Osamu Kanemura　金村修

金村修　OSAMU KANEMURA

Exhibiton
>> 2008「WORKS#01」（Group）
>> 2007「My name is Shockhammer」

From the series,
My name is Shockhammer

Osamu Kanemura
“My name is Shockhammer”2007
gelatin silver print
50.8×61.0cm

Artist's statement
Remove a device called 'Understanding' from this world. 'Understanding' is only able to understand that it can. Try to capture the images of the unimaginable left behind from the absence of understanding. Photograph is not a device that understands and translates the world but is a device that corresponds to the world without having to understand at all. Capturing images is not an act of accurately reproducing. Even if seen one hundred times the outline becomes ambiguous, untraceable, misleading only to be indefinitely mistaken. Exploding the outline. Abandon this outline, abandon this division. As like Fujieda Shizuo's 'Kuki atama'. To trace is to make something disappear, a betrayal to be tamed. To be uninhibited the cycle is destroyed. At last photograph is not able to attain perception. Perception is abandoned. ' To live is to become imperceptible.' Gilles Deleuze
Osamu Kanemura, 2007

from Gallery
Osamu Kanemura's works is connected directly to a perception that continuously disturbs the peacefulness in society. It makes people remain there, in front of his works. At the present day, we have been seeing, researching only one's own interest an action that seems to effect the practical society. I would like many people to feel Osamu Kanemura's of his works. Please come and experience this world at Port Gallery T.

Biography

1964		Born in Tokyo, Japan
1993		Graduate Tokyo College of Photography

Solo Exhibition
2009		China White, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
2008		Spider's Strategy, GunGallery, Stockholm
2007		Dante Lobster, Void＋, Tokyo, Japan
		My name is Shockhammer, Port Gallery T, Osaka, Japan
		Spider's Strategy, Cohen Amador Gallery, New York, USA
2005		Chinese Rocks, Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
2004		13th Floor Elevator Over The Hill, Chukyo Univ Art Gallery C-Square, Nagoya, Japan
2003		Suzy Cream Oil Cheese, White Cube Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2002		Stravinsky Overdrive, Hippolyte Photographic Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2000		Ken Domon Award Exhibition Black Parachute Ears 1999, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan
1999		Colored Air Blood Black 1999, Viewing Room Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan
		Black Parachute Ears 1991-1999, Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
		Someday O.K. Prince Will Come, Gallery Q&Q-S, Tokyo, Japan
1998		All The Needles On Are Red, Viewing Room Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan
1996		Keihin Machine Soul, Works H, Yokohama, Japan
1995		Tokyo Swing, Yoshii Gallery, New York, USA
		Today's Japan, Konica Plaza, Tokyo, Japan
1994		Crashlandind in Tokyo's Dream, Spirit Square Center, North Carolina, USA
1993		Crashlandind in Tokyo's Dream, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibition
2006		10th international architecture exhibition-Cities, Architecture and Society, Venice, Italy
		C on Cities, Venice, Italy
2005		Modern Paradise, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo,Japan
		Modernology of Osaka:Osamu Kanemura. Erika Yoshino, Osaka Zokei Center, Osaka, Japan
2004		Arles International Photographic Festival, Arles, France
2003		Inside Out: Mechanism of Cityscapes, Photographs by Ina Eiji and Kanemura Osamu, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
		The History of Japanese Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Cleveland, Boston, USA
		Experience: The Media Rat Race, Netherlands Photographic Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2002		Japan Contemporary Ceramics and Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2001		Surface: Contemporary Japanese Photography, Video and Painting from Japan, Netherlands Photographic Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
		Future Perfect, Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Center, Prato, Italy
		The Standard, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
		Be Alive, Contemporary Art from Japan: 1980 until now, Kroller Muller Museum, Netherlands
2000		Osamu Kanemura. Erika Yoshino, Partobject Gallery, North Carolina, USA
1998		Prix Whanki: Seoul-Berlin-Tokyo, Whanki Museum, Korea
		Photography Today__ The Absence of Distance, The National Museum of Modern Art Film Center, Tokyo, Japan
1997		Contemporary Photography, Missing Landscape: Between Fantasy and Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
1996		New Photography 12, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1995		3rd Esslingen International Photographic Triennale, Esslingen, Germany
1994		Japan Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
		Japanese Avant-garde, Spirit Square Center, North Carolina, USA
1992		The 3rd Rotterdam Photographic Biennale Waste Land from Now on, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Publication
2008		'German Suplex' Osiris
2007		'My name is Shockhammer' Osiris
2005		'In-between 12 Osamu Kanemura: Germany, Finland' EU-Japan Fest Japan Committee
2001		'I Can Tell' Haga Shoten
		'Spider's Strategy' Osiris
2000		'Happiness is a Red before Exploding' Wides Shuppan
1999		'Osamu Kanemura' Yumiko Chiba Associates
1995		'Mole Unit No.4 Crash landing' Mole

Award
2000		19th Ken Domon Award
1997		The Photographic Society of Japan, New artist Award
		13th Higashikawa international Photographic festival, New artist Award

Public Collection
Yokohama Museum of Art
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Higashikawa Bunka Gallery, Hokkaido
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Ken Domon Museum of Photography
Benesse Corporation
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Fukuoka Art Museum