id:			159465
accession number:	1996.240
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.240
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:30.606000

Terra: Hinohara Village, Tokyo, 1994. Toshio Shibata (Japanese, 1949-). Gelatin silver print; image: 55.5 x 47.7 cm (21 7/8 x 18 3/4 in.); paper: 58.1 x 50.8 cm (22 7/8 x 20 in.); matted: 76.2 x 61 cm (30 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1996.240 © Toshio Shibata

title:				Hinohara Village, Tokyo
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series:				Terra
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creation date:			1994
creation date earliest:		1994
creation date latest:		1994
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
copyright:			© Toshio Shibata

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culture:	Japan, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - Japanese 20th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Toshio Shibata (Japanese, 1949-)  - artist
Toshio Shibata Japanese, 1949- The troubling beauty of a natural world reconfigured by human hands provides the focus for Toshio Shibata's photographs. His interest in the modern landscape began in 1980, when he produced nighttime exposures of car headlights and the neon lights of the city. Shibata (born in Tokyo) has also traveled throughout his native country to photograph concrete structures used for channeling water and preventing soil erosion in Japan's mountainous terrain. In black and white, he presents the puzzling jigsaw-like fabrications as both echoing the earth's natural undulations and impeding its forces. By maintaining a distance from his subjects, Shibata neither celebrates nor criticizes, but rather investigates. Shibata attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (B.A., 1972; M.F.A., 1974) and continued his education at the Royal Academie of Ghent, Belgium (1975-77). His awards include fellowships from the Ministry of National Education and Dutch Culture, Belgium (1975, 1976) and the Asahi Shimbun Publishing Company (1992). He lives in Kamakura City, Japan. A.W.
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measurements: Image: 55.5 x 47.7 cm (21 7/8 x 18 3/4 in.); Paper: 58.1 x 50.8 cm (22 7/8 x 20 in.); Matted: 76.2 x 61 cm (30 x 24 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "T. Shibata / 1994 / 1994 / 2/25"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Industry and Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection
	opening date:   1997-11-16T00:00:00
	<i>Industry and Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1997-March 1, 1998).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art:  "Toshio Shibata:  Landscape Photographs," November 17, 1995-January 14, 1996, no cat.', 'opening_date': '1995-11-17T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; 11/16/97 - 3/1/98.  "Industry and Photography:  Selections from the Permanent Collection."', 'opening_date': '1997-11-16T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY)
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: June 3, 1996
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 319
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