{"id":1481,"date":"2025-01-15T21:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T12:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:34:44","slug":"shigetakobayashi_en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.live-art-books.jp\/lag\/exhibition\/en\/shigetakobayashi_en\/","title":{"rendered":"Shigeta Kobayashi “plateau”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PAST EXHIBITION<\/p>\n

Shigeta Kobayashi\uff5cplateau<\/h1>\n

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Shigeta Kobayashi: plateau
\nFriday, January 17\u2013Saturday, February 8, 2025
\nGallery hours: 13:00\u201319:00
\nClosed Sundays, Mondays, and holidays
\nTuesday and Wednesdays by appointment only (infolag@daishinsha.jp)
\nOpening reception: Friday, January 17, 18:00\u201320:00
\nVenue: LAG (LIVE ART GALLERY)
\nDaiwa Jingumae Bldg. 1F, 2-4-11 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0001\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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From January 17 (Fri) to February 8 (Sat) 2025, LAG is excited to present \u201cplateau,\u201d an exhibition of work by Shigeta Kobayashi.
\nKobayashi is a photographer with a particular interest in natural occurrences and vestiges of human endeavor. After seeing first-hand a plethora of natural forms during a 2018 stay in Iceland, he became interested in geological phenomena, and has woven this perspective through his practice ever since.
\nThe new series \u201cplateau\u201d on display at this exhibition was shot amid the vast wilderness of Kumanodaira in the northern Japan Alps.
\nThere are times when that originally destined to remain unseen, is for some reason exposed and rendered visible.
\nFascinated by the phenomenon known in geology as an \u201coutcrop,\u201d Kobayashi turned his attention to a range of natural forms arising over many years and exposed in ways unique to each location, such as the pools of water known as chito that emerge in alpine bogs; rocks laid bare on tableland as remnants of volcanic eruption, and trees sculpted in peculiar ways by the action of blizzards.
\nBy presenting all these through the medium of photography, this unmissable exhibition challenges our ideas around the distance between humans and nature, and human attitudes to nature.
\nThe photo collection plateau published by Kobayashi’s \u201cbooks cairn\u201d publishing label (printed by LIVE ART BOOKS) will be on sale at the gallery. A talk featuring guest Ito Jiro, manager of the Kumanodaira Mountain Hut is also scheduled during the exhibition.\n<\/p>\n

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\u2014Artist Statement\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

During a residency at Kumonodaira Mountain Hut in the Northern Alps of Japan, I was intrigued by the various shapes of the ponds scattered around the area. Kumonodaira is located on a gentle lava plateau at the source of the Kurobe River in the Hida Mountains, and I learned that ponds formed in marshes in such a unique environment are called chito. Two years later, when I revisited Kumonodaira again, my attention this time was drawn to the shapes of rocks and trees.
\nLooking at the ponds, rocks, and trees, I couldn’t help but think about the natural phenomena that had given them their shape and the time it took for them to form. At the same time, such an ordinary and somewhat borrowed attitude towards nature seemed to connect to a single intersection within myself, no matter how natural it may be, when I recalled the path I had walked to get there and the family I had been with until yesterday.
\nWhile the nature of the Northern Alps seems far removed from our daily lives, I hope that these forms, which are unmistakably connected to everyday life, will help us to feel closer to events in distant places and things difficult to sense by only imagining them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shigeta Kobayashi<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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BOOKS<\/h2>\n

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plateau
\nby Shigeta Kobayashi<\/h3>\n

Released November 28, 2024
\n\u00a53,800 (with tax)
\nHardcover, 210 x 278 cm
\nWith text by Jiro Ito (Director, Kumanodaira Mountain Hut)
\nDesign: Koji Miyazoe
\nPrinted and bound by Live Art Books
\nPublished by books cairn
\nSpecial cooperation: Kumanodaira Mountain Hut\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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PROFILE<\/h2>\n

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Shigeta Kobayashi<\/b> (b. 1985)<\/p>\n

Major works include AURORA (2019), cairn (2020), stratum (2022) and chito (2023). He has been working on a project called \u201caraware\u201d since 2023, focusing on geological outcrops. He also runs the independent publisher \u201cbooks cairn,\u201d established in 2021, publishing and selling his own works.<\/p>\n

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