Press Release 2016/06/30

HITOSHI TOYODAVISUAL DIARY / SLIDE SHOW
August 13 (Saturday) and 14 (Sunday), 2016[1]

Instead of fixing images on paper, the photographer Hitoshi Toyoda works exclusively in the ］
medium of the slide show.
Toyoda manually operates analog slide projectors using photographic material taken from the past. The subtle shifts inemotions that lie between the images that appear, then disappear remind us of the preciousness of each moment of
our lives. The Hara Museum has the pleasure of presenting two slide shows by Toyoda on two separate evenings,
both in the museum’s courtyard garden.
The featured shows are spoonfulriver, a visual diary newly arranged by Toyoda, and his latest work for Nine
Postcards, a unique slide photo and musical homage to the late Japanese environmental music guru Hiroshi
Yoshimura, consisting of Yoshimura's slide images and music.
[Event Schedule]
August 13 (Saturday) 19：15 spoonfulriver 2007-2016 / 70min. / 35mm slide film / silent"It begins with an ordinary street in New York City. As if writing a letter tosomeone I cannot forget."This is Toyoda's fifth installment.

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August 14 (Sunday) 19：15 for Nine Postcards 2015 / 40min. / 35mm slide film / sound*Post-screening Talk: Tsutomu Mizusawa (Director, Museum of ModernArt, Kamakura & Hayama) x Hitoshi Toyoda*The talk will be held in Japanese for about 30 minutes.
Drawing upon works from among the 2,800 slide photos left behind by
the late Hiroshi Yoshimura, Toyoda created this latest work on
commission by the Museum of Modern Art, Kanagawa & Hayama.
[3]］Press Release 2016/06/30[Event Information]
Place: The Hara Museum courtyard garden*Or the Hall in the event of rain. Final determination will be posted on the Hara Museum website by 11:00 am on theday of the show.
Organized by: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
Tickets: General 1,800 yen; students and Hara Museum members 1,600 yen each (ticket price includes admission).
*Two-show ticket: General 3,500 yen; students and Hara Museum members 3,000 yen* Reservations can be made by e-mail (toyoda-ticket@haramuseum.or.jp) or at the reception counter at the Hara
Museum.
* Requests for tickets will be accepted from 11:00 am, July 1, 2016.
* Ticket-holders may view the current exhibition It's Our Permanent Collection! prior to the start of the slide show.
Visitors may leave the museum and re-enter (on the same day only) by showing their ticket stub.

Hitoshi Toyoda (b.1963)
Photographer. Born in New York and raised in Tokyo. Embarked on the selfstudy of photography after a trip to New York in 1986. Using New York as hisbase from 1993, he began exhibiting his visual diaries as live slide shows,manually operating analog slide projectors at public places that included
parking lots on Broadway, parks in Chinatown, churches and theaters. From2000 Toyoda began presenting his slide shows throughout Japan atmuseums, galleries and other art spaces, as well as abandoned elementaryschools deep in the mountains and the prehistorical Sannai-Maruyama site inAomori. He has presented his work at film and art festivals throughout the USand at the Yokohama Triennale in 2014. He has been based in Japan since 2012.
http://www.hitoshitoyoda.com/Hiroshi Yoshimura (1940 - 2003)
Sound artist. Born in Yokohama. Studied art at Waseda University. In addition to concrete
poetry and graphic notation, Yoshimura left behind a body of work that included soundinstallations, performances using one-of-a-kind musical instruments and the design ofsound environments at such public spaces as train stations, hotels and museums. Hislast work was a sound logo commissioned by the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum ofModern Art, Kamakura & Hayama in 2003. Yoshimura visited the Hara Museum in 1980
and was inspired by the landscape to create music which was later played at themuseum.

[Images for Publication]*Please indicate the image number when requesting publicity images. Those images will then be sent by a museum
staff member at a later date.
* Please include the related credit for each image used. Images should not be trimmed, altered or superimposed withtext.
[1] [2] spoonfulriver 2007-2016[3] for Nine Postcards 2015

©Hitoshi Toyoda

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