Box of Solomon
Year: 2023
Material/Technique: Inkjet Print, Pigment, Photograph, Panel
Size: 26.9 × 58.9 × 0.1 cm
Edition: Unique
Signed:Included
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About the Work
- Year
- 2023
- Material/Technique
- Inkjet Print, Pigment, Photograph, Panel
- Size
- 26.9 × 58.9 × 0.1 cm
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Included
- Credits
- © Wataru Furuta
- Frame
- Included
- Work Certificate
- Included
- Distributor of artworks
- WATARU FURUTA
- Ship-from Area
- Kanagawa Prefecture
- Days Until Dispatch
- About a Week
- Category
- Photograph
- Style
- Fantasy, Society / Politics / History, Romantic, Animal, Emotional, Half Abstraction
Work Details
This series of works explores the theme of different countries and cultures intersecting and weaving a common story across time and space.
Legendary connections are sometimes talked about between Japan and the ancient Arabs.
By synthesizing the landscapes of the two lands, we created a world where the remote places were part of a single story.
Technically, multiple exposure imaging of photographs is used. Different landscapes are layered over and over, and mask processing has also been partially used, but we aimed for visuals that can be naturally accepted as one new landscape.
In this series of works, I'm trying to visualize the fact that the world we live in is connected by invisible threads.
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“Jews used to come to Japan a long time ago.”
The Jews hid their treasure “Solomon's Treasure” in Mount Tsurugi.
The hidden place became a children's song and left a map in people's memories over a long period of 2,000 years.
It is a traditional landscape photograph not found anywhere else in the world, created using multiple exposure processing of the scenery of Jerusalem and Tokushima.
Signed Museum print: 589 mm wide x 269 mm long
FM plate backed panel with clogs (thickness: 1 mm for the work part, 15 mm for the clog part)
Weight: Artwork approx. 550 g, boxed approx. 790 g
This is an actual work exhibited at the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
Limited Edition 2/10
Exhibition Information
- Past Exhibitions
- 古田 亘 STORYSCAPES11.21.2025 - 11.27
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Photographer/Artist
Photographer/Artist Born in 1971 in Shizuoka. Graduated from CIC Canadian International University. Graduated from Waseda University Graduate School of Business Administration. 2016 Japan Photographers Association JPS Exhibition Excellence Award. Selected for the 2024 Japan Advertising Photographers Association APA Awards in the Photographic Works category. A regular member of the Japan Graphic Design Association. solo exhibition 2025 “STORYSCAPES” AL (Tokyo) 2023 “HELI-X VISUAL ART EXHIBITION” LAFORET HARAJUKU (TOKYO) 2017 “MESSIAH FIRST EXHIBITION” GALLERY X BY PARCO (Tokyo) 2016 “GREEN GATE” GALLERY SPEAK FOR (Tokyo) 2016 “Furuta Wataru Boy and the Sea” BEACH (Kanagawa) 2015 “Boy to Sea” GALLERY SPEAK FOR (Tokyo) Group Exhibitions 2024 “WHISPERS OF WONDER” THE HOLY ART GALLERY (Paris) 2024 “FUTURE STARS Digital- Summer Edition” THE HOLY ART GALLERY (held simultaneously in London and Athens) 2024 “ART ON LOOP BARCELONA” THE HOLY ART GALLERY (Barcelona) 2024 “ART ON LOOP LOOP LOONDON-ATHENS” THE HOLY ART GALLERY (held simultaneously in London and Athens) 2016 “Photographer's Perspective: Light and Moment - Up-and-coming Photographers” RECTO VERSO GALLERY (Tokyo) Awards 2024 APA Japan Advertising Photographers Association Awards 2024 Photo Works Category Selected 2017 AJAPS Selected for the 16th All-Japan Black and White Photo Exhibition by the All Japan Photographic Federation 2016 JPS Japan Photographers Association 41st 2016 JPS Exhibition Excellence Award 2016 APA Japan Advertising Photographers Association Awards 2016 Advertisement Category Selected Received the 2015 BS-TBS Achievement Award
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