Yukinori Tokoro

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BIOGRAPHY

Yukinori Tokoro was born in 1961
After he was graduated from Osaka Art University, he started working as a freelance photographer proactively.

In 1992, his works were chosen as representing Japanese modern expressionist of the World of Imaging Fair, “Photokina’92v”.His works were high-profiled and featured in foreign magazines, and he became more active not only in Japan but internationally.

“I want to express something very sensitive and small which makes you feel the essence of lives, such as slight trembles of skin by from a pulse and the movement and flow in the air that a life would create. Beyond things what our eyes can reflect, I want to express things what I really want to see and what my brain and mind are seeing by using the art technique called photography.”

With such a pure passion and original techniques nobody can copy, he created fantastic works with an universal image of beauty, and he proved that his world and view is the only one of its kind. His spectacular creations are almost like miracles.They seem like floating between real and unreal with such a unique vision of the world.The various art fields consider his works as far beyond just “photograph” and the creator Tokoro as a highly respected artist.

1998/His works were exhibited at uMEDIALOGUE Japanese Modern Photos’98v at the Tokyo Metropolitan Photo Museum in April. 2000/He took cover photo for the FOCUS magazine from Jan.-sep..His works appeared in uHistory of the Japanese Modern Photographs 1945-95vpublished by Heibonsha.2003/ZOOM International cover.

2006 With his collective artworks, “CHIAROSCURO” published by Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, he made his decision to reset his carrier period called “The 1st era of Yukinori Tokoro”.2007 Start his new art work, “the 2nd era of Yukinori Tokoro”, by using monochrome pictures of mainly the landscapes of Shibuya, Tokyo.2008 Start expanding his work to the series called “One Second” which represents the unique axis of time with the different concept form our usual moment.

Fall , 2008 The exhibition of “Shibuya One Second: Moment and Eternity” was opened at Shibuya. May, 2009 EYEMAZING (Fine Arts & Photography Magazine in Holland) featured his art work. Sept. , 2009 Entry for “Tokyo PHOTO 2009″, the first art event for photos in Japan. Mar. 31th – May 30th, 2010 A large-scale exhibition for his works, “PARADOX” by Yukinori Tokoro at GALLERY 21 (Gallery vingt et un). Sept. , 2009 Entry as the main artist for “Tokyo PHOTO 2010″, the only one art event for Japan. Nov. 6th – Dec 19th, 2010 Will entry and show “1 second of Shanghai” for M50 of Shanghai.

ARTIST STATEMENT

The time flows,
Unexpectedly to no one.

Buses ready to depart in the terminal, and a girl rushes in.A scene of light-woven show for some minutes, and people walk silently in the city noise.
I seize what happens in one second in Shibuya, my home town, and I try to express transience and uncertainty of time.

People, car, nothing stop in this city. Neither light nor shadow stands still for a second. Reflecting light to the building and shadow on the street always change their positions. The light travels to a next building, and shadow falls down to another street. The city scene thus changes every second together with movement of people and car.

Shibuya was to me a grand city who looked down the people. With the time passing to me, now I feel transience in this city. Car, people. metro, and everything moving becomes transient to me. Building even changes its face every second. Seizing several seconds has made me understand more about Shibuya.

Shibuya is one of typical districts representing today’s Tokyo. The transience of Shibuya can also apply to other cities on the earth. I am a bit dizzy about. “One second”, it’s my style of expression of transience, and no other way for me. Every one may feel or understand his own “one second” in his way. And many of us can understand how fast and transient “one second” is, In order to understand what time means.

Yukinori Tokoro

MAIN PICTRIALS

YUKINORI TOKORO published by Youbi-sha
diva published by Ribloport
Saints and Sinners published by Bunka-sha
A TREE on THE ISLAND of WAKUWAKU published by Agosto
CHIAROSCURO published by BijutsuShuppan-sha.

PUBLIC COLLECTION

Museum furkunst und Gewewbe Hamburg
Kobe Fashion Museum

CLIENT

cartier, Coca-Cola,Alain Silberstein,MICHIKO LONDON, KOSHINO@HIROKO,
WEST(Germany), HERB & SPICE COMPANY(London), FujiTV, Panasonic, NIKE, Canon