TOUR

Guided Tour | Irving Penn Exhibition with Taka Kawachi (Benrido Overseas Division Director) [JP]

Kyoto City Museum of Art Annex

Take this unique opportunity to join a guided tour of the exhibition! Booking is essential, with a limited number of participants.

Venue
Kyoto City Museum of Art Annex
Date
  • 2022.4.10 11:00~11:40
  • 2022.4.10 12:00~12:40
Language
Japanese

Kyoto City Museum of Art Annex

13 Okazaki Saishoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto

10 minutes walk from Higashiyama Station of Kyoto city subway Tozai Line.
18 minutes walk from Sanjo Station of Keihan Railway or Sanjo Keihan Station of Kyoto city subway Tozai Line.

Taka Kawachi

Taka Kawachi has extensice international experience, having graduated from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco, to then working in New York City as a book editor and curator for 15 years, including Richard Prince, Nan Goldin and Patti Smith exhibition and book.

Returning to Japan in 2011, he started to write essays on art and photography. In 2016, Kawachi published his first book "Art no Iriguchi (Entrance to the Arts, on American Art)" followed by his second publication on European Art in the same year. In 2019 and 2020, he published his third and fourth book "The Artists 1 & 2". These publications illustrate his experiences of art, photography design and architecture, and offers readers an opportunity to engage with the history and subjects of both regions from his unique point of view.

He is currently the Director of the Overseas Division of Kyoto's Benrido, working to disseminate the classic and rare photographic proccess of Collotype, and produced produced portfolios of Saul Leiter, Rinko Kawauchi, Masao Yamamoto, Robert Doisneau and J.H. Lartigue.

Taka Kawachi

Other Events

Other events

KIDS

2022.4.17(日) | 10:00-11:30

2022.4.17 Sun | 10:00-11:30

PLACARD Workshop / Let’s do a placard with a message for our One planet !

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

TALK

2022.4.30(土) | 11:00-12:00

2022.4.30 Sat | 11:00-12:00

10/10 Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Women Photographers | Mayumi Suzuki in conversation with Ayumi Kurokawa (actor and director, “Puzzle in the palm”) [JP]

QUESTION

TALK

2022.4.17(日) | 15:00-16:00

2022.4.17 Sun | 15:00-16:00

10/10 Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Women Photographers | In conversation with Ariko Inaoka & Kimi Himeno (Founder and Director, AKAAKA Art Publishing Inc.) Followed by a book signing of “Eagle and Raven” [JP]

Hachiku-an (Former Kawasaki Residence)

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Irving Penn: Works 1939–2007. Masterpieces from the MEP Collection

Kyoto City Museum of Art Annex