File 1: "For the sake of future days" by Katsuhiro Saiki, 2013

"For the sake of future days" is the first official monograph by one of the leading Japanese artists, Katsuhiro Saiki.  (b. 1969, Tokyo, Japan).  The book celebrates over a decade of art practice through installation, sculpture and photography by Saiki.  Saiki challenges our perception to gain a new visual language through an ever-evolving use of the landscape, architecture and sky.  Embracing minimalist aesthetics and contemporary critical theories, Saiki continues to create conceptual photographic work and examines possibility of photographic subjectivity in contemporary visual society.  "For the sake of future days" was published by Session Press in 2013 as a part of contemporary Japanese photography series, session 03.

BOOK INFO:

Title: For the sake of future days
Artist: Katsuhiro Saiki
Design: Katsuhiro Saiki
Publisher: Session Press
Date: 2013
Edition: 300
Size: 11.69 x 8.27 inches
Binding/page/printing: saddle stitched, 22 pages, off-set printing


ARTIST INFO: 

Katsuhiro Saiki
Japanese, b. 1969

Katsuhiro Saiki is a Japanese artist whose photographic practice has been published, exhibited and collected internationally.  He had the exhibitions in the major galleries and museums in Europe, Japan and the United States: Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam; MoMA PS1, New York; Japan Society, New York; ISE Cultural Foundation, New York; House of Photography, Moscow; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen; The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo; Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa; Artist Space, NYC; hpgrp Gallery, NYC; SCAI, Tokyo; galerie Murata and Friends, Berlin; KunsMARKE, Vienna; Polaroid Gallery, Tokyo; Gallery MAKI, Tokyo.

Saiki received renowned fellowships and residence programs, including Japanese government overseas study program for Artists from The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, International Studio Program, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA, New York and Japan-United States Arts Program, Asian Cultural Council, New York.

His public collection includes DZ Bank, Frankfurt; The Japan Foundation, Tokyo; Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf; Lafrenz Collection, Hamburg; Reinkig Collection, Hamburg.

Katsuhiro Saiki Official Website