Takashi Homma
The work of filmmaker and photographer Takashi Homma “navigates a finely nuanced line between sterility and sentimentality,” capturing the same contemporary vision of a bustling metropolis or a serene beachscape. His most renowned project, a series of photographs entitled Tokyo Suburbia was published as a book in 1998, and is widely considered a contemporary classic. His series NEW WAVES is presented as a trichotomy—land/sea/sky. This triad is the paramount relationship in his seascapes, which confront the viewer by embodying variant portraits of the self. Whatever the focus in Homma’s wide variety of subject matter, his work is deeply rooted in psychological phenomena, pictorial meditation, and temporal space.
Homma has exhibited in a number of solo shows both in his native Japan and internationally, including Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan, Taro Nasu, Tokyo, Longhouse Projects, New York and Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan. Group exhibitions include Mito Arts Foundation, Ibaraki, Japan, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu, Korea, and Kunstverein Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany. In 1999, he was awarded a Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award for the project Tokyo Suburbia. A major retrospective …
The work of filmmaker and photographer Takashi Homma “navigates a finely nuanced line between sterility and sentimentality,” capturing the same contemporary vision of a bustling metropolis or a serene beachscape. His most renowned project, a series of photographs entitled Tokyo Suburbia was published as a book in 1998, and is widely considered a contemporary classic. His series NEW WAVES is presented as a trichotomy—land/sea/sky. This triad is the paramount relationship in his seascapes, which confront the viewer by embodying variant portraits of the self. Whatever the focus in Homma’s wide variety of subject matter, his work is deeply rooted in psychological phenomena, pictorial meditation, and temporal space.
Homma has exhibited in a number of solo shows both in his native Japan and internationally, including Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Japan, Taro Nasu, Tokyo, Longhouse Projects, New York and Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan. Group exhibitions include Mito Arts Foundation, Ibaraki, Japan, Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu, Korea, and Kunstverein Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany. In 1999, he was awarded a Kimura Ihei Commemorative Photography Award for the project Tokyo Suburbia. A major retrospective of his work opened at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, in 2010.