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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Hello there!
Thanks for visiting my web!
Happy
New Year!!
How are you all? Well, we actually have a couple of
more days of this year, and I’m still running with many things
left to do! Hope that you all are doing well and having a peaceful
time : )
* * I visited Tenerife in the Canary Islands this month to see Fotonoviembre,
the international photo biennale. The time I went there was around
the closing date for the biennale, so unfortunately, I couldn’t
see many shows, but the photo festival was well organized and the
shows I have visited including one of the group shows that I participated
looked great! Thanks a lot for the great help to Rosa Maria Hernandez
Suarez and the staff! Local people in Tenerife were so nice and friendly.
I also enjoyed the warm weather in the island and the food and a coffee
called “cortado leche y leche”! –
http://www.secret-tenerife.com/2006/10/coffee-corner-cortado-leche-leche.shtml
Here are some pictures of my “Dreamscapes”
work that was shown at the group show.
Please
click the picture below to view! ( 9 pics ) ;
* * Here is NEWS about places where you can find
my “Dreamscapes” catalogue, which was
published for the traveling shows in Poland in 2007;
BWA Wroclaw
– Galeria Awangarda
Address: 50-149 Wroclaw, ul. Wita Stwosza 32, Poland
tel:(071) 790 25 82, fax:(071) 790 25 90, e-mail: info@bwa.wroc.pl
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday / 11 am – 18 pm
OKiS
(The Culture and Art Centre in Wroclaw)
Address: 50-101 Wroclaw Rynek-Ratusz 24, Poland
tel. +48 (0)71 344-28-64
fax +48 (0)71 344-28-65
e-mail: okis@okis.pl
Galeria
Pusta at Górnoslaskie Centrum Kultury
(GCK)
Address: Pl. Sejmu Slaskiego 2, 40-032 Katowice, Poland
Phone +48 32 6090316, e-mail: pusta@gck.org.pl
Web; http://www.gck.org.pl/index1.php?id_s=121&lang=1
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday / 11:00 – 18:00
PEP + NO NAME photo gallery and book shop
Address: Unt. Heuberg 2, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
Web: http://www.pepnoname.ch
Gallery Hours; Mon-Fri (12pm–19pm), and Sat (11am–16pm)
Galerie
PHOTOPIA
Adress: Atelier No 7, La Manutention du Palais des Papes, 84000 Avignon,
France
Phone 0033 (0) 685 49 63 35
Well, how are your plans for 2008?
* * Here is a brief schedule for my upcoming shows in 2008.
* * June
– a solo show in Tokyo, Japan.
* * September – a group show
in San Antonio, Texas, USA
* * November to December –
a solo show in Apt, France
* * November to December –
a solo show in Avignon, France
More details will
be announced in 2008 ! So, please look forward to it. Thanks!
I hope to see YOU at some of the shows soon!!
Hope that you all have good health and wonderful year in 2008!!
Best Wishes,
Reiko
Sunday, November 4th, 2007
Hello there.
Thanks for visiting my web!
How
are you all? Well, I have been out of my website since I had a little
health problem until recently.
However, I’m recovered and totally fine now, so I'm starting
this web little by little again! Hope that everybody is well!
Thanks again for visiting my web!
Ok, here is NEWS... Several triptych pictures from
my “Dreamscapes” series will be shown
in a group show that is a part of Fotonoviembre,
the international biennale of photography in Tenerife, Canary Island.
Dates: November
8th ( Thu ) – December 10th ( Mon )
Place: Sala de Arte Los Lavaderos
Address: C/ Carlos Chevilly, 1, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands,
Spain, (Phone): 922271510
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday, 11.00 to 13:00h and 18:00 to 21:00h
Participating photographers: Agnes Mallez,
Robin Santus, Julia Wellner, Marco
Pastori, Reiko Imoto, Monique Hoffman,
Lorraine Field, Anja Bohnhof, and
Enrique Portero Álvarez
Opening
Reception of the Fotonoviembre:
November 8th (from 20:30pm ) at La Recova (address:
Plaza Isla de
la Madera, s/n - 38003, Sta.Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain)
This group show
is a part of Fotonoviembre, organized by
CENTRO DE FOTOGRAFÍA ISLA DE TENERIFE
Plaza Isla de la Madera, s/n
38003 - Sta.Cruz de Tenerife
Tel. 922.290.951 - 922.290.735
Fax. 922.240.553
www.fotonoviembre.org
Please visit the show if you are in Canary Islands in November or
in the beginning of December! Unfortunately, I’m not able to
visit the opening reception, but I’m planning to visit the show
before the closing date. So, I hope to see YOU around soon!
Take care to you
all !!
Best wishes,
Reiko
Monday, June 25th, 2007
My show at Galleria Pusta in Katowice, Poland closed in the middle
of June. I just wanted to say thanks again to the people who helped
with the show and all of
YOU who visited the show! There were 736 visitors and I was so glad
to read the comments / messages that were left in my guest book, one
by one. It is interesting for me to know how people see, feel and
think in front of my art as a part of communications between ourselves.
Somebody wrote that a friend took the person to the show for his/her
birthday present with a surprise. What a sweet thing to do for others!
Our world is not totally too bad… thanks. There were many Polish
writings in the guest book as well, and I have read them all with
the help of a translator. I’m just happy to know that people
have wonderful minds that are poetic, philosophical, intelligent,
sensitive, honest, and dreamy…each person is unique and interesting.
THANKS and CHEERS to Katowice!!
Well, all of Europe has really strange weather recently… really
hot and sunny, or lots of thunder and raining, or cold and suddenly
snowy!! Who knows how this summer is going? Please take care with
whatever goes on! I will do the same.
I hope to see YOU all soon!
Best wishes,
Reiko
Monday, June 11th, 2007
Hello there.
Thanks for visiting my web!
How are you all? Hoping you all are well! My 2 shows in Wroclaw, Poland
were closed at the beginning of May. Thanks a lot for those who have
visited! I was happy to meet many of the visitors as well.
My opening reception at Galeria Pusta in Katowice,
Poland was nicely held on May 9th. Thanks so much for those who came
to visit the opening! I was very happy to see YOU all! Thanks a lot
for Jakub Byrczek (Curator of Galeria
Pusta), Tomasz Janikowski (Director
of GCK), Romek Kowalewsk (Festival
Director of OKiS), Elzbieta Lubowicz
(Curator for my show), Motoyuki Kubo & Yumiko
Kubo (The PRINTS), Bernard Weber
and the team (L’ Atelier WEBER)!! The opening
was held with a nice, cozy atmosphere and I really enjoyed meeting
the very kind, lovely people in Katowice! I hope to see YOU all again!
Here are some
of snap shots from the show at Galeria
Pusta (25 pics.);
This show is still
open until June 17th, so please visit it if you plan to come to Katowice
soon! Here are the details of the show;
*
*“Dreamscapes”
by Reiko Imoto
Dates: May 9th (Wed) – June 17th (Sun), 2007
Place: Galeria Pusta at Górnoslaskie
Centrum Kultury (GCK)
Address: Pl. Sejmu Slaskiego 2, 40-032 Katowice, Poland
Phone no.+48 32 6090316, e-mail: pusta@gck.org.pl
Web; http://www.gck.org.pl/index1.php?id_s=123&lang=1
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday / 11:00 – 18:00
Here is NEWS about my catalogue book;
My new catalogue “Dreamscapes” has finally
been published! If you’d like to purchase the catalogue, you
can do so at BWA gallery in Wroclaw or Pusta
gallery in Katowice, Poland, and the addresses are here;
BWA galley
in Wroclaw;
BWA Wroclaw
Address: 50-149 Wroclaw, ul. Wita Stwosza 32, Poland
tel:(071) 790 25 82, fax:(071) 790 25 90, e-mail: info@bwa.wroc.pl
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday / 11 am – 18 pm
Pusta
gallery in Katowice;
Galeria Pusta at Górnoslaskie Centrum
Kultury (GCK)
Address: Pl. Sejmu Slaskiego 2, 40-032 Katowice, Poland
Phone no.+48 32 6090316, e-mail: pusta@gck.org.pl
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday / 11:00 – 18:00
The "Dreamscapes"catalogue
will be available on the purchase page of this Website (Reiko
Imoto / Photo Artts) soon as well, so please
wait for the details! Thank you.
Well, it’s already as hot as summer here in Belgium, and I feel
that time is passing so fast this year! I hope that you will have
good weather in your city, and wishing you a great summer!! I don’t
know if we will have an extremely hot summer where I live this year…,
we generally don’t have air-conditioners in houses/ apartments
in the country, so let’s see… Anyway, I will try to concentrate
on my creative activities this summer! Hope that YOU all will have
a creative summer as well!
See you later and take care!
Best wishes,
Reiko
Sunday,
April 29th, 2007
Hello there.
Thanks for visiting my web!
How are you all?
My openings in Wroclaw, Poland (BWA gallery and La
Luz) were nicely held at the beginning of April!
Thanks so much for those of you who visited the show(s)! I really
enjoyed seeing and talking with the people. Meeting people is always
the best part for me when I have shows. They were full of visitors
for both BWA gallery and La Luz
for the opening receptions, and I was so impressed by the people’s
gentle manners and kindness during the openings.
I was also so
glad to meet many wonderful artists in Wroclaw. It was very inspiring
for me to know what they have been creating through their visions!
Also, it was great to see many musicians and a poetry actor whose
concerts and performance were held after my slideshow presentation
at La Luz. I really enjoyed their fantastic shows
at this wonderful place!
Thanks a lot also to the great people who helped
my shows; (names in alphabetical orders) - Frederick Abrams
(Owner of La Luz), Monika Aleksandrowicz
(Graphic Designer for catalogue) and Piotr (Helping
of Translating), Piotr Borkowski (Director of OKiS),
Jaroslaw Broda (Director of Cultural Department
in Wroclaw), Agnieszka Chodysz (Coordinator
of the festival), Bronislaw Kowalewski (Director
of Lower Silesian Art Festival), Dominika
Kowalewska (Translator), Motoyuki Kubo and
Yumiko Kubo (The PRINTS), Kasia
(technical manager for DVD projection at BWA),
Elzbieta Lubowicz (Curator for shows at BWA and
La Luz, and Writer for catalogue), Malek
Puhala (Director of BWA), Bernard
Weber and the team (L’ Atelier WEBER),
Tomasz Tluczkiewicz (Translator), Tomek
(Installation at BWA), Tomek and
Hanna (Installation at La Luz).
Thanks also to the great bands and actor who played at La
Luz, collaborating with my photography!;
Music: tapHead (England/Poland) http://www.tapHead.eu
,
Black Carrot (England) http://www.blackcarrot.net
,
Theatre: Nigel Parkin (England).
It was a really fantastic event with these people.
I hope to see YOU all again!
My show at BWA is still open until May 6th (Sun),
so I hope that you can visit it if you haven’t seen it yet!
Here is info of the show;
* * “Dreamscapes” by Reiko
Imoto
Dates: April 3rd (Tue) – May 6th (Sun), 2007
Place: BWA Wroclaw – Galeria Awangarda
Address: 50-149 Wroclaw, ul. Wita Stwosza 32, Poland
tel:(071) 790 25 82, fax:(071) 790 25 90, e-mail: info@bwa.wroc.pl
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday / 11 am – 18 pm
Web:
http://www.bwa.wroc.pl/index.php?l=pl&id=107&b=1&w=1
Here are some snap shots from the show at BWA –
Galeria Awangarda (24 pics);
My show at La Luz is also still open until May 6th
(Sun), so I hope that you can visit it as well if you haven’t
seen it yet! Here is info for the show ;
* *“Dreams
of the Amnesiac” by Reiko Imoto
Dates: April 4th (Wed) – May 6th (Sun), 2007
Place: La Luz
ul. Krainskiego 14, 50-153 Wroclaw, Poland
Website: http://www.laluz.pl/english/wydarzenia_e.html
Map and contact info: http://www.laluz.pl/english/kontakt_e.html
Here are also some snaps from the exhibit and slideshow presentation
at La Luz (11 pics);
The first NEWS is that my “Author’s
Meeting” will be held with 4 of my slideshows’
projection at BWA in Wroclaw soon!
The details are here;
* *“Author’s Meeting”
for Reiko Imoto - “Dreamscapes”exhibit
and 4 slideshows
Date: May 7th (Mon), 2007, from 18:00
Place: BWA Wroclaw – Galeria Awangarda
Address: 50-149 Wroclaw, ul. Wita Stwosza 32, Poland
tel:(071) 790 25 82, fax:(071) 790 25 90, e-mail: info@bwa.wroc.pl
This event and the “Dreamscapes”
exhibition are organized by OKiS
(Osrodek Kultury i Sztuki - Aktualnosci ); Web: http://www.okis.pl
Everybody is very welcome to visit the event if you are in
Wroclaw on May 7th!
Invitation card (“Author’s Meeting”
for “Dreamscapes”at BWA);
designed by Monika Aleksandrowicz
= Click the image to enlarge! =
The next
NEWS is that my next exhibition will be held in Katowice,
Poland soon, and my catalogue “Dreamscapes”
will be completely ready for the opening. Please look forward to it!
Here are the details of the next show;
* *“Dreamscapes”
by Reiko Imoto
Dates: May 9th (Wed) – June 17th (Sun), 2007
Place: Galeria Pusta at Górnoslaskie
Centrum Kultury (GCK)
Address: Pl. Sejmu Slaskiego 2, 40-032 Katowice, Poland
Phone no.+48 32 6090316, e-mail: pusta@gck.org.pl
Web; http://www.gck.org.pl/index1.php?id_s=343&lang=1
Gallery curator: Jakub Byrczek
Curator: Elzbieta Lubowicz
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Sunday / 11:00 – 18:00
Opening Reception: May 9th (Wed), from 17:00
If you are in
/ around Poland / Katowice, please visit my show and the opening!
Invitation card (“Dreamscapes” exhibition
at Galeria Pusta);
designed by Piotr Jakowenko
= Click the image to enlarge! =
Take care, and I hope to seeYOU all soon!
Best wishes,
Reiko
Monday,
March 26th,
2007
Hello there.
Thanks for visiting my web!
There is a correction of the date of my slideshows event
at La luz in Wroclaw, Poland, which was mentioned
in the last NEWS.
It will be held on April 4th (Wednesday) from 19pm
- this is the right date and time for sure. Herer is the link to the
schedule for the event; http://www.laluz.pl/english/wydarzenia_e.html
I also updated this info in the “NEWS of March
21st " below. Please check it again! Thank you!!
Reiko
Wednesday, March 21st,
2007
Hello there.
Thanks for visiting my web!
My first book,
“Dreamscapes”, is on the way! I’m
very excited about it. It will be ready on April 3rd at my opening
reception. Don’t miss it!
Please drop me a message if you can see me in Wroclaw. Thanks!!
I visited Wroclaw in Poland last week again for the “catalogue
business”.
This time, the weather there was so mild, and the sunshine was really
bright! The city looked perfect with the warm spring weather. People
in Poland already seemed to enjoy eating real huge ice creams everywhere,
but I had no guts to eat any ice cream yet… I'm going back there
for my upcoming shows and also for the "huge ice creams"
soon!
*
Excuse me, the Time of the Opening Reception
for my upcoming show has been changed after I announced the last NEWS.
Here are the updated details;
* * “Dreamscapes”
by Reiko Imoto
Dates: April 3rd
(Tue) – May 6th (Sun), 2007
Place: BWA Wroclaw – Galeria Awangarda
Address: 50-149 Wroclaw, ul. Wita Stwosza 32, Poland
tel:(071) 790 25 82, fax:(071) 790 25 90, e-mail: info@bwa.wroc.pl
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday / 11 am – 18 pm
Opening Reception : April 3rd (Tue),
from 17 pm until 18 pm
BWA
is a contemporary art gallery, established in 1962, and it is the
largest gallery in Wroclaw. There are 3 units of
galleries in BWA, and my show will be held at the
main gallery, “Galeria Awangarda”. If
you live in Poland or come over to the country between April and June,
please visit my show(s). Thanks. (I will have another show at Galeria
Pusta in Katowice from May 9th until June
24th. The details will be announced soon!).
My "Dreamscapes"
catalogue will be available at Galeria Awangarda
(at BWA) in Wroclaw and also at Galeria
Pusta (at GCK) in Katowice during
the shows. More details of the catalogue will be announced soon, and
the catalogue with "a special item" will be available on
my website soon as well. Please look foward to it!!
The second NEWS is...
* * One of my
slideshows, “Dreams of the Amnesiac”,
will also be projected on a TV screen at Galeria Awangarda
( at BWA) during the “Dreamscapes”
exhibit. Please enjoy it!
The third NEWS is...
* * An extra event
with my 4 slideshows presentation will be held at
La luz, the art bar / restaurant, in
Wroclaw (on the top floor), on April 4th (Wed),
from 19 pm. (Some of the framed prints from my “Dreams
of the Amnesiac” series will also be exhibited on the
wall at La luz for the month). Soon after my slideshows
presentation , there will be music concerts by 2 cool bands and a
recital by an actor from the UK in the same evening (from 20 pm).
I hope that YOU will visit this "one evening, international arts
event" at La luz, that will be held one day
after the opening reception of my “Dreamscapes” exhibit
at Galeria Awangarda
( BWA).
Here is the address for my slideshows event;
La luz: ul. Krainskiego 14,
50-153 Wroclaw, Poland
Website: http://www.laluz.pl/english/wydarzenia_e.html
Map and contact info: http://www.laluz.pl/english/kontakt_e.html
Date: April 4th (Wed), from 19 pm
The weather is changeable nowadays…but, when it is really like
spring, I enjoy seeing some Sakura (cherry blossoms) and listening
to birds' singing. Sakura here in Europe seems to start blooming earlier
than Sakura does in Japan, even though the European weather is colder
in the season… Huuum, it must be different kinds of Sakura trees
between here and there. Well, the flower's colour is lighter here
than Japan’s slightly pink ones. Anyway, the both ones look
lovely to my eyes.
Hope that you already enjoy good weather in your own cities!
Take care, and I look forward to seeing YOU all in Poland soon!
Best wishes,
Reiko
Monday, March 5th, 2007
Hello there.
Thanks for visiting my web!
Are you ready for the spring in your city? Here in Brussels is still
a bit cold, but I expect much warmer weather is coming very soon!
Last month, I visited Wroclaw in Poland
to discuss my upcoming show and a new catalogue publication.
Wroclaw is a very beautiful city with so many fantastic designs and
colours of classic buildings. I was so surprised that people there
were so energetic to enjoy outside activities in the city even at
night and the weather was freezing (–12 degrees Celsius !).
However, according to the local people, this winter was a warm one
in Poland and there were some flowers which have been blooming on
the ground during the season! Here is a link to a web that has some
pretty good photos of Wroclaw (only in German).
Check out this!; http://www.tabibito.de/vostok/wroclaw.shtml
Here is the info for my upcoming solo show that will be the second
show of the “Traveling Shows in Poland”;
* * “Dreamscapes” by Reiko Imoto
Dates: April 3 rd (Tue) – May 6 th (Sun), 2007
Place: BWA Wroclaw – Galeria Awangarda
Address: 50-149 Wroclaw, ul. Wita Stwosza 32, Poland
tel:(071) 790 25 82, fax:(071) 790 25 90, e-mail: info@bwa.wroc.pl
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday / 11 am – 18 pm
Opening Reception : April 3 rd (Tue)
BWA is a contemporary art gallery, established in 1962, and
it is the largest gallery in Wroclaw. There are 3
units of galleries in BWA, and my show will be held
in the main gallery, “Galeria Awangarda”.
If you live in Poland or come over to the country between April and
June, please visit my show(s). Thanks. (I will have another show in
Katowice from May until June. The details will be
announced soon!). For this exhibit in Wroclaw, the “Dreamscapes”
images will be much larger than before, with no frame or matte. On
this special occasion, the prints were made with the great help of
Mr. Motoyuki Kubo from “The Prints”
in Tokyo, one of the best printers in Japan. I really appreciate the
result of the prints. I would like to thank to Mr. Motoyuki
Kubo and also to Mrs.Yumiko Kubo. Here is
the web of “The Prints”; http://www.theprints.jp/
Another NEWS is...
* * My first monograph catalogue “Dreamscapes”,
for the traveling shows in Poland will be published on April 3rd!
In the main parts of the publication, 13 triptychs and 1 single image,
which are all of the pictures from the “Dreamscapes”
series are included. And also, 16 images from my previous series “Dreams
of the Amnesiac” are included as supporting parts of
the catalogue. The texts are in Polish and English. Please look forward
to seeing the catalogue soon!!
Another extra NEWS is...
* * A review about my “Dreamscapes” show
(by Elzbieta Lubowics ) and an image has been published
in the present winter issue of “IMAGO”,
which is a unique, contemporary photography magazine in the Central
and Eastern Europe. Please check out it if you have a chance!
I’m looking forward to having warm spring weather and possibly
seeing some cherry blossoms somewhere in the world soon!
Well, I could see the March 3rd's eclipse very clearly. How was it
over your head? The picture below is not the eclipse, but it is another
face of the moon from my slideshow "Lunar".
Take care, and I hope to see YOU all in Poland soon!
Best wishes,
Reiko
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Hello there.
Thanks for visiting my web!
How has been this year started for you? I was traveling in New Zealand
during the new year. The landscapes with beautiful mountains and lakes
refreshed my mind and health.
I’ve recognized again that I loved being in nature. Brussels
where I live has a very little nature, so if I travel, I would love
to go for real nature as much as possible next time. Otherwise, I
try to stay home to spend lots of time for my creation this year!
How about your own aims and plans for this year?
Well, my next
solo show will be held from April 3rd until May 6th
in Wroclaw, Poland ( BWA
gallery ). This show will be a part of my Traveling Show
in Poland, after Poznan that was held last year. For the coming show
in Wroclaw, the image size of my “Dreamscapes”
series will become 4 times larger than before, and there will be no
frame or matte around the images… I’m excited to imagine
the atmosphere of the space with the new version of the “Dreamscapes”.
Following this show, there will be another “Dreamscapes”
show form May 9th until the end of June in Katowice,
Poland (Galeria Pusta). This is
also a part of the traveling show. I will announce more details about
the shows soon. Please look forward to it! Thanks!!
Belgium is sometimes
cold and sometimes warm nowadays. I’m not good at managing in
freezing winter, but it doesn’t feel right to have too much
warm winter either, as you know. I wish I could see beautiful snow
this year as well, even if the weather would be freezing ( sorry about
saying this if you’ve been having really cold winter.). Taking
pictures in snow would be something special that I haven’t experienced
for ages… I miss the magical feeling to look up the dark sky
with lots and lots of snowflakes! That makes me forget the coldness
of the winter… I would run out for it even if it’s late
at night! How are you all?
Ok, please take
care and keep warm!
Best wishes,
Reiko
Monday, January 1st, 2007
A Happy New Year
2007!
Wishing YOU all a peaceful and productive year!
I hope to see
you soon.
Warm greetings,
Reiko
