William Eggleston
05 June - 22 August 2010
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| William Eggleston
Paris, C - print, 28 x 35.6 cm, 2006-2008 Collection Fondation Cartier
pour l’art contemporain Courtesy Cheim and Read, New York © 2009
Eggleston Artistic Trust, Memphis􀀁 |
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WILLIAM EGGLESTON
"Paris – Kyoto”
June 5 (Sat.) – August 22 (Sun.), 2010
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the first
solo exhibition of William Eggleston’s work at a Japanese museum. The
exhibition focuses on two series of works commissioned by the Fondation
Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris and shown in their space in Paris
for the very first time in 2001 and 2009. The exhibition also shows a
group of the artist’s most famous historical works from the collection
of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
For three years, American photographer William Eggleston has
photographed the city of Paris as part of a commission for the Fondation
Cartier pour l’art contemporain. Taken throughout different seasons,
these new images by one of the fathers of color photography portray the
local and the cosmopolitan, the glamorous and the gritty, the everyday
and the extraordinary. This exhibition also provides an exceptional
occasion to bring together William Eggleston’s distinctive pictures and
his recent paintings, an unknown aspect of his work that has never
before been presented to the public.
On a previous commission, also from Fondation Cartier, and in response
to a "go-as-you please” project, Eggleston identified Kyoto as his
favourite city, and one he already knew and loved. Always far from
stereotypes and attentive to
everyday details of urban life, his "democratic eye” once again brings
his very personal and strong vision of the world deep into Japanese
culture.
After the exhibit at the Hara Museum, the series Paris will be presented
in September 2010 at The Hasselblad Foundation in Göteborg, Sweden.
William Eggleston (b. 1939-)
Born in 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee, William Eggleston grew up in Sumner,
Mississippi. While attending university in the South, he purchased his
first camera and discovered the work of Henri Cartier- Bresson and
Walker Evans. In the early 1960s, Eggleston moved to Memphis, where he
continues to reside, and started experimenting with black and white
photography. However, by the end of the decade he had started creating
primarily color photographs. In 1976, John Szarkowski, Director of
Photography at the MoMA, organized an exhibition of Eggleston’s work,
one of the institution’s first solo shows of color photographs. This
marked a turning point for the medium, which had been used almost
exclusively for commercial aims. Since this historic exhibition, the
internationally acclaimed photographer has been the subject of numerous
exhibitions all over the world, as well as of various publications. A
retrospective of his work was recently presented at the Whitney Museum
of American Art in New York. In 1998, Eggleston won the Hasselblad
Award, known as the Nobel Prize of photography. http://www.egglestontrust.com/
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