Hiromart Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition titled Round Trip, photographs by Michael MACIOCE who is known as a photographer for New York City downtown music & art scene, leading to over 50 album covers. This is his second show with Hiromart Gallery after his favorably received debut show in Japan held 2 years ago. The show features a great selection of his works with a concept of Round Trip including portraits - his hero’s in his time.

［作家コメント］
I have always been fascinated by record covers. I would play a record and stare at the cover while listening. Making a connection between cover and composition. I did not make photographs I made photographs for record covers. Record covers are square, the record is round. The record is the World and the square cover the Universe that engulfs us. I see record covers as Mandalas for listening to the music. When I take these photographs I think of music by the composers with whom I have a kinship. I follow their muse.

［作家プロフィール］
Michael Macioce has been practicing photography from his studio in Manhattan’s East Village since 1982.
A graduate of School of Visual Arts, he began combining fine art and documentary photography of the downtown music and art scene, leading to over 50 album covers and culminating with the book LIGHT & DARK. From John Zorn to Matisyahu, he had the opportunity to photograph many artists from the Lower East Side culture at the beginning of their careers, also photographing Allen Ginsberg, Nancy Spero, Dennis Cooper, and hipster Punk bands of the time, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth and so on, he had access to the fringe movements of the era.
In his early years, Macioce worked as a master printer and assistant for photographic book productions. He also worked with photographers Bob Adelman and John Loengard.
In 1995, Macioce began photographing the Lubavitcher Jewish Community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn for the exhibition “Jewish Ritual” at Lincoln Center, NYC in 1996. This exhibit was part of John Zorn’s Radical Jewish Culture Festival.
Beginning in 1994, Macioce began teaching at Parsons School of Design and has taught photography at The New School for Social Research and The School of Visual Arts.
In recent years, his Jewish Ritual, musician, and Lower East Side photography was part of the Radical Jewish Culture retrospective at The Jewish Museum for Art and History in Paris from April to July 2010, moreover he is selected as a featured photographer in the New York Photo Festival 2010 as part of Lou Reed’s “Night of Photography” in DUMBO, Macioce gave a lecture at St. Ann’s Warehouse on “Photographing Unseen New York.”
In October 2010, his musician photographs were shown as part of a lecture on “Music and Photography in NYC” by Sean Cochrane curator of phtography at The Museum of The City of New York. Lecture was at The George Eastman House International Museum for Film and Photography.
In January 2012, his work exhibited at Cavin Morris Gallery in Chelsea, New York.
Forthcoming his work will exhibit at Gent Jazz Festival, Gent, Belgium in June-July 2013.。

Opening Reception: Friday, March 22nd, 6-8 pm