Takuma NAKAHIRA
Publisher: Live Art Books
Book Size: 257 × 211 mm
Pages: 496
Binding: Softcover
Publication Year: 2024
Language: English, Japanese
This catalog accompanies the Takuma Nakahira exhibition “Burn—Overflow”, held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, from February 6 – April 7, 2024.
The exhibition marked the first major retrospective of Takuma Nakahira’s work in nearly twenty years. Like the exhibition itself, the catalog traces his career, ideas, inspirations, collaborations, and lasting legacy through numerous images and essays. It is organized into five chapters, along with exhibition views, texts, and supplementary data.
“Burn—Overflow” features many previously unpublished photographs and highlights Nakahira’s deep engagement with magazines and his acute awareness of how photographs circulate in society. The publication also focuses on the pivotal period between 1975 and 1977, when Nakahira suffered an accident that caused amnesia, profoundly influencing his later work.
In addition to an in-depth introductory essay by curator Rei Masuda, the catalog includes texts by Matthew S. Witkovsky, Akihito Yasumi, and Shino Kuraishi.
“What Nakahira sought through these works and writings was resistance to systems deeply embedded in contemporary society. These systems enforce norms and order, often subconsciously internalized, leading to voluntary submission. He resisted the pervasive influence of power and capital, which infiltrates everyday life and alienates the individual. Provoke was initiated to foster thought and develop a fundamental language capable of countering these forces. Nakahira’s spearheading of ‘landscape theory’ stemmed from recognizing these systems as manifested in the surrounding landscape.”
— From Rei Masuda’s introduction, “Tracing the Arc of Nakahira Takuma’s Career”
Takuma NAKAHIRA
Publisher: Live Art Books
Book Size: 257 × 211 mm
Pages: 496
Binding: Softcover
Publication Year: 2024
Language: English, Japanese
This catalog accompanies the Takuma Nakahira exhibition “Burn—Overflow”, held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, from February 6 – April 7, 2024.
The exhibition marked the first major retrospective of Takuma Nakahira’s work in nearly twenty years. Like the exhibition itself, the catalog traces his career, ideas, inspirations, collaborations, and lasting legacy through numerous images and essays. It is organized into five chapters, along with exhibition views, texts, and supplementary data.
“Burn—Overflow” features many previously unpublished photographs and highlights Nakahira’s deep engagement with magazines and his acute awareness of how photographs circulate in society. The publication also focuses on the pivotal period between 1975 and 1977, when Nakahira suffered an accident that caused amnesia, profoundly influencing his later work.
In addition to an in-depth introductory essay by curator Rei Masuda, the catalog includes texts by Matthew S. Witkovsky, Akihito Yasumi, and Shino Kuraishi.
“What Nakahira sought through these works and writings was resistance to systems deeply embedded in contemporary society. These systems enforce norms and order, often subconsciously internalized, leading to voluntary submission. He resisted the pervasive influence of power and capital, which infiltrates everyday life and alienates the individual. Provoke was initiated to foster thought and develop a fundamental language capable of countering these forces. Nakahira’s spearheading of ‘landscape theory’ stemmed from recognizing these systems as manifested in the surrounding landscape.”
— From Rei Masuda’s introduction, “Tracing the Arc of Nakahira Takuma’s Career”
