Rinko Kawauchi Abstract Photography
Japanese, b. 1972
Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi weaves a narrative of the duality between life and death in her work. Her images simultaneously suggest optimism for an idyllic existence and existential dread for the struggles of everyday life.
Kawauchi graduated from Seian University of Art and Design in 1993. In 2001, she released a trio of photobooks — Utatane, Hanabi and Hanako — that received critical acclaim and launched Kawauchi’s career. Over the next two decades, she produced over 20 photobooks.
Kawauchi is a master narrator capable of telling stories in a minimalist style. Like the haikus she writes to accompany her work, Kawauchi’s photography offers poetry in the stillness of a single frame. Simplicity is a key element in her work, which captures intentional moments and freezes nature in time. Her subjects include fire, fireworks, clouds, lightning, sakura blossoms and waves.
In 2002, Kawauchi won the Rookie of the Year Award from the Photographic Society of Japan. She received the International Center of Photography’s Annual Infinity Award in 2009 and was shortlisted in 2012 for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. In 2013, she won the Domestic Photographer Award at the 29th Higashikawa Awards and the Art Encourage Prize for New Artist from the Ministry of Education.
She has exhibited her work around the world, including at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the Photographer’s Gallery in London, the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo and White Cube in Kyoto.
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Artist: Rinko Kawauchi
Untitled, from the series
M/E
– Rinko Kawauchi, Abstract, Light, Japanese, Art
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
Rinko Kawauchi
Untitled, from the series 'M/E', 2020
C-print
Sheet 120 x 180 cm (47 1/4 x 70 7/8 in.)
Edition of 3 (#1/3)
Signed
Kawauchi burst on the international scene in 2001 when she was awarded the Kimura-Ihei-Prize, Japan’s most important emerging talent photography prize, shortly followed by the simultaneous publication of three beautiful books, Utatane (Catnap), Hanabi (Fireworks), and Hanako, her very personal study of a young girl of the same name. Met with great critical acclaim, these “visual essays” demonstrate her finesse and skill of telling a photographic tale. Since this triple-debut, the artist has gone to publish another eleven books, the newest of which are Illuminance and Ametsuchi.
Kawauchi, currently one of the most famed contemporary female Asian artists...
Category
2010s Contemporary Rinko Kawauchi Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled, from the series
M/E
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
Rinko Kawauchi
Untitled, from the series 'M/E', 2020
Lambda print
Sheet 120 x 80 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in )
Edition of 3 (#1/3)
Signed
Kawauchi burst on the international scene in 20...
Category
2010s Contemporary Rinko Kawauchi Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled, from the series
M/E
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
Rinko Kawauchi
Untitled, from the series 'M/E', 2020
Lambda print
Sheet 120 x 80 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in )
Edition of 3 (#1/3)
Signed
Kawauchi burst on the international scene in 20...
Category
2010s Contemporary Rinko Kawauchi Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled, from the series
M/E
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
Rinko Kawauchi
Untitled, from the series 'M/E', 2020
Lambda print
Sheet 120 x 80 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in )
Edition of 3 (#1/3)
Signed
Kawauchi burst on the international scene in 20...
Category
2010s Contemporary Rinko Kawauchi Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled, from the series
M/E
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
Rinko Kawauchi
Untitled, from the series 'M/E', 2020
C-print
Sheet 120 x 80 cm (47 1/5 × 31 1/2 in )
Edition of 3 (#1/3)
Signed
Kawauchi burst on the international scene in 2001 wh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Rinko Kawauchi Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled, from the series
Utatane
– Rinko Kawauchi, Japanese, Blue, Liquid
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
RINKO KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan)
Untitled, from the series 'Utatane'
2001
C-type print
Sheet 25,4 x 20,3 cm (10 x 8 in.)
Frame 26 x 21 x 2,5 cm (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 1 in.)
Edition of 6; Ed...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Rinko Kawauchi Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled, from the series
Halo
– Rinko Kawauchi, Birds, Dark Blue, Crowd, Sky
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
RINKO KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan)
Untitled, from the series of Halo
2016
Lambda print
Sheet 120 x 180 cm (47 1/4 x 70 7/8 in.)
Frame 122.5 x 182.6 x 4.5 cm (48 1/4 x 71 7/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Rinko Kawauchi Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled, from the series
Halo
– Rinko Kawauchi, Birds, Crowd, Sky, Animals
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
RINKO KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan)
Untitled, from the series of Halo
2017
Lambda print
Sheet 50 x 75 cm (19 5/8 x 29 1/2 in.)
Edition of 3 (#1/3)
Kawauchi burst on the international scene in 2001 when she was awarded the Kimura-Ihei-Prize, Japan’s most important emerging talent photography prize, shortly followed by the simultaneous publication of three beautiful books, Utatane (Catnap), Hanabi (Fireworks), and Hanako, her very personal study of a young girl of the same name. Met with great critical acclaim, these “visual essays” demonstrate her finesse and skill of telling a photographic tale. Since this triple-debut, the artist has gone to publish another eleven books, the newest of which are Illuminance and Ametsuchi.
Kawauchi, currently one of the most famed contemporary female Asian artists...
Category
2010s Contemporary Rinko Kawauchi Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda
Untitled, from the series
Halo
– Rinko Kawauchi, Birds, Crowd, Sky, Animals
By Rinko Kawauchi
Located in Zurich, CH
RINKO KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan)
Untitled, from the series 'Halo', 2016
Lambda print
Sheet 50 x 75 cm (19 5/8 x 29 1/2 in.)
Edition of 3 (#1/3)
Kawauchi burst on the international scene in 2001 when she was awarded the Kimura-Ihei-Prize, Japan’s most important emerging talent photography prize, shortly followed by the simultaneous publication of three beautiful books, Utatane (Catnap), Hanabi (Fireworks), and Hanako, her very personal study of a young girl of the same name. Met with great critical acclaim, these “visual essays” demonstrate her finesse and skill of telling a photographic tale. Since this triple-debut, the artist has gone to publish another eleven books, the newest of which are Illuminance and Ametsuchi.
Kawauchi, currently one of the most famed contemporary female Asian artists...
Category
2010s Contemporary Rinko Kawauchi Abstract Photography
Materials
Lambda
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