ARTCOURT Gallery presents the work of Hitoshi Nomura (b.1945). At the fair we focus primarily on Nomura's photography, which has been an essential tool in his creative approach since the beginning of his career.

In 1970 as part of the Mono-ha movement, his work was included in the “10th International Art Exhibition of Japan (Tokyo Biennale '70) － Between Man and Matter” (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum) , one of the important postwar art events in the country. His works are contained in the collections of many Japanese and foreign museums including the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and MoMA, New York.

Over the last nearly 50 years, Nomura has used a unique methodology to devote himself to a series of projects in which he diligently views, records, and restructures nature as the site of the workings of life, and the universe as the source of eternal time and space. Magnificently mystifying forms, movements and rhythms take shape here, through the meticulous connecting of expansive observations that are arrived at by facing and scrutinizing the abundance of natural phenomena that surround us. Fragments of a visualized, vast universe, fruits of inevitable chance, obtained by undergoing an actively receptive process with a watchful attitude of observing, documenting and restructuring that which already exists. These come to rouse within us a fine, acute sensitivity, with which we may perceive the existence of a universal providence that cannot be seen, and find signs of our own existence within it.

In his solo exhibition at the fair, The Earth Rotation, ‘moon’ score: ISS Astronaut, Chromatist Painting are included.

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© Hitoshi Nomura  

Courtesy of ARTCOURT Gallery