Instant Diary is a quasi-mechanical experiment where Komatsu recorded each day of 2020 with a Polaroid photograph and a short note. With its enigmatic presence, Komatsu questions the concept of a diary whether single photograph and a text could truly reflect one’s day.
Instant Diary (with original Polaroid set in an index card box)
Hiroko Komatsu
Book: 6 x 4.25 x 2.25 inch
Box of prints: 14.5 x 5.5 x 4.25 inch
Edition 1
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“I like to make my artist book based on something that already exists, rather than creating from zero. By altering the existing materials with my own photographs and drawings, I’m able to deconstruct the original meaning and apply another context. This process is similar to photography.” –Osamu Kanemura
Bird Talk
Osamu Kanemura
11 x 8 inch
Edition 1
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“The peculiar form of this book reminisces the concepts of Claude Levi-Strauss’s ‘Bricolage’ and Jacques Derrida’s ‘Grafting’. The Polaroid photographs taken by Kanemura are ‘grafted’ into a chopped and folded Bauhaus book, becoming ‘parasites’ that nourish from the existing book, as we call it a ‘host’” –Gen Umezu
Material Bricolage 4
Osamu Kanemura
5.75 x 4.25 x 2 inch
Edition 1
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Black Book No.1 is a result of Komatsu cutting out all the words from No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg. By dismantling the text and replacing into the bottle, Komatsu attempts to see the unimproved environmental issue from a different point of view.
Black Book No.1
Hiroko Komatsu
6.5 x 4.5 inch (book)
5.5 x 3 x 3 inch (bottle)
Edition 1
Photo 5: View from Komatsu’s working desk
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Komatsu’s handmade books are the result of her painstaking labor and dedication to the tactile and the physical print. Using images of construction sites and waste materials as her subjects, Komatsu creates a space that confuses the line between construction and destruction.
Corrosion 3
Hiroko Komatsu
8.5 x 6 inch
24 pages
b&w printed on tracing paper
Edition 20
Photo 1-4: Corrosion 3
Photo 5: View from Komatsu’s process of making photogram prints for the cover (photo courtesy of the artist)
Join us for a 2-day pop-up viewing room of Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu’s Artists’ Books in conjunction with AIPAD and New York Art Week.
Friday, May 20, 1-8pm
(Reception 6-8pm)
Saturday, May 21, 1-6pm
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A claustrophobic feeling emerges from Kanemura's collages and artist books, where photographs, texts, and printed matter propagated from the repository of materials that surrounds our daily lives are dismantled and rebuilt, creating a disorienting and endless loop of images.
Cannibalism Sugar Diet
Osamu Kanemura
13.5 x 10.5 x 2.5 inch
Edition 1
Join us for a 2-day pop-up viewing room of Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu’s Artists’ Books in conjunction with AIPAD and New York Art Week.
Friday, May 20, 1-8pm
(Reception 6-8pm)
Saturday, May 21, 1-6pm
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The Armenians of Calcutta was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, last year. Today was an exciting day when i asked for my book at their library.
The book will be on sale the @icp This weekend. Do drop by.
I am also selling prints of photos from the book while in the US.Do get in touch if you'd like purchase prints.
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We didn’t know what to think of it when @osamukanemura first showed us Bird Study, except for the fact that we couldn’t stop flipping the pages to find his mesmerizing intuition in every detail. This was the first of many artist books Kanemura created for his solo exhibition “Looper Syndicate” at dieFirma in 2021.
Bird Study
Osamu Kanemura
8.5 x 6 x 5 inch
Edition 1
Join us for a 2-day pop-up viewing room of Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu’s Artists’ Books in conjunction with AIPAD and New York Art Week.
Friday, May 20, 1-8pm
(Reception 6-8pm)
Saturday, May 21, 1-6pm
#osamukanemura#japanesephotography#artistbook#collage#doodle
Book No.1 is the very first artist book @komatsu_hiroko hand-made in 2016. It consists of 40 b&w gelatin silver prints, bound with tape, wire and galvanized turnbuckle–materials that are used in her renown large scale installation.
Book No.1
Hiroko Komatsu
12 x 11 inch
40 plates, b&w
Edition 5
Photo 1-4: Book No.1
Photo 5,6: View from Komatsu’s solo exhibition “Sincerity Department Loyal Division” at dieFirma 2021.
Join us for a 2-day pop-up viewing room of Osamu Kanemura and Hiroko Komatsu’s Artists’ Books in conjunction with AIPAD and New York Art Week.
Friday, May 20, 1-8pm
(Reception 6-8pm)
Saturday, May 21, 1-6pm
#hirokokomatsu#japanesephotography#blackandwhitephotography#artistbook