石川直樹写真展 ダウラギリ / カンチェンジェンガ / マナスル

From the spring to the autumn of 2022, photographer Naoki Ishikawa traveled over and over again to the Himalayan region straddling Nepal and Pakistan, almost as a physical counterreaction to the previous two years of being unable to journey abroad.
(8611m) and Broad Peak (8051m) in July; Nanga Parbat (8126m) in August, and Manaslu (8163m) in September. Having summitted all but Nanga Parbat, where he was forced to withdraw due to avalanches, he returned to Japan in October.
Ishikawa explains that in pushing his body to the limit by climbing one 8,000m peak after another, a strong sensation that cannot be expressed in superficial terms like "a feeling of being alive" seemed to seep into his very being, drop by drop. He had the strange sense that his body was somehow being regenerated each day.
Under extremely demanding conditions, physically and mentally, he meticulously records each day of a climb from the base of a Himalayan mountain to its summit using an old medium format camera loaded with negative film. It is fair to say that these feats of photography venture far from the boundaries of conventional mountain photography, and they are physical endeavors that cannot be replicated. From among the photographs which Ishikawa literally risked his life to take, this exhibition presents photographs from the three mountains of Kanchenjunga, Dhaulagiri, and Manasur in the Himalayan region of Nepal.
Naoki Ishikawa
Born in Shibuya, Tokyo in 1977, Ishikawa received his Ph.D. from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts. With interests in anthropology, folklore, and other fields, he continues to show his works even as he travels everywhere from remote areas to major cities. In 2008, he received the Photographic Society of Japan's Newcomer's Award and the Kodansha Publication Culture Award for New Dimension (AKAAKA Art Publishing Inc.) and Polar (Little more Co., Ltd.). In 2011 he won the Domon Ken Award for Corona (Seidosha). In 2020 he received the Photographic Society of Japan's Lifetime Achievement Award for Everest (CCC Media House) and Marebito (Shogakukan). His books include The Last Adventurer (Shueisha) and Chijō ni seiza o tsukuru [Creating a constellation on Earth] (Shinchosha). Major solo exhibitions include Japonésia, Japan House, São Paulo and Museu Oscar Neimeyer (Brazil, 2020–2021); Capturing the Map of Light on This Planet, Art Tower Mito, Niigata City Art Museum, Ichihara Lakeside Museum, The Museum of Art Kochi, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (2016-2019); and K2, Chanel Nexus Hall (Tokyo, 2015); and Archipelago (Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, 2010). His works are in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Yokohama Museum of Art, and Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, among others. His latest publications include Streets are Mine (Daiwashobo) and Momentum (Seidosha).
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Naoki Ishikawa Photo Exhibition
Dhaulagiri / Kangchenjunga / Manaslu

Dates
December 17, 2022 – February 26, 2023 (11:00 – 20:00)
Venue
GYRE GALLERY, GYRE 3F, 5-10–1 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
CONTACT
Navi Dial 0570-05-6990 (11:00 – 18:00)
Closed
Closed on December 31, 2022, January 1, 2023, and February 20, 2023, reopens at 13:00 on January 2, 2023
Organizer
GYRE
Planning & Editing:
POST-FAKE
Graphic Design
Toru Kase
Venue Design
Yusuke Yamagiwa
Public Relations
HiRAO INC
PRESS CONTACT
HiRAO INC | #608 1-11-11 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Tel. 03.5771.8808 | Fax. 03.5410.8858
Contacts: Seiichiro Mifune, Shohei Suzuki

Talk Event

Date and time
January 16, 2023
Venue
GYRE FOOD (GYRE 4F)
* The time and further details will be posted on the GYRE website as soon as they are available.

K2 / Broad Peak / Nanga Parbat

Dates
January 13 to February 5, 2023
Venue
Sai Gallery, 3F Miyashita Park South, 6-20-10, Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Overview
Sai Gallery in Shibuya will concurrently exhibit photographs from K2, Broad Peak, and Nanga Parbat. Ishikawa summited K2 on July 22 and Broad Peak on July 29, but he was forced to suspend his attempt at Nanga Parbat due to avalanches. Photographs taken at the three mountains will be shown together. https://www.saiart.jp

Naoki Ishikawa × THE NORTH FACE

Dates
January 13 to February 5, 2023
Venues
THE NORTH FACE Backmagic, THE NORTH FACE Mountain, THE NORTH FACE ALTER, and THE NORTH FACE Sphere
Overview
THE NORTH FACE has seven stores along the route from GYRE Gallery in Omotesando to Sai Gallery in Shibuya, where the exhibitions will be held. A variety of events of events are planned for the stores during the exhibition period. These include displaying Ishikawa's photographs, selling related books, offering goods developed in collaboration with Ishikawa, and holding talk events and photography classes. https://www.goldwin.co.jp/tnf/

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