void+ announces the opening of Ryuro Fukuda’s photography exhibition, What Have We Found from September 20 to October 18. In this exhibition, pieces from Fukuda’s ongoing series since 2003, Altitude of 10,000m will be showcased, along with Infinite Islands which is not yet published in Japan. Scenes of parachutes and paragliders floating among white clouds gliding through the sky will captivate your eyes. Staring at an island floating in a blue lagoon will reveal resort pools scattered about. Fukuda’s photographs depict a utopia that one would envy instantly. Fukuda uses the medium of photography as a tool to retouch and intervene with his own photographs, in an effort to manipulate reality and the imaginary world to challenge our perceptions. This exhibition explores the irony that the photographer witnessed in the superimposed truths, and what we, the audience, will find in them.

From the Series Altitude of 10,000m Ryuro Fukuda

■ Artist Name＿ Ryuro Fukuda
■ Exhibition Title＿What Have We Found
■ Date＿Sept.20th (sat)- Sept.18th (sat), 2008
■ Gallery hours: T-Fri 14:00-19:00, Sat 12:00-19:00 Closed: Sun, Mon, and Holidays
■ Venue＿void+
3-16-14-1F Minami-Aoyama, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 107-0062
Tel: 03-5411-0336 Fax: 03-5411-0053

Graduate of Tama Art University’s graduate program, Ryuro Fukuda (born 1975) went to Berlin, Germany in 2000, where he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) under Professor Dieter Appelt until 2003. Afterwards, Fukuda was awarded the POLA Art Foundation for Young Artist Resident Abroad and resided in Warsaw, Poland and Berlin, where he continued to produce work. Fukuda returned to Japan in 2006.

http://www.ryurofukuda.com/

NHK(Japan Broadcasting Corp) will broadcast an interview of Ryuro Fukuda by Fumio Nanjo next coming Friday, Oct. 10th. If you are up early, turn in to the NHK Radio Daiichi Housou around 7:45!

from right, Fumio Nanjo(Director of Mori Art Museum),Hideaki Usui (NHK), Ryuro Fukuda

This exhibition is finished.

This exhibition will end this Sat. Please come and see this beautiful yet mysterious world.

Takashi Mochizuki