NYAB Event - Ryoji Takahashi "Memory of 20"

Ryoji Takahashi "Memory of 20"

Ouchi Gallery

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Ryoji Takahashi was born in 1990. He has had design and photograph activities since his childhood. He sent the letter to the design office of the HAKUSAN TOKI at his elementary school days, and was allowed to inspect an atelier. He met the photographer Tomatsu Shomei. He has studied under him since high school days. Takahashi’s work is commented to be “the art which used the photograph as media”by him. After graduate from high school, He has studied at Waseda University since 2009, majoring in architectural design. He formed the design unit Vitro in 2011. Takahashi’s work has attracted attention. He has won the award in architecture design competitions and appeared in many magazines, participated in several group exhibitions, and held solo exhibitions twice in Japan. This is his first exhibition in the United States.“The concept of this solo exhibition,“Memory of 20”,expresses the memories that had pleasant, bitter and wonderful experience at adolescence. When mentally unstable, imaged scenery is recorded as a photograph. It is because I think that my essence can be approached. I think that the work approaching my essence is art.”