Akira Komoto (小本 章, Komoto Akira) was a Japanese artist and photographer, whose photographs often show his artworks in the open air.
Born Masaaki Komoto (小本 昌彰, Komoto Masaaki) in Ōmori-ku, Tokyo (now Ōta-ku, Tokyo) on 14 August 1935,[1] Komoto was brought up in Seki, Gifu Prefecture.[2] He studied at Gifu University, graduating in 1958; and until 1962 at the graduate school of Tokyo University of Education (now Tsukuba University).[1]
Komoto has created paintings, prints and photographs from the 1960s. From the 1980s these have gained critical acclaim outside Japan, bringing Nomoto invitations to Spain and elsewhere in Europe.[1]
From 1971 to 1974 Komoto taught at Gifu College of Education (now Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University); since 1994 he has been teaching at Joshibi University of Art and Design.[2]
In 1990 he was awarded the Düsseldorf Prize of the Osaka Triennale.
Akira Komoto died 2017.
Exhibitions
editOne-man exhibitions
edit- Gallery Stratford, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and elsewhere in North America, 1994–2000[2]
- "Fūkei to no kōkan: Komoto Akira ten", Gifu Collection of Modern Arts 1998[2]
- "Komoto Akira ten", Minokamo City Museum 2004[2]
- "60 nendai to genzai: Komoto Akira ten", Eizō & Tōichi Katō Memorial Art Museum, 2005[2]
- "Shizen to no kōkan", Komoto Akira ten", Hekinan-shi Tetsugaku-taiken-mura Mugaen, 2008[2]
- "Shizen e / shizen kara", Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, 2008.[2]
- "SEEING ’99" – Photographic Works“ (with Yuri Nagawara), Hermann-Harry-Schmitz-Societät/Institut, Uhrenturm, Düsseldorf/Germany, 1999[3][4]
Other exhibitions
edit- "Gendai bijutsu no dōkōten", National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 1965[2]
- "Gendai bijutsu ni okeru shashinten", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 1983[2]
- "GROSSE Kunstausstellung NRW" Düsseldorf, Verein zur Veranstaltung von Kunstausstellungen, Messe Düsseldorf, 1999
- Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003 2000/2003[2]
Collections
editBibliothèque nationale de France (Paris);[2] Hyōgo Prefectural Museum of Art;[2] Kunsthalle Düsseldorf;[2] Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo;[2] Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu;[2] Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura and Hayama;[2] National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto;[2] National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo;[2] Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography;[1] Victoria and Albert Museum (London);.[2]
Notes
edit- 1 2 3 4 Mihashi Junko (三橋純子), "Nomoto Akira", Nihon shashinka jiten (日本写真家事典) / 328 Outstanding Japanese Photographers (Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000; ISBN 4-473-01750-8), p.139. (Despite the English language alternative title, in Japanese only.)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 "Shizen e / shizen kara Archived 2011-07-11 at the Wayback Machine", Gifu Collection of Modern Arts, 2008.
- ↑ Gerda Kaltwasser (12 August 1999). "Akira Komoto. Found objects from the Rhine". Rheinische Post Düsseldorf/Germany.
- ↑ Anonymous (8 October 1999). "The artist Akira Komoto has an exhibition in Germany/Düsseldorf". Chūnichi Shimbun. Seki (Gifu), Japan.
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