Ibasho gallery

A special event will take place this Sunday! Raku Terai, renowned wood artist and husband to Mika Horie, is also a tea master with a passion for sharing his expertise. On Sunday, 17th November, you have the unique opportunity to experience a matcha tea ceremony performed by Terai himself. However, to maintain the intimacy and authenticity of the event, we can only accommodate 5 people. The event will take place at 13:15. If you wish to be part of this special occasion, we invite you to participate at a cost of 10 Euros per person. To secure your place, please express your interest by sending us a DM indicating with how many people you would like to come.

IBASHO has invited the Belgian ceramist Geert Van der Borght to exhibit his art works during the exhibition ‘Visual Poetry from Ishikawa’ since his work shares a wabi-sabi sensibility with Horie’s and Izu’s art. Van der Borght has been working in the field of ceramics for over 40 years.

Van der Borght will be present during the vernissage on Saturday 16 November from 2-6 pm.

Visual Poetry from Ishikawa: 2 solo exhibitions by Mika Horie and Yumiko Izu

16 November - 12 January 2025

Vernissage
Saturday 16 November
from 14:00 - 18:00

Both artists will be present and will talk about their work at 16:00.

IBASHO is excited to announce two solo-exhibitions of two very talented female Japanese photographers who live in the Ishikawa Prefecture where they are inspired by the nature that surrounds them.

Mika Horie makes cyanotypes on Gampi paper that was made by herself.

Using a camera-less photogram technique, Yumiko Izu placed the subjects directly on large-format film, approximately 14 x 20 inches, and created the images through multiple exposures with various types of light.

Currently we are at and next week we will prepare for the next exhibition of Mika Horie and Yumiko Izu. The vernissage will be on 16 November. We will keep you posted!!

We’re ready for ! You can find us in booth B50.

IBASHO @ Booth B50

7 - 10 November

IBASHO is excited to share a preview of our Paris Photo presentation. This year the fair will be back in the renewed Grand Palais. It’s the yearly must-see event for the international photography community.

For this year’s edition of Paris Photo IBASHO is getting up-close and personal with a thematic exploration centered on ‘Skin’. Our booth blends contemporary and classic elements within the realm of Japanese n**e photography.

Contemporary photography (in order of the images):

Takako Kido delves into the ancient Japanese principal of ‘skinship’ in which skin-to-skin, heart-to-heart contact between a child, its mother and other close relatives sit centrally in its healthy development.
Sayuri Ichida has resorted to her own body as a photographic subject during the pandemic lockdowns, and Tokyo Rumando also performs with her body for her camera in various guises.
Naoyuki Ogino transforms the human body into abstract bodyscapes, delving into the tactile essence of the skin, while Miho Kajioka will craft poetic compositions using the naked form, specifically for Paris Photo.

Tomorrow we will share our selection of Classic Photography that we will bring to Paris Photo.

Are you joining us for the finissage of our duo exhibition featuring Sudi and Toshiya Watanabe this Saturday, 2 November? The gallery will be open from 14u-18u, so stop by and enjoy a celebratory drink with us!

If you cannot make it on Saturday, please join us for the final day of the exhibitions on Sunday 3 November.

We’d love to invite you to the finissage of our duo exhibition next Saturday, 2 November.

• Beyond What You See by Toshiya Watanabe
• Beyond Shadow by Sudi

You're welcome at the gallery from 14u - 18u. Hope to se you there!
If you cannot make it Saturday, you are also welcome to come and see the exhibition on Sunday 3 November, as that will be the final day.

The work in the image is from Toshiya Watanabe's series "Beyond what You See."

In today’s online gallery of The Guardian an extensive exhibition about .
To view The Guardian’s gallery you can copy the link below:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/oct/17/an-intense-experience-magical-realism-in-fukushima-in-pictures

Until 3 November you can visit the exhibition’Beyond what you see’ at IBASHO.

A quick reminder: we currently have two exhibitions running at IBASHO!
If you’re looking for some inspiration for the weekend, we’d love to welcome you to explore:

• Beyond What You See by Toshiya Watanabe
• Beyond Shadow by Sudi

Enjoy some installation shots of both exhibitions!

From 7-10 November, both IBASHO and IN-DEPENDANCE will be at Paris Photo!

One of the works we will bring is ‘The Blue Skies Project’ by Anton Kusters.

This large-scale project features 1078 images of blue skies taken by Kusters from former N**i concentration camps across Europe. Highlighting trauma and memorialisation, reflecting on the atrocities from 1933 to 1945.

We're excited to see you in Paris!

Image: Anton Kusters, The Blue Skies Project installation view, 2016.

We’re going to the Antwerp Academy Art Book Fair this Saturday 12 October and we’re bringing with us: our most recent the(M)éditions/IBASHO publications, the newest titles in our book shop and many more…
We hope to see many photo book lovers there!
Open from 10 - 18:00. Free entry.

20 works by the famous Japanese photographer Kiyoshi Niiyama (1911 - 1969) have been acquired by the in the US. We are glad that Niiyama’s modernist photography has been recognised as an important part of the history of Japanese photography.
IBASHO has a significant collection of Niiyama’s works. If you would like to see what which masterpieces we have, you can find the link in the bio.
If you would like to see which works are now in the permenant collection of the Getty Museum, you can copy the link below:
https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/search?q=niiyama

If you’re visiting BredaPhoto, be sure to check out the work "Ctrl Shift + J" of our represented artist, Sayuri Ichida, curated by Reinout Van Den Bergh, revolving around the theme ‘Journeys.’ Here are a few snapshots of the exhibition.

RIP Eikoh Hosoe (1933 - 2024)

Eikoh Hosoe was one of the most influential postwar Japanese photographers and our favourite photographer. His death on 16 September has been a shock to us and we wanted to pay tribute to him.

The Guardian published an article about Hosoe in 2022 that honours the artist and his work. Some quotes from this article:

“Hosoe was ahead of his time in his embrace of the avant garde and his creation of an often darkly poetic visual expressionism through his use of high-contrast black-and-white tones, sculptural closeups of n**e bodies and starkly evocative landscapes that seem to reflect his – and his subject’s – interlocking states of mind.”

He was professionally and personally affiliated with the writer Yukio Mishima and experimental artists of the 1960s such as the dancer Tatsumi Hijikata, though his work extends to a diversity of subjects. His photography is not only notable for its artistic influence but for its wider contribution to the reputations of his subjects.

The boldness of his approach pushed against the parameters of documentary photography, echoing through the work of the Provoke generation of the late 1960s, one of whose leading practitioners, Daidō Moriyama, actually worked as Hosoe’s assistant when he first arrived in Tokyo in 1961. Add to this Hosoe’s co-founding of the Vivo collective in 1959, it’s name taken from the Esperanto word for “life”, and his pioneering photo books, made in collaboration with the best designers of the time, and it is hard not to see him as the most influential postwar Japanese photographer.”

To read the article in full: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/nov/14/haunting-monotones-inside-the-strange-world-of-eikoh-hosoe

Image: Kamaitachi #37, 1968 collection IBASHO

Join us for the book launch of Glanage by today from 2 - 6 pm and have your copy signed by the artist.
Glanage is a co-publication of the(M)éditions and IBASHO.

With our current exhibition, we also launched two new artists books.

'Beyond Shadow' by Sudi and
'Beyond What You See' by Toshiya Watanabe

You can both find them in our bookshop.
https://ibashogallery.com/publications/

This Saturday 28 September we will be launching the first artist book by Naohiro Ninomiya, “Glanage,” presented as a beautifully crafted art object. This limited edition double leporello book, hand bound in a cloth cover, offers a small-scale view of Ninomiya’s series, thoughtfully designed and co-published by IBASHO & the(M) éditions.

In Ninomiya’s own words, “Glanage” is inspired by his childhood habit of gathering small treasures, now translated into capturing everyday scenes and objects through his lens. This intuitive process, reminiscent of the French concept of gleaning, transforms the unnoticed into delicate, timeless images. Each photograph, crafted with the orotone technique, becomes a visual gem, celebrating the fleeting beauty of ordinary moments.

Ninomiya will be at IBASHO from 2 - 6 pm for a book signing, this Saturday 28 September.