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We are pleased to announce the exhibit of Hideo Tobita 『Le déclic』 will be held at Emon Photo Gallery this November.

Hideo Tobita has diligently honed his own method of artistry over the past twenty years. Piece by piece he has come to construct a world in miniature by hand, of which he takes Polaroid photographs in large format.
This latest exhibition, named from the French word for the “click” of the shutter, is Tobita’s oeuvre, including close to the entire collection of his frozen scenes of imagination. Tobita pieces together his miniatures with a steady determination, at last consigning them to a single Polaroid.
And then he destroys them. Facing his art with a stoicism that belies the ultimate transience of his work, he is creator of a closed universe, in which he travels; loves.
Gazing into these small Polaroids, we feel transported further even than the world of Tobita’s making, to a place somehow nostalgic, where we’re perhaps met with our own distant memories.

For this exhibition we welcome Haruko Ishii (KANESEI), a frame artist devoted to the authentic classical European style of frame making.
Ishii has crafted an original one-of-a-kind frame for each of the photos, which are single editions. We welcome you to enjoy these truly one-off pieces of art that exist nowhere else on Earth.

EMON Photo Gallery looks forward to receiving directly any questions you may have regarding reproduction or publication of information on this exhibition.

2013.10 EMON PHOTO GALLERY

［作家コメント］
『Le déclic』

All of a sudden, I hear a click as though of something
coming undone.
Simultaneously, the subject tears itself out of the
object, taking with it part of its color and weight.
Something in the world has burst out.....
Gille Deleuze『Ａｔｏｍ ａｎｄ Ｄｏｕｂｌｅ』
A change in direction, a disengaging; of what?
From what?
Then I click the shutter.

Hideo Tobita

［作家プロフィール］
Hideo Tobita
1948 Born in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan.
Graduated from Odawarajou North Technical High School
2007 Solo Exhibition: Samples of Every Day in Miniature
at Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo.
2008 Group Exhibition: Cinephile and Photo
at Gallery Mestalla, Tokyo.
2009 Solo Exhibition: In a Lonely Place
at Gallery Mestalla, Tokyo.
2010 Solo Exhibition: Shizukana Seikatsu (A Quiet Life)
at EMON Gallery, Tokyo.
2012 Paris Photo Fair (from Camera Obuscura), France
2012 Art Gent Fair, Belgium
2013 Fotofever Brussels Fair, Belgium


Haruko Ishii
1996 Graduated with a degree from the Arts Dept. of Wako University
1999 Completed a course in woodwork restoration from the Palazzo Spinelli
Istituto per l'Arte e il Restauro Srl, in Florence, Italy
Studied classical frame construction techniques in the framing studio of
Francalanci “Corniceria Dell'Agnolo”
Returned to Japan and began creating custom-made original frames
under the Clients consist mainly of individual artists, galleries and collectors.
2002 Worked as a part time instructor in the Arts Dept. at Wako University
(completed in 1st semester 2005)
2006 Began working to create, preserve and restore frames as part of Tokyo
Conservation, in the Art Preservation and Restoration Department of
Devote Company
2008 Created the frame for Half Figure Portrait of Mr. Ragusa, By Prosperro
Ferretti at the Tokyo National Museum
2010 Created the frame for Madonna of the thumb for the Tokyo National
Museum, designated an important cultural property of Japan,
2011 Restored the frame for a Hanjirou Sakamoto piece at the Sumitomo Museum