Catherine Edelman Gallery
300 W Superior St
312.266.2350
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Hiroshi Watanabe, El Arbolito Park, Quito, Ecuador, 2002, Courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery.
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Sep 11, 2009 – Oct 31, 2009
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–5:30pm)
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In Hiroshi Watanabe's best-known photograph, a small figure scales a dramatic web of arcing poles beneath a gray sky. At the Edelman Gallery, this classic-in-the-making joins other ethereal traces of a human life (shadows, silhouettes, reflections) captured in settings as far flung as Spain, India, and Ecuador. Alongside these selections from his book Findings, the Japanese-born photographer presents portraits of amateur kabuki actors and macaques trained in the ancient tradition of monkey dancing (Sarumawashi). In combination, these two sets of portraits are gently disconcerting: the clothed monkeys' expressions are all too human, while the kabuki players, in costumes and makeup, are impassive and inscrutably doll-like.
