22/01/2026
Kozo Miyoshi “1620 CACTI”
January 9, – March 4, 2026
The work presented in this exhibition is a continuation of Kozo Miyoshi’s 1996 series Cacti. In 2019, he travelled to Arizona again for the first time in more than twenty years, returning each year, excluding the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, until 2025 to photograph various cacti with a 16×20 camera. The main focus of this work is the giant saguaro cactus, a species with a reported lifespan of 150 to 200 years that can grow up to twenty meters in size.
While in the 1996 series the focus lay on quietly observing individual, solitary cacti, this new work sees Miyoshi take a more encompassing approach. Using a less restrained, more natural perspective, he depicts his subjects together with their surrounding scenery, capturing the specific atmosphere and light of their habitats.
The exhibition features approximately 30 gelatin silver prints, contact-printed from photographs taken with a 16×20 camera.
Print size: 508 × 610 mm
Frame size: 24 × 30 inches
Gelatin silver print
Signed by the artist on recto in pencil
©Kozo Miyoshikzm
#三好耕三
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