Tokihiro Sato "Tree"
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
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Tokihiro Sato’s fifth one-person show at the gallery will feature fifteen black & white photographs created during the past two years in the primeval mountain forests of northern Honshu, the main island of Japan. These images reveal the artist’s long fascination with the sculptural form of the Japanese beech tree which, for him, suggests the ancient continental origins of the Japanese people, while representing masculinity in its formal strength and femininity in its sensual curves.
Educated as a sculptor, Sato turned to photography in 1987 as an outgrowth of his interest in the conceptual and land art of the 1970s. His photographs of trees are the most recent works in an ongoing series that he describes as "breath graphs" or "photo-respiration," a reference to the meditative quality of repetitive choreographed gestures he enacts in front of the camera.
The exhibition includes nine gelatin-silver prints, each measuring 62 x 51 inches and a group of six smaller prints, 24 x 20 inches each. It is accompanied by a 32-page, fully illustrated catalogue.
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Schedule
from March 20, 2010 to May 08, 2010