| Nipporini: Nippori Guidebook |
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| Written by KALONSNET Editor |
| Published: October 31 2009 |
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Courtesy of the artist and eitoeiko
Nipporini(born in 1963) is working as a professional commercial photographer in long time and now. In his career, he took the pictures of paintings, sculptures, antiques, jewelries, architectures, delicious foods, portraits and landscapes. A lot of magazine of photograph and architecture, internet websites, advertisements published with his photos. Also the image he took has been used as a material of TVCF. Nipporini has huge experience and knowledge of camera. He wrote a column of the techniques of digital camera in specialized magazines. The book of how to use old lens with digital camera, he supervised is evaluated high among specialists. After eitoeiko had a good relationship with Nipporini, we discovered the pure spirit, cool analysis about technical improvement, unique historical points of view, flexible thoughts in him. He was not only a photographer, but also an artist. His career as an artist started with photo-sculpture in 1993. Nipporini made 2 meters length wing airplane. He covered the surface of the airplane with photographs of blue sea. Then he took a picture of the plane taking off in the storm. The romantic works got a prize. In the other works, He went to Jamaican old town to respecting reggae musicians he loves, such as Augustus Pablo. He made the series expressing Asian humidity by dense shade in Amami islands. His works of déjà-vu in memories by self-customized toy camera were shown in museum in Japan. Nipporini is a nickname named by Nippori, the town he was born and grew up, living and working in now and Italian cinema maestro Federico Fellini. Nippori Guidebook is a series made by both of digital images and gelatin silver prints. Old beautiful town and reconstructed new buildings, there are close with each other in Nippori. Nipporini is exploring in the old and the newest Nippori with both of digital and analog techniques. In old town, seeking the scent remains, Nipporini tells us the time we lost. But there is a trick he made. What means that the struggling couple? The figures look like a portrait, but they look as same as a part of landscape. Is it a metaphor of the past and the current, or of the past and the future? The monochrome digital world, even the ablation and the dust he made, means that the past, the current and the future are all in the only one stream. From the gelatin silver prints, the reconstructed town shows another side of Nippori. The couple separates, going to disappear in the margin. But the beautiful gelatin prints tells us that, if we see the human world with Fellini’s love, then even the world in future goes to grey, our life will still be colorful with pleasure. Nipporini rings the bell of hope. Nipporini(Takahiro Wada) CV (exhibition selected) 1963 Born in Nippori, Tokyo 1983 Graduated Tokyo Photograph School 1988 The 4th Kodak Advertisement Photograph Award, Fine Work 1992 The 24th APA Biennale '92, Selected 1992 The 6th FROM-A The Art, Photograph Part, Fine Work 1994 Absolute Art '94, Fine Work 2002 Solo Exhibition, Toy Camera Story, Art Planning Aoyama, Tokyo 2007 Trio Exhibition, Between Real and Illusion, Waki Museum, Yamaguchi 2008 Solo Exhibition, Echo of Light, Light & Place, Tokyo Publishment: Old Lens Paradise by Toru Sawamura, 2008, Shoei-sha, supervised by Nipporini(as Takahiro Wada), GR DIGITAL Custom Book by Toru Sawamura, 2009, Shoei-sha, supervised by Nipporini(as Takahiro Wada) * The text provided by eitoeiko. |
| Last Updated on November 21 2009 |
