Gallery Terra Tokyo is pleased to announce to have a group exhibition of photographs by the four artists. How does the real in front of us change by through the filter of the artist self and also the camera. Empel creates an unrealistic world by photo collage of real photos. Arai represents only one image printed on silver plate by Daguerreotype. Katsumata exhibits a series of view from the window of the hotel. Hirose is creating a world with blue toning. This group exhibition will introduce the real or unreal through each approach by each artist in such a situation the technique of “photo” is becoming diversity.
Kunihiko Katsumata born in Shizuoka. He is creating conceptual work relating with construction of photo with the theme of “Time”, “Light” and “Location” through various subject. Selected exhibitions : 2008 “Dwelling” The Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo. 2007 “Young Japanese Landscape” MOYA, Wien Austria. 2002 “Photography Today 2” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Participating in Art Basel, Paris Photo, Art Taipei and so on. Public Collections : The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. The Setagaya Art Museum. Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum. 2005 Photographic Society of Japan Award, Newcomer’s award.
Takashi Arai born in Kawasaki, 1978. Selected solo exhibition 2006 “Rendezvous on Mirror” Yokohama Museum of Art. 2009 “Flawless Lakes” Project Basho, Philadelphia, USA. 2011 “Mirrors in Our Nights” Kawasaki City Museum. 2012 “MIRRORS HALF ASLEEP” Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels. Selected group exhibition, 2012 “Photography today 4” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Public Collection, Musee Adrien Mentienne Bry-sur-Marne, France.
Haruka Hirose born in Shizuoka, 1983. Graduated from M.A., Inter Media Art, Fine Art Faculty, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, 2007. She participated in group exhibition “The Eye of Young Photographers IN & OUT-JAPAN・KOREA” at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo Japan, 2003.
Ruud van Empel born in Netherland, 1958. Selected solo exhibition, 2014 Noordbrabants Museum, Netherland. 2013 Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden, Fomu Fotomuseum Antwerpen, Belgium. 2012 Mopa-museum of photographic arts, San Diego, USA. 2011 Groninger museum, Netherland.
