(Partly Revised) Feb.20.2009
(Partly Revised) Jan.22.2009
Dec.9.2008
*Feb. 20, 2009:Exhibitors of Part II Exhibition at Osaka was announced.
*Jan. 22, 2009:New Cosmos of Photography exhibitions will not be held
in Nagoya and Fukuoka
“New Cosmos of Photography” Exhibition Tour 2009 in Sendai and Osaka
The award-winning works of New Cosmos of Photography 2008 (the 31st competition) are to be exhibited at two venues in Sendai and Osaka, respectively, by Canon starting on February 20, 2009.
The works included in the touring exhibition are one Grand Prize-winning work and five Excellence Award-winning works, chosen from a total of 1,517 entries to New Cosmos of Photography 2008 (31st competition), and three new works of Co-Grand Prize winners of New Cosmos of Photography 2007 (30th competition). This touring exhibition brings together featured exhibits from the highly reputed “New Cosmos of Photography 2008 Tokyo Exhibition” held at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in November of this year.
Conversations with artists including exhibitors will be held at each venue to provide opportunities to exchange opinions on the artists’ concepts, intentions, and photographic expressions.
[Exhibitors] (Honorific titles omitted)
| Grand Prize winner 2008 (31st competition) Masanori Hata |
| Excellence Award winners 2008 (31st competition) Okabe Tokyo, Kohei Koyama, Kenya Sugai, Ayano Hoya, and Miyuki Motoki |
| Simultaneous exhibition: New works of Co-Grand Prize winners 2007 (30th competition) Megumi Kurosawa, Noriko Takuma, and Daisuke Nakashima |
[Event Overview]
(1) “New Cosmos of Photography; Sendai Exhibition 2009”
| Date | : February 20, (Fri.) - March 3 (Tue.), 2009 10:00 - 19:00 |
| Closed | : February 26 (Thu.), 2009 |
| Venue | : Sendai Mediatheque 6Fa 2-1, Kasuga-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, 980-0821 |
| Tel | : 022-713-3171 |
| Access |
: (By public transportation)
|
| Admission | : Free |
| Sponsor | : Canon Inc. |
| Co-sponsor | : Sendai Mediatheque (Sendai Human and Community Foundation) |
Relevant event* Artist Talk Show (in the exhibition room)
| Date/Time | : Saturday, February 21, 2009; 15:00- |
| Panel (scheduled) |
: Masanori Hata, Okabe Tokyo, Ayano Hoya and Miyuki Motoki |
(2) “New Cosmos of Photography; Osaka Exhibition 2009”
Due to the 2009 exhibition content, the exhibition period will separated into two parts.
| Date | : Part I Exhibition of works of 2008 winners (31st competition) March 28, (Sat.) - April 7 (Tue.), 2009 10:00 - 19:00 (Open throughout the exhibition period) Part II Exhibition of works of 2007 Co-Grand Prize winners (30th competition) + Exhibition of new works by past Excellent Award winners Past Excellent Award winners: Shinryo Saeki(2001) Naoki Kajitani(2002) Yutaka Yamashita(2004) Souhei Nishino(2005) Yoshinori Henguchi(2006) April 10, (Fri.) - April 19 (Sun.), 2009 10:00 - 19:00 (Open throughout the exhibition period) |
| Venue | : OAP Artcourt 1-8-5 Tenmabashi, Kita-ku, Osaka, 530-0042 |
| Tel | : 06-6354-5444 |
| Access |
: (By public transportation)
|
| Admission | : Free |
| Sponsor | : Canon Inc. |
| Cooperation | : Yagi Art Management Inc. |
Relevant event* Artist Talk Show (in the exhibition room)
| Date/Time | : Saturday, March 28, 2009; 15:00- |
| Panel (scheduled) |
: Masanori Hata, Kohei Koyama and Kenya Sugai |
| Date/Time | : Saturday, April 11, 2009; 15:00- |
| Panel (scheduled) |
: Megumi Kurosawa, Noriko Takuma and Daisuke Nakashima MC Hiroyasu Yamauchi |
*Note : Pre-reservation is not required for the artist talk shows at all venues,
but depending on the situation on the day, entrance may be limited.
“New Cosmos of Photography 2008 Tokyo Exhibition”
Saturday, November 8 - Sunday, November 30, 2008 at Tokyo Metropolitan
Museum of Photography
The Grand Prize-winning work 2008 (31st competition)
Masanori Hata “Black humor or useless word”
Selected by NOGUCHI RIKA
Three Co-Grand Prize winners 2007 (30th competition) new works
Megumi Kurosawa “Nanako”
Noriko Takuma “as if”
Daisuke Nakashima “neutral”
