Hamiltons Gallery celebrates Tomio Seike's 80th birthday with exhibition

The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Thursday, March 28, 2024


Hamiltons Gallery celebrates Tomio Seike's 80th birthday with exhibition
Tomio Seike, TSZ 161-5, Paris, St Germain des Prés, 1984.



LONDON.- In recognition of Tomio Seike’s long standing relationship with Hamiltons Gallery and in celebration of his 80th birthday, Hamiltons has curated an exhibition of the Japanese photographer’s most iconic images.

Tomio Seike: Eighty features a selection of unique, platinum palladium prints and vintage, toned gelatin silver prints. The subjects include portraits of artist Zoe Leonard which was one of Seike’s first series. His intimate photographs, taken as they traveled through Tokyo, London, Paris and New York, give a rare insight into her youth and the series brought him significant recognition as a photographer. The exhibition also presents Seike’s later works of figurative nudes, along his other series such as ‘Paris’ and ‘Waterscapes’, which enhanced his reputation as a contemporary master working in a classical style.

Tomio Seike was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1943. After graduating from The Japanese Photographic Academy (1970), he went on to work freelance in fashion and portraiture before moving to England. Seike has since moved back to his native country and continues to hand print his works in Japan.

Primarily known for his black and white photographs, he has also made landscapes in colour. His sensitive play on light and composition adds a serenity to his images which defines his style and adds beauty to scenes of everyday life. By expertly balancing the abstract and traditional, using only natural light, he manages to capture the quiet moments in life most people fail to notice. These exquisite small format prints further highlight the intimacy of the scenes he captures, drawing the viewer closer to absorb every detail.

Seike’s oeuvre is widely recognised and featured in numerous international collections. His work has been exhibited throughout Europe, Japan and The United States, and reside in a number of private and public collections including; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris Tate Modern, London and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris amongst others.

Tomio Seike remains one of Hamiltons Gallery’s longest standing represented artists.

HIGHLIGHTS

NUDES


An accute sensitivity comes across most effectively in his pictures of female nudes. These have an other-worldliness and mild abstraction; a quality that prevails throughout his work.

“I was never interested in taking pictures of models or well-known individuals, I prefer ordinary people in ordinary situations, as you see every day and every moment - nothing special.” – Tomio Seike

Upon completing his first series of nudes, exhibited at Hamiltons in 1989, Seike decided to extend the series - shooting in Paris and the U.K. - and experimenting predominantly with abstraction and size.

WATERSCAPES

On New Year’s Day 1996, Tomio Seike was staying in Bath, Somerset with his wife when he came across an intriguing postcard showing a canal. Out of curiosity he set out to find it. It was a damp and very foggy day and Seike has always had an aversion to photographing in foggy conditions, but, in spite of this and the prevailing holiday mood, he was captivated by what he discovered – the play of fog and damp on the landscape - and spontaneously captured the moment with his camera. When he later printed the image, he was so enthusiastic and mesmerised with the result that what could have been considered as a one-off, a fateful accident, had this turned into the beginning of his Waterscapes series.

PARIS

Seike’s picture of Paris show case the ethereal quality that prevails throughout his work. By capturing the moments often overlooked, be it a puddle on a cobbled side street or a stack of wine glasses in a restaurant, the artist attributes greater meaning to the inane and commonplace. This series conveys a strong sense of melancholy – akin to scenes of ‘la vie de bohème’ which made Paris what it is today - capturing the timeless essence of the city.










Today's News

February 2, 2023

Nazi soldiers buried a treasure. Nearly 80 years later, the search goes on.

The Jewish Museum to show recently restituted Marc Chagall painting

Creator of divisive King Monument builds sculpture for Super Bowl

Exhibition of new work by Alison Saar opens at L.A. Louver

The David Bonsall Collection of Decorative Arts and Design comes to Bonhams

Miles McEnery Gallery opens an exhibition of new paintings by Warren Isensee

Greene Naftali announces its representation of Brandon Ndife

Hamiltons Gallery celebrates Tomio Seike's 80th birthday with exhibition

Tina Kim Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Tania Pérez Córdova

Groundbreaking performance art exhibition opens at the Neuberger Museum of Art

Kent State University Museum announces new exhibitions "Head to Toe"

Asheville Art Museum opens 'Too Much Is Just Right: The Legacy of Pattern and Decoration'

Rowan University Art Gallery presents SuperCellular, a new site-specific immersive art gallery experience

Spencer Museum to unveil $4M redesign and collection reinstallation

Holabird Western Americana Collections announces results of four-day auction

Matvey Levenstein receives the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant

Frederick Holmes And Company presents a survey of paintings and drawings by Ken Moore

Moussem Cities Tehran at Bozar with Iranian cinema, music and visual arts

Phillips appoints Qing Shen as Senior Consultant in Mainland China

Head of Penguin Random House resigns

Carin Goldberg, who transformed book and album cover design, dies at 69

Bonnie Raitt heads to the Grammys, recognized as a songwriter at last

California's leading conductors come together for a new festival

An ad hoc Ukrainian ballet troupe settles into life in The Hague

Franklin Eugene - Pushing his brand to stay one step ahead of the competition

Super Charge Your RV Camping Life With The Ampeak Pro 2000W Power Inverter!

Exploring the Pyramids and Other Wonders of Egypt on an Exciting Tour




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful