atsushi watanabe

Rococo (study)

2011-03-24T16:31:00.000-07:00

Please go to slide show at right side of the page to see the series in full: to Picasa web album.

Neuköllnimport exhibition at Tacheles and the End

2010-11-15T17:04:00.000-08:00

--From the text at the exhibition--

"Their hands stacked on a table of endless gray lines, made for the blink of storms to pass and gazes of hallow eyes to keep on following. Those with hallow eyes standing and speaking loudly before us have just finished their statement. We get their points, but lack the interest. Now we are again under the long hammer of a court of an autonomous zone appreciating the spectators, a circus troupe with restless spirits and lazy housewives. Well, our verdict is unreadable as
much to ourselves as to the judges, so it is dismissed shortly after. We are not bothered to consider the case until the last leak of light from new moon."

"Mirage: or Border"
Negatives scanned and printed.

My profile on Neuköllnimport

November 14th 2010

I thank the people who came to the exhibition, and who helped it.

Exihibition November 13, 14 2010

2010-10-31T13:38:00.000-07:00

I take part in an exhibition by Neuköllnimport.
The theme of the exihibition is "Border". Over 50 artists from all over the world present their works regarding indivisual interpretation of the theme on various expressive forms like video, dance, painting and photography at Tacheles, Berlin-Mitte.

I present photographs shot through journies on European highways. Black and white focusing on the roads which lead to draw life of public and private spaces.

November 13th and 14th 2010
Entrance: Free

Kunsthaus Tacheles
Oranienburger Straße 54-56A
10117 Berlin, Germany

The Exhibition of Athens' Photo 5-19th June in Berlin

2010-08-10T13:23:00.000-07:00

Thanks to those who visited the exhibition!

Exhibition detail

Exberliner article of the show

Werkstadt
Emser straße 124
12051 Berlin - Neukölln
Deutschland
www.werk-stadt.com

Athens

2009-10-10T10:33:00.000-07:00

"There are at least one million illegal immigrants in Athens" somebody told me. Indeed, it looked like a massive slum. Dried and poor, and vigorous and vulgar. Excessive traffic and dust. I liked it immidiately. As all of poor places which tries to look posh or such seems ridiculous and funny at the same time, this city was not an exception. This city was like a plain plant that has grown too much and already gone out of control, but no spell of rotting.
I walked around the areas like Omonia and Gazi again and again, immigrants ghetto and another chaos, Gaudy make-ups upon desolation. That was my impression on Athens. As i had a camera, I tried to construct a city by photos collecting fragments of moments of life into an album indicating how people civilize and live. I shot within a month. shooting was not easy, because everybody was criminal there so that, immigrants, restaurant staffs, and police are hiding away from the camera, or hissing at me or grab me, but some are flatterd. I enjoyed a lot.

Athens 2009

Architecture of Society

2009-10-10T09:02:00.000-07:00

My aim for this series is to present photos of architectures and streets of cities in order to capture how people live in a civilaization in certain place, ultimate still life. Signs which run from left to right, from up to down,without limit in design and language. Jet black electric cables hanging in messacross entire Japan is strangely representation of people' s aimlessness and
chaos for me. A castle full of brothels and electric poles. Kyoto, Japan is my home where most of photos here are shot. Although the area of the district is not big, there is something to say in how inhabitants behave to construct these perticular buildings, signs and scenes.
And this mess is the one I am fond of Japan.

Japan 2009

Eastern Europe

2009-10-10T08:11:00.001-07:00

These are all shot while I was travelling Eastern Europe, Berlin, Istanbul, Poland....
Still more to come.

Photographs

2009-09-28T04:57:00.000-07:00

Most of the photographs that can be seen in this blog and many more are able to watch by slideshow to the right.