Koichiro Kurita “Beyond Spheres”
Tenri Cultural Institute
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The Beyond Spheres project by Koichiro Kurita is inspired by the literature of Henry David Thoreau and attempts to visually explore Thoreau’s philosophy regarding the relationship between nature and humanity. Kurita retraces the steps of Thoreau as he traveled throughout the landscapes of New England region during the mid-19th century. Kurita uses his 8x10 camera to make negatives on paper employing an early photographic process from this same time period invented by the British polymath, William Henry Fox Talbot. The resultant albumen prints allow us to reconnect to our world and find harmony and balance among all living things.
Kurita’s work has been exhibited internationally and collected by major museums including the Museum of Fine Arts/Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts/Houston, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg, the Princeton University Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, the George Eastman House, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, among others.
Sunday, December 1 Gallery Hours 2-6 pm
3:00 Calotype Process & History of Photography by Jonathan Kline,
Faculty of Photography, Bennington College
3:30 Nature and Humanity by Tomoaki D. Imamichi,
PhD in Environmental Psychology at the CUNY
Tuesday, December 3 Reception 6-8:00
7:30 Talk on Beyond Spheres by Edward Earle, Curator of ICP
& Anna Strickland, Faculty of Photograph, RISD
Moderated by Esa Epstein, sepiaEYE
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Schedule
from December 01, 2013 to December 03, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-12-03 from 18:00 to 20:00