Portraits of sumo wrestlers in the national sport '("Tokyo-ga" Project)

*Information at the time of adoption.

Name of the organization or individual

NPO Tokyo-ga

subsidy category

Creation Grant

Grant Type

single year

FY25 Phase I Creation Grant [Single-year grant program]

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Business Overview

Sumo is Japan's national sport and has a long history. About 90% of the sumo stables where wrestlers train for the event are concentrated in Tokyo. The foreign sumo wrestlers who are active today are also Tokyoites as well as sumo wrestlers, and they overcome differences of nationality, tradition, and culture to capture the portraits of sumo wrestlers who gather in Tokyo from the aspect of art. It is easy to focus on the fighting, but the trained bodies of sumo wrestlers are a sublime body art, and Yoshihiko Ueda sublimates the harmony with the colorful and original "keshimawashi" that they wear into an art form.

Period of Activity / Project

Saturday, February 1, 2014 to Saturday, March 29

Venues

Gallery 916 (Minato-ku, Tokyo)

Profile

[Tokyo-ga]
The purpose of this project is to contribute to the creation of a new society in which the human wisdom of art functions through the planning and implementation of exhibitions, workshops, and educational programs on art, communication, and expression centered on photography, and the development of social communication utilizing the media, targeting the general public at large.

[Ueda Yoshihiko]
Born in 1957 in Hyogo Prefecture. His representative works include QUINAULT, at HOME, and AMAGATSU, and his most recent is Materia, a shot of Yakushima Island "M. River". His recent work is "Mies Van der Rohe," a portrait of Mies van der Rohe's architecture.