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présentation - 展览介绍 :
Organizers: Shanghai Himalayas Museum | Three Shadows Photography Art Center
Co-organizer: Gucang Contemporary Image Center, Lanzhou
Project directors: Rong Rong & inri
Special guest curator: Hisako Motoo
Curators: Mao Weidong (Three Shadows Photography Art Center) | WangLian (Gucang Contemporary Image Center, Lanzhou)
Project manager: Huang Yuelin (Shanghai Himalayas Museum)
Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey / Decadence in Paradise, 1971–2012 will be unveiled at Shanghai Himalayas Museum on September 23, 2013.Consisting of two parts, the exhibition features Sentimental Journey, the origin of Araki’s “I-photography (shi-shashin)”, and Decadence in Paradise, his most recent work to date. As Araki put it: Photography is a life. Through the monochromatic record of honey mooning with his wife Yoko, viewers will get an insight into the photographer’s inner world and his silent but passionate love towards his wife.
Nobuyoshi Araki is widely considered as a controversial photographer in modern history of
art. Born in 1940 in Minowa, Taitō-ward in downtown Tokyo, he took a photography courses in the department of engineering at Chiba University and graduated in 1963. Fresh out of photography training, Araki took his new wife, Yoko, on a honeymoon in 1971 during which he photographed Sentimental Journey, using a personal portrait of life as the vehicle to declare his individual artistic manifesto. “Sentimental Journey is my love, and also an act of determination on my part as a photographer. I photographed my honeymoon trip, so these are realist photographs.” One could say that with this first series, Araki truly stepped into his identity as an artist.
In Winter Journey, Araki recorded the illness and eventual death of his beloved wife Yoko. In Spring Journey, he photographed the final days of his cherished cat Chiro. Employing flat visual angles and seemingly simple order, Araki presents his refined and emotive side that lies beneath his unrestrained and uninhibited exterior.
In 2011following his recovery from surgery, Araki was faced with both his impending departure from the home that he had once shared with Yoko, and the tragedy of the earthquake-tsunami that had just struck Japan’s north-east region. In order to express his dual grief, here turned to his terrace from where he had once photographed the sky, and arranged toy figurines and flowering plants to create the series Decadence in Paradise.
Widely known as a productive photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki has published hundreds of catalogues, among which Sentimental Journey, Winter Journey, Spring Journey and Decadence
in Paradise, the four series to be put on display at Himalayas Museum, are hailed as the most representative and heart-stirring of his unique “I-photography”. Nobuyoshi Araki: Sentimental Journey / Decadence in Paradise, 1971–2012 will open to the public on September 24, 2013 and run through November 6.
主办: 上海喜玛拉雅美术馆 / 三影堂摄影艺术中心
协办: 兰州谷仓当代影像馆
策展总监: 荣荣 / 映里
特约策展人: 本尾久子
策展人: 毛卫东 (三影堂摄影艺术中心) / 王莲 (兰州谷仓当代影像馆)
项目负责: 黄玥霖 (上海喜玛拉雅美术馆）
2013年9月23日，《荒木经惟：感伤之旅/堕乐园1971—2012》摄影作品展于上海喜玛拉
雅美术馆开幕。本次展览展示的作品始于荒木先生“私写真”创作的最早期作品《感伤之旅》，
并以最新的作品《堕乐园》作为结尾。通过这记录荒木与爱妻阳子最真实、最私密的摄影系
列，观众将真切领略他的内心世界和他对阳子的无声之爱，体味他所说的“所谓摄影，就是
人生”。
荒木经惟，颇受争议的摄影师、当代艺术家。1940年出生于东京平民区。1963年毕业于国立千叶大学工学系摄影专业。1971年，供职于日本电通广告公司的荒木携新婚妻子阳子旅行期间，拍摄了《感伤之旅》系列，以“私写真”的姿态发出了他个人的摄影宣言。“《感伤之旅》是我的爱，也是我作为摄影师的决心。我拍摄自己的新婚旅行，所以是真实的摄影。”可以说，荒木从这本自叙体摄影集开始，踏上了艺术创作的旅程。
结婚20年后，荒木又以《冬之旅》系列拍摄了爱妻阳子患病入院至去世期间的时光，寄托了对妻子深厚的感情与无限的哀思。再之后的《春之旅》系列，则拍摄了阳子去世后一直陪伴着他的爱猫奇洛的离世，此系列中大量出现的空空的天空，也许是荒木在仰望已在另一个世界的挚爱。
2011年，手术康复后的荒木先生即将永远离开自己与阳子曾经共同生活的旧居，恰逢日本东北部发生地震和海啸，远离阳子的旧居和地震中逝去的无数生命，令他满怀双重的哀思。在曾经无数次拍过天空的阳台上，他再一次摆上了玩具和花卉，创作了《堕乐园》，试图重现一个乐园的景象。“可是，这终究不能变成一个完完全全的乐园。落入了阴间的世界，因此我称之为堕乐园”。
面对此生挚爱的阳子，荒木经惟以看似平淡的视角和朴素的手法，揭示出他放浪不羁外表背
后深情细腻的另一面。他影集无数，而本次于喜玛拉雅美术馆展出的《感伤之旅》、《冬之旅》、
《春之旅》、《堕乐园》这四个私摄影系列，则是其作品中最特立独行、感人至深的部分。《荒
木经惟：感伤之旅/堕乐园1971—2012》摄影作品展将持续展至2013年11月6日，相信这又将带给入秋的申城一抹神秘、特别的色彩。
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