Press Release 2016/09/21

Kishin Shinoyama, La Maison de rendez-vous
September 3 (Saturday), 2016 – January 9 (Monday, national holiday), 2017[1]The museum, a morgue for artworks,
filled with the stench of death where naked beauties gather day by day.
Where all manner of pleasures unfold--wild dancing, wandering, derangement, delight, frenzy,debauchery...
A place of dreams and intoxication where phantom butterfiles dance.
Here a festival begins one early-autumn evening and ends one midwinter morning.
A riotous party, a one-time affair lasting a little more than four months.
An affair not to be missed.
2016 Kishin Shinoyama
Introduction
The Hara Museum is holding a solo exhibition by Kishin Shinoyama, a photographer who has remained at theforefront of his field since the 1960s. Shinoyama currently has an ongoing exhibition, THE PEOPLE by KISHIN,
touring museums throughout Japan since 2012. The exhibition at the Hara Museum, however, will be based on acompletely different concept and will appear only at the Hara Museum.
For its theme, Shinoyama will use the power of his camera to transform the museum, a former private residencecompleted in 1938, into "la maison de rendez-vous." All works will be created specifically for the show with some33 different nude models as their subject. All shooting will be done on location at the Hara Museum. The result will
be a fantasy world of intoxicating beauty that arises from the melding of actual space with photographic space.

The Novelty of the "Here" as a Photo Exhibition
Once the decision was made to hold a solo exhibition at the Hara Museum, Kishin Shinoyama presented his plan totake and return (i.e., show) the photos "here" (=the Hara Museum). Generally speaking, photo exhibition display
works that have been taken "elsewhere" (i.e., other than the exhibition venue). This exhibition would be different.
All works would be shot "here" (i.e., the Hara Museum), with some later hung on the wall which appears in thephotos themselves.Viewers are thus invited to experience a fantasy-like (one might even say "perverted") minglingof images in the photos (i.e., the previous "here" where the image existed) with the actual space of the exhibition
venue (i.e., the present "here" where the image is displayed).
A "Maison de rendez-vous" Created by Kishin Shinoyama
Examples of nude photography appeared so soon after the invention of the medium (during the first half of the 19thcentury) that the history of nude photography may as well be equated with the history of photography itself. It
touches upon the very essence of the photo and is one of the reasons people find the medium so captivating. Since
his graduation project for the College of Art at Nihon University, Kishin Shinoyama has continued to shoot greatvolumes of nude photography and to explore the expressive potential of "human nakedness." For the current
exhibition, in order to create "la maison de rendez-vous" with the museum as a platform, Shinoyama made the nude
the subject of every photo.
The photographer spoke of being intrigued with the Hara Museum as a place that arouses the desire to shoot, as aplace where one can become lost in the pleasure of shooting. He made bold use of the time the museum was closed
between exhibits to photograph his models non-stop as they stood, sat, stretched out, leaped and danced at every
imaginable place within the museum. These included galleries devoid of artwork; the stairwell, which looks as it
did when the building was just completed (1938); the gardens piled high with fallen leaves; the normally closed-off
rooftops; and the spaces inhabited by the museum's iconic permanent installations. In Shinoyama's "la maison derendez-vous," space serves not merely as background to the body, it constitutes a world of dense imagery spun off
by the melding of body and space. By altering each of the museum's five galleries in different ways, Shinoyama hascreated a multi-layered world in which to experience "la maison de rendez-vous."
Artist ProfileBorn in Tokyo in 1940, Shinoyama began working in the photography division of the Japanese advertising agency
Light Publicity while still a student of photography at the College of Art, Nihon University. He came into thelimelight in 1961when he received the APA Award in the open submission category of the annual show sponsoredby the Japan Advertising Photographer's Association. In 1968, he left Light Publicity to launch what would becomea lifelong career as a freelance photographer. In 1976, he represented Japan at the 37th Venice Biennale with a solo
exhibition on the theme of "family" in the Japan Pavilion (it was the first time a solo exhibition format was adopted
by the Japanese representative). Shinoyama is still active today as one of Japan's most well-known photographersand is a recipient of many awards. These include the New Artist Award in 1966, the Annual Award of thePhotographic Society of Japan in 1970, the Art Encouragement Prizes for New Artists from the Minister ofEducation, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 1972, the Kodansha Culture Award in 1973, the Mainichi
Art Award in 1979 and the Domestic Photographer Award at the Higashikawa International Photo Festival in 1986.
Exhibition Details
Title: Kishin Shinoyama, La Maison de rendez-vous
Dates: September 3 (Saturday), 2016 - January 9 (Monday, national holiday), 2017
Venue: Hara Museum of Contemporary Art
4-7-25 Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0001 Tel: 03-3445-0651
E-mail: info@haramuseum.or.jp Website: http://www.haramuseum.or.jp
Mobile site: http://mobile.haramuseum.or.jp Blog: http://www.art-it.asia/u/HaraMuseum
Twitter: http://twitter.com/haramuseum (in Japanese only / account name: @haramuseum)
Organized by: Hara Museum of Contemporary ArtSponsored by: Plaza Create Co., Ltd.
Cooperation provided by: Kodansha Ltd.
Number of works: 77 color and monochrome photographic works
Hours: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm, Wednesdays until 8:00 pm (except November 23 / last entry 30 minutes beforeclosing)
Closed: Mondays (except September 19, October 10 and January 9), September 20, October 11 and theyear-end/new year holidays (12/26 – 1/4)
Admission: General 1,100 yen; Students 700 yen (high school and university); Free for Hara Museum members,
students through high school every Saturday during the school term; 100 yen discount per person for groups of 20or more.
Directions to the museum: 5 minutes by taxi or 15 minutes on foot from JR Shinagawa Station (Takanawa exit);
or from the same station take the No.96 bus, get off at the first stop (Gotenyama), and walk 3 minutes
Related event: Artist Talk: Kishin Shinoyama (in Japanese) September 3 (Saturday), 2016 2:00 – 3:30 pm
Exhibition catalogue: A catalogue/photo book entitled La Maison de rendez-vous will be published by Kodansha
on the occasion of this exhibition, with contents to include not only images from the show, but also rare photos ofthe making of the show. On sale from September 2 (price: 3,780 yen (tax included); 104 pages; Japanese text;
ISBN: 978-4-06-220292-3)
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.

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[7] With permanent installation byYasumasa Morimura[8] With permanent installation byTatsuo Miyajima*Photo credit for Nos. 1 to 8:
Kishin Shinoyama, La Maison de rende-vous, 2016 ⓒKishin Shinoyama 2016
Note: Exterior views of the newly completed Hara residence in 1938.

Exterior view of the entrance

Exterior view of the south facade

For publicity materials, please contact the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Watanabe, Kajita) by telephone or e-mail.
Tel: +81-3-3280-0679 Fax: +81-3-5791-7630 E-mail: press@haramuseum.or.jp
4-7-25 Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0001