Tadasu Yamamoto
Tadasu Yamamoto
He was born in Kagawa Prefecture in 1950 and is currently residing in Saitama Prefecture.
He graduated from Musashino Art University in 1974 with a degree in commercial design. He continues to shoot photographs whose main subject is water, which, while existing on earth in diverse forms, makes visible the hidden power of the universe. He pursues photographs as reduced models of the world made by the intake of light and image within a camera obscura. Stripped of time, weather, divinity, peculiarity, and other attributes, the resultant works enthrall viewers with a look of weightiness which makes them forget that the subject is an image on a piece of paper. Yamamoto receives a steady stream of requests for photography from many artists and museums, and this clearly evidences his capacity for seeing and capturing things that are on the site and ordinarily cannot be photographed.
His main group exhibitions in which he has shown works are as follows: The Past and Present of Photography (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1990), Space, Time and Memory – Photography and Beyond in Japan (Hara Museum, Tokyo, 1994), In Search of Form (Busan Museum of Art Korea, 2001), ATTITUDE 2007 (Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, 2007), and Tsushima Art Fantasia (Nagasaki, 2014–2021). His main solo exhibitions are as follows: Falling Water (Aomori Contemporary Art Center, 2010), Light, Water, Electricity (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, 2012), Place Without Any Obstruction (Gallery Hashimoto, Tokyo, 2016), Change Nothing (hino gallery, Tokyo, 2018), and Tadasu YAMAMOTO Solo Exhibition (Gallery MAZEKOZE, Nagano, 2023).
Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kumamoto
Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Terada Collection), Tokyo
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
Hara Museum, Gunma
Aqua Museum 104°, Shimane
AT&T, the USA
Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, France
National Gallery of Australia
Exhibition