DAY FOR NIGHT

A Japanese artist of the post-war generation, Toshio Shibata works for many years around the notion of landscape. It is notably known for his photographs of monumental infrastructures, a set works already presented in September 2013, at the Polka Galerie on the occasion of the exhibition "Abstraction of space". The production of the series "Night Photos" occupies a special place in the artist's work. These photographs, taken only at night in the 80s and presented today to the public, are in black and white when its current production is in color. The artist looks back on his work by delving into his own archives, selecting black and white images to emphasize the approach and the nocturnal aspect which gives a strangeness to this whole, and gives to this series a very personal imprint without the author appearing (...)