This week, chosen among our archives, do discover one of our past Toshio Shibata show ! CIBACHROMES took place in our Parisian gallery some years ago...

Toshio Shibata’s Japan is a secret and monumental world. The manmade structures he so meticulously photographs are not abandoned. They are silent, stirring giants. Through Shiabata’s lens, buildings, architecture, concrete and metal come to life, transforming into lifelike beings rooted in the natural landscape as the photographer quietly disappears behind his titanic subjects. In order to capture the essence of the landscape, he erases any traces of his interference within the frame. Thus Shibata establishes an interdependence with the subject as a sort of opposed dialogue between movement and contemplation, between perception and intuition, between the gaze and the subject. The Cibachrome process only amplifies the presence of these unique and solitary characters in the prints. They call the viewer in to approach and to traverse them.