Daido Moriyama Photo Exhibition Buenos Aires / Sao Paulo
| Venue | MIYANOMORI ART MUSEUM, SAPPORO |
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| Hours | 11:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. |
| Closed | Tuesdays |
| Admission | ¥500 (400) for adults, ¥400 (300) for high school and university students, free for junior high school students and younger. *The figures in parentheses indicate discounts for repeat visitors and for groups of 10 or more people. |
| Supported by | Sapporo City Sapporo City Board of Education |
| Planning | CAPSS, NPO |
| In Cooperation with | Moriyama Daido Photo Foundation |
From the northern regions to Latin America. Daido Moriyama is hot again this winter!
“Daido Moriyama Buenos Aires / Sao Paulo” will be held at the MIYANOMORI ART MUSEUM, SAPPORO in conjunction with “Hokkaido: The Final Chapter” at the Sapporo Art Museum. What exactly did Daido Moriyama see and feel in these mega-cities, some of the most prominent in Latin America, photographed between 2004 and 2008?
“Buenos Aires is a city that I used to admire, a cross between the epic and the lyrical, a city in my heart. I spent most of my time just wandering around in the flood of people with my camera. It was the first experience in a long time that had every cell in my body buzzing. I sensed firsthand the awesomeness of the city.”
In Moriyama’s comments on the compact photo books published one after the other in 2009, we can see a rediscovery of the “sense of nostalgia awakened from the depths of dense memories (Memories of a Dog: Final Chapter)” that was different to the sense of déjà vu that he felt on his first visit to Europe. At the same time, the words also seem to directly express his confusion and excitement at the overwhelming energy of a foreign country that has swallowed up diverse races and cultures like a giant melting pot.
What exactly did Daido Moriyama see and feel during his short photographic trip? The empty eyes of the Porteña, the tango of smelling passion, the people, people, people who are sucked into the darkness of the Holy City without a moment of nostalgia. There, indeed, stood DAIDO MORIYAMA, a hunter on the street.
Daido Moriyama
Born in Osaka in 1938. After working as an assistant to photographers Takeji Iwamiya and Eikoh Hosoe, Moriyama became a freelance photographer in 1963. In 1967, he received the Newcomer’s Award of the Japan Photo Critics Association. His numerous representative works include Japan, a Photo Theater (1968), Bye Bye Photography (1972), Light and Shadow (1982), Daido hysteric (1993), and Hokkaido (2008). Overseas, he has held solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), and the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art (Paris). In Japan, he has held solo exhibitions at the Shimane Art Museum, Kushiro Art Museum, and the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, among others. Since 2007, the exhibition “Daido Moriyama: A Retrospective since 1965” has traveled throughout Europe. Daido Moriyama Photo Exhibition “Hokkaido – Introduction” was held in Sapporo and other cities in Hokkaido. Photo book “NORTHERN” is released. His photo collection “Hokkaido” won the Photographic Society of Japan Award. Held “Daido Moriyama Photo Exhibition – Hokkaido – Chapter 2 / Development” at Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, MIYANOMORI ART MUSEUM, SAPPORO, Otaru Canal Plaza, Otaru Literary Museum, and Sapporo Parco in 2010. Photo book “NORTHERN 2” is released. A large-scale exhibition is scheduled for 2011 at The National Museum of Art, Osaka.