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Trace

September 13, 2007- October 27, 2007

Koichiro Kurita

Fotosphere

511 W 25th St

FOTOSPHERE GALLERY is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Koichiro Kurita entitled Trace. The exhibition includes twenty prints, including large format size of 24x34 inches a painstaking printed with platinum and palladium on Japanese handmade Gampi paper. Kurita has been photographing landscapes with his unique aesthetics and philosophy for about two decades. One of the most well-known series, Terrasphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere captured landscape without man-made objects.

In contrast to the other series, Trace consciously included such objects as a decayed bridge over a small pond, a wooden fence near by the shore, a telegraph pole in a barren land leaving a human trace. While nature and modernization can be seen as competing forces, in Kurita’s photographs, the combination of man-made objects and nature appear to peacefully co-exist in harmony, and give a sense of belongingness. While man-made objects are essential for human survival, modernization with accelerating change and hectic life-style has often overstepped its boundaries, intruding upon nature, alienating humans from nature and themselves. These images hint to a slower paced life and the presence of man-made objects is within its acceptable limits. Kurita’s photographs call upon us to preserve such balance.

In 1990 he received a grant from the Asian Cultural Council (as part of John D. Rockefeller Fund) and began living in New York City where he currently resides. He is devoting himself to the technically complex process of printing in platinum on Japanese handmade paper. His photographs have been collected by numerous museums and collectors around the world such as, George Eastman House, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, Harvard University – The Fogg Art Museum, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum, Maison Europeene de la Photographie etc.

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