RISAKU SUZUKI

SAKURA 21,4-570
Suzuki was born in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan in 1963, and graduated from the Research Department of Tokyo College of Photography in 1987. He has been teaching as an associate professor of the Department of Intermedia Art at Tokyo University of the Arts since 2006. Apart from working on his ongoing, lifelong series “Kumano”, “Sakura” and “White” (Snow), he is currently working consciously on “what is being perceived” as a subject matter through his second eye, the camera. In 2000, he received the 25th Kimura Ihei Award for his photography collection book『Piles of Time』. In 2006, he received the Domestic Photographer Awards of the 22nd Higashikawa Awards. His major solo exhibitions include “Stream of consciousness”, which was held at Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art in Kagawa, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery and Tanabe City Museum of Art in Wakayama from 2015 to 2016, “Water Mirror” at Kumanokodo Nakahechi Museum of Art in Wakayama in 2016 and “Kumano, Yuki, Sakura” at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum etc. Suzuki’s works are held in the collections at International Center of Photography in New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Aomori Museum of Art and Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.
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RISAKU SUZUKI
SAKURA 21,4-570
Year: 2021
Medium: archival pigment print on canvas, unique
Dimensions: 120 x 150 cm (47 1/4 x 59 in.)
Acquired from Taka Ishii Gallery, 2022
“Sakura” is one of Suzuki's signature series. This is a very rare canvas print work among his works as a photographer. Although works in edition have been printed on standard printing paper with the same title, this work is the only unique piece on canvas. Suzuki is widely known as a photographer who is fascinated about “what is being perceived”, this work brilliantly demonstrates such characteristics. The flower raft covers the surface of the lake and thick tree trunks can be seen reaching up to the sky towering through the gap in the raft. The water surface fluctuates causing a faint illusion like a mirage, conveying the softness of spring and the fragrance of flowers in the air. Countless petals that fall from the branches and drift on the water surface overlap with the trunk, creating a beautiful composition that makes the cherry blossoms look like they are in full bloom in the photo. What was originally on the water surface would be reversed upside down, one will find that the image of this work is intentionally reversed upon closer observation. It is a fantastical work.
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