Christopher Bucklow "Tetrarchs"

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The exhibition will focus on Art-Photography, by which he is most widely recognised on a global-scale, known as the “GUEST” and “TETRARCHS” series.
The "Guest" series establishes a cast of characters drawn from his circle of friends - and in some cases - foes. Bucklow sees the figures as either representing types of personality that he already contains (and is comfortable with); or a character trait that he admires and aspires to incorporate within himself. Others signify types that he wishes to expel from his own mind. The full group is thus a self-reflecting gallery of portraits that represent different aspects of the artist's own psyche.
Unlike conventional photography, each image is unique and unrepeatable. The process Bucklow uses creates an unusually intense quality of light and the images are formed using sunlight with a technique similar to the pinhole photography developed in the late nineteenth century.
He begins by making life-size silhouette drawings direct from the sitter's shadow on to sheets of aluminium foil, which is then painstakingly penetrated with tens of thousands of pinholes within the outline of the shape. Since every pinhole that is made to yield a particle of each Guest is acting as a lens, every hole focuses an image within the outline of the Guest, so that the Guest becomes in effect an agent for the return of thousands of sources of light.
The Bucklow photography seems to capture the Infinitely-fissioned being seeking fusion with the larger whole that it tacitly heralds, by virtue of visual “reflection”. And indeed, by this very token, this unique series can be interpreted as an amalgamation of drawing and photography.
Guest and Tetrarchs series were to terminate after the touring group exhibition back in 2002 of Christopher Bucklow, Ron Fricke and James Turrell that began at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, followed by New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, London and Berlin. Nonetheless, this exhibition seeks to complete the global picture by bringing entirely new and Japan-customized line of works by the artist to be exposed for the first time.

Opening Party: October 13th (Sat) 16:30-18:30