Sohei nishino biography of barack

  • Sohei Nishino was born in Hyogo, Japan in He graduated from Osaka University of the Arts in , when he began working on his Diorama Map series.
  • Sohei Nishino was born in Hyogo, Japan in He graduated from Osaka University of the Arts in , when he began working on his diorama Map series.
  • Sohei Nishino (b.

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    Sohei Nishino

    New Dioramas

    Michael Hoppen galleri, London, United-Kingdom
    thursday 30 october - onsdag på engelska 7 january - Event ended.

    The Michael Hoppen galleri is delighted to be presenting Sohei Nishino's new series of Diorama Map's. Comprising of the following cities: Berlin, New Delhi, Amsterdam, Jerusalem, Rio dem Janeiro, Tokyo and Bern. Nishino has been internationally lauded for his beautifully crafted Dioramas, and earlier cities such as London and New York are now funnen in important private and museum collections around the world.

    “Diorama Map, Hong Kong, © Sohei Nishino”
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    The project fryst vatten a joyous mixture of photography and cartography, inspired in part by the 18th century Japanese map-maker Ino Tadataka. To man his “Diorama Maps,” Sohei Nishino spends months in a city, exploring its many vantage points. During this time he shoots thousands of pictures, which he then p

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    Sohei Nishino. New Dioramas

    The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to be presenting Sohei Nishino's new series of Diorama Map's. Comprising of the following cities: Berlin, New Delhi, Amsterdam, Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Bern. Nishino has been internationally lauded for his beautifully crafted Dioramas, and earlier cities such as London and New York are now found in important private and museum collections around the world.

    The project is a joyous mixture of photography and cartography, inspired in part by the 18th century Japanese map-maker Ino Tadataka. To make his “Diorama Maps,” Sohei Nishino spends months in a city, exploring its many vantage points. During this time he shoots thousands of pictures, which he then painstakingly hand-prints, trims to size, and compiles into huge tableaux collages from which he issues the limited edition photographic prints in two sizes. The effect is not a traditional bird’s-eye view but a wonderfully fragmented, enlightened way of

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    Sohei Nishino’s dazzling Diorama Maps return to the Michael Hoppen Gallery

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    The ancient art of map-making is hardly an art at all; minute precision and scientific attention to detail are the sacred virtues of the cartographer. But imagine a map of a different kind, one that reveals not the brute fact of a city’s physical landscape but the energy of its bustling streets. These are the kind of maps made by Japanese photographer Sohei Nishino. Traipsing around the world’s major cities, Nishino photographs famous landmarks, forgotten nooks and crannies, skies and rivers before meticulously developing the negatives and weaving them together to make the detailed collages that he calls his “Diorama Maps”.
    The large-scale works crowd and swirl with chaotic energy, capturing perfectly the inscrutable order of modern cities. They wouldn’t, however, be much help navigating from street to street; geographical accuracy is all but dispensed with. That sai
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