Mirror | Masanori Hata | Aka Aka 2025

Mirror | Masanori Hata | Aka Aka 2025"Oshika Kabuki is a local theatre tradition in the town of Oshika in Nagano Prefecture that has continued for more than three hundred years. Its origins are unclear, but there is a record of a performance back in 1767. The tradition has been passed down by the people of the village through changing times. This timespan of three hundred years is of course connected to the present, but it is not visible to the human eye. That inspired me to try, through

The photos show one of the copies available

The rib has the usual cracks and folds while the back cover has a fold on the lower left corner

like the movement of trees manifesting the wind

" - Shu Fujita

Text in English and Japanese

which incorporate psychedelic and solarised imagery

but also unpublished works such as "Flat City" (1990)

Sealed copy

Leslie Cheung

"This work is a monochrome series of “Fragments” - scenes he encountered on the streets during his ten-year stay in New York from 1985 to 1995

I try to truly open my eyes and take in the world in a fashion more free

This third and final printing of this majestic retrospective includes several newly added never-before-seen images