Hideyoshi Ido
"Things Visible Yet Invisible"

October 29 - November 15, 2008
Reception: Friday, October 31 5:00PM-7:30PM

In November 2008, NY Coo Gallery is happy to present Hideyoshi Ido and his photographic works.

“My photographs are cutouts of the New York moments that I have witnessed,’” says Ido about his work. As he watched the horrifying images of 9/11 that included the collapsing of the Twin Towers on television, Ido, having realized the vulnerability of modern civilization and how easily it could be lost, felt an urge − desire − to photograph moments that he encountered in his daily life in an effort to preserve “today.”

Ido’s photographs are printed on various non-paper materials that allow for 3-dimensional effects. Always in search of new ways to express his ideas, Ido, presents his photographs by applying his film negatives on such unconventional materials as poster boards, wood pieces, rubber, clay and plaster
-boards.

When one walks into Ido’s studio and sees all of the ingenious - if not unusual − items that he calls “photo-making tools and materials,” one would get a sense of being in a science laboratory.

This exhibition of Ido’s work features photographic images presented by using various artistic techniques. Such techniques include a diorama of Central Park and animals on plasterboard, 3-dimensional images of Ka-Cho-Fu-Getsu (the beauty of nature) set in a rooftile-like composition and hand-painted monochrome prints.

Like Eugene Atget, a French photographer famous for his images of Paris, its people and their life, Ido, who admires Atget’s work, never leaves the house without a camera. “When I see the spot where time seems to stand still,” says Ido, “I aim and shoot. I want to capture and preserve ‘today’ for tomorrow.”

HIDEYOSHI IDO
2003 Participating artist in a three-men photo exhibition with Shinpei Asai and Masaaki Nishimiya at Fuji Photo Salon in Nagoya.
2002 Participating artist in “Japan-China Friendship Promotion Exhibition” sponsored by Chinese Female Photographers Association/Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution)
2001 Participating artist in “Photographers in Asia 2001 Exhibition” sponsored by Asian Photographic Culture Association.
2000 Award Recipient − Japan Advertising Photographers Association Open Photography Contest.
1999 Participating artist in “Korea-Japan 1999~2000 Photo Exhibition”
1998 Participating artist in “The Heart of Japan by 1000 Photographers” sponsored by Japan Professional Photographers Society.
1993 Award Recipient - “JPS Exhibition” sponsored by Japan Professional Photographers Society.
1992 Published “Gakkou” (Schools), a collection of photographs of old wood frame schoolhouses in Okazaki City.

Solo exhibitions − Okazaki City, Tokyo and other Japanese cities.

---------- NY Coo Gallery's November Newsletter --------------

The opening reception for Hideyoshi Ido's solo exhibition,�"Things Visible Yet Invisible,"�
was held on the evening of Friday, November 31. Because of its unique,�unconventional�
look,�many guests at first mistook Ido's photography,�printed on metal, wood, stone and�
other non-paper surfaces,�as a painting. Please come visit our gallery and see "the things�
that are visible yet invisible."
The exhibition runs through November 15th.�

The artist and his friend / the artist Hideyoshi Ido �/�His artworks

NY Coo Gallery