Toshio Shibata, Laurent Ney
By: [texts, Laurent Ney, Toshio Shibata]
Contributors: Ney, Laurent, 1964-
Publisher: MER.. Paper Kunsthalle
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Gent
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
ISBN-13: 9789492321251
Subjects: Catalogs; Bridges in art; Landscape photography
Description: The book presents a collection of photographs by the Japanese artist Toshio Shibata (°1949) of structures designed by the Belgian-Luxembourgish engineer Laurent Ney (°1964). Two artists, two media meeting one another. Both media deal with the same subject: the civil-engineering structure embedded in a natural setting. Both artists analyze topography, geology and landscape and detect essential forms that emphasize their artificial creations. Although temporality and locality are present in their work, there is also a kind of timelessness. Not only in the large scale; there are similar ingredients they work with. Also in the smallest detail of the individual object,texture and materiality play a predominant role.
Notes: Texts in English and French; preface in Japanese, English and French.