Rinko Kawauchi

Rinko Kawauchi

약력

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

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「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.
아무도 모른다
아무도 모른다
Still Photographer
크리스마스 전에는 돌아오겠다는 메모와 약간의 돈을 남긴 채 어디론가 떠나버린 엄마. 열두 살의 장남 아키라, 둘째 교코, 셋째 시게루, 그리고 막내인 유키까지 네 명의 아이들은 엄마를 기다리며 하루하루를 보낸다. 아키라는 동생들을 돌보며 헤어지지 않으려고 최선을 다하지만, 겨울이 지나고 봄이 되어도 엄마는 나타나지 않는다. 시간이 흐를수록 엄마가 빨리 돌아오지 않을 것이라는 생각을 한 네 명의 아이들은 감당하기 벅찬 시간들을 서로에게 의지하며 함께 보내기 시작하는데…
블루
블루
Still Photographer
해변가에 위치한 여학교. 고3이 된 가야코는 같은 반 친구 엔도에게 자꾸만 관심이 간다. 진로에 대한 고민이 끝이지 않는 다른 친구들과 달리 침착하고 조용한 엔도의 모습이 어른스럽다고 생각하는 가야코. 그녀의 시선은 언제나 엔도를 향하고 있다. 어느 날, 친구들과의 모임에서 가야코는 엔도에게 초대를 받게 된다. 자신과는 조금 다른 세상에 살고 있는 듯한 느낌을 안겨주는 엔도. 그날 이후 가야코와 엔도는 급속도로 가까워지고, 그녀들의 관계는 점차 사랑으로 변해간다.