Kikuji Kawada

<div class="artist"><strong>Kikuji Kawada</strong></div><div class="title_and_year"><em>Woman with Mask, Los Caprichos, 1976</em></div><div class="medium">Vintage silver gelatin print, printed 1986</div><div class="dimensions">22.4 x 28.1 cm</div><div class="signed_and_dated">Inscribed in pencil on verso with series title, print details, date and signature</div>

<div class="artist"><strong>Kikuji Kawada</strong></div><div class="title_and_year"><em>Floating Fish and a Photographer, Los Caprichos, 1975</em></div><div class="medium">Vintage silver gelatin print</div><div class="dimensions">18.1 x 27 cm</div><div class="signed_and_dated">Inscribed in pencil on verso with print details, dates and signature </div>

<div class="artist"><strong>Kikuji Kawada</strong></div><div class="title_and_year"><em>Wedding Veil, Tokyo, Los Caprichos, 1986</em></div><div class="medium">Vintage silver gelatin print, printed 1986</div><div class="dimensions">21.5 x 32.4 cm</div><div class="edition_details">Inscribed in pencil on verso with series title, image title, print details, date and initials on verso</div>

<div class="artist"><strong>Kikuji Kawada</strong></div><div class="title_and_year"><em>Lucky Strike</em></div><div class="medium">Period silver gelatin print, printed 1995</div><div class="dimensions">46 x 56 cm</div><div class="signed_and_dated">Signed, titled on verso in pencil</div>

<div class="artist"><strong>Kikuji Kawada</strong></div><div class="title_and_year"><em>Die Ganze Stadt (1), Tokyo</em>, 1996</div><div class="medium">Vintage silver gelatin print<br/>
</div><div class="dimensions">50.5 x 40.5 cm</div><div class="signed_and_dated">Signed, titled and dated on verso in pencil. Artist blind stamp on verso</div>

<div class="artist"><strong>Kikuji Kawada</strong></div><div class="title_and_year"><em>Matira Point</em>, 1994</div><div class="medium">Vintage silver gelatin print</div><div class="dimensions">60.5 x 50.7 cm</div><div class="signed_and_dated">Signed, titled and dated on verso in pencil and artist blind stamp on verso</div>

<div class="artist"><strong>Kikuji Kawada</strong></div><div class="title_and_year"><em>Die Ganze Stadt (4)</em>, 1992</div><div class="medium">Vintage silver gelatin print</div><div class="dimensions">55.7 x 45.7 cm</div><div class="signed_and_dated">Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso and artist blind stamp on recto</div>

<div class="artist"><strong>Kikuji Kawada</strong></div><div class="title_and_year"><em>A crescent and TV aerial, Tokyo</em>, 1988</div><div class="medium">Period silver gelatin print, printed early 1990s</div><div class="dimensions">55.6 x 45.7 cm</div><div class="signed_and_dated">Signed, titled and dated on verso in pencil and artist blind stamp on verso</div>

<div class="artist"><strong>Kikuji Kawada</strong></div><div class="title_and_year"><em>Living cultivation, Pony-Tail</em>, 1987</div><div class="medium">Period silver gelatin print<br/>
</div><div class="dimensions">55.6 x 45.6 cm</div><div class="signed_and_dated">Signed, titled and dated on verso in pencil. Artist blind stamp on verso</div>

<div class="artist"><strong>Kikuji Kawada</strong></div><div class="title_and_year"><em>Glasshouse and Sky</em>, 1981</div><div class="medium">Period silver gelatin print<br/>
</div><div class="dimensions">55.5 x 45.5 cm</div><div class="signed_and_dated">Signed, titled and dated on verso in pencil. Artist blind stamp on verso</div>

<div class="artist"><strong>Kikuji Kawada</strong></div><div class="title_and_year"><em>The Last Total Eclipse of Sun in the 20th Century </em>, 1999 </div><div class="medium">Vintage silver gelatin print</div><div class="dimensions">60.6 x 46 cm</div><div class="signed_and_dated">Signed, titled and dated on verso in pencil </div>

<div class="artist"><strong>Kikuji Kawada</strong></div><div class="title_and_year"><em>Helio-Spot and a Helicopter, Tokyo</em>, 1990</div><div class="medium">Period silver gelatine print</div><div class="dimensions">56 x 46 cm</div><div class="signed_and_dated">Signed, titled and dated on verso in pencil</div>

<div class="artist"><strong>Kikuji Kawada</strong></div><div class="title_and_year"><em>The Last Golden Ring Eclipse in Japan, Yomitanson, Okinawa</em>, 1987</div><div class="medium">Period silver gelatin print</div><div class="dimensions">51 x 41 cm</div><div class="signed_and_dated">Signed titled and dated on verso in pencil</div><div class="price">£80.00</div>

<div class="artist"><strong>Kikuji Kawada</strong></div><div class="title_and_year"><em>Woman of Sankt Pauli, from ‘Sei Naru Sekai - Sacre Atavism’, 1969</em></div><div class="medium">Vintage silver gelatin print</div><div class="dimensions">25 x 30.5 cm </div><div class="signed_and_dated">Signed in pencil in English on verso. Titled in Japanese in pencil on verso.</div>

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"I WAS BORN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SHOWA ERA. THERE WAS A GREAT WAR DURING MY BOYHOOD AND THEN I LIVED DURING THE PERIOD OF RE-CONSTRUCTION AND GROWTH AND NOW I SLOWLY APPROACH THE EVENING OF LIFE. THROUGH THESE PHOTOGRAPHS THE COSMOLOGY IS AN ILLUSION OF THE FIRMAMENT AT THE SAME TIME IT INCLUDES THE REALITY OF AN ERA AND ALSO THE COSMOLOGY OF A CHANGING HEART."

- Kikuji Kawada

Born in the Ibaraki Prefecture in 1933, Kikuji Kawada is a renowned Japanese photographer. He co-founded the VIVO collective in 1959 with Akira Sato, Eikoh Hosoe, Ikko Narahara, Akira Tanno and Shomei Tomatsu. He had his first solo exhibition in the same year, before exhibiting 'The Map' in 1961 at Fuji Photo Salon in Tokyo. Kawada taught photography at the Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1967. He was also, notably, one of the fifteen artists selected for the "New Japanese Photography" exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1974. In 2011 Kawada received a lifetime achievement award from the Photographic Society of Japan, underscoring his international and national acclaim, a whole room of his work was included in the Tate exhibition 'Conflict, Time, Photography' in 2014.

Kawada's work is in museum collections worldwide including Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.

KIKUJI KAWADA

(Japanese, b.1933)

CHRONOLOGY

1933 Born in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

1955 Degree in Economics from Rikkyo University in Ikebukuro, Tokyo

1955-59 Staff photographer for Shincho Sha Publishing Company

1959 Co-founds VIVO, a photographers' cooperative, with Ikko Narahara, Shomei Tomatsu, Eikoh Hosoe, Akira Sato and Akira Tanno

First solo exhibition, The Sea, at Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo

1961 Solo exhibition of The Map at Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo

1962 VIVO disbands

1965 The Map, designed by Sugiura Kohei, is published by Bijutsu

Shuppan-sha

1967-69 Teaches photography at Tama Art University, Tokyo

1974 One of the 15 artists in the New Japanese Photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

1978 VIVO: Contemporary Photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA

1979 Cosmos of the Dream King, Ludwig II, published by Asahi Sonorama

Japan: A Self-Portrait, International Center of Photography, New York

1984 Publishes Nude and Ludwig II

1986 Caprichos self-published

Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1995 The Last Cosmology is published

1998 The Globe Theater is published

2009 The Last Cosmology, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

2011 Receives lifetime achievement award from the Photographic Society of Japan

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 UNKNOWN 2013

Leica Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2012 2011 - Phenomena

P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan

2011 Nikko A Parable

P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan

2010 World's End 2008-2010

P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan

2009 The Last Cosmology

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

2008 Remote Past: Memoir 1951-1966

P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan

2006 ATLAS 1998-2006

Epsite, Tokyo, Japan

Invisible City

P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan

2005 Kikuji Kawada: Eureka/ Multigraph

Shadai Gallery, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan

2004 The Map, 1960-1965

P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan

2003 Kikuji Kawada: Theatrum Mundi

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

2001 Eureka

P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan

1999 The Globe Theater

Internationale Fototage Herten, Herten, NL

1998 Car Maniac

P.G.I. Shibaura, Japan

1996 ZENO - The Last Cosmology

P.G.I. Shibaura, Japan

The Last Cosmology

Higashikawa International Photography Festival, Higashikawa, Japan

The Last Cosmology

Mitsubishi-Jisho Artium, Fukuoka, Japan

1995 The Last Cosmology

Tower Gallery, Yokohama, Japan

1986 Los Caprichos 1970-80

P.G.I., Japan

1984 Nude Museum and Ludwig II Collection

P.G.I., Tokyo, Japan

1976 Kikuji Kawada Photographs

Shadai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1968 Sacré- Atavism

Nikon Salon, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

1961 The Map

Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan

1959 The Sea

Fuji Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Forest and Art

Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2005 The Shadow

Vestaellands Kunstmuseum, Denmark

2003 The History of Japanese Photography

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA, traveling exhibition

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA,

2001-02 Illusion

Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, traveling exhibition

Lunds Konstall, Sweden

Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark

Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, traveling exhibition

Brandt ski defabrik, Odense, Denmark

The Country Museum of Joenkoeping, Sweden

Kunstbanken, Hedmark Art Centre, Hamar, Norway

Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Norway

National Gallery of Iceland, Reykyavik, Iceland

1999 Contemporary Photographic Art from Japan

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

Master Works, Master Photographers

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

Exploring Photography: From the Museum CollectionNational Film Center

The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1998 Waterproof

Expo '98, Lisbon, Portugal

Corridor of the Gaze / Theatrical Tableaux

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

Realism in Postwar Japan 1945-1960

Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan

Under / Exposed

Stockholm Photography Festival, Sweden

1995 Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years

Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Objects, Faces and Anti-Narratives - Rethinking Modernism Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography,Tokyo, Japan

Works by 25 Photographers in Their 20's

Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Yamanashi, Japan

1991 Innovation in Japanese Photography in the 1960's

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

Beyond Japan: A Photo Theatre

Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK

Photographs in Japan 1955-1965

Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, Yamaguchi, Japan

1990 Eye of deja-vu

Heineken Village Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1989 Photographie Japonaise

Provincial Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1988 Eight Japanese Photographers

P.G.I. Tokyo, Japan

1986 Japon des Avant-Gardes 1910-1970

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

The Works with Polaroid 20x24

Shibuya Seibu Seed Hall, Tokyo

1985 Paris, New York, Tokyo

Tsukuba Museum of Photography, Ibaraki, Japan

1979 Japan: A Self-Portrait

International Center of Photography, New York, USA

1978 VIVO: Contemporary Photography

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

1976-77 Neue Fotografie aus Japan

Kulturhaus der Stadt, Graz, Austria

1974 New Japanese Photography

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1963 Contemporary Japanese Photographs

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1962 Non

Matsuya Department Store, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

1959 The Eyes of Ten

Konishiroku Photo Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

1958 The Eyes of Ten

Konishiroku Photo Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

1957 The Eyes of Ten

Konishiroku Photo Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

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