Attendance at the unveiling of Sohei Nishino’s artwork at V&A Dundee V&A（28th March 2024)
2024/4/10
| On March 28th, Deputy Consul General Minori Ishii participated in the opening event of the photo exhibition titled "Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World" and the unveiling of a new commission by Japanese artist, Sohei Nishino, which was held at V&A Dundee. Diorama Map is a series in which Mr. Nishino walks around a city taking photographs. He then develops his photographs, cuts and arranges them by hand to create a collage depicting a map of the city. The large-scale work in the form of a 5-meter-long folding screen exhibited at V&A Dundee was commissioned by the museum and is a diorama map that reconstructs the city of Dundee by stitching together 20,000 photographs taken by Mr. Nishino during his one-month stay in the city. In addition to buildings such as V&A Dundee designed by Kengo Kuma, the Tay Bridge, and a football pitch, the work includes various people that Mr. Nishino met, birds soaring in the sky, and a bronze statue of Desperate Dan, a character from the Wild West who appears in "The Dandy" comic. The work is interesting to see both from a distance or up close. Mr. Nishino's Diorama Map and the " Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World" exhibition is being held at V&A Dundee until Sunday, 20th October, so please visit it if you have the chance. For more information on the photo exhibition and the making of Sohei Nishino’s work visit: https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/whatson/exhibitions/photo-city The Making of the Dundee Diorama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XoTGa9VQ7I |