Currently on dispaly at Laurence Miller Gallery, in partnership with Asia Week New York is Toshio Shibata – Harmony, a solo exhibition featuring large format color photographs that extend Shibata's exploration of man-made structures co-existing within nature.
Toshio Shibata’s connections with Japanese artistic tradition are intriguing. He purposefully went against the grain of the traditional Japanese concept of landscape, yet his viewpoint is unmistakably Japanese. His work has a strong connection with the way classical Japanese architecture integrates itself within its environment. In this sense, Shibata’s mediations on the contemporary landscape have a surprising connection to classical Japanese tea pavilions - both are set carefully within the surrounding landscape, and each displays a refined sense of spatial proportion.
If harmony is the interplay and balance between distinct elements, it could be said that Toshio Shibata has built his photographic practice around finding visual harmony in the places where the constructed and natural world meet, somewhere those before him hadn’t thought to look.
Toshio Shibata – Harmony, is on display at Laurence Miller Gallery through April 29, 2017.
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