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Masafumi Maita

There was an international radical movement of using photography in the contemporary art in 1960s-1970s. Masafumi Maita initiated to use photography in 1971. In the same year he awarded a grand prize at the 6th International Young Artists Exhibition. Moreover, having received a scholarship, he stayed in Paris from 1971 - 1973. We can see a certain distinction in his works those days; photography and matter are always assembled. Although he grabbed was in the spotlight by using as he employed photography in his practice, his fundamental interest was always in matter and spatial aspect that was captured in an image. He believed that definition of the matter is affected by situations and circumstances as we see in the most of his works in 1970s. “Situation” series particularly draws a comparison between matter and image/ represents a relation between matter and illusion. Along with connecting matter and photograph in spatial way, “Situation”, evokes moreover a notion of time. To visualize memory, matter that links the memory is needed, however matter itself does not tell about memory. Yet only matter and image are visible but memory is not. Matter and image only makes memory visible; Maita’s idea truly lies in externalizing memory through matter and image. He has made presentations in many exhibitions in Japan and abroad till now. What is remarkable among them though is that he participated in the Venice Biennale twice in 1976 and 1986.

- On the occasion of the exhibition, the research booklet Japanese Photography and Art of the 1970s - A matrix for Masafumi Maita’s works including an essay written by Minoru Shimizu will be published.

Stand H7 | Spotlight | Masafumi Maita

Situation No.1, 1973, Photo mural with lightbulb and applied paint, 190x200x10 cm ©Masafumi Maita, Courtesy of Yumiko Chiba Associates

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Masafumi Maita (1944-2009) 1944 Born in North-Eastern China, then Manchuria, and grown up in Japan 1971-73 Studied in Paris, France (Shelter Rock Foundation Scholarship) Solo Exhibitions 1966 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo ('71,'75,'79,'81,'83) 1972 Galerie Lambert, Paris, France 1974 Gin Gallery, Tokyo 1975 Gallery Iteza, Kyoto 1977 Gallery 16, Kyoto 1978 Gallery Kitano Circus, Kobe 1979 Kaneko Art Gallery, Tokyo ('82) Gallery U, Nagoya 1981 ASG, Nagoya 1982 Kaneko Art G1, Tokyo Ryo Gallery, Kyoto 1983 Amano Gallery, Osaka ('84) Space, Los Angeles, U.S.A. ('89) 1984 Seisyo Gallery, Kanagawa Sakura Gallery, Nagoya Gallery Konko, Kanagawa Ina Gallery 2, Tokyo 1984 Gallery White Art, Tokyo ('85) 1985 Passages-Centre d'art Contemporain, Troyes, France Gallery Maronie, Kyoto ('91,'98,'00) 1986 Gallery Caption, Gifu ('90) 1987 Gallery M, Fukui 1988 Gallery F, Gifu ('91,'94,'97,'99,'02,'05) Bodai Maita Atelier, Kanagawa 1989 Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo ('92) Gallery Gen, Tokyo Gallery K, Tokyo Gallery Denega, Aomori Kasahara Gallery Annex, Osaka 1991 Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo 1992 Gallery Yamaguchi SOKO, Tokyo 1993 Morioka Crystal Gallery, Iwate ('96,'98,'99,'02) 1995 The Sapporo Museum of Sculpture, Sapporo 1997 Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama 1998 Space Kaleid, Tokyo ('99) 1999 Gallery Move, Yokohama Ishigami-no-oka Museum of Art, Iwate 2000 INAX2, Tokyo Esprit Nouveau gallery, Okayama ('02,'05, '08) 2003 Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama Inform Gallery, Ishjkawa Art Space Kan, Kyoto ('06) Mizu no Kuni Museum104°, Shimane Gallery Seizyo, Sendai Artcort Gallery, Osaka 2004-2005 Minokamo City Museum of Art, Gifu 2006-2007 Iwate Museum of Art, Iwate 2007 Artland Gallery, Kagawa Masafumi Maita's studio in Fujimi, Nagano Gallery hu, Nagoya 2008 Gallery Seiho, Tokyo 2009 Kamakura Drawing Gallery, Kanagawa from HEVEN, Artspace Kan, Kyoto 2010 Memorial exhibition, Gallery F, Gifu 2011 Gallery hu, Nagoya ('13) 2012 Minokamo City Museum of Art, Gifu 2013 Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa



Group Exhibitions 1969 The 1st International Exhibition of Modern Sculpture The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa 1971 The 6th International Young Artists Exhibition, Takanawa Museum, Tokyo Arte Contenporanea do Japao, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro 1972 Arte Contemporanea del Giappone, Palazzo Della Societa, Milano 1973 Artists Today 1973, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Kanagawa 1974 Tokyo Biennale '74 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; 1974 Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art Japan pa Louisiana Louisiana Museum, Denmark; 1974 Goteborgs Konstmuseum, Sweden; Onstads Museum, Norway 1976 Kyoto Biennale 1976, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art The 37th Venice Biennale Italy 1977 The 10th Paris Biennale Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1979 LIS'79-Lisbon International Show Galeria de Belem, Lisbon; Centro de Arte Cotemporanea, Portugal 1981 Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Korea Art and Culture Promotion Institute Art Museum, Seoul Temoignage'81 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1983 Photography in contemporary Art The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Kyoto 1984 You Gatta Have Art Laguna Beach Museum of Art, California 1985 The 2th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition University of Hawaii Art Gallery ('91,'94,'97,'03) The 4th Henry Moore Grand Prize Exhibition The Utsukushi-ga-hara Open-Air Museum, Nagano Continuum '85 -Aspects of Japanese Art Today Gryphon Gallery, Melbourne 1986 Contemporary Japanese Art Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei The 42nd Venice Biennale Italy Ateliers Internationaux des Pays de la Loire Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, France 1987 The 3rd Toyama International Contemporary Art Exhibition The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama New Work Japan Brattleboro museum &Art Center; University Art Galleries of New Hampshire, Durham 1988 Aomori EXPO '88:Commemorative Open-air Sculpture Exhibition Gappo-park, Aomori The 11th Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition Suma Detached Palace Garden, Kobe 1989 The International Exhibition of Steel Sculpture Chiba 1989 Makuhari, Chiba Setoda Biennale Sunset Beach Hiroshima 1990 Territores 1 Reims Museum of Fine Art France 1992 92 Minamikata International Art Festival Miyagi 1993 The 15th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture Ube City Open-Air Sculpture Museum, Yamaguchi Toyamura International Sculpture Biennale '93 Hokkaido 1994 The 3rd Kurashiki Machikado-no Sculpture Exhibition Okayama Dialogue of Photography and Sculpture: Anzai/Maita The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura Light and Shadow-Japanese Artist in Space 1994 North Dakota Museum of Art Quintessence: 3rd Kitakyushu Biennale Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art 1995 The 2nd Fujisankei Biennale International Exibition for Contemporary Sculpture The Utsukushi-ga-hara Open-Air Museum,

Nagano Textile Miniature Works - Contemporary Art of Japan - The Craft Studio at Harbourtfron Centre, Toronto The16th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture Ube City Open-Air Sculpture Museum, Yamaguchi Textile Miniature Works - Contemporary Art of Japan - The Craft west Gallery, Western Australia/ The Craft Vic Gallery, Victoria/ The Craft space Gallery, Council of New South Wales/ The University Gallery, Tasmania 1998 Iwate Art Festival UK98: Land Art Koiwai Koiwai Farm, Iwate The 4th Oita Asian Sculpture Exhibition Asakura Fumio Memorial Park, Oita 1999 Art Document 1999 in Kanaz: from Asian Forest Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui The 28th Sculptures for Marunouchi Nakadori St Tokyo 1999-2000 The 30th Anniversary Exhibition Forms in Nature Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa 2000 The Toolonlahti Art Gardens 2000 Helsinki, Finland Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2000 Niigata Garden Korakuen Park, Okayama 2002 Sculptors of Eastern Japan Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo Monnalisa mammom The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa 2003 The 20th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture Ube City Open-Air Sculpture Museum, Yamaguchi Genso to Genshi The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa 2005 SPACE WALKING Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama art@ tsuchizawa Iwate 2007 Views of Water: From Monet and Taikan to the Present Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanagawa JUNGE KUNST AUS JAPAN, Kunsthalle Rostock Rostock, Germany 2008 Sette artisti giapponesi espongono nelle marche, Italy Scultura Internazionale ad Aglie SCULTURA NATURA Oriente Occidente Castello Ducale di Aglie, Torino, Italy 2009 The 10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition University of Hawaii Art Gallery Asuka to Nara - Prologue to International Exhibition of Sculpture - Nara From Home to the Museum: Exhibition of Tsuneko Tanaka's Collection The Museum of Modern Art Wakayama,

Wakayama 2013 OHARA CONTEMPORARY Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama 2014 Image and Matter in Japanese Photography from the 1970s, curated by Yumiko Chiba, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New

York 2015 For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/

Grey Art Gallery, NY/ Japan Society, NY



Selected Public Collection

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA Musee d' Art Moderrne de la Ville de Paris, France Musee d' Art Moderrne de Troyes, France Musee Cantini, Marseille, France Musee d' Art Moderrne de Strasbourg France Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Reims, France Santa barbara Museum of Modern Art, Mammola, Italy Ministere de la Culture, France The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Hawaii, USA Azienda Vinicola Salomone, Matelica (MC), Italy

The Utsukusi-ga-hara open-Air Museum, Nagano, Japan The Open-Air Museum of Sculpture, Ube, Japan The Museum" haus Kasuya", Kanagawa, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan The Sapporo Museum of Sculpture, Hokkaido, Japan The Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan Lake Toya Round Sculpture Park, Hokkaido, Japan Minokamo City Museum of Art, Gifu, Japan Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan

Maita’s work is composed of two elements ― the photograph and the object. At

beginning, he added some figure drawn by hand onto the image of photo, for instance, straight lines to the sea-scape. From 1974, he has changed his idea to introduce real objects in his work. One of his works is such that there hanged a big panel of photo showing indoor-scene of a waste house on wall and both a real lamp and several buckets arranged before the panel as if the image of photo and objects were continued. But the essential of his idea is a consciousness of time, I believe. Spatially the image of photo and real objects seem to be continued, but we feel to face to two different time ― one is present and the other is past. The real objects always show the present time and the image of photo the past instance. We don’t know how long is a time difference, but this difference is decisive. Combining the photo and real objects, the artist makes our time consciousness vividly. The difference between the image of photo and the object is the difference between the perception and the memory. In other words, Maita’s work consists of two elements ― the perception and the memory. The artist

has named all of his works “situation” and this means the situation is made by these two elements. Relation and contradiction between both two create new situation, and Maita’s work shows a process of this creation.

Yusuke Nakahara Art Critic March, 1977. Tokyo

Full excerpts from a leaflet published on the occasion of The 10th Paris Biennale, Paris, France, 1977

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