“Now, Here, and Beyond” features Kitano’s latest body of photographs day light and watching the moon conceived and executed during his one-year artist residency in USA in 2013. These works illustrate the relationships between nature, human life and universe. day light was produced on 4 x 5 negative film using day-long exposure from dawn until dusk. In watching the moon, Kitano aligned his camera lens with the moon’s trajectory to capture the motion of the moon. The highlight of the show also includes new portraits from his major and ongoing series since 1999 our face taken during the Occupy Movement, of its participants and Hong Kong policemen.
Ken Kitano: Now, Here, and Beyond
Ken Kitano: Now, Here, and Beyond
19 Sep 2015 - 14 Nov 2015
Artworks (26)

Installation view

Installation view

Ken Kitano
Mojave desert, March 22, 2013

Ken Kitano
Joshua Tree National Park #2, Blythe, CA, 2013

Ken Kitano
McDonald’s, Buttunwillow, CA, March 30, 2013

Ken Kitano
Westlake Theatre, Los Angeles, July 9, 2013

Ken Kitano
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, February 27, 2013

Ken Kitano
Newport Beach, August 6, 2013

Installation view

Installation view

Ken Kitano
Mojave desert, March 22, 2013

Ken Kitano
Joshua Tree National Park #2, Blythe, CA, 2013

Ken Kitano
McDonald’s, Buttunwillow, CA, March 30, 2013

Ken Kitano
Westlake Theatre, Los Angeles, July 9, 2013

Ken Kitano
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, February 27, 2013

Ken Kitano
Newport Beach, August 6, 2013

Ken Kitano
Downtown LA, February 2013

Ken Kitano
Mojave Barstow Highway, March 20, 2013

Ken Kitano
National flag, Santa Monica, September 19, 2013

Ken Kitano
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, December 9, 2013

Ken Kitano
National Flag #2, Santa Monica, 2014

Ken Kitano
A signboard of Mobil, 2013

Ken Kitano
Newport Beach, August 2013

Ken Kitano
National flag, Santa Monica, March 27, 2013

Ken Kitano
Blythe #1, January 2013

Ken Kitano
Sea, Palos Verdes, May 24, 2013

Ken Kitano
A signboard of Burger King, Quartzsite, Arizona, September 20, 2013

Ken Kitano
26 policemen at 2014 Hong Kong protests “Umbrella Revolution”, October 12-14, 2014, Occupied area (Admiralty, Causeway Bay, Mongkok), Hong Kong

Ken Kitano
25 participants at 2014 Hong Kong protests “Umbrella Revolution”

Ken Kitano
23 soldiers of the Iranian Army, September 8, 2011, Kermanshah, Iran

Ken Kitano
30 Kurdish men, September 6 and 7, 2011, Villages of Marivan and Ur-Rahman Takht, Kurdistan Province, Iran

Ken Kitano
25 demonstrators protesting nuclear energy use after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station meltdowns in 2011, July 13 and 16, 2012, The Yoyogi Park “Goodbye Nuclear Energy Association” in front of the Prime Minister’s Official Residence, Tokyo

Ken Kitano
24 students from Grade 6, Homeroom 8, saluting the national flag at Dung Kong Elementary School, April 19, 2009, Dung Kong Elementary School campus grounds, Taipei, Taiwan

Ken Kitano
30 marchers at “World Peace Now”, the demonstration of 50,000 people protesting the US-UK attacks against Iraq, March 8, 2003, from Hibiya Park to streets of Ginza, Tokyo
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23 Dec 2014 - 25 Jan 2015