ÿþ<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0//en" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"content="text/html; charset=x-sjis"> <title>Kahitsukan CIRCUS-Sarah Moon</title> <STYLE type="text/css"> <!--A {text-decoration:none;}//--> { text-decoration: none; color: white}a:hover { text-decoration: underline; color: #000080}a.event:hover <!--SPAN.mdl{font-size:12px}.lrg{font-size:14pt}.smallf{font-size:10px} .white { font-size: 12px; color: #ffffff} .black2 { font-size: 11px; color: #000000} --> </STYLE><BASEFONT size=2> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" LINK="#004433" VLINK="#aaaaaa" ALINK="#00eed9"> <center> <br><br> <table width=430 border=0 cellspacing=7 cellpadding=7> <tr> <td align=center> <img src="title/sarc_e.gif" border=0 alt="CIRCUS-Sarah Moon"></td> </tr> </table> <br><br><br> <table border=0 cellspacing=10> <tr> <td align="center"><span class="mdl"> <img height="300" src="img/sarc_01.jpg"><br><br><br> It happened in a September, a day like any other.</span><br><br><br><br><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span class="mdl"> <img border=0 height=230 src="img/sarc_03.jpg"><br><br><br>Dimitri acts as if nothing has happened,<br> Alone in the ring on and on, everyday he juggles into the air.</span><br><br><br><br><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><span class="mdl"> <img border=0 height=230 src="img/sarc_04.jpg"><br><br><br>She runs under the bridge along the railway.<br><br><br><br><br><br> <img border=0 height=230 src="img/sarc_05.jpg"><br><br><br>On this same night it began to snow again.<br></span></td> </tr> </table> <br><br><br><br> <table width=360 border=0> <tr> <td align=center> <span class="lrg">Ephemeral Scenes</span><br><br> <span class="mdl">Yoshitomo Kajikawa<br><br><br></span> </td> </tr> <tr><td align=left> <DIV STYLE="line-height:140%"><span class="mdl"> I have, in front of me, a brush-stroked specimen of calligraphy by Sarah Moon.<br> The single sumi-ink word represented in the calligraphic works is "<img src="title/fr/hakanai.gif" border=0 alt="hakanai">". Sarah did the calligraphy the year before last when she visited Japan on the occasion of her one-person show, "Fantasmagoria  Sarah Moon Exhibition" held at Kahitsukan.<br> During her stay in Japan, Sarah, together with her husband, Robert Delpire, came to my home and marveled at all sorts of brushes, sumi-ink sticks, inkstones and papers in my collections. She showed particular interest in Japanese-style papers. She was also fascinated by the meanings and the forms of Chinise characters, and in her deep appreciation of Japanese culture, she ventured to tackle the art of Japanese-style calligraphy.<br> When I asked her what her favorite word was, Sarah instantly replied that it was "<img src="title/fr/ephemere.gif" border=0 alt="ephemere">" and that is the word she wrote down in Chinese character.<br><br> In the summer of 2002, I was invited to Sarah's house in Paris and was given an opportunity to see her latest moving image story, "CIRCUS". A passionate admirer of Sarah s moving image works ever since I saw her "Cartier-Bresson  Question Mark", I soon developed an uncontrollable urge to create a book consisting of Sarah's photographs, sentences and moving images.<br> After a long series of trials and errors, I have finally been able to bring into the world a limited edition book "CIRCUS" consisting of original prints of Sarah's photographs, handcrafted Japanese-style papers graced with her brush works and a DVD of her moving images. And to the collections of Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, we have been able to add 34 photographic works of Sarah s, her directly-written sentences rich in poetry and her moving images.<br> "To be more creative is to get closer to childhood", says Sarah. The world of fairy tales where everybody once gave free rein to his or her imagination on the basis of the fairy tales he or she had been read to... It is the world of momentary fantasy in which all sorts of senses  gaiety, nostalgia, insecurity and sorrow  are jumbled together in complex layers.<br> Although based on Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl", "CIRCUS", which can best be described as a contemporary fairy tale in moving images pregnant with deep insight and highly refined sense of beauty, actually follows its own unique course. When finished, the story, though a fiction, leaves the viewers with the train of singular spritual reverberations.<br> Sarah Moon's tale, with all its ephemeral scenes, begins... </span></div> </td> </tr> </table> <br><br><br><br><br> <table width=370 border=0> <tr> <td align=center><span class="lrg">Biography</span><br><br><br> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <table border=0 width=360 cellspacing=3 cellpadding=3> <tr valign="top" align=left> <td width=50><span class="mdl">1941</span></td> <td width=310><span class="mdl">Born in France</span></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align=left> <td><span class="mdl">1970</span></td> <td><span class="mdl">Begin to take photography</span></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align=left> <td><span class="mdl">1979</span></td> <td><span class="mdl">Begin to take film<br> Grand Prix (toutes cat<img src="title/fr/e'.gif" alt="e'" border=0>gories) Lion d'or for Films Cacharel, Cannes</span></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align=left> <td><span class="mdl">1983</span></td> <td><span class="mdl">Exhibition at International Center of Photography, New York</span></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align=left> <td><span class="mdl">1984</span></td> <td><span class="mdl">Clio Award, New York</span></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align=left> <td><span class="mdl">1986</span></td> <td><span class="mdl">Publication of <i>Le petit chaperon rouge</i>, Edition Grasset (awards Grand prix du livre d'enfants, Bologne)</span></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align=left> <td><span class="mdl">1990</span></td> <td><span class="mdl">Makes <i>Mississippi One</i>, Long Metrage - Take Five Productions</span></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align=left> <td><span class="mdl">1994</span></td> <td><span class="mdl">Exhibits in Recontres Internationales d'Arles</span></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align=left> <td><span class="mdl">1995</span></td> <td><span class="mdl">Awards Grand Prix de la Photographie, Paris<br> Retrospective au Centre National de la Photographie, Paris<br> Makes <i>Henri Cartier-Bresson, Point d'interrogation</i>, - Take Five Productions</span></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align=left> <td><span class="mdl">2000</span></td> <td><span class="mdl">Publication of <i>Still</i>, Weinstein Gallery</span></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align=left> <td><span class="mdl">2001</span></td> <td><span class="mdl">Maison de la Photographie (<i>Still</i>), Moscou<br> Publication of <i>Coincidences</i>, Editions-Delpire</span></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align=left> <td><span class="mdl">2002</span></td> <td><span class="mdl">Exhibition at Kahitsukan - Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto<br> Publication of <i>Sarah Moon</i>, Kahitsukan - Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation</span></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align=left> <td><span class="mdl">2003</span></td> <td><span class="mdl">Exhibition at Meison Europeene de la Photogrphie, Paris</span></td> </tr> <tr valign="top" align=left> <td><span class="mdl">2004</span></td> <td><span class="mdl">Exhibition <i>CIRCUS</i> at Kahitsukan - Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto<br> Publication of <i>CIRCUS</i>, Kahitsukan - Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation</span></td> </tr> </table> <br><br><br><br><br> <table border=0 width=360> <tr> <td align=center> <span class="lrg">Publication</span><br><br> <table border=0 width=400 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=10> <tr> <td align=center width=125 rowspan=2><img src="goods/sarc_b_fukyu.jpg" border=0 width=120> </td><td align=left><span class="mdl"><b>[ CIRCUS ]</b><br><br> Based on the story of the Little Match Girl by Andersen<br> Text and photographs by Sarah Moon</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=right><span class="mdl">6500yen <br><br> </span></td> </tr> </table> <br><br><br><br><br><br> <table border=0 width=460 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=10> <tr> <td align=left><span class="mdl"><b>[ CIRCUS ]</b> Limited edition of 200</b><br><br> Included one original-print photo<br> Included [ CIRCUS ] DVD (adaptable for<br> English, French, Japanese)<br></span></td> <td align=center width=205 rowspan=2><img src="goods/sarc_b_goka.jpg" border=0 width=200> </td> </tr> <tr><td align=right><span class="mdl">85000yen</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=2><br><hr width="50%"><br></td></tr> <tr><td align=center><img src="goods/sar.jpg" border=0 width=100> </td><td align=left><span class="mdl">Sarah Moon Catalogue<br><br> 3600yen</span></td> </tr> <tr><td align=center><img src="goods/pc_sar.jpg" border=0 width=100> </td><td align=left><span class="mdl">Sarah Moon Postcard (set of 5 cards)<br><br> 1000yen</span></td> </tr> </table> <br><br><br><span class="mdl"> <A HREF="goods_e.html">Here</A> is all of Kahitsukan's Museum Goods</span> <br><br><br><br> <A HREF="sarc_e.html"><img border="0" src="sign/totop.gif" alt="to top of this page" hspace=4></A><A HREF="frame_e.html" target="_top"><img border="0" src="sign/toindex.gif" alt="to index" hspace=4></A> </span> </td> </tr> </table></span> <br><br></center> </DIV></body> </html>