Ittetsu Matsuoka "what i know"

amanaTIGP is pleased to present "what i know," an exhibition of Ittetsu Matsuoka's works, from April 22 through May 20. This is Matsuoka's second solo exhibition at the gallery - his first having taken place three years ago - and will feature approximately 23 of his photographs taken around Japan and Vietnam between 2020 and 2023. Alongside a successful career in advertising photography, where his focus lies in portraiture and fashion, Matsuoka has also produced art photography that captures scenery, people, plants, flowers - subjects encountered in his everyday life. In these works, such sights that we all might come across in our day-to-day are infused with a distinctively analog color palette and a unique softness afforded by bure (blur) and bokeh (out-of-focus) effects. The result is a muted tone with a somewhat reduced sense of reality, which confers equal value and significance on everything presented within the frames. In recent years, Matsuoka's output has been taking an increasingly abstract turn. The new works in this exhibition reflect his growing interest in abstract expression in photography. 

Ittetsu Matsuoka, "yellow", 2021, C-print © Ittetsu Matsuoka / Courtesy of amanaTIGP