuki's Television from the seventies. Other major artists include Yuki Onodera who is represented by her new work Look out the window, 2000, a suite of portraits of anonymous buildings. Midori Mitamura shows her installations Invention and Private Room. The exhibition also offers parts of Tomohiko Yoshida's poetic nocturne: Chrome Yellow and Sand of Dune. The young generation's photography is represented principally by Yurie Nagashima's A Family and Maki Miyashita's Rooms & Underwear.

illusion has been produced by Riksutställningar, with Ulrika Sten acting as project manager in collaboration with Min-Jung Jonsson who conceived and curated the exhibition. illusion will be shown at Kulturhuset in Stockholm from 18 August until 30 September 2001.

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