| Una Linia Subtil: Shoji Ueda 1913-2000
     
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Softcover
190 pages
Fundació la Caixa
Published 2005
Publisher's description
In English and Castilian.
'In keeping with (the) desire to make the work of artists more widely-know, the exhibition A Fine Line: Shoji Ueda, 1913-2000 presents 150 photographs covering seventy years of the artist's work. This is the most comprehensive selection of the photographer's work ever exhibited outside Tottori, his birthplace. Ueda's first works, produced around 1930, reveal a desire to record the transformations of the modern world through urban scenes and settings that reflect both the way in which experience can become fragmented and the provisional nature of life. The artist subsequently moved away from this experimentalism toward an enigmatic realism and a totally personal symbolism. His most well-known photographs show people amongst sand dunes, and here the displacement creates an effect of contrast and suprise that deactivates the automatisms which govern everyday life, and introduces humor and tenderness. Ueda does not consider the individual in isolation but rather as a part of mankind - for he is a humanist who celebrates human beings in ther environment. In contrast to the clichés that cloud our perception of the Far East, Ueda eliminates anything anecdotal or picturesque in order to shape a universal language which serves to express the dreams and fantasies of people today.' - José Vilarasau, President of Fundació, 'la Caixa,' and William Ewing, Director of the Musée de l'Elysée |
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