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2015年1月15日（木）～2015年2月15日（日） 11:00-17:00 *木のみ12:00-19:00 *月・火休館 |
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| 場所 | null、Latvian Museum of Photography ラトビア写真美術館（Mārstaļu iela 8, Rīga, LV–1050） |
小池浩央さん（2006年大学院造形研究科修士課程デザイン専攻映像コース修了、2010年大学院造形研究科博士後期課程環境形成研究領域単位取得退学）の展覧会のお知らせ。
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2015年1月から6月までの期間、ラトビアが欧州連合理事会議長国に就任します。それに伴う文化関連イベントとして、首都リガにある「ラトビア写真美術館」で2015年1月15日から2月15日まで、外国人の写真家の目から見たラトビアというテーマで、小池浩央の「Desiderium」とイタリア人写真家Luca Bertiの「Man and Nature in Latvia」いう二つの写真展が同時開催されます。
美術館からの案内は以下の通りです（英文）：
The exhibition “Desiderium” featuring images of Hirohisa Koike, photographer from Japan, will be presented at the Latvian Museum of Photography from January 15th.
In the year of Latvian Presidency of the Council of the European Union Latvian Museum of Photography offers to the visitors a foreigner’s perspective of Latvia. This is a story of Japan photographer’s unfulfilled love to a Latvian girl.
French writer Maurice Blanchot once wrote: “Desire remains in relation to the distantness of the star, entreating the sky, appealing to the universe”. Referring to this Hirohisa Koike explains: “The title of this series “Desiderium” is desire in Latin, which refers to the star (Latin: siderium). Blanchot writes about this desire as “impossible” which remains as such. After studying photography for seven years including PhD, I noticed that ideas for images or strategies for images didn’t make sense to me anymore. Taking photographs should be meaningful. So I was focusing on my daily life and taking photos of its fragments. When I was in Latvia in 2013, I met a girl from Riga, and fell in love with her at the first glance. She had a boyfriend and it seemed impossible to develop the relationship anyway. My feelings for her got deeper day by day and I was sure I started to “desire” her. I was taking her portraits and the places where we went together, but “desire” is not “love”, and it didn’t make us united. Like the sky in Latvia at the end of June, you know there is lot of stars but you can’t see anything as it’s too bright.” This photo series was taken mostly in Latvia about the girl and her surroundings in 2013-2014.
Hirohisa Koike was born in Gumma, Japan, in 1979. He has studied photography in Musashino Art University in Tokyo. Since 2005 he has had solo and group exhibitions in Japan, France, Estonia and Lithuania. Hirohisa Koike has also worked as a professor of photography in Ochanomizu Art College, Tokyo, and as an artist-researcher at the Fine Art School of Nantes Metropole, France.
Meeting with the author will take place on 16th of January at 6.00 PM at Latvian Museum of Photography.
EXHIBITION OPENING WILL TAKE PLACE ON 15th JANUARY, 2014, AT 5.00 PM, AT LATVIAN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY, MARSTALU STREET 8 (ENTRANCE FROM ALKSNAJU ST.)