Rinko Kawauchi

Rinko Kawauchi

略歴

The artist was born in Shiga, Japan, in 1972. She currently lives and works in Tokyo. Kawauchi burst on the international scene in 2001 when she was awarded the Kimura-Ihei-Prize, Japan’s most important emerging talent photography prize, shortly followed by the simultaneous publication of three beautiful books, Utatane (Catnap), Hanabi (Fireworks), and Hanako, her very personal study of a young girl of the same name. Met with great critical acclaim, these “visual essays” demonstrate her finesse and skill of telling a photographic tale. Since this triple-debut, the artist has gone to publish another eleven books, the newest of which are Illuminance and Ametsuchi. Kawauchi, currently one of the most famed contemporary female Asian artists, is a recipient the eminent Annual Infinity Award (2009) from New York’s International Centre of Photography, in the category Art, and similarly was shortlisted in 2012 for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. She has joined and held many group and solo shows both at home and abroad, with major solo exhibitions in the Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain in Paris, London’s The Photographers’ Gallery, the Hasselblad Centre in Gothenburg, Semear Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, the Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum in Shizuoka, or Brussels’ ARGOS Centre for Art & Media. Major group exhibitions to date include those at Munich’s Haus der Kunst, the Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, Museum of Contemporary Art, inTokyo, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art in Aichi, or the Brighton Photo Biennial 2010: New Documents. Her unique approach is like a “drawing senses”, embracing motifs of every day details as well as cycle of life and its transience, and has been admired by art lovers all over the world.

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Rinko Kawauchi

参加作品

「カナタの旅 Live at 横浜開港記念会館）」
「カナタの旅 Live at 横浜開港記念会館）」
Art Designer
In the sound of the historic building, Port Opening Memorial Hall, the overlapping tone of the band formation with percussion Ryota Tanaka and guitar Gen Tanabe became a performance that felt a certain heat with the new wind. A new song "some site" written for this day is also included, and it will be released for the first time in this work. Following Kanata, Rinko Kawauchi is on the jacket. Beautiful photographs of the sun moving to the endless sea, shining a faint light and disappearing all the boundaries , gently snuggle up to this album.
Halo
Halo
Director
Rinko Kawauchi's exploration of the cadences of the everyday has begun to swing farther afield from her earlier photographs focusing on tender details of day-to-day living.
Ametsuchi
Ametsuchi
Director
In Ametsuchi, Kawauchi brings together images of distant constellations and tiny figures lost within landscapes, as well as photographs of a traditional controlled burn farming method (yakihata) in which the cycles of cultivation and recovery span decades and generations. Punctuating the series are images of Buddhist rituals and other religious ceremonies-a suggestion of other means by which humankind has traditionally attempted to transcend time and memory.
Illuminance
Illuminance
Director
the extraordinary in the mundane, drawn to the fundamental cycles of life and the seemingly inadvertent, fractal-like organization of the natural world into formal patterns.
誰も知らない
誰も知らない
Still Photographer
けい子は引っ越しの際、子供は12歳の長男の明だけだと嘘をつく。実際子供は4人いて、彼らは全員学校に通ったこともなく、アパートの部屋で母親の帰りを待って暮らしていたが……。 　 ＜解説＞　 主演の柳楽優弥が史上最年少の14歳という若さで、2004年度カンヌ国際映画祭主演男優賞に輝いた話題作。『ディスタンス』の是枝裕和監督が実際に起きた、母親が父親の違う子供4人を置き去りにするという衝撃的な事件を元に構想から15年、満を持して映像となった。女優初挑戦の、YOU扮する奔放な母親と子役達の自然な演技も秀逸。母の失踪後一人で弟妹達の面倒をみる長男の姿は、家族や社会のあり方を問いかける。
ブルー
ブルー
Still Photographer
海辺の街にある女子高。三年に進学した桐島カヤ子は、同じクラスになった遠藤雅美のことが気になっていた。去年、何かの理由で停学して同級生になった彼女。どうして？クラス中が彼女に興味を持ちながら、無視している毎日。いつでもひとりでいる雅美。そんな彼女をじっと見つめるカヤ子。ある日、カヤ子は、そんな雅美を屋上での仲間たちとの昼食に誘った。それから、二人は急速に仲良くなった。いままでの仲間たちと遠ざかっていくカヤ子。雅美の部屋で見たセザンヌの画集。雅美から借りたＣＤから流れ出す少し背伸びした音楽。二人で見た海の青色。歩いた道。空の青。憧れ。不器用なキス。小さな、しかし、とても悲しい裏切り。そして、カヤ子はささやかな決心をする…。濃い海の上に広がる空や、制服や、幼い彼女たちの一生懸命な不器用さや、あの頃のそれら全部が、もし色を持っていたとしたら、それはとても深い青色なのかもしれない。