Sohei Nishino
Tokyo, 2014

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Artist Sohei NishinoJapanese, born 1982

CultureJapanese

Titles

Tokyo, 2014
from the series Diorama Map

Date2014

Place depictedTokyo, Japan

MediumChromogenic print

DimensionsAt opening: 62 1/2 × 83 11/16 in. (158.7 × 212.5 cm)
Frame (outer): 64 × 85 1/8 × 1 1/2 in. (162.5 × 216.2 × 3.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Director's Accessions Endowment

Object number2019.256

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionHarking back to “bird’s-eye view” maps of the past, Sohei Nishino’s Diorama
Map, Tokyo assembles more than 5,000 photographs taken by the artist
during countless walks crisscrossing the city. Shot on 35 mm film, printed as
contact sheets, cut, and collaged into a single composition before being
re-photographed and printed at a large scale, the map resulting from Nishino’s
labor-intensive process is experiential rather than geographically accurate.
The city’s major landmarks are there, but so are endless details—apartment
blocks and commercial signage, highways, trains, and river traffic, parks, and
markets—that make up the true fabric and feel of the city.
ProvenanceThe artist; [Michael Hoppen Gallery, London]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Exhibition History"New Cartographies", Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, September 15, 2018–March 7, 2019.

"Urban Impressions: Experiencing the Global Contemporary Metropolis," Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, September 16–December 17, 2022.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Printed in black on applied label, verso frame backing, top center: Tokyo2014_L

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