A number of dancers wear the work of Japanese designer Issey Miyake and pose as models for renowned photographer Francis Giacobetti. The movements of the dancers manage to accentuate the shapes and changing colors of the series PLEATS PLEASE. The exhibition will run until June 21 at the Daikanyama t-site garden gallery, Tokyo.
Francis Giacobetti was born on 1st of July 1939, and in internationally known as one of the major contemporary photographers. Today, Francis Giacobetti’s pictures are shown in the collections of the greatest museums of the world. The Louvre Museum in Paris: 24 photographs; the Tate gallery in London:50 photographs of british pinter Francis Bacon. He is also remembered as the creator of the 1970 & 10971 Pirelli calendar. In 1980, Francis Giacobetti began his life’s project, HTMN to meet the great figures and minds of our times in order to capture their faces and irises. In 2003, the ’Francis Bacos by Francis Giacobetti’ exhibition was held in London at the Marlborough Gallery. This remarkable work, made up of over 70 portraits, is the outcome of an intense collaboration between both artists. In 2009, ’Francis Bacos by Francis Giacobetti’ was exhibited in London again, at the Kings Place Gallery. Francis Giacometti is an aesthete with a steadfast curiosity, who has found powerful visual metaphors to represent the physical and metaphysical mysteries tha eventually define human existence.
CREDITS.-
Motion graphics.- tha Itd./Yugo Nakamura
Space and technical Coordination.- LUFTZUG
Graphic design.- Taku Satoh Design Office
Projector support.- Canon, Canon Marketing Japan
