I was a kid, playing in an imaginary world. There were
oceans and hills. I had my own horse. But in reality, that place was
a tiny garden. My horse was a rock upon which I could ride. Now, I've
gotten into the word 'garden'. Reading any prose about gardens causes
me to imagine something else. Like such enjoyable times, I've now
thought to make my own garden.
-Yuki Kimura
For Kimura, image and reality are homogeneous in terms of their precariousness
and their strange and delicate vibration, rather than their lack of
a sense of reality.
-Mizutani Mitsuru
Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to present New Garden - artist Yuki
Kimura's first exhibition in Japan since comleting a one year residency
in the United States (in both Los Angeles and New York). Previously,
the artist's work was exhibited internationaly in Paris, Istanbul,
the Netherlands, and the United States. Kimura will be included in
the upcoming Mori Art Museum exhibition, Roppongi Crossing, in February,
2004. New Garden, comprised of 5 large scale color photographs and
2 computer generated movies, represents a recent shift in focus for
the artist. In past works Kimura maintained a calculated distance
-gently, yet insistently questioning the nature of the mediated image.
The artist's present body of work utilizes familiar conceptual strategy
to exploit rather than expose ambiguity inherent in the photographic
image. The images on view in New Garden serve to provide the gallery
visitor with a point of entry into an imaginary landscape - one whose
origin is equal parts personal and literary. Kimura's installation
includes appropriated, digitally altered images as well as a series
of inverted, scenes from nature. The installation draws upon the power
of a collective nostalgia and trust in the truth of photographic representation
to lure viewers into the artist's personal fantasy.
Taka Ishii Gallery 1-31-6 IF Shinkawa Chuo-Ku, Tokyo 104-0033 @
tel : 03-5542-3615 / fax : 03-3552-3363@
e-mail: tig@takaishiigallery.com / website: www.takaishiigallery.com
 
Title : the life of tones <1974>
Artist : Yuki Kimura
Work Date : 2003
Edition of 7
Materials : CD-R with C-print
Size (C-print) h : 8 x w : 10 in / h: 20 x w: 25.5 cm
 
Title : the life of tones <2003>
Artist : Yuki Kimura
Work Date : 2003
Edition of 7
Materials : CD-R with C-print
Size (C-print) h : 8 x w : 10 in / h: 20 x w: 25.5 cm |

Title : new garden
Artist : Yuki Kimura
Work Date : 2003
Edition of 5
Materials : C-print mounted on aluminum
Size h : 39 x w : 59 in / h: 100 x w: 150 cm

Title : new garden
Artist : Yuki Kimura
Work Date : 2003
Edition of 5
Materials : C-print mounted on aluminum
Size h : 39 x w : 59 in / h: 100 x w: 150 cm

Title : new garden
Artist : Yuki Kimura
Work Date : 2003
Edition of 5
Materials : C-print mounted on aluminum
Size h : 39 x w : 59 in / h: 100 x w: 150 cm
Title : separated park
Artist : Yuki Kimura
Work Date : 2003
Edition of 5
Materials : 2 C-prints mounted on aluminum
Size (C-print) h : 15 3/4 x w : 19 3/4 in / h: 40 x w: 50 cm
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