RIO BRANCO'S JAPANESE FASCINATION IN AVILÉS

By Álvaro de Benito Fernández

The Niemeyer Center, in the Asturian city of Aviles, hosts Tokyo Blues hacia Gritos Sordos (From Tokyo Blues to Deaf Cries), an exhibition by Brazilian photographer Miguel Rio Branco (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 1946) that traces a journey through his work of crossed images and pieces that were conceived from his personal experience on a trip to Japan, a country whose culture and names in cinema, art and architecture have always fascinated the artist.

RIO BRANCO'S JAPANESE FASCINATION IN AVILÉS

The entire production of the first stage of the proposal arose from the work done in parallel with Daido Moriyama, a photographer with whom he distanced himself, but at the same time complemented, with points of view that spoke different languages, one more oriented to the aesthetics of cinema, while the other advocated more for the symbolic and pictorial.

 

Among the most spectacular works on display at Centro Niemeyer is Tokyo Long Neck, a striking succession of images that present, along 17 meters of the space's Photography Room, a visual summary of the Brazilian's perception of Japan, somewhat past, but equally iconic today.

 

The exhibition reflects Rio Branco's habitual confidence in the mixture, in the artistic cooperation of languages and disciplines associated with the traditional techniques of painting and photography, consolidating his own expression with which he tries to find answers to his relationship with the environment.

De Tokyo Blues hacia Gritos Sordos can be seen until November 3rd at Centro Niemeyer, Avenida del Zinc, Avilés (Spain).

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