Hideo Anze Solo Exhibition
RGB series | Stripe (50Hz) series
NADA New York 2024
May 2–5, 2024 | Booth #P38
KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Hideo Anze at NADA New York 2024.
Hideo Anze is a Japanese artist known for his conceptual works using photography. Five works from his representative Stripe (50Hz) series (2014-) are acquired by the British Museum as part of their permanent collection (UK), and his latest RGB series, which expresses his unique interpretation of contemporary photography, has been highly acclaimed and has been featured on various media including Artnet News, Artsy, Post Magazine (South China Morning Post) to name a few. The presentation at NADA New York 2024 will showcase these two representative series, Stripe (50Hz) and RGB.
The Stripe (50Hz) is an iPhone abstraction dominated by perfectly machined verticals of various sizes and widths. Created via combinations of flickered light refraction (at a specific frequency used after the Fukushima accident) and specific color, the images mix hard-edged geometries with softer flares and blurs. Each image is accompanied by a dense compendium of data, including technical information (in both English and Japanese), news headlines from its moment of creation, and GPS information of its exact location, adding a layer of unwieldy context/memory to an otherwise sleek package.
The series RGB is inspired by the fact that William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of calotype photography, called his technique “photogenic drawing (=drawing with light)” rather than photography. The artist obtains images of masterpiece paintings from the internet and paints the histogram of the downloaded image on a canvas in the same dimension as the so-called masterpiece. This time, the presentation will feature several self-portraits by Vincent van Gogh. Downloaded from Wikipedia, Anze paints the image histograms of the self-portraits on a canvas of the exact dimensions as the “original” paintings, to ask a simple question: What is contemporary photography?
Artist Profile
Hideo Anze is an artist based in Yokohama and Tokyo. Renowned for conceptual works using photography and contemporary media continuously made daily, his works have been acquired and exhibited in public and private institutions, including the British Museum (London), the Sanders Collection (Haarlem, Netherlands), Kana Kawanishi Gallery (Tokyo) and more others.
His major solo exhibitions include “Photogenic Drawing” (2022, KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY, Tokyo), “Synchronicity” (2019, KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY, Tokyo), “Forms of Invisible Existence” (2016, KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY, Tokyo), and “RED 2014 365” (SUNDAY, Tokyo, 2016). Group exhibitions include “One Picture Manifesto” (2022, KANA KAWANISHI PHOTOGRAPHY, Tokyo), “Body Politics: What Defines the Body?” (2018, KANA KAWANISHI PHOTOGRAPHY, Tokyo), “transcripts/memories” (2015, KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY, Tokyo) and others. His concept book Red 2014 365 was published by Trademark Publishing (Germany) in 2016.
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