The official catalogue of the exhibition “Risaku Suzuki: Stream of consciousness.”

Kagawa: Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art / Feb 1─May 31, 2015

Tokyo: Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery / July 18─Sept 23, 2015

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Presenting around 80 photographs and three films that are mostly new or never-exhibited, “Risaku Suzuki: Stream of consciousness” is the first large-scale solo exhibition by the artist since “Kumano, Yuki, Sakura,” held at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2007.

New pieces belonging to the existing series “Between the Sea and the Mountain,” “SAKURA,” “White,” and “Étude,” prove that his work is still in the process of deepening and intensifying to various directions, including development into the form of film. Exhibited for the first time, the new series “Water Mirror” offers a glimpse of his new approaches toward space and time.

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Including a rich variety of texts (essays and conversations) and plates of not only the exhibited but also other works by the artist, this book “Stream of consciousness” is much more than a catalogue to complement the exhibition, but an invaluable monograph of the artist, providing a comprehensive view of his creation today.

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This book is in two different bindings: the white cloth-bound version is only available at the museum, while the other, red cloth-bound version can be found elsewhere. The former has three variations with different plates glued to the front cover, while the latter is accompanied by an A5 postcard.

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[Contents]

Text 1＿Stream of Consciousness / Risaku Suzuki

Text 2＿Abandonment and Presistence: Risaku Suzuki’s Photography / Minoru Shimizu

Plates 1＿Between the Sea and the Mountain – Kumano

Text 3＿The Landscape Photography of Risaku Suzuki / Keiji Ueshima

Plates 2＿SAKURA

Text 4＿For the Photographic Experience / Talk: Shino Kuraishi × Risaku Suzuki

Plates 3＿White

Plates 4＿Water Mirror

Plates 5＿Étude

Text 5＿A Mirror of Vision: The Photography of Risaku Suzuki / Yuki Sayama

Text 6＿Inexhaustible Beauty / Kanako Furuno

List of Works

Biography

Bibliography

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Edited by: Risaku Suzuki / Kanako Furuno / Madoka Matsumura / Yuki Sayama

Texts: Risaku Suzuki / Minoru Shimizu / Keiji Ueshima / Shino Kuraishi / Yuki Sayama / Kanako Furuno

Translation: Masaaki Tsukiji / D. Max Moerman / Lucy North / Brian Amstutz

Design: Shin Akiyama+Kaori Suzuki / Edition Nord

Printed and bound by: SunM Color Co., Ltd.

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Publication date: 1 February 2015

297 x 224mm / 258 pages / 151 color plates

Clothbound hardcover with tipped-in image

Price: white version; SOLD OUT | 4500yen / red version; 8000yen

szk 001 / first edition of 1700 copies

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Images © 2015 Risaku Suzuki / Courtesy of Gallery Koyanagi

Texts © 2015 The authors for their text

All rights reserved.

Printed and bound in Japan

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