| Take Ninagawa is pleased to present a joint exhibition by pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) and gallery artist Gozo Yoshimasu (b. 1939), one of Japan’s leading poets and multimedia artists.
Mekas and Yoshimasu were friends and collaborators who made appearances in each other’s films and texts. This exhibition explores the pair’s creative relationship by presenting works by the two in dialogue with each other. These include Mekas’s On My Way to Fujiyama I Saw… (1996), captured on 16mm film, which documents Mekas’s travels in Japan with Yoshimasu, and Yoshimasu’s Momentary Ecriture (1999–2000), a series of Polaroid snapshots inscribed on their back sides with the artist’s written description of each scene at the moment of its capture. Taken together, their works present complementary views of two masters of a diaristic form that is open to poetry and chance occurrences.
Please join us for the exhibition opening on May 16, with a performance by Yoshimasu starting at 5:30pm. |
