Photography titled "Lost Village_29" by Yasuo Kiyonaga, Original Artwork, Digital Photography Mounted on Wood Stretcher frame

Lost Village_29 (2022) Photography by Yasuo Kiyonaga

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Open Edition

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Several supports available (Fine art paper, Metal Print, Canvas Print)
Framing Framing available (Floating Frame + Under Glass, Frame + Under Acrylic Glass)
Artwork's condition The artwork is in perfect condition
Categories Photographs under $5,000 Surrealism Countryside

Le nombre de zones dépeuplées au Japon est en augmentation. L'une de ces zones est le village de Nanmoku dans la préfecture de Gunma. Les gens ont vécu ici depuis la période Muromachi (1336 à 1573), mais au cours des 30 dernières années, il a disparu. Presque tous les magasins ont disparu. Il y a eu des efforts pour faire revivre le village, mais ils semblent avoir échoué.
Le village est situé dans une région montagneuse avec des pentes abruptes et des vallées profondes.
Les gens ont traversé les montagnes, construit des murs de pierre et se sont engagés dans l'agriculture. Les vers à soie et les meules étaient les principales industries jusqu'à leur apogée en 1965.
Tout ce que les photographes peuvent faire maintenant, c'est enregistrer ce qui reste.
Le village de Nanmoku dans la préfecture de Gunma est niché entre des montagnes et des vallées magnifiques mais rudes. C'est un endroit qui m'a captivé lors de mes voyages à travers le Japon, je l'ai donc choisi comme sujet pour mon travail de création.
Le mode de vie ici a été transmis de génération en génération.
J'ai essayé d'inculquer l'esprit de ces générations dans mon travail.

Yasuo Kiyonaga

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Surrealism

Founded in 1923 by the writer André Breton, it will unite many artists like Salvador Dali (1904-1989), Max Ernst, René Magritte (1898-1967), Victor Brauner (1903-1966). Influenced by psychoanalysis, they see psychic life as a new field for renewing the arts. They will develop new ways to create and use new materials.

Technic Photography

Photography refers to the combination of processes, techniques and materials that allow you to capture a subject in still images. Photograph also refers to the image that is obtained, whether it be phototype or not. This term can also be used to refer to the graphic arts branch that employs this technique.

Related themes

Pastel Village Vallée Gunma Japon

Artist represented by Gallery Japanesque Paris

Yasuo Kiyonaga

France

Yasuo Kiyonaga is an artist and photographer who translates in a surreal way the phenomena of all universes such as nature, mountain villages, cities and human beings. Captured by his viewfinder, the subjects are first deconstructed, then given new forms before the meaning of their existence is revealed by Kiyonaga. The artist breaks through the conventional notion of “photography”. He uses his unique technique to reconcile seemingly incompatible phenomena: photography and painting, nature and artifice, the two- and three-dimensional, past and future or even dream and reality, until he achieves the sublimation of his art.

Yasuo Kiyonaga was born in 1948 in Kagawa prefecture in Japan. His activities are based in Tokyo, Kyoto and Paris. He decided to take up photography in 1966, influenced by Jean-Eugène Atget and Aaron Siskind. After graduating from photography school in 1970, he joined Recruit Co., then in 1980, he founded SHC, which is today a leader in this sector.

While having remained in the world of photojournalism for a long time, Kiyonaga undertakes new challenges at the cutting edge of progress within corporate communication. His own points of view, observations, conceptions and judgments nourished by various experiences are the source of his current creative activities.

Kiyonaga has seriously resumed his artistic activities since 1995. He is also a gallery owner: he has opened several galleries in order to present Japanese and foreign photographers and to exhibit his own work there. He is also the author of several photo books: Leslie (1999), Spirit of Forest (2007), Paris Sketch (2012), The Japanese Beautiful Landscapes series (2008-), Japanese Tools (2015), Ujô Senses of Rain ( 2016).