Koji Enokura, Symptom-Sea-Body (P.W.-No. 40)

Koji Enokura, Symptom-Sea-Body (P.W.-No. 40), 1972, Silver Gelatin Print, 16 1/8 x 24 inches

A favorite work from “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha.” The exhibition, which began at Blum and Poe in Los Angeles and traveled to Gladstone Gallery in New York, examined the postwar Japanese artistic phenomenon Mono-ha (School of Things). According to a press release “Requiem for the Sun” refers to “the attitude of aesthetic detachment and renewal of matter in response to the immanent loss of the object as a sun in Japanese postwar art practice.” Included in the show were works by Koji Enokura (1942-1995), Noriyuki Haraguchi (1946- ), Susumu Koshimizu (1944- ), Katsuhiko Narita (1944-1991), Nobuo Sekine (1942- ), Kishio Suga (1944- ), Jiro Takamatsu (1936-1998), Noboru Takayama (1944- ), Lee Ufan (1936- ), and Katsuro Yoshida (1943-1999).

More images from the LA iteration here.

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