Kikuchi City, Kumamoto Prefecture

Toshio Shibata, artist

born 1949

Kikuchi City, Kumamoto Prefecture, 1999

Where object was made: Japan

Material/technique: gelatin silver print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 50.48 x 60.64 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 19 7/8 x 23 7/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 24 x 32 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Museum of Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2003.0001

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"Japan Re-imagined/Post-war Art," Mar-2008, Kris Ercums
Shibata’s photography maps the encroachment of roads into the mountainous green spaces of the Japanese hinterland. Since 1983, he has exposed the delicate balance between the finite Japanese landscape and the infinite ability of man to impose structure on that landscape through the construction of roads and transportation
networks. His elaborate black-and-white compositions record the merging and resulting tension of Japan’s great natural beauty and the craftsmanship of its engineers.