TAKANO, Ryudai exhibition
“ PARA-PARA”
2008/6/6.fri. - 7/3.thu.　Open 10:30 - 18:30（saturday - to 17:30）
（Closed　Every Week Monday, Sunday and National Holidays）


Para-Para / Electric Riffle

This is a series titled “Para-Para.” I first made this series in 2001, and after that I’ve changed the contents to some extent in 2002, 2004 and this year. In Japan, “Para-Para” books are called “Para-Para” manga, flip through comics in English. Generally, people enjoy seeing animated pictures as they flip through the pages of a book. As I made it move electrically, I named it “Electric Riffle.” I used a 35mm single-lens reflex camera to photograph all of them, so it is a continuous series of still pictures. First, I thought of making a book after printing each piece on paper at a time. But, in that way, only a single person could see it at the time of the exhibition, so I devised the way to show it on TV. As you understand looking at the images, the upper half and lower half of the body are divided into two parts respectively so that various bodies look mixed. I didn’t do it on purpose, but it happened by accident. At the first exhibition, I used videos, but each video seemed to be slightly different in time-length, and while showing short videos in a loop, I found that the timing was shifting and the gap widening, though it was only one second or so at a time. At first, I felt obnoxious. If I have been a rich, I could have done as I expected. But there was no way. So I accepted that situation. And now I like it. Next month, I’m going to hold a solo exhibition in which the original photos of this series are to be displayed at a gallery in Tokyo. The following is my comments for the press release: “It was about seven years ago when I began to exhibit photos of nice boys around me. A near-elderly man and his wife came into the exhibition hall. They appeared to have just dropped in because they were passing by. They were carefully looking at the exhibits, and I had an opportunity to talk with them for a while. Then, for some reason, I suddenly thought of old people living in solitude. Moving pictures would give more comfort to lonely people than still pictures, I thought. Moving pictures. I consider them to be a continuous stream of still pictures. It was to me an act of not picking out any moment. You might call it a non-decisive moment. I couldn’t help having the body segmented because of the assumption that they would be monitored on TV. When I made an animation without choosing any moment after the segmentation, bodies of different people were mixed, and as a result, individuals were not specified. Those original pictures are on display this time. They are usual photos taken by a 35mm single-lens reflex camera. My style has been “not to choose any moment” ever since I began this series, but on the other hand, I felt guilty about having put off something. This time, by exhibiting still pictures, such a feeling of mine was brought to a certain conclusion.”

TAKANO, Ryudai

1963 Born in Fukui City in Japan
2006 receive the Kimura Ihee Award

What Kimura Ihee Award?
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biography TAKANO, Ryudai